You will submit a short paper covering context, need, and pricing. This milestone establishes your chosen organizations direction within the marketplace. This is important because it drives the subsequent activities, milestones, and the final project. Without a strong sense of the organizations purpose within the marketplace, knowledge of consumer trends, and how to meet target market needs at the appropriate price, management is less likely to maximize the efficiency of business activities and more likely to miss fully meeting the needs of its chosen target market. This milestone establishes how the organization will differentiate itself from its competition through branding with a unique product or service offering designed to meet specific consumer needs or desires that are shaped by their demographics, personality, or buying style. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric
