“One life, one chance”: Cordlife Sciences India Pvt. Ltd. Preserving the precious gift

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Rik Paul ◽  
Nitika Sardana
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Services Marketing ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Blood Banking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Pricing ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Cord Blood Banking

Subject area Marketing. Study level/applicability This case is suitable for MBA/MS courses for students of services marketing; courses such as sustainable development of business and integrated marketing communications. Case overview Cordlife Limited entered the Indian market for cord blood banking in 2006 and by 2011 held third place in market share. However, the management of Cordlife had identified a major problem as a lack of awareness of the potential of cord blood banking among the Indian middle class, and the lack of a proper infrastructure for transportation of biological packages. Cordlife undertook several marketing initiatives to spread awareness. Marketing such a sophisticated service like cord blood banking called for heavy investments. The case provides an opportunity to closely examine various marketing activities in detail and understand how problems associated with intangible services can be managed. In addition to marketing of services the case highlights the existence of several gaps in designing a delivery in a service. The scope of the case can also be extended to the concept of service pricing and also integrated services marketing communications. Expected learning outcomes The case is designed for class discussions and in understanding the following concepts: the service gaps model; service pricing; and integrated service marketing communications. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available. Consult your librarian for access.

Feeding the hungry surfers: www.justeat.in

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Rik Paul ◽  
Debapratim Purkayastha
Keyword(s):  
Services Marketing ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Link Type ◽  
New Development ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Electronic Channels

Subject area Services marketing. Study level/applicability This case can be taught effectively to MBA/MS students. The case provides students with an opportunity to closely examine various marketing activities and to understand how problems associated with intangible services can be dealt with by using effective integrated marketing communications. Case overview On March 1, 2011, JustEat, the world's largest and premium online food ordering and table reservation portal, acquired a 60 per cent stake in India's premium online food ordering and table reservation portal – Hungryzone. Following this, Hungryzone was rebranded as www.justeat.in. Ritesh Kumar Dwivedy Founder and CEO of Hungryzone and now the CEO of www.justeat.in, soon faced some challenges that cropped up as a result of this new development. Rebranding and the scalability of operations with the existing resources were the major causes of concern. To overcome these problems, www.justeat.in undertook several marketing initiatives and in the process implemented innovative ideas like JustConnect Terminal; introduction of the global JustEast mascots Belly and Brain to replace the existing mascot Aloo Patel of Hungryzone; and various innovative promotional activities to promote www.justeat.in. The case highlights the issues and challenges faced by the management. Finally some significant challenges yet to be resolved are posed. What should be done to deal with the problem of poaching of customers by partnering restaurants? How should www.justeat.in ensure that the partnering restaurants do not perceive it as their competitor in spite of the fact that registering with www.justeat.in helps increase their revenues by 10-15 perx cent? How should www.justeat.in convince popular restaurant chains to register with it keeping in mind the fact that they are already facing excess demand situations? Expected learning outcomes The case is designed to enable students to understand: the concepts associated with delivering services through electronic channels; communications and the services marketing triangle; key serxvice communication challenges; the integrated services marketing communication mix; strategies to match service promises with delivery; and the services branding model. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available; please consult your librarian for access.

Sibling Donor Cord Blood Banking for Children with Sickle Cell Disease

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Reed ◽  
Mark Walters ◽  
Elizabeth Trachtenberg ◽  
Renee Smith ◽  
Bertram Lubin
Keyword(s):  
Sickle Cell Disease ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Blood Banking ◽  
Sibling Donor ◽  
Cord Blood Banking

Cord Blood Banking: Volume Reduction Using "Procord" Terumo Filter

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Dal Cortivo ◽  
I. Robert ◽  
C. Mangin ◽  
T. Sameshima ◽  
S. Kora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Volume Reduction ◽  
Blood Banking ◽  
Cord Blood Banking

Integrated marketing communications and social marketing

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Dahl ◽  
Lynne Eagle ◽  
David Low
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
Integrated Marketing Communications ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Social Marketing Campaigns

