Marketing research and analysis

By Prof. Jogendra Kumar Nayak | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 6107

Marketing research is involved with the linking of the manufacturers, intermediaries and the customers through information. It helps in identifying the recent trends in habits and behaviours of consumers through a research process. Some of the key applications of this study is to create a better product, decide the right price, distribution system and the promotional mechanism to attract customers and make a difference within the competition. It uses research tools in understanding the customer and segmenting the market. Some of the research tools are qualitative and quantitative in nature as well. Some of the frequently used techniques are like focus group study, TAT, projective techniques, regression analysis, factor and cluster analysis, discriminant analysis , structural equation modeling, multidimensional scaling and conjoint analysis etc. and other multivariate techniques.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Corporate executives, U.G, P.G and PhD students from the management discipline. It is a core as well as elective course for UG and PG.

PRE-REQUISITES: NIL

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL RECOGNIZE THIS COURSE All Industries both in Public and Private space , academic institutions and Research organizations.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	26 Aug 2019
End Date :	18 Oct 2019
Exam Date :	17 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Marketing Research, Defining Research Problem, Developing, Research Approach, Research Design, Qualitative Research.
Week 2: Qualitative Research, Projective Technique, Case Study, Descriptive Research, Design, Primary & Secondary Data, Research Error, Measurement & Scaling.
Week 3: Scale Development, Questionnaire & Form Design, Causal Research, Experimental Design & Sampling.
Week 4: Sampling, Hypothesis Development, Type I & Type II Errors, Data Preparation, Hypothesis Testing.
Week 5: Hypothesis Testing, Cross Tabulation, Correlation & Regression, Factor Analysis.
Week 6: Factor Analysis, SEM & CFA, Cluster Analysis.
Week 7: Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Researching Rural Market, International Marketing Research.
Week 8: Ethics, Report Preparation, Multi Dimentional Scaling, Conjoint Analysis.

Books and references

1.Marketing Research by Naresh Malhotra, Pearson .
2.Marketing Research: A South Asian Perspective 1st Edition (Churchill, Israel), Cengage learning.

Instructor bio

Prof. Jogendra Kumar Nayak is the Assistant Professor in Marketing in the Department of Management Studies , Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is a Ph.D. degree holder from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He teaches marketing research in both spring and autumn semesters in IIT Roorkee. Alongwith it, he also teaches industrial marketing. He has publications in most of the publishing houses such as Elsevier, Emerald, Sage and Taylor and Francis. His major research areas are in Industrial Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, and Tourism Management. He regularly conducts workshop titled “Data Analysis for Research and Publication” which is attended by participants from educational institutes, Govt. organisations and industry as well.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centers.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 17th November 2019, Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.

If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies are being discontinued from July 2019 semester and will not be dispatched.

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