Market-Based Management: Strategies for Growing Customer Value and Profitability - Softcover

Best, Roger J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132336537 ISBN 13: 9780132336536

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2008

Synopsis

This unique book is built around a performance orientation and the belief that real learning occurs only with the application of knowledge. It emphasizes market-based management–with a focus on the linkages between marketing strategy and profitability, and provides a systematic method for learners to evaluate the profit impact of a marketing strategy.

Coverage that goes beyond marketing fundamentals features a three-fold integration of market-driven strategy, customer satisfaction, and profitable growth–giving readers the tools and techniques for delivering higher levels of customer satisfaction, marketing productivity and profitability. A special effort was made to include more coverage of customer loyalty marketing, performance metrics, customer relationship marketing, and brand and product line strategies.

For anyone interested in strategic marketing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Are you looking for a marketing management book that takes a strategic approach and connects marketing decisions with financial implications? Is your course becoming more focused on customer relationships, customer satisfaction, and customer value?

If so, Market-Based Management, Third Edition, was written with you in mind.

About the Author:

Dr. Roger J. Best is an Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the University of Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University in 1968. Following graduation, he joined the General Electric Company where he worked in both engineering and product management. While at GE, he received a patent for a product he developed. Dr. Best completed his MBA at California State University, Hayward in 1972 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1975. He taught at the University of Arizona from 1975 to 1980 and the University of Oregon from 1980 to 2000.

Over the past twenty-five years, he has published over fifty articles and won numerous teaching awards. In 1998 he received the American Marketing Association Distinguished Teaching in Marketing award. In 1988, the Academy of Marketing Science voted an article on marketing productivity by Dr. Best and co-authors the outstanding Article of the Year. He is a co-author of Consumer Behavior: Implications for Marketing Strategy (8th ed.). Dr. Best has also developed the Marketing Excellence Survey (www.MESurvey.com), a benchmarking tool for assessing a manager's marketing knowledge and market attitudes based on a worldwide database of over 15,000 managers and MarkProf (www.MarkProf.com), an online marketing profitability tool to help marketing managers "mess the profit impact of marketing strategies.

Over the past twenty years, Dr. Roger J. Best has been active in working with a variety of companies in both marketing strategy consulting and management education. These companies include General Electric, Dow Chemical, Dow Corning, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, MediaOne, Lucas Industries, Tektronix, ESCO, Pacific Western Pipe, James Hardie industries, Sprint, and US West. Dr. Best has also taught many executive management education programs at INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0132336537
• ISBN 13: 9780132336536
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 515