Identifying Market Segments and Targets Assignment-1 Instructions: . Select a unique business product/service and answer the image's questions by analyzing major segment variables for the business market. It is a group assignment consisting of three members per group. The group can be 'Thesis Group.' If a question starts with 'Should,' you will also explain 'Why You Should.' . TABLE 8.5 Major Segmentation Variables for Business Markets Demographic 1. Industry: Which industries should we serve? 2. Company size: What size companies should we serve? 3. Location: What geographical areas should we serve? Operating Variables 4. Technology: What customer technologies should we focus on? 5. User or nonuser status: Should we serve heavy users, medium users, light users, or nonusers? 6. Customer capabilities: Should we serve customers needing many or few services? Purchasing Approaches 7. Purchasing-function organization: Should we serve companies with a highly centralized or decentralized purchasing organization? 8. Power structure: Should we serve companies that are engineering dominated, financially dominated, and so on? 9. Nature of existing relationship: Should we serve companies with which we have strong relationships or simply go after the most desirable companies? 10. General purchasing policies: Should we serve companies that prefer leasing? Service contract? Systems purchases? Sealed bidding? 11. Purchasing criteria: Should we serve companies that are seeking quality? Service? Price? Situational Factors 12. Urgency: Should we serve companies that need quick and sudden delivery or service? 13. Specific application: Should we focus on a certain application of our product rather than all applications? 14. Size or order: Should we focus on large or small orders? Personal Characteristics 15. Buyer-seller similarity: Should we serve companies whose people and values are similar to ours? 16. Attitude toward risk: Should we serve risk-taking or risk-avoiding customers? 17. Loyalty: Should we serve companies that show high loyalty to their suppliers