Author: Douglas West Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199556601 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 613
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This text discusses how companies create competitive advantage through strategic marketing. Using established frameworks and concepts, it examines aspects of marketing strategy and thinking. It provides examples to facilitate the understanding of theoretical concepts.
Author: Graeme Drummond Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136362371 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 322
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Strategic Marketing: planning and control covers contemporary issues by exploring current developments in marketing theory and practice including the concept of a market-led orientation and a resource/asset-based approach to internal analysis and planning. The text provides a synthesis of key strategic marketing concepts in a concise and comprehensive way, and is tightly written to accommodate the reading time pressures on students. The material is highly exam focused and has been class tested and refined. Completely revised and updated, the second edition of Strategic Marketing: planning and control includes chapters on 'competitive intelligence', 'strategy formulation' and 'strategic implementation'. The final chapter, featuring mini case studies, has been thoroughly revised with new and up to date case material.
Author: Tony Proctor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317834232 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
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Fully updated and revised to include the latest case studies and examples from a broad range of industry sectors, this second edition of Strategic Marketing: An Introduction is a concise, thorough and enlightening textbook that demonstrates how organizations can cope with a myriad of demands by better understanding themselves, their products or services, and the world around them. From assessing internal relationships to planning and implementing marketing strategies, and featuring analysis of relationship marketing and strategic alliances, Proctor uses insights from a range of key models and theoretical frameworks to illustrate how an organization can successfully take advantage of ‘strategic windows’ to improve its position. Core issues covered include: marketing strategy analyzing the business environment the customer in the market place targeting and positioning marketing mix strategy. This textbook is the complete guide to assessing and imposing a realistic and successful marketing strategy to fit an organization, its resources and objectives, and the environment in which it operates. Accessibly written and supported by a user-friendly companion website, this new edition of Strategic Marketing: An Introduction is an essential resource for all students of marketing and business and management.
Author: Omar Merlo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 195
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Strategic Marketing is a concise handbook that focuses on the key steps of the strategic market management process. The book discusses fundamental concepts in marketing strategy in a concise way, by drawing on extant research as well as some of the latest work in the field. It is designed as a companion book for students of strategic marketing, or for managers who require a concise reference book. The book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the role of marketing within the firm, how it should be organised, the kind of customer-centric culture necessary to achieve a competitive advantage, and how financial value is generated through marketing activities. Part 2 focuses on how a marketing strategy can be designed through a systematic marketing planning process. Part 3 covers marketing tactics, by focusing on the implementation of the marketing mix, the brand strategy and relationship management.
Author: Torsten Tomczak Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3658184175 Category : Business & Economics Languages : de Pages : 261
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Dieses Lehrbuch führt in verständlicher, systematischer und knapper Form in die Problemfelder der Marketingplanung ein. Sowohl die Marketingplanung auf der Unternehmens- und Geschäftsfeldebene als auch die Planung des Marketing-Mix werden behandelt. Mit Hilfe von zahlreichen kurzen Fallbeispielen werden wesentliche Aspekte des Inhaltes veranschaulicht. Die Autoren haben in der 7. Auflage alle Kapitel überarbeitet und diverse neue Praxisbeispiele aufgenommen. Bei der Markenführung wurden einige Grundlagen ergänzt.
Author: Harvard Business Review Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press ISBN: 1422189880 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 217
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NEW from the bestselling HBR’s 10 Must Reads series. Stop pushing products—and start cultivating relationships with the right customers. If you read nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your marketing by putting it—and your customers—at the center of your business. Leading experts such as Ted Levitt and Clayton Christensen provide the insights and advice you need to: • Figure out what business you’re really in • Create products that perform the jobs people need to get done • Get a bird’s-eye view of your brand’s strengths and weaknesses • Tap a market that’s larger than China and India combined • Deliver superior value to your B2B customers • End the war between sales and marketing Looking for more Must Read articles from Harvard Business Review? Check out these titles in the popular series: HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams
Author: Karel Jan Alsem Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429823363 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 550
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This book, originally published in Dutch, provides a uniquely practical approach to strategic marketing planning. Combining a comprehensive overview of theory with practice, each chapter takes the reader step by step through the strategic marketing process. Beginning with identifying the value proposition, it moves on to the situational analysis that underpins the corporate strategy, and finally details the overall implementation and creation of a customer and brand values. Applied Strategic Marketing equips the reader with the necessary tools and techniques to develop and deliver a thorough and effective marketing strategy. With a broad range of international case studies that bring the theory to life, this well-renowned and updated translation is vital reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of marketing management and strategic marketing. It should also be of interest to marketing practitioners who want a clear overview to aid them in the planning process.
Author: Richard M.S. Wilson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136435247 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 552
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Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process. Leading authors in this sector, Gilligan and Wilson offer current thinking in marketing and consider the changes it has undergone over the past few years. Updated information in this new edition includes: * Changing corporate perspectives on the role of strategic marketing activity * Changing social structures and the rise of social tribes * The significance of the new consumer and how the new consumer needs to be managed * New thinking on market segmentation * Changing routes to market * Developments in e-marketing * Changing environmental structures and pressures
Author: Russell Abratt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429951558 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 148
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This book is a unique collection of comprehensive cases that explore concepts and issues surrounding strategic marketing. Chapters explain what strategic marketing is, and then discuss strategic segmentation, competitive positioning, and strategies for growth, corporate branding, internal brand management, and corporate reputation management. With case studies from a broad range of global contexts and industries, including Burger King, FedEx, and Twitter, readers will gain a working knowledge of developing and applying market-driven strategy. Through case analysis, students will learn to: examine the role of corporate, business, and marketing strategy in strategic marketing; recognize the implications of markets on competitive space with an emphasis on competitive positioning and growth; interpret the various elements of marketing strategy and apply them to a particular real-world situation; apply sound decision-making strategies and analytical frameworks to specific strategic marketing problems and issues; apply ethical frameworks to strategic marketing situations. Strategic Marketing: Concepts and Cases is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those studying for an MBA or executive courses in strategic marketing or marketing management.
Author: Douglas West
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Author: Graeme Drummond
Author: Tony Proctor
Author: Omar Merlo
Author: Torsten Tomczak
Author: Harvard Business Review
Author: Karel Jan Alsem
Author: Richard M.S. Wilson
Author: Russell Abratt