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Google Self Driving Car Marketing Plan Essay

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Google self-drving cars

Instructor
Dr. Antonie J. Jetter

Team 2
Abhishek Jain
Jing Jiang
Jonathan Lui
Rohit D'Souza
Standley Limarta

Contents 1 Abstract 4 2 Company Overview 4 3 Partnerships and Strategic Alliance 5 4 Product Analysis 5 4.1 Product value 5 4.2 Technology Assessment 5 4.3 SWOT analysis 7 5 Value Proposition 9 5.1 Safety 9 5.2 Economics 10 5.3 Productivity 10 6 Market Analysis 11 6.1 Market Demographics 11 6.2 Market Trends 12 6.2.1 Changing Laws 12 6.3 Market Needs 13 6.4 Customer Segmentation 14 6.4.1 First Segment 15 6.4.2 Second Segment 15 6.4.3 Third Segment 16 6.4.4 Fourth Segment 16 7 Marketing strategy 18 7.1 Positioning 18 7.2 Position …show more content…

The Company competes with Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., Facebook, Inc., Twitter Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. and eBay Inc.
Google X, located in Bay area of San Francisco, is a secret facility to experiment with futuristic ideas. It has about 100 employees and generates hundreds of ideas each year. The lab selects only one or two ideas each year and implement those selected ideas. It birthed such as the augmented reality glasses, self-driving car, space elevator, and Web of things [6-7].
Partnerships and Strategic Alliance
Google implements the same business strategy as Nexus business model to their Google self-driving business model and initially they partner with Toyota to cultivate their self-driving technology in the automobile industry. Google and Toyota create horizontal partnerships, and provide jointly used and complementary products. This will lead Toyota to revolutionize its car industry to bring the new experience of driving to its customers. Partnering with Toyota, gives Google an access to the automobile market by using the Toyota’s distribution channel, reducing the primary investment for them to enter the market. This will further cut down their risk of investing alone in this new innovation. Toyota as partner will provide the services such as updating the software, maintenance of the self-driving car.
Product Analysis
Product value
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year

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