Geographical Information Systems (GISs) are often used to assist marketing planners inidentifying suitable retail locations, regionally distributing advertising campaigns, or targetingdirect marketing activities. GIS–thematic maps facilitate the visual assessment of mapregions.A broad set of...

tele.ring is a mobile phone organization selling contracts and cell phones in the Austrian market. Themarket situation in 2005 was highly competitive and dynamic resulting in relatively short tariff lifecycles. Excessively long lead times made tele.ring’s management feel dissatisfied with...

We compare the performance of a specifically designed feedforward artificial neural network with one layer ofhidden units to the K-means clustering technique in solving the problem of cluster-based market segmentation. Thedata set analyzed consists of usages of brands (product category:...

Issues of segmentation and positioning have always been at the heart of marketing management. In recent years, much methodological progress has been made in order to carry out these two tasks simultaneously, that is, to combine certain types of clustering algorithms with appropriate...

Eine Analyse relevanter Kriterien für die Nutzer von Segmentierungs-, ZielmarktfestlegungsundPositionierungstools zeigt, dass die Wahl einer zweckmäßigen grafischen Darstellung derKundensegmente und ihrer Präferenzen von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, wenn es um dieKommunikation von...