Strategic Marketing: Problems, Cases, Comments

For courses in Marketing Strategy, Marketing Management, and Strategic Marketing. This best-selling text is dedicated to the development of decision-making skills in marketing. The text introduces concepts and tools useful in structuring and solving marketing problems, while extensive class tested case studies provide an opportunity for those concepts and tools to be employed in practice.

Photo Wars is a simulation that helps you learn how to make decisions in a complex, dynamic environment. PhotoWars is based on the DigiStrat framework. You will become the Chief Strategist of PhotoMax, a technology firm that is faced with a difficult transition from analog technologies to the digital age. You will be asked to guide your company to success in the face of change and uncertainty, and will develop the following skills:

• Improve your sensemaking ability in complex and dynamic digital arenas. Learn to detect patterns in a chaotic world and across a wide array of digital arenas.
• Improve your systems thinking ability by thinking holistically and dynamically about complex systems. Improve your ability to see connections across functional areas an over time.
• Discover "best practices" in strategy formulation: Unlike traditional simulation games such as MARKSTRAT, PhotoWars can be played many times over with different strategies. By controlled experimentation, you will gain insight into the behavior of the system and discover best practices.