Product Description: Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we get there? Which way is best? And how can we ensure arrival? Strategic Marketing Management earned its place as a classic textbook by building marketing strategy around a few simple questions...read more

This book is a basic text for international marketing courses. It introduces the different elements of the international marketing mix and sets these in context. It discusses the firm’s strategic position: how it is orientated at present to take advantage of international marketing opportunities and how its strategy is developing. It: Stresses the wide differences between different overseas markets and the importance of handling sensitively particular local features. Examines the need to structure the whole business organisation in the right way and make international marketing effective Discusses the importance of communication and control Throughout case studies are used to highlight particular issues.

Product Description: The new consumer is young, media-savvy, fluent in advertising, brand literate and a mystery to most companies. The other new consumer is over 50, incontrol of the bulk assets and wealth of the developed economies and is also a mystery to most marketers...read more

Product Description: This third edition of Strategic Marketing Management confirms it as the classic textbook on the subject. Its step- by- step approach provides comprehensive coverage of the five key strategic stages: * Where are we now? - Strategic and marketing analysis * Where do we want to be? - Strategic direction and strategy formulation * How might we get there? - Strategic choice * Which way is best? - Strategic evaluation * How can we ensure arrival? - Strategic implementation and control This new revised and updated third edition has completely new chapters on 'The Nature and Role of Competitive Advantage' and 'The Strategic Management of the Expanded Marketing Mix', and extensive new material covering: * The changing role of marketing * Approaches to analysing marketing capability * E-marketing * Branding * Customer relationship management * Relationship management myopia * The decline of loyalty The book retains the key features that make it essential reading for all those studying the management of marketing - a strong emphasis on implementation, up to date mini cases, and questions and summaries in each chapter to reinforce key points...read more

Product Description: Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical 'planning' aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process...read more

Product Description: Strategic Marketing Management: Planning and Control is specifically developed and written for students studying for the Planning and Control module of the CIM Diploma. This book, as with the others in the series, has been completely revised to match the 1999 syllabus for the CIM qualifications...read more

Product Description: The need for a more conscious, focused and proactive approach to the management of health-care organizations has increased substantially. One consequence of this is that health-care managers are having to look at managerial approaches and techniques that previously were the province of the private sector...read more

Product Description: Strategic Marketing Management is now well established as the classic textbook on the subject. Its step by step approach provides comprehensive coverage of the five key strategic stages: *Where are we now? Strategic and marketing analysis *Where do we want to be? Strategic direction and strategy formulation *How might we get there? Strategic choice *Which way is best? Strategic evaluation *How can we ensure arrival? Strategic implementation and control...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)