S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. Email: ranjan.chaudhuri@spjimr.org
Since the creation of world wide web at CERN the internet has infiltrated every inch of our planet, but its use remains largely rudimentary compared with the potential it has offered. This article contains investigation that focuses strategic marketing issues driven by information technology, internet in particular, and globalization. Marketing successfully requires not only insight into how a product or service can be successfully marketed but also flexibility into the marketing of a product or service. Innovation, creativity and flexibility are needed in any type of marketing efforts. Trying several types of information technology strategies in marketing is usually the best method of eliminating marketing methods that fail, and determining which marketing methods are successful.
competitive advantage, flexibility, internet, internal scanning, strategic marketing