Why do so many chief marketing officers of multinationals last only two or three years on the job? Because product and country marketing teams – or “silos” – make their professional mandate impossible. Without synergy across silos, global CMOs cannot achieve their goals. In this eminently practical audiobook, branding guru David A. Aaker tells CMOs what they must do: • Find the right role and scope • Gain credibility and buy-in • Use teams to link silos • Develop a common planning process • Adapt the master brand to silo markets • Prioritize brands in the portfolio • Develop silo-spanning marketing programs For each item, Aaker breaks down the CMO’s ambitious organizational challenges into manageable tasks of facilitation, consultation, and partnering. With his guidance, CMOs will have a better chance of reducing the negative attitude toward central marketing, gaining necessary support and resources, implementing cross-silo strategy and programs, cultivating a marketing-oriented culture, improving the pool of marketing talent, and moving toward a leadership role. For some firms, reducing the silo problem is the key to winning; for others, it is no less than the key to survival.

Product Description: Strategisches Markt-Management ist ein Managementsystem zum Entwickeln, Auswer ten und Umsetzen von Unternehmensstrategien. Ein erfolgreiches Managementsystem hilft Managern: 1. Visionen fUr ihre Geschaftsfelder zu haben, 2. eine dynamische Umwelt zu beobachten und zu verstehen, 3...read more

The European edition of Strategic Market Management has been prepared with the objective of taking David Aaker's outstanding and well-established textbook and presenting it to a European audience. It retains the culture of the original text, to maintain its accessibility and continue its emphasis on practical action. It has also kept the compactness, which has made it so popular with graduate and executive students and managers, while keeping a comprehensive coverage of major and emerging themes in strategy. The core value of the original text, that the development, evaluation and implementation of business strategies are essential to successful management, is also retained in the European edition. The book is essential reading for any management or business school course that focuses on the management of strategies. It is especially appropriate for marketing strategy, strategic management and business policy courses. It is also designed to be used by managers who need to develop strategies or who run a small business and want to improve their strategy development and planning processes.

The vice-chairman of Prophet Brand Strategy and author of Brand Leadership demonstrates how companies can manage their brands to develop more successful portfolios, discussing the necessary steps for creating a well-articulated brand structure, energizing brands, leveraging brand assets, and more. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Powerful product, country, and functional silos are jeopardizing companies' marketing efforts. Because of silos, firms misallocate resources, send inconsistent messages to the marketplace, and fail to leverage scale economies and successes--all of which can threaten a company's survival.As David Aaker shows in Spanning Silos, the unfettered decentralization that produces silos is no longer feasible in today's marketplace. It's up to chief marketing officers to break down silo walls to foster cooperation and synergy.This isn't easy: silo teams guard their autonomy vigorously. As proof of their power, consider the fact that the average CMO tenure is just twenty-three months. How to proceed? Drawing on interviews with CMOs, Aaker explains how to:Strength your credibility with silo teams and your CEOUse cross-functional teams and other strategic linking devicesFoster communication across silosSelect the right CMO role-- from facilitator to strategic captainDevelop common planning processesAdapt your brand strategy to silo unitsAllocate marketing dollars strategically across silosDevelop silo-spanning marketing programsIn this age of dynamic markets, new media, and globalization, getting the different parts of your organization to collaborate is more critical--and more difficult--than ever. This book gives you the road map you need to accomplish that feat.

Product Description: Why do so many chief marketing officers of multinationals last only two or three years on the job? Because product and country marketing teams – or “silos” – make their professional mandate impossible. Without synergy across silos, global CMOs cannot achieve their goals...read more

Product Description: Why do so many chief marketing officers of multinationals last only two or three years on the job? Because product and country marketing teams – or “silos” – make their professional mandate impossible. Without synergy across silos, global CMOs cannot achieve their goals...read more

Managers all over the world make decisions on product and service related issues on a regular basis. Defining, generating, managing and interpreting information becomes an integral part of every organization. Readers of this book are presented with an overview of the major steps in the marketing research process. The book starts by detailing the importance of marketing research and the role it plays in the organization and how it helps with managerial decision making. The book then takes a micro-level approach, detailing each step of the marketing research process. The applications of marketing research, such as brand equity, customer satisfaction, and relationship marketing as also covered. (view table of contents)

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Price, quality, availability, and service--these are all aspects of your business that your competitors can imitate. But your brand is unique. In this book, an experienced brand manager shows you how to turn your brand from the logo on your letterhead into the driving force behind your company's growth, operational success, and long-term profitability. Drawing from methods developed in his highly successful consulting and training programs, Scott Davis provides a thorough grounding in brand strategy. He presents tested ways to assess the value of your brand, maximize its potential, and use it to better develop, sell, price, and market your products and services. His hands-on guide also includes extensive case studies and worksheets to help your company capitalize on the most under-leveraged--and the most powerful--asset it owns.

Product Description: Closely watched by the stock market and obsessed over by the biggest companies, brand identity is the one indisputable source of sustainable competitive advantage, the vital key to customer loyalty. An expert in this burgeoning field, David Aaker now prepares managers for the next wave of the brand revolution...read more

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Unless you know where your company is going, chances are it won't get very far in today's global marketplace. That's why every business needs the strong vision and keen sense of direction that come from the development, evaluation, and implementation of business strategies-and why every business owner or manager should have Developing Business Strategies, David A. Aaker's classic and comprehensive guide to strategic planning, now in its fifth edition. Using vivid case studies, Developing Business Strategies helps you to move beyond reactive problem solving toward the development and realization of sound strategic objectives for your company. Providing both the framework and the tools necessary to make strategy development and strategy review efforts effective, this book shows you how to: * Conduct a structured external and internal analysis of a business with confidence * Develop sustainable competitive advantages by creating assets, competencies, and strategies * Make strategic investment decisions to generate growth * Organize to support strategies * Compete strategically in hostile, growth, and global contexts. As compact and easy to use as ever, this new Fifth Edition offers new or revised sections on current topics such as strategic uncertainty, buyer hot buttons, shifting customer priorities, strategy as options, paradigm shifts, organizational stubbornness, and brand equity. You'll also find up-to-date research and fresh examples on economic value analysis, competitor image, total quality management, reengineering, the virtual corporation, and more-plus a set of useful sample planning forms to help guide you through the strategy development process. Whether you're a business owner, manager, or planning executive, the key to your company's success is in Developing Business Strategies. Praise for the Fourth Edition of Developing Business Strategies "A delight to read-sound strategic advice that is also very well illustrated with helpful, practical examples. The book helped our management team to thoroughly understand our business environment and chart new growth directions." -Daniel G. Simpson Director of Strategy and Planning The Clorox Company. "An excellent work. Unlike other books that are either too theoretical or are merely recompilations of existing planning principles, this book finds fruitful ground with fundamental planning principles, credible examples, and superb references, all enhanced by a flowing narrative." -P. Timothy Carroll Manager, Strategy and Innovation Xerox Corporation. "Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found the book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike." -Robert L. Joss. Managing Director and CEO Westpac Banking Corporation. "An exceptional tool for the challenges facing today's corporate planner. It should be read by every manager involved in planning and strategy." -Robert L. Lindberg Vice President and Treasurer Transamerica Corporation. "David Aaker provides a clearly written how-to guide to help managers identify, select, and implement strategies. He does this without pedantry, encouraging flexibility and creativity in approaching decisions." -Sandra L. Kurtzig Founder and former CEO The ASK Companies. (view table of contents)