As time goes on in the society demand of interior design is drastically increasing.
the 21st century is knowledge and culture-dominating "cultural time" and emotion-central "time of design", whereas the 20th century was a "industrial society" leaded b...
As time goes on in the society demand of interior design is drastically increasing.
the 21st century is knowledge and culture-dominating "cultural time" and emotion-central "time of design", whereas the 20th century was a "industrial society" leaded by technology and material.
And in the 21st century - design rules the world, design becomes competitive power of a nation, design becomes breakthrough of a business in this time - designer also takes the major role in the field of interior design.
these days more and more individuals, institutions, businesses invest more, demanding more indoor spaces according to their peculiarity, individuality, speciality or image.
this ever-increasing high demand of interior design sparks appearance of many interior design offices.
but because of rapid increase of the interior-design business offices in the poor circumstances, management of an office is not an easy job.
There are many explanations of the difficulty - deeper competition, less construction contract, price decision, lack of professional manpower, design and technology development, financial difficulty, capital-labor problem, environmental regulations, and especially, weak management of the business companies.
the more market demands, the more rival companies, and the more fierce competition.
in order to suvive the competition, separative plan of management from other offices, and sufficient design, near-perfect construction, and above all, the office's separative marketing strategy, which makes it survive, in other words, get the orders.
now we, to recognize costumer's needs who wants their own space, and to respond the outer situations by combining the original design development of office with the marketing strategy, and to appeal the exact value of the design, propose a framework to make, and improve, marketing strategies of offices' own.
in this study standing on that need of marketing strategies, we achieve pre-research to analyze the states and to recognize problems of management now with respect to interior architecture design offices, and then in that base, re-make the questionaire and achieve comparative analysis between offices who has marketing strategies and offices who does not have, comparative analysis between marketing strategies of large offices and those of small offices, and present a direction of marketing strategies by an analysis of the standards the what-costumers-think judge the field, and search actual methods to establish overall marketing strategies in the interior design offices.
for this specific study, we pick upper one hundred companies in Seoul from the KSCA domestic rank list, and achieve pre-research for a pilot study about the chosen subject companies to recognize the situation of management and marketing of the company, and design the questionaire with considering the result of an analysis of pre-research and problems, and then achieve main research in Seoul-Kyunggi region without regard to the rank list, and make an additional questionaire for customer to recognize the standards the customers use when they select a company.
now we establish a basic framework in decision making of the marketing strategy direction of interior design offices.
result of this study is summarized as follow :
as a result, offices understand the need of a marketing post but they do not commonly introduce one.
and index of method to introduce a marketing strategy is needed.
and almost every offices recognize the marketing as the same as public relations in the field of interior design.
here we re-organize the standards of marketing strategy as the strategy of interior design, and propose four indices for establishing the system of marketing strategies to the offices - (1) design, (2) construction, (3) price, and (4) public relations.
on the basis of the result of this study, the image of office will be obvious, establishing marketing strategies of the office, and this study result will be used as a basic data for systematize the frame of marketing strategy of interior design office in order to manage stably and for the realization of more valuable indoor space.