The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology Companies - Softcover

Paul Wiefels

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0066620554 ISBN 13: 9780066620558

Publisher: Harper Business, 2002

Synopsis

In The Chasm Companion, The Chasm Group's Paul Wiefels presents readers with a new analysis of the ideas introduced in bestselling author Geoffrey Moore's classic books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, and focuses on how to translate these ideas into actionable strategy and implementation programs. This step-by-step fieldbook is organized around three major concepts: how high-tech markets develop, creating market development strategy, and executing go-to-market programs based on the strategy.

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Review:

Fans of Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado will certainly be attracted to The Chasm Companion, a step-by-step manual by longtime Moore associate Paul Wiefels that lays out specific ways to apply his popular tech-oriented business principles in our fast-changing world. But even those who never warmed to the earlier works--which proposed a pragmatic path for successfully navigating the ever-moving environment of "disruptive technologies that force changes in both strategy and behavior"--could find this book appealing. Designing The Chasm Companion as a hands-on field guide, Wiefels opens by explaining six "inflection points" in high-tech market development (the Early Market, the Chasm, the Bowling Alley, the Tornado, Main Street, Total Assimilation) that he and Moore insist everyone must carefully watch and properly react to as internal and external conditions evolve. He then outlines models and tools developed in the consulting practice he co-founded with Moore that enable individual corporations to carefully craft relevant strategies that they can align correctly with the appropriate market phases defined earlier. Finally, he presents initiatives (strategy validation, whole product management, marketing communications planning, and field engagement strategy) to help these firms actually implement their plans. Graphics and sidebars help Wiefels drive his points home clearly. --Howard Rothman

From the Back Cover:

"Using The Chasm Group's models, BEA had become the fastest software company in history to reach $1 billion in revenue. The Chasm Companion provides the insights that will help someone else beat our record." William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chairman, & Chief Strategy Officer, BEA Systems, Inc.

"Paul Wiefels offers up a comprehensive marketing toolkit. His knowledge of what's worked and what hasn't is a must read for every marketing manager embarking into uncharted territory." Gary Elliottt, Vice President, Global Brand and Marketing Communications, Hewlett-Packard

"This is the must-have high-tech business survival guide for our new century." Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Worldwide

"The Chasm Companion is an outstanding guide for anyone facing the challenge of how to execute a successful marketing campaign for a high-tech product or service." Tom Kosnik, Ph.D., Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066620554
• ISBN 13: 9780066620558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352