The Demand Creation Process
Why a demand creation process?
The business process flow is:
- Business plan to potential customer;
- Potential customer to sales;
- Sales to product design (if applicable),
- Product design to produce and deliver (if applicable);
- Produce and deliver to customer and customer to bank.
The exact flow depends on the particular business model adopted. With this approach, there would be one process that creates a demand for the organizations products and services and another that fulfils that demand. These are often referred to as marketing and production but these are labels given to departments therefore we need a different term to avoid confusion. A suitable name for the process that creates a demand might be Demand creation process. Other names might be Marketing process or Sales and Marketing Process.
Purpose
Penetrates new markets and exploits existing markets with products and a promotional strategy that influences decision makers and attracts potential customers to the organization. New product development would form part of this process if the business were market driven
Process inputs
Business plan (from Mission Management process)
Capable and competent resources (from Resource Management Process)
Process Key stages (Fast food outlet)
Note: The process flow is kept simple for illustrative purposes. The yellow boxes represent the key stages of the business process and the blue boxes represent the work processes.
