SMART WAYS FOR SMART CARDS: DETERMINING COMPETITIVE STRATEGY OF SMART CARD BUSINESSES

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Winaicharn Sapparojpattana
Wanlop Stitabha
Pimolmas Netmai[
Kathathep Pongthougn

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Smart card is a plastic card which stores financial value and is adopted to replace some cash amount in daily consumption. The smart card can be regarded as a financial product making the card holders conveniently spends his or her cashed value and, at the same time, it can be taken as marketing promotion tool for building up customer loyalty to the card issuer and its allied merchant partners. Developing strategic directions begins when the card issuer determines right market and competitive positioning. Who is a real customer? Who are all rivalries? This article is giving a potential response, based on our recent research, to these questions so that a profitability of the issuing partners can be sustained.

 

สมาร์ทการ์ด คือ บัตรพลาสติกที่เก็บมูลค่าของเงินและสามารถใช้แทนเงินสด จัดว่าเป็นผลิตภัณฑ์ทางการเงินที่เพิ่มความสะดวกและความปลอดภัยให้กับผู้ถือบัตรได้ และยังจัดเป็นเครื่องมือทางการตลาดในการสร้างความภักดีต่อผู้ออกบัตรและคู่ค้าที่รับบัตร ดังนั้นในการวางแผนกลยุทธ์ให้กับธุรกิจสมาร์ทการ์ด จึงจำเป็นต้องกำหนดตำแหน่งทางการตลาดให้ชัดเจน เพราะจะมีผลต่อการกำหนดบริบทของการแข่งขัน  กล่าวคือ ใครเป็นลูกค้าและใครคือคู่แข่ง ซึ่งทำให้เราทราบว่าความสำเร็จในการสร้างผลกำไรในระยะยาวนั้น เกิดจากปัจจัยอะไรบ้าง บทความนี้นำผลการวิจัยเกี่ยวกับพฤติกรรมการใช้สมาร์ทการ์ดมาต่อยอดธุรกิจ เพื่อแสวงหาหนทางในการสร้างความเติบโตให้ธุรกิจสมาร์ทการ์ดได้อย่างยั่งยืน

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