Marketing 5.0

Technology for Humanity

Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781119668541
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Marketing
• Index: Business

Rediscover the fundamentals of marketing from the best in the business

In Marketing 5.0, the celebrated promoterofthe"Four P's of Marketing, "Philip Kotler, explains how marketers can use technology to address customers' needs and make a difference in the world.

In anew agewhenmarketersare strugglingwith the digital transformation of business and the changing behavior of customers, this book providesmarketerswith a way to integrate technological and business model evolution with the dramatic shifts in consumer behaviorthat have happened inthe last decade.

Following the patternpresented inhis bestselling Marketing X.0 series, Philip Kotler covers the crucial topics necessary to understand modern marketing, including:

· ArtificialIntelligencefor marketing automation

· Agile marketing

· "Segments of one" marketing

· Contextual technology

· Facial recognition and voice tech for marketing

· The future of Customer Experience (CX)

· Transmedia storytelling

· The "Whatever-Whenever-Wherever" service delivery

· "Everything-As-A-Service" business model

· Internet of Things andblockchain for marketing

· Virtual and augmented reality marketing

· Corporate activism

Perfect for traditional and digital marketers, as well asstudents and teachers of marketing and business, Marketing 5.0 reinvigorates the field of marketing with actionable recommendations and unique insights.

PART I
Introduction

CHAPTER 1
Welcome to Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity

We wrote our first book in the series, Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit, in 2009. The book has since been published in 27 language editions around the world. As the subtitle suggests, the book describes the major shifts from product-driven marketing (1.0) to customer-oriented marketing (2.0) to human-centric marketing (3.0).

In Marketing 3.0, customers look for not only functional and emotional satisfaction but also spiritual fulfillment from the brands they choose. Thus, companies build differentiation with their values. Their products and operations aim not only to bring profits but also to provide solutions to the world's toughest social and environmental problems.

It took nearly 70 years for marketing to evolve from its product orientation to the concept of human centricity. During the decades of evolution, several marketing concepts have stood the test of time. Despite being “traditional” in nature, the segmentation-targeting-positioning concept as well as the product-price-place-promotion (4Ps) model have become universal staples for modern marketers globally.

We have always considered Marketing 3.0 to be the ultimate stage of traditional marketing. The entire building blocks of serving customers intellectually (1.0), emotionally (2.0), and spiritually (3.0) were complete. Although published a decade ago, the book's relevance has become more evident in today's era dominated by Generation Y and Generation Z populations. Genuinely caring for the society, the youth essentially forced companies to adopt social impact in the business model.

Marketing 4.0: The Pivot to Digital

When we wrote the next book in the series, Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital, in 2016, we pivoted to “digital” as the subtitle implies. In the book, we differentiated “marketing in the digital world” from digital marketing. Marketing in the digital world does not rely solely on digital media and channels. The digital divide still exists; thus, marketing requires an omnichannel—online as well as offline—approach. The concept is partly inspired by Industry 4.0—a high-level strategy of the German government—in which physical-digital systems are used in manufacturing sectors.

Although the use of technologies in Marketing 4.0 is fairly basic, the book introduced new marketing frameworks to serve customers in the hybrid—physical and digital—touchpoints across their customer journeys. It has thus far been published in 24 language editions worldwide and inspired companies to adopt fundamental forms of digitalization in their marketing activities.

The applications of marketing technology (martech), however, are so much more than just distributing content in social media or building an omnichannel presence. Artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), sensor technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have great potential to be game-changing for marketing practices.

We excluded these technologies in Marketing 4.0 as they were not yet mainstream at the time we wrote the book. And we believe marketers were still in the transitional and adaptation period to a digital world. But the COVID-19 pandemic has indeed accelerated the digitalization of businesses. With lockdowns and physical distancing policies in place, both the markets and marketers were forced to adapt to the new touchless and digital realities.

That is why we think this is the right time for Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity. It is time for companies to unleash the full power of advanced technologies in their marketing strategies, tactics, and operations. This book is also partly inspired by Society 5.0—a high-level initiative of Japan—which contains a roadmap to create a sustainable society supported by smart technologies. We agree that technology should be leveraged for the good of humanity. Marketing 5.0, therefore, has the elements of both the human-centricity of Marketing 3.0 and the technology-empowerment of Marketing 4.0.

It's Time for Marketing 5.0

Marketing 5.0 materializes against the backdrop of three major challenges: generation gap, prosperity polarization, and the digital divide. It is the first time in history that five generations living together on Earth have contrasting attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. The Baby Boomers and Generation X still hold most of the leadership positions in businesses and the highest relative buying power. But the digital-savvy Generations Y and Z now form the largest workforce as well as the biggest consumer markets. The disconnect between the older corporate executives who make most decisions and their younger managers and customers will prove to be a significant stumbling block.

Marketers will also face chronic inequality and imbalanced wealth distribution, which causes the markets to polarize. The upper class with high-paying jobs is growing and fueling the luxury markets. At the other end, the bottom of the pyramid is also expanding and becomes a large mass market for low-priced, value products. The middle market, however, is contracting and even vanishing, forcing industry players to move up or down to survive.

Moreover, marketers must solve the digital divide between people who believe in the potential that digitalization brings and those who do not. Digitalization brings fear of the unknown with the threats of job losses and concerns of privacy violations. On the other hand, it brings the promise of exponential growth and better living for humanity. Businesses must break the divide to ensure that technological advancement will move forward and not be welcomed with resentment. These challenges that marketers face in implementing Marketing 5.0 in the digital world will be the subject of Part 2 of the book (Chapters ).

What Is Marketing 5.0?

Marketing 5.0, by definition, is the application of human-mimicking technologies to create, communicate, deliver, and enhance value across the customer journey. One of the critical themes in Marketing 5.0 is what we call the next tech, which is a group of technologies that aim to emulate the capabilities of human marketers. It includes AI, NLP, sensors, robotics, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), IoT, and blockchain. A combination of these technologies is the enabler of Marketing 5.0.

For many years, AI has been developed to replicate human cognitive abilities, especially to learn from unstructured customer data and discover insights that might be beneficial for marketers. When mixed with other enabling technologies, AI can also be utilized to provide the right offers to the right customers. Big data analytics enables marketers to personalize their marketing strategy to each customer—a process known as “segments of one” marketing. Today, such a practice is becoming more mainstream than ever.

Consider these examples of Marketing 5.0. With AI's machine learning, companies can envision if a new product with specific features is likely to succeed with the assistance of a predictive algorithm. Hence, marketers can skip many steps in the new product development process. In most cases, these predictions have better accuracy than backward-looking market research and produce insights faster than the time-consuming concept tests. PepsiCo, for instance, regularly launches beverage products based on in-depth analysis of customer conversations on social media.

AI can also help reveal shopping patterns useful for e-retailers to recommend the right products and content to a cluster of shoppers based on their profiles. The recommendation engines are the critical differentiation of e-commerce players and other digital businesses such as Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube. They continuously analyze past purchase histories to create a dynamic segmentation and profiling of the customers and find the hidden relationships between seemingly unrelated products to upsell and cross-sell.

Some companies across industries such as AB InDev, Chase, and Lexus leverage AI to develop advertising with minimum involvement of human personnel. AB InDev, the company behind Budweiser and Corona, monitors how various ad placements are performing and feeds the resulting insights to the creative team to generate more effective ads. Chase opted for an AI engine instead of a human copywriter to write ad copies for its digital banners. Lexus analyzed award-winning camp...