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Master of Business Administration: Assignment Mark Sheet
Master of Business Administration: Assignment Mark Sheet
Very good paper. Very good explanation on matrixes- it shows clear understanding of the subject. Footnotes
should also be in Harvard Style. Good table on Comp. Analysis (App 2). Comp. analysis shows a clear
understanding of the market and techniques. Well explained SWOT. Excellent marketing mix. When you
choose 7P just mention why (industry factor). Excellent!
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Marketing Management
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Moscow 2010
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Content
1. Executive summary.........................................................................................................................3
1.1. Current Position...........................................................................................................................3
2. Corporate Strategy...........................................................................................................................4
2.1 Company overview......................................................................................................................4
2.2. Corporate mission and strategy.........................................................................................................5
3. External and internal analysis..................................................................................................................6
3.1. Market overview and future trends...................................................................................................6
3.2. Competitor analysis..........................................................................................................................8
3.3. SWOT analysis of the Project.........................................................................................................11
4. Marketing and financial objectives........................................................................................................12
4.1. Marketing objectives......................................................................................................................12
4.2. Financial objectives........................................................................................................................13
5. Marketing strategy................................................................................................................................14
5.1. Market segmentation......................................................................................................................14
5.2. Positioning and competitive advantages........................................................................................15
5.3. Marketing strategy..........................................................................................................................17
6. Implementation plan......................................................................................................................21
6.1. Schedule of Key Tasks................................................................................................................21
6.2. Resource allocation................................................................................................................21
6.3. Budgets......................................................................................................................................21
6.4. Risks...........................................................................................................................................22
7. Control and Forecasting.................................................................................................................22
7.1. Assumption made......................................................................................................................22
7.2. Critical success factors..............................................................................................................22
7.3. Financial forecast.......................................................................................................................23
Bibliography..............................................................................................................................................24
Appendix 1. Development plans................................................................................................................25
Appendix 2. Competitive analysis commercial real estate market in the Southern part of the Moscow. .26
Appendix 3. The segmentation of Moscow commercial real estate market.............................................28
Appendix 4. Perceptual map of customer needs and requirements............................................................31
Appendix. 5. Schedule of Key Tasks for three years.................................................................................32
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Appendix 6. Drafting an Outline Marketing Plan......................................................................................35
1. Executive summary
Price
Comfortable facilities
Good location
Parking
Good infrastructure
Target segment: price-sensitive, small and medium business, high-tech companies, research
organizations, service companies.
2. Corporate Strategy
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The MBI shareholders are AMO ZIL (25%) and private investors (75%).
The development project is divided into five phases (which are described in Appendix 1) and by
the construction close-down in 2015 year should consist of almost 881thousand sq. meters of
multi functional buildings and became the largest business centre of B + class in Moscow.
The construction of Phase 1 has already been finished, 102 000 sq meters are put into service and
60% office spaces has already been sold through rental contracts and wholesale.
The mission of MBI is to open age of new generation of commercial real estate, which is able to
create human friendly environment and maintain special business atmosphere.
General strategy of the Company is aimed on satisfaction of customer needs by proposition of
innovative commercial real estate, properly organized in accordance with the latest architectural
and technological solutions.
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To sell out 40% remained office space available from Phase 1
Increase the brand awareness of the Project
To attract new investors for the Phases 4 and 5.
In terms of Ansoff (1987) matrix, which helps to determine the degree to which the company
innovate in terms of marketing and technology, the MBI Corp strategy could be classified as
Market Penetration with emphasis on increasing market share. This strategy is least risky for
investors because company deals with existing product in existing market.
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3. External and internal analysis
The Russian commercial real estate sector showed significant growth in pre-crisis period. High
level of demand, supported by availability of credit resources, obtained from western financial
institutions and lack of quality property supply lead up to tremendous price growth for
commercial real estate and overheating of the market. As the result, recession has injured real
estate market very serious. Some developers were forced to freeze their projects due to cut
financing, decreased demand and price drop (prices has felt down by 20-30% comparing to pre
crisis period). The dynamic for rental rates as well as the level of vacant office space are shown
on the Pictures 1, 2.
