Strategic Market Management - Softcover

Aaker, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471852627 ISBN 13: 9780471852629

Publisher: Wiley, 1988

Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and updated from the acclaimed 1984 edition, this textbook offers a market-responsive approach to strategic planning designed to generate a wide range of effective, profitable strategic options in today's changing marketplace. Ideal for undergraduate courses in marketing strategy or management policy, and for corporate seminars or training, the text focuses on concepts and practices for anticipating market trends, threats, and opportunities, and developing strategies to meet them. Shows how to establish Sustainable Competitive Advantages (SCAs) based on an organization's unique assets and skills. Develops specific strategies in brand management, advertising, distribution, finance, and manufacturing based on SCAs. Also covers strategic investment alternatives, market penetration, product expansion, market expansion, diversification, and vertical integration.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike.”–– Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

The Leading Authority–Now Revised!

Completely revised and updated, David Aaker's authoritative book approaches strategy development from an external perspective driven by a structured analysis of customers, competitors, market trends, and the broader environment.  It shows how to build on strategic analysis to create business strategies that will be relevant and compelling to customers, sustainable to competitive attack, and draw on assets and competencies of the organization. Additional topics such as strategic investment, strategic positioning, growth options, global strategies, and organization building provide guidance to strategists.

Highlights of this Seventh Edition include:

• Seven new cases include The Energy Bar Industry, Competing against Wal-Mart, Xerox: The Early Years, Hobart, Dove, Intel, and Samsung Electronics.
• New discussion questions, more than 65 in all, make the text an even more valuable classroom tool.
• New and revised coverage of such timely topics as emerging submarkets and the relevance challenge, the distinction between fads and trends, disruptive vs. sustaining innovation, and more.
• An emphasis on creating customer-oriented business strategies with a value proposition that is relevant, meaningful, and sustainable.

About the Author:

David Aaker is professor of Marketing, Emeritus at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.  He is a leading expert on brand strategy and strategic marketing.  He is the author of over seven books for both the practioner and the student of marketing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0471852627
• ISBN 13: 9780471852629
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 364