advantage in selected target markets‚ and they design marketing mixes to create these planned positions. In planning their positioning‚ marketers often prepare perceptual maps that show consumer perceptions of their brand versus competing brands on attributes that are important to the consumer‚ whether functional or symbolic. Perceptual Maps are useful for these key reasons: Assessing strengths and weaknesses relative to competing brands along certain criteria important to the customer. This is
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taken back by how many different biases there were about different cultures and how they affected the way clinicians could think. When I did all of my observation hours over the past four years‚ I never had any biases towards any of our patients. We saw a number of patients that were from other cultures or who were involved in the LGBT community and I never looked at or treated them any differently than any of our other patients. Though I felt so strongly against biases‚ there were several therapists
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Biases and Performance Reviews January 10‚ 2008 Abstract I know from past experiences how performance review time is on both manager and employee. The yearly performance review not only impacts whether the employee is retained‚ but will also affect their opportunity for advancement. It is a responsibility that is not to be taken lightly. This being said there are obviously problems with the way performance reviews are handled‚ how one employee can be evaluated
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decision‚ than rushing through them immediately and making poor decisions. These decisions we make in our day-today life are often influenced by biases that one is completely unaware of. Biases are the annoying glitches in our thinking that makes us arrive at questionable decisions and make erroneous conclusions. Cognitive biases also known as Decision biases are “Ways of thinking or a thought process that produces errors in judgment or decision making‚ or at least departures from the use of normative
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Understanding Perceptual Maps What is a perceptual map? A perceptual map is of the visual technique designed to show how the average target market consumer understands the positioning of the competing products in the marketplace. In other words‚ it is a tool that attempts to map the consumer’s perceptions and understandings in a diagram. The word ‘perceptual’ comes from the word ‘perception’‚ which basically refers to the consumers’ understanding of the competing products and their associated attributes
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Social Biases Paper Luvie Lane April 18‚ 2010 Social Biases Paper A bias is often described as a preference towards a particular way of thinking or viewing something. To be biased means that a person’s attitude or behavior is influenced by a particular prejudice. A person may or may not be aware that he or she has a bias. Social biases are considered a problem in society due to one group looking down on another person or group because that group feels they are better than the other
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Perceptual Maps in Marketing The use of perceptual maps is a strong tool in the marketing world. Perceptual maps visually represent what the consumer thinks about a product or brand. To make a perceptual map several attributes of the product are placed on different axis and from that point a grid is made to represent how strong or weak the consumers view each attribute. Making a perceptual map is a good way for mangers to decide on a good marketing strategy for the product‚ and which attributes
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GTI Staff Papers on Laser Technology Page 1 of 3 Publications by GTI Staff on Application of Laser Technology to Well Construction and Completion 1. Batarseh‚ S.I.‚ Gahan‚ B.C.‚ Sharma‚ B.C.‚ R. 2005. "Innovation in Wellbore Perforation Using High Power Laser‚" IPTC Paper 10981‚ International Petroleum Technology Conference‚ Doha‚ Qatar‚ November 21-23. 2. Gahan‚ B.C. "Putting the Pressure on Fiber Laser Perforations" (pdf 461 KB) GTI Document No. GTI-05/0243‚ GasTIPS‚ 11‚ No. 4 (Fall
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Some financial advisors are needlessly struggling with behavioral finance because they lack a systematic way to apply it to their client relationships. In my 2006 book‚ Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management‚ I outline a method of applying behavioral finance to private clients in a way that I now refer to as "bottom-up." This means that for financial advisors to diagnose and treat behavioral biases‚ he or she must first test for all behavioral biases in a client‚ and then determine which ones a
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