A-Class offices
B-Class offices
The analysis of current situation on the commercial real estate sector shows that rental rates,
achieving unsustainable low are starting to rice and could represent a further increase. However,
according to preliminary projections, only in 2011 the amount of consumption exceeds the
amount of new construction (Pictures 2, 3).
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Picture 2. The level of vacant office space
Picture 3. The office space consumption and new construction, thousand sq.m.
The Project target customer gives preference to inexpensive and comfortable office space with
perfect infrastructure and good transport accessibility.
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www.irn.ru
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In terms of transport accessibility and proposed infrastructure, the Project has strong competitive
advantage (Picture 5). The direct competitors are: Galiley (B+ Class, 131 thousand sq. meters),
Serp & Molot (B+ class, 70 thousand sq. meters), Siromyatnichesky (B+ Class, 20 thousand
sq.m)
Transport_ accessibility
The analysis of competitive advantages in terms of adequacy of the price to the level of
infrastructure (Picture 6), also shows that Project has strong positions and main competitors are:
Galiley, Serp&Molot, Aurum, Jauza, Zolotorojsky.
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Picture 6. Major competitors in terms of price and infrastructure
The Porter’s five forces model was employed in order to analyze the competitive situation in a
Moscow commercial real estate industry and determine the attractiveness of this sector (Picture
7).
Picture 7. Porter’s five force model on the Moscow commercial real estate
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Threat of new entrance is moderate despite large initial capital required and long and
complicated legal documentation approval
Power of Byers is high due to demand decrease and huge amount of vacant office space
Power of Suppliers is low because of low market consolidation and large number of contractors
on the market
Power of substitutes is low because such issues as remote offices, telecommute working is not
so popular in Moscow
Strength
The Project was supported by Moscow City Government and has reliable and strong
partners: VneshEconomBank, Russian Bank for Development, InvestTorgBank and Ingosstrakh
which insures construction risks.
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Project has good functional infrastructure which include hotels, conference rooms,
entertainment places, parking place, restaurants, full range of telecommunication services and
wide range of other services.
Weakness
Opportunities
Project is focused not only on business tasks tackling, but also aimed at development of
city territories and meeting social challenges. It affords to develop business image of South Part
of the Moscow
Threats
The huge amount of commercial real estate space could enter the market in nearest
futures which significantly increase competition on the market.
The Project requires significant resource allocation and in case of rental rates fall the
Company could face hurdles in attracting new investors.
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4. Marketing and financial objectives
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5. Marketing strategy
The segmentation of Moscow commercial real estate market was provided according to Self
Organizing Map Technique (Kohonen at al, 2001) which is described in Appendix 3.
As the result, 10 main clusters of commercial real estate were formed according to property
characteristics (Picture 8)
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The Project belongs to Cluster 7 (C7) which consists of another two units (Kojuhovsky and
Galiley). Such cluster is one of the smallest in the market and characterizes by moderate declared
class of property units (B+), large office space (at average 108.6 sq.m) and low price (at average
360$ per sq.m/year).
Initially the Project positions oneself to the segment of high-tech, research organizations.
However now it becomes clear that such a huge amount of office space (more than 880 thousand.
sq. meters) could not be filled by only one sector of economy. That is why the Project requires
repositioning and expansion of a target group.
The perceptual map of customer needs and requirements which is presented on the Picture 9, was
formed on the basis of poll, provided for current tenants. The Results of the poll are presented in
Appendix 4 and shows that competitive advantages of the Projects could be found in such areas:
Competitive price
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Comfortable facilities
Good location
Parking
Good infrastructure
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Unconscious importance Real importance
The Project should aim on the sector of a small and medium business and could gain significant
competitive advantage through those companies which are strive to find optimal balance
between rental costs, obtained service and infrastructure. It could be service companies, creative
business like design bureaus, art workshops, motion picture industry, etc.
