Smash : Using Market Shaping to Design New Strategies for Innovation, Value Creation, and Growth

Stunningly, strategy has never adequately defined one of its central institutions, the market. Old playbooks got away with a hodgepodge of assertions, assumptions and approximations.

Suvi Nenonen is Director and Associate Professor, and Kaj Storbacka Professor at the University of Auckland’s Graduate School of Management. Both have made a career out of working on the boundary between academic and applied research within marketing and strategic management. They have extensive experience as strategy consultants to major European companies and a long background from designing and delivering executive education and Executive MBA programs in Europe, Asia and Australasia. In addition to their academic writings, they have written several award-winning managerial books.

Suvi Nenonen is Director and Associate Professor, and Kaj Storbacka Professor at the University of Auckland’s Graduate School of Management. Both have made a career out of working on the boundary between academic and applied research within marketing and strategic management. They have extensive experience as strategy consultants to major European companies and a long background from designing and delivering executive education and Executive MBA programs in Europe, Asia and Australasia. In addition to their academic writings, they have written several award-winning managerial books.