Market-Led Strategic Change: Transforming the Process of Going to Market

The third edition of Market-Led Strategic Change builds on the massive success of the previous two editions, popular with lecturers and students alike, presenting an innovative approach to solving an old problem: making marketing happen!


In his witty and direct style, Nigel Piercy has radically updated this seminal text, popular with managers, students, and lecturers alike, to take into account the most recent developments in the field. With a central focus on customer value and creative strategic thinking, he fully evaluates the impact of electronic business on marketing and sales strategy, and stresses the goal of totally integrated marketing to deliver superior customer value. "Reality Checks" throughout the text challenge the reader to be realistic and pragmatic.

The book confronts the critical issues now faced in strategic marketing:
· escalating customer demands driving the imperative for superior value
· totally integrated marketing to deliver customer value
· the profound impact of electronic business on customer relationships
· managing processes like planning and budgeting to achieve effective implementation

At once pragmatic, cutting-edge and thought-provoking, Market-Led Strategic Change is essential reading for all managers, students and lecturers seeking a definitive guide to the demands and challenges of strategic marketing in the 21st century.

Hugely successful previous editions
Thoroughly updated with and new cases
'Reality Checks' in each chapter to encourage pragmatic mindset

Nigel F. Piercy BA, MA, PhD, FCIM is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Warwick Business School in the University of Warwick, UK. He has also been visiting professor at Texas Christian University, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina, the Columbia Graduate School of Business in New York, and at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Professor of Strategic Marketing and Head of the Marketing Group at Cranfield School of Management. For several years he was the Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff University. He has managerial experience in retailing and was in business planning with Nycomed Amersham plc. He has extensive experience as a consultant and management workshop speaker and facilitator with many organizations throughout the world, specializing in the issues of market strategy planning and implementation. Recent client companies have included: KPMG, British Telecom, Allied Dunbar, Ford Cellular, AT&T, Honeywell, AIB Group, ICL, IMI, Scottish Widows, AMEY, Novar, Yellow Pages, and other smaller companies. He has worked with managers and management students in the UK, Europe, the USA, the Far East, and South Africa. He has been a Vice Chair of the American Marketing Association's Marketing Strategy Special Interest Group, and a Vice Chair with the Academy of Marketing Science. His research interests span several areas related to the development of marketing implementation strategy - such as marketing planning and budgeting, internal marketing and marketing organization - and he is currently focusing on a number of projects related to sales organization effectiveness and the sales/marketing interface. Professor Piercy has published sixteen books and has some 200 articles and papers in the management literature throughout the world. Among other awards and prizes, he was the UK Marketing Author of the Year for three years, and has published papers in the Journal of Market