Integrated marketing occurs when the marketer devises marketing activities and assembles marketing programs to create, communicate, and deliver value for consumers such that “the whole is
greater than the sum of its parts.” Two key themes are that (1) many different marketing activities
can create, communicate, and deliver value and (2) marketers should design and implement any
one marketing activity with all other activities in mind. When a hospital buys an MRI from General
Electric’s Medical Systems division, for instance, it expects good installation, maintenance, and
training services to go with the purchase