Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning 6e deals with the process of developing and implementing a marketing strategy. The book focuses on competitive positioning at the heart of marketing strategy and includes in-depth discussion of the processes used in marketing to achieve competitive advantage. The book is primarily about creating and sustaining superior performance in the marketplace. It focuses on the two central issues in marketing strategy formulation – the identification of target markets and the creation of a differential advantage. In doing that, it recognises the emergence of new potential target markets