Constructing Marketing
Frontiers of the New Marketing ParadigmParadigm shift in marketing
Marketing thought is undergoing major changes. The table below provides a quick list of what’s happening.
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The old
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The new
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Value is embedded in products |
Value is (co-)created in use and in exchange |
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Firms aim to make more money to owners |
Firms have multiple aims |
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Services are supporting products |
Service is the product |
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Marketing to |
Marketing with |
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Transactional |
Relational |
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Hierarchies, markets, closed organizations |
Networks, open organizations |
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(Physical) assets, technologies |
Knowledge, learning, people |
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Patents, closed innovation |
Open innovation |
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Competition |
Collaboration, coopetition |
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Passive customers |
Active customers |
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Firms have the resources and capabilities to produce products; they estimate what customers need and want, target through advertisement, focus on transactions, selling products to customers |
People bring together knowledge and skills to co-create value while established organizations facilitate the process; relationships are formed beyond transactions through trust and openness |