1.Situation
A professional working in business development, commercial, marketing, communication is constantly exposed to a complex, varied and continuous mix of information, both from outside and inside of the company.
Validating the relevance of such information, integrating this info into a matrix that leads to conclusions and action plans represents a sophisticated and important process.
2.Task
In MYPRODUCT12 I approach this process by underlying the tools that such a professional usually works with or should work with.
3.Action
In a random order I will mention below top 30 analysis concepts, tools that I use in my professional activity. For reasons of simplicity, I keep the names in English so people that are interested in finding out when, in what context and how to use these tools can easily access relevant information.
AIDA: Attention / Interest / Desire / Action
FAD: Features / Advantages / Benefits
4P: Product / Price / Placement / Promotion
7P: 4P + People / Processes / Physical Appearance
4C: Client / Cost / Convenience / Communicate
STP: Segment / Target / Positioning
TP: Touching Points
USP: Unique Selling Proposition
SD: Supply / Demand
LC: Life Cycle
D: Differentiation
BAV: Brand / Awareness / Value
BP: Brand Positioning
TOM: Top of Mind
SOV: Share of Voice
SOS: Share of Spending
CP: Customer Profiling
STAR: Situation / Tasks / Actions / Results
SPEND: Situation / Problem / Effects / Need / Decision
TSI: Tell / Show /Involve
5 Forces Porter Matrix: New Entrants / Substitutes / Suppliers / Buyers / Competitive Rivalry
Ansoff Matrix: Existing Market / New Market / Existing Product / New Product
4/5/6 Management Styles: Directive / Supportive / Participative / Result Oriented / Transformational / Authoritative
SWOT: Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats
Perceived Value vs Price: less for less, same for less, more for less, more for same, more for more
SP: Sales Process – Information, Prospecting / First contact / Need Assessment / Proposal / Solve Objections / Negotiation / Close the deal / Deliver, follow up / Cash in
CEP: Customer Excellence Program – segmentation, target, allocation, routing, visits, results, bonuses
TBS: Target Bonus System
ND: Numerical Distribution
MS: Market Shares
4.Results
Each individual situation is filtered through a mix of analytical tools that provides an accurate professional analysis, and arguments in the process of concluding and developing a plan of action.
I would like to mention, however, that in my professional activity I have also faced numerous situations in which decisions have had a significant dose of ” inspiration”, relying less on the logical or illogical conclusions that emerged from the analyses.
5.Key Leanings
Every professional should define in his / her work a matrix of analytical tools on the basis of which in a programmatic way he / she should develop his / her own decisional abilities. The above-mentioned concepts represent a solid starting point; the real challenge is to constantly use them in analysing the concrete situations you are facing in your work.
Notification: MYPRODUCT reflects my real professional experience and expertise as well as my subjectivity. I do have a profound respect for all the companies I collaborated to and for all the people I worked with. It is not my intention to approach any sensitive, confidential or offending information related to companies, projects or people. If you the reader deduct or recognise companies, projects or people in my examples, I kindly ask you to respect MYPRODUCT and my professional and ethic approach and to not share any detail, information, situation, name, company.