B2B
B2B
B2B
Post‐Graduate Diploma in Management
(PGDM)
Area: Marketing
Course Title : B2B Marketing
Course Faculty:
Name: Prof.Anand G .Khanna
Email: [email protected]
Mob. 9811699153, Office: 0120‐3002274
Faculty Contact hours for Students
Sec A‐ Tuesday‐ 4.00 ‐5.30 pm
Sec B‐Wednesday ‐4.00 ‐5.30 pm
Sec C‐Friday ‐4.00 ‐5.30 pm
Room 49, First Floor ,Old Academic Block
0R with prior appointments on any other weekday.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
B2B Marketing encompasses those management activities that enable a supplier firm to understand,
create, and deliver value to other businesses, governments, and / or institutional customers. In the context
of these business markets, value is ‘the worth in monetary terms of the economic, technical, service and
social benefits a customer firm receives in exchange for the price it pays for a market offering.’
There are three guiding principles:
Make value for the Customer
Focus on business processes
Accentuate working relationships and business networks
This course is designed to provide students with a good understanding of the concepts of B2B marketing.
It helps them develop critical analysis and problem‐solving abilities with respect to business market
management. The classes have been organized in a format to facilitate intense learning, featuring thorough
discussion and analyses of appropriate management cases
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completion of this course, students are expected to:
1. Develop a good understanding of the concepts and frameworks of business‐to‐business marketing.
2. Gain insights into buying behavior in business markets and the complexities involved in selling to
business customers.( Including governments, institutions)
3. Develop critical analysis and problem‐solving abilities with respect to business market management.
PEDAGOGY
To illustrate the application of these aspects by ways of practical applications in the form of case studies,
in‐class presentations, lectures & team projects.
EVALUATION
Students will be evaluated on the basis of case analysis, project, class participation and end‐term exam.
The weightage given to each of these units is listed below:
1. Group Project = 35% ( Project details will be announced in session 1 of the course)
2. Class participation = 10%
3. Case submission‐ 15%
4. End‐Term Exam =40%
Assessment method in alignment with learning outcomes:
Students will be evaluated on the basis of case analysis, project, class participation, and end‐term exam.
The weightage given to each of these units is listed below:
Learning Outcomes
Specific Assessment Method Weightage
a (#3.1) b (#1.1) c (#1.3)
Group Assessment Methods
Group Project 35% √
Group Submission 15% √
Individual Assessment Methods
Class Participation 10%
End‐term Exam 40% √
GROUP PROJECT
The group project will be an important learning tool of the course. It is essentially an application of the
classroom learning. The project shall be assigned by the faculty at the end of session 1 or 2. The project,
will be a field study, will require some deep thinking by the students that how the concepts taught in the
class could be applied to the field.
RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOK
Business Market Management ( B2B) ‐Anderson, Narus, Narayandas and Seshadri 3 e (Pearson)
REFERNCE BOOKS
B2B Marketing: A South Asian Perspective ‐ Micheal D. Hutt; Dheeraj Sharma & Thomas W Speh
: 11th edition ‐India Edition : Cengage Learning
Business Marketing‐Concepts and Cases : Sarin Sharad , 1st EditionTMH
Industrial Marketing ‐Analysis, Planning & Control ‐ Robert R. Reeder, Edward G.Brierty, Beety
H.Reeder 2e , Prentice Hall of India
Business Marketing : Connecting Strategy ,Relationships and Learning , F Robert Dwyer ,John F
Tanner , 3e TMG
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Positioning –Al Reis & Jack Trout
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing –Al Reis & Jack Trout
Marketing Warfare –Al Reis & Jack Trout
JOURNALS (ACCESSIBLE ONLINE AND OFFLINE)
Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
Industrial Marketing Management
Journal of Business‐to‐Business Marketing
Journal of Marketing
Course Outline: Session/Topic/Reading Material/Reference
9 Business Market Making stickK Stick: The Industry report CMIE;
Research Business of Behavioral Euromomitor on
;Competitive Economics: Leslie K. John; Automobile;Reports of
Intelligence Michael Norris; Michael I. CII ,
Norton