The Company should further position Nagatino i-land brand as: inexpensive, innovated, with
perfect facilities, infrastructure and human friendly organized space.
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Picture 10. Project Strategy Pyramid
Product
The Company should maintain the emphasis towards using latest innovative technologies in
construction, design and propose product with outstanding technical characteristics.
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The variety of offered services within the business park should be seriously enhanced. Tenants
should be able to get every possible service, associated with their business and personal
requirements within the territory of Business Park. That is why sophisticated policy of tenant
mix should be employed.
The transport access to the Business Park should be seriously developed. Free shuttle from
nearest metro station should be organized.
The Company could start to offer fully equipped and customized offices on a finished condition
which is very untypical product for Moscow commercial real estate market.
Place
Currently the Project location could not be considered as a strong competitive advantage because
of unrepresentative image of Southern part of the Moscow. That is why projected enhancement
of surrounding area which includes: reconstruction of AMO ZIL industrial estate, landscape and
shade gardening of neighbouring Moscow river levee, recreation zones construction should be
don the sooner the better. These efforts could enhance the brand awareness of the Project and
provide customers with convenient and human friendly organized space.
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Promotion
High level of competitive pressure on the Moscow commercial real estate requires serious
promotion of the Project. That is why promotion plan should focus on informing potential
customers about Project’s competitive advantages. It should be provided through “Above the
Line” (ATL) and “Below the Line” (BTL) activities.
ATL activities are carried out through mass media and could include:
BTL activities which are refer to forms of non-media communication or advertising could
include:
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Develop partnership programs with commercial banks in order to simplify and
cheapen mortgages procedures for those customers who are ready to buy offices
Promote projects through branded real estate agencies (like Penny Lane, Black
Wood, Knight Frank, etc.)
Price
The Company should maintain moderate price for office space and bear in mind high price
sensitivity of target group. That is why price policy should be flexible and take into account
major trends on the real estate.
In order to make business more predictable for investors, sizable discounts should be provided
for long term rental contracts (more than 3 years).
People
The successful Project development on each stage depends of skilled and motivated staff. That is
why human resource management becomes one of the key issues and requires professional
development of hiring policy, motivation system, procedures of professional trainings and
qualification upgrades.
Process
In order to increase competitive advantages and attract new investors, the Project should be
managed under the formal standards like PMI rules. The implementation of Total Quality
Management (TQM) practices which places strong focus on process measurement and controls
as means of continuous improvement2 also could be applicable.
Physical Evidence
The Company should further develop Complex Information System (I-service), where tenants
may get all information on the services and manage their own resources (heating, lighting,
communications, etc.). This allows costs cutting, and provides customers with the perception of
effective property management.
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http://managementhelp.org/quality/tqm/tqm.htm
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6. Implementation plan
The projected amount of capital investment by the end of the Project (2015 year) could achieve
the value of $992 mln.
6.3. Budgets
According to the adjusted budget, the main projected costs in 2010 have such value:
Item of expenditure Value, (thousand $)
Design documentation 4 360
Engineering documentation 4 360
Construction costs 109 000
Engineering systems 6 540
Incidental expenses 5 450
Project management costs 4 360
Marketing costs (promotion) 3 052
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6.4. Risks
Brand awareness 95% of Moscow commercial real estate realtors knows Nagatino
i-Land brand, 60% of middle size companies are informed about
Project facilities
Occupancy rate Occupancy rate is higher than 70%
Competitive price Price rate growth slower than the competitor’s
Good infrastructure 80% tenants are satisfied with infrastructure
The permanent comparison of Project key performance indicators with competitors is required in
order to determine strong and weak points and enhance competitive positions on the market.
