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Integrated Marketing Communication

By Prof. Vinay Sharma   |   IIT Roorkee
Learners enrolled: 1217   |  Exam registration: 129
About the course:
The objective of this course is to enlighten the participants with important aspects of planning, execution and evaluation of marketing communication and its strategies. This course is developed with a blend of theoretical lectures and various examples which will provide insights on real-life scenarios. The participants will be familiarized with integration of marketing communication modes and strategies for building brands. The learners will also get to know the importance of different media choices along with the reasons and methods of integrating different media. The discussion would also include understanding consumer behaviour and conducting IMC-related research. The course focuses on the strategic importance of IMC and highlights the centrality of the art of IMC with reference to driving businesses and organizations at large.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students of Marketing, Students who wish to learn Integrated Marketing Communication, Executives and Administrators.

PRE-REQUISITE: Basic understanding of fundamentals of Marketing will be beneficial.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: All industries, institutions and even individuals who may think of promoting themselves and their products and services as brands.
Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Management Studies
  • Marketing
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 20 Jan 2025
End Date : 11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends : 27 Jan 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 14 Feb 2025
Exam Date : 27 Apr 2025 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: What is IMC?
Week 2: Current Trends and Design Thinking Outlook in IMC
Week 3: Consumer Behaviour 
Week 4: Objectives, Budgeting, and IMC as a Strategic Tool
Week 5: Historical Perspective of IMC
Week 6: Research Methods and IMC Planning
Week 7: Advertising
Week 8: Creativity: Planning and Execution
Week 9: Sales Promotion & Personal Selling
Week 10: Direct Marketing & Public Relations
Week 11: The Internet: Digital Marketing and Social Media Advertising
Week 12: Measurement & Ethical and Social Perspective of IMC

Books and references

  1. Semenik, R. J., Allen, C., O'Guinn, T. C., & Kaufmann, H. R. (2012). Advertising and promotions: An integrated brand approach. China: Couth-Western Cengage Learning.
  2. Belch, G.E., & Belch, M.A. (2017). Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective (11th Ed.). McGraw Hill Higher Education.
  3. Kotler, P., & Keller, K. L. (2017). Marketing management. (15th Ed.). Pearson India
  4. Ries, A., & Trout, J. (2001). Positioning: The battle for your mind. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Instructor bio

Prof. Vinay Sharma

IIT Roorkee
Prof. Vinay Sharma is a Professor with the Department of Management Studies and a Joint Professor with Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, a 176 Years globally known Institution. He was conferred with The National Teacher's Award 2024 by the Hon'ble President of India, Shrimati Droupadi Murmuji, on 5th September 2024 for his contributions.

He has around 30 years of Experience, in the areas of Strategic Management, Business Opportunity Development, Market Development, Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communication, Product and Brand Management, Innovation and Design Thinking, Brand Development; IT enabled Services, Spiritual Orientation for Market Prosperity Development, Forest Bio residue-based Energy as a practitioner and Teaching for past Twenty years and Academy of Marketing Science has acknowledged one of his theories. One of his recent PhD projects, wherein he guided an IFS officer for developing a forest bio-residue briquetting machine to develop a value chain for household energy generation for the forest users of North-West-Himalayan region is in the phase of implementation and has been considered as a success story by NMHS (the project funding organization).

His book publications include ‘Stop Predicting-Revisit Life: Lessons from COVID-19 and 'Masters Speak on Management Education' in India, published by Bloomsbury India and ' Affordability for the Poor and Profitability for the Provider' wherein he has designed and proposed a specialized model acknowledged at various platforms. He has guided 13 PhDs, and One Post-Doctoral Research and 9 PhDs are being pursued. He has considerable experience of working with various organizations in the fields of Media, Information Technology and Social Development along with having worked with one of the largest read newspapers. Vinay Sharma has been teaching Strategy, Marketing and the allied subjects, at various prestigious institutions. He has contributed an Appendix on Rural Marketing in the 13th edition of Philip Kotler's Principles of Marketing

He was an associate and a member of the founding group of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration, and Governance constituted by Asian Development Bank in December 2004. He has published and presented around 105 papers, Chaired sessions at National and International platforms, developed and published 16 case studies based on primary research and has conducted more than 200 workshops, seminars, FDPs and MDPs for CEOs and MDs along with senior executives. He is a member of the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals and is also the member of academic and advisory councils and Board of Management of prestigious institutions and bodies. He has also been a working group member of Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan, a Pan IIT project.

One of his joint courses on NPTEL titled “Innovation, Business Models and Entrepreneurship” has been running for several years with around 46,000 registrations all through and, 4 other courses Integrated Marketing Communication, Product and Brand Management, Innovation in Marketing and Marketing of Innovation and Strategic Management have also been received well with a substantial number of students. He was awarded prestigious Noël Deerr Gold Medal twice for developing a business model for the Sugar Industry of India in 2013 and 2014. He was also awarded the prestigious AIMS IBA Outstanding Management Researcher Award at 21st AIMS International Conference on Management.

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 centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: April 27, 2025 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 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

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 will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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