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the view of integrated marketing communications (IMC) by social marketing practitioners. Specifically, the paper furthers the discussion how a symbiotic relationship between IMC and social marketing can lead to both practical improvements of health-related social marketing campaigns, as well as theoretical advancement of the IMC construct. Design/methodology/approach – Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with practitioners, the authors provide exploratory evidence for support for IMC within the social marketing community and highlight potential differences and similarities when transferring IMC from a commercial to a social context. Findings – Three main differences emerged when transferring IMC from a commercial to a social context. These include differences of customer-centric approaches between commercial and social marketing, the need to weigh out the application of IMC to the charity brand or the use of IMC at a behavioural level and, finally, different complexity levels of desired behaviour as a mediating factor. Research limitations/implications – As with all qualitative data, the findings may not be generalisable beyond the interview participants and organisations studied. Practical implications – Many practitioners expressed that they liked IMC as a concept, but they lacked guidance as to the application with a social marketing context. This paper contributes to providing this guidance and establishing a body of knowledge how IMC can be applied in a non-commercial setting. Originality/value – The paper contributes to the practical development of guidance how the largely commercially applied IMC construct can be modified to be used in a social marketing context, while correspondingly highlighting how IMC needs to evolve to grow beyond purely commercial application.

UST Global, India: delivering software service solutions

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Balakrishnan Menon
Keyword(s):  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Services Marketing ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Delight ◽  
Software Service ◽  
Offshore Development

Subject area Marketing management – services marketing specialization. Student level/applicability MBA/PGDM senior students studying services marketing as a specialization course. Case overview US Technology Private Ltd (UST) is a major software services company in India. It was started in 1999 with a few employees at an offshore development centre in Trivandrum. Now in 2010, renamed UST Global, the company has over 7,000 employees worldwide. Phenomenal success of such a software company, in the left-oriented party dominated state of Kerala, has invited the attention of many people in the industry. The company earned valuable foreign exchange through software exports for the country and the state over the last ten years. The company has created innovative service differentiators, to impress on its clients, on the advantage of doing business with the company. The cementing customer satisfaction and derived customer delight that the company has created in their clients, has secured stable customer relationship management and customer loyalty. This reinforces the trust they have shown in the services management philosophy adopted by the company. The company's unique hybrid delivery model has worked well with its clients. Its unique selling proposition of “few clients and more focus” has resulted in delight of its customers, as they see it as a value addition for their money's worth. The leadership team attributes the success of the company to its fundamental core values and twin strategy of customer centricity and employee focus. Expected learning outcomes These are: customer perception of service; purpose of customer relationship management; service differentiators; and employees' role in delivering successful software service solutions to the customer, etc. Supplementary materials Teaching notes.

Co-creating value and developing social capital: Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), Wardha

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anagha Shukre ◽  
Naresh Verma
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Integrated Marketing Communications ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rural Markets

Subject area Marketing management, consumer behaviour, rural marketing and integrated marketing communications. Study level/applicability The case is for the use of undergraduate and also postgraduate students of management in courses of marketing management, consumer behaviour, rural marketing and integrated marketing communications. This case may also be used in human resources’ management course lectures which focus on social capital. Case overview This case on the Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), Wardha, attempts to identify how value can be co-created through innovative technology and how social capital can be developed for rural markets through the use of integrated marketing communications tools, particularly word-of-mouth and the influence of opinion leaders. Effective campaigns can be designed for the target audience based on the 3A framework (Awareness, Adoption and Addition of Value) and McGuire’s Model of Persuasion. The CSV has been typically chosen for the study because its products are unique, innovative and eco-friendly and blend well with the rural lives. It has been able to enrich the lives of rural population by generating employment and in creating entrepreneurial opportunities. The biggest challenge, however, lies in educating rural consumers to accept and adopt its innovative technology in their daily lives. Expected learning outcomes The case study has been written to enable students to understand the concepts of value co-creation and social capital in the context of Indian rural markets. The students will learn the dynamics of rural markets by pondering over these points: understand the concept of value co-creation for rural markets; comprehend the creation of social ecology for managing knowledge in an organisation; identify the development and role of social capital and use it as a promotional tool, particularly word-of-mouth and opinion leaders(reference groups); recommend the use of different marketing mix variables for an organisation, operating in rural markets; and connote designing of effective campaigns for the target audience, based on the 3A framework and the Persuasion Model (6 steps) suggested by McGuire. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing

Anthony Nolan Experience: Issues and Strategy for Cord Blood Banking from Ethnic Minority Groups

2014 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Fatma Hatimy ◽  
Monica Del Olmo ◽  
Linda Moss ◽  
Velibor Milovanovic ◽  
Sergio Querol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Blood Banking ◽  
Cord Blood Banking
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