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One of the most frequent challenges that managers and executives face today is: ‘How do I keep on growing and at the same time, make a profit?’ Based on the author’s extensive research on over 350 Fortune 1000 Firms, The Momentum Effect proves that the old method of spending big on marketing and slashing the manufacturing costs doesn’t work anymore. Instead, it provides new evidence to show that in order to achieve profitable growth you have to create new value for customers through innovation, ingenuity and most importantly by seeing things from a customer perspective. This strategy generates a positive, reinforcing momentum which leads to further growth. Why limit your business growth? With Momentum, you won’t have to.
Biography of Jean-Claude Larreche, currently Alfred H. Heineken Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, previously Founder & Chairman at StratX and Founder & Chairman at StratX.
This #1 marketing simulation is designed for teaching strategic marketing concepts. It incorporates theories of market and competitive behavior. Users are grouped into teams that are in direct competition in the simulated world. The teams will confront marketing problems, and develop and implement strategies over as many as 12 simulated years. MARKSTRAT3: The Marketing Strategy Simulation is the user's guide that accompanies the MARKSTRAT3 simulation software. Note: The MARKSTRAT3 software is not sold by ITP or South-Western College Publishing. Professors should contact STRAT*X (Boston: 617-494-8282, Paris: 330.1.64.45.87.53) for details concerning licensing of the software.
Beyond strategy, great business leadership requires building intangible assets for sustainable long-term success. Market-based capabilities are intangible assets that influence the competitive success of a firm in its markets. In this piece, Jean-Claude Larréché, sets out his views on four selected key issues concerning market-based capabilities.
A computerized simulation of actual operating environments, INDUSTRAT places managers in the midst of a competitive scenario and provides them with feedback on their decisions.
This text was assembled to provide students with a comprehensive set of readings useful in understanding and designing successful marketing strategies. It reflects the thinking of its authors, who believe that strategic marketing is taking a new direction in the 1990's. While strategic marketing continues to build on the solid foundations of customer and competitor analysis, it now must also integrate all the functions of a business into a unified market-led perspective. 30 of the 38 readings in this text are new to this edition.
This text covers the concepts and theories of creating and implementing a marketing strategy, and offers a focus on the strategic planning process and marketing's interfunctional relationship.
Innovation in Marketing is a unique collection of empirical material describing both systems innovation and the launch of new products. This ranges from the development of new high tech items such as the Organiser from Psion, to the transfer of a major brand such as Virgin Direct to a new market. Based on this the authors have developed a clear analytical model for managing innovation with a marketing perspective. Doyle and Bridgewater illustrate the key themes using case materials and the entirely new new work it contains on the linkage between innovation and shareholder value. This gives the student and professional a new decision making perspective. The key themes that structure the book are: Marketing and innovation - the model, innovation and strategy, marketing strategies and shareholder value, best practice in innovation management, effectiveness in innovation.