69840 - Marketing for Insurance Products

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistical, Financial and Actuarial Sciences (cod. 8613)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing some basic tools, both conceptual and practical, necessary for understanding, analyzing and managing the relationships between an insurance company and its target market.
In particular, the student will be able to:

  • understand the buying behaviors
  • face segmentation and positioning issues
  • plan the development of new insurance products and their commercialization

Course contents

  • The marketing environment
  • Consumer behavior
  • The 4Ps of marketing
  • The strategic sequence of segmentation, targeting and positioning
  • The development of new products
  • The product's lifecycle
  • Relationship Marketing
  • The customers in the banking and insurance sector

Readings/Bibliography

The teaching material (or bibliographic references) will be provided during the course. Useful reference are:

  • Bagozzi, R.P. (1998) "Fondamenti di Marketing", Il Mulino.
  • Visentin, M. (2012) "Customer Relationship Management", Bononia University Press.
  • East, R. (2012) "Comportamento del Consumatore", Apogeo.

Teaching methods

The method in detail will depend on the number of participants to the course. The course will comprise the discussion of some scientific paper and the practical application of statistical models.

Assessment methods

Written test and eventual oral test.

Teaching tools

The course is based on traditional lessons. The discussion of academic articles will be an important part of the course. Practical lessons may take place.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Visentin