Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description



CODE IOT1007

 
TITLE Creative Internal Marketing

 
UM LEVEL 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 2

 
DEPARTMENT The Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking

 
DESCRIPTION Internal marketing involves using the concept of marketing to enable an organisation's human resources to participate in creating a better relationship with its consumers. Using creative thinking to ensure employee welfare will lead to better satisfied consumers.

This study unit will deal with some of the basics of marketing including the philosophy that underlies marketing. Topics to be covered include an understanding the marketing environment and an understanding of relationship marketing. Students will be invited to create new ways in which they can further develop their understanding of marketing and to design innovative ways in which to motivate their internal market, making use of some of Edward de Bono's methods.

Reading material will be assigned to students before workshops and discussions which will facilitate the necessary dialogue and creativity for both team work and individual work.

Reading List:

- Blythe, Jim (2004). Essentials of marketing (3rd revised edition) (Financial Times Prentice Hall).
- de Bono, Edward (1990). Lateral thinking: A testbook of creativity (Penguin Books Ltd.).

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Standard Study-Unit

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Classwork Yes 20%
Presentation Yes 30%
Assignment Yes 50%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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