The need for analysis of competitive position

In the process of transition to a market economy, enterprises are confronted with many problems of survival. Full access to the external environment has brought not only new opportunities, new challenges as the effective functioning of the enterprise market. By the introduction of marketing companies have come and still come only because the plight of the sale of its products. This is typical for most domestic enterprises. And often, the newly created marketing department becomes the second sales. Also, executives often do not fully realize the essence of marketing and “binds” a salary of marketing specialists to sales. And because of that marketers have lacked neither the time nor the great motivation for continuous and comprehensive market analysis. The actions of management are clear – need to sell products and make a profit now and peak rather than expend time, money and efforts of professionals to those conducted studies, often bringing quick and one hundred percent return. Thus, creating the marketing department, the company hopes to obtain additional customers and to ensure that market their products.
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