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Bibliography
1. Ansoff I. (1985), Corporate strategy: analytical approach to the policy of growth and expansion of
business. M.: Economy,
2. K. Douglas Hoffman (2006), Marketing Principles and Best Practices, Colorado State University, 3rd
Edition
3. Lomax W., Rettie R., Stokes D. (2006), Marketing, Kingston University Business School
4. T. Kohonen, (2001), Self organizing maps, Shpringer-Verland, Berlin, 3rd Edition
5. http://nagatino-iland.ru [Accessed: 20 April 2010]
6. http://managementhelp.org/quality/tqm/tqm.htm [Accessed: 22 April 2010]
7. www.irn.ru [Accessed: 19 April 2010]
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map [Accessed: 22 April 2010]
9. http://www.prime-realty.ru/new/nv7.htm. [Accessed: 22 April 2010]
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Appendix 1. Development plans
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Appendix 2. Competitive analysis commercial real estate market in the
Southern part of the Moscow
The lost of competitor analysis and main characteristics are presented in the Table. Assumption: the
assessment of transport availability and level of infrastructure was estimated by author and could be
very subjective.
Transpor
Level of Year of
Clas Total sq. t
Project Address infrastruct placing into Price
s m availabili
ure (1-5) operation
ty (1-5)
Sharikikopodshipnikovaua
Galiley B+ 131000 4,5 4,8 2010 400
, 13-15
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Nijegorodsky Nijegorodskaya, 29 B+ 38510 3,9 3,9 2009 300
Shosse
Shosse Entuziastov B+ 28000 3,1 3,9 2010 320
Entuziastov
Siromyatnichesk Verhnaya
B+ 20092 3,2 3,8 2009 400
y Siromyatnichesky, 7
Shariko- Sharikopodshipnikovaua,
B+ 18000 3,1 2,9 2010 200
Podshipnik, 5 5
Sharik- SharikoPodshipnikovskaya
B+ 12500 2,9 3,1 2008 200
Podshipnik , 13
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Starokirochny Starokirochny, 6 B- 10000 3,1 3,5 2008 270
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Appendix 3. The segmentation of Moscow commercial real estate market
The segmentation base for segmentation was formed from the data available in Appendix 2 and
adjusted database of “Top most expensive business centers of the Moscow”, obtained from site
http://www.prime-realty.ru/new/nv7.htm.
The segmentation of Moscow commercial real estate market was provided according to Self
Organizing Map Technique (SOM) (Kohonen at al, 2001) and using Viscovery SOMine
softwarte.
The SOM is a type of artificial neural network that is trained using unsupervised learning to
produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional), discretized representation of the input
space of the training samples, called a map (Wikipedia).
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Picture 2. The visualization of a “Class” variable (1-“B-“, 6-“A+”
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Picture 4. The visualization of a “Price” variable ($ per sq.m)
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Appendix 4. Perceptual map of customer needs and requirements
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Appendix. 5. Schedule of Key Tasks for three years
Develop strategy
and policy of tenant 6
mix
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Organize the
shuttle from
1
Nagatino metro
station
To prepare fully
equipped and 9
customized offices
Landscape and
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shade gardening
Construction of
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recreation zones
Promotion Direct
advertisements in 14
magazines
Direct
advertisements on 9
TV
Direct
advertisements in 8
newspapers
Direct 21
36
advertisements in
billboards
Advertorial articles 7
Internet
32
advertisement
PR arrangements 13
Develop
partnership
2
programs with
commercial banks
Revise partnership
4
program
Rental rates
3
revision
Price
Provide selling
11
auctions
Develop program
2
of staff motivation
People
Develop program
2
of staff training
37
TQM technique
Process 16
implementation
Physical i-service
13
evidence development
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Appendix 6. Drafting an Outline Marketing Plan
Section Corp' Guidance Notes Own Narrative Title Doc's Marks
(Explain) (Critique)
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Background Information was obtained * +
from Company web site
Macro Analysis * +
Micro Analysis * +
Market Research * +
SWOT * +
Mkt. Aims & Objectives * +
Implementation Plan * +
Timing? * +
Measurement? * +
Contingency? * 0,15
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