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Perceptual Maps
To gain competitive advantage, a firm must correctly position itself, its products, or services against competitive offerings. Need to develop a Mental Map of how our product is perceived by consumers relative to the different competing products in the marketplace.
Linking Segmentation and Positioning.
Techniques that help us to construct such mental or Perceptual Maps are called Multidimensional Scaling and Factor Analysis.
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Perceptions
Preferences
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The number of pairs to be evaluated is n (n -1)/2, where n CHARU BISARIA is the number of stimuli.
7 6 3 3 2 2 2 2
6 4 4 2 2 2 4
5 4 3 2 2 2
5 5 6 6 4
5 5 6 3
6 7 3
6 4
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Whitens Does not teeth ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ whiten teeth Prevents tooth Does not prevent decay ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ tooth decay . . . . Pleasant Unpleasant tasting ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ tasting
If attribute ratings are obtained, a similarity measure (such as CHARU BISARIA Euclidean distance) is derived for each pair of brands.
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Stress
0.1 0.0 0
2 3 4 Number of Dimensions
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Colgate
Crest
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Aim
Crest Ideal Point Colgate Aqua- Fresh
Close Up
Dentagard
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2.0
5.5
6
2
What more would you like to know?
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Represent customers perceptions in a manner that aids communication and discussion within the organization
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Multidimensional Scaling
With 3 products, I can perfectly represent the information in two dimensions With more products to be represented in two dimensions
information loss
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a mathematical technique that helps implement this analysis of similarity perceptions with minimum information loss. What are advantages/disadvantages of MDS
Allows you to map products and simultaneously infer attributes. Better for softer attributes which we do not verbalize very well (feel, aesthetics) Impractical when the number of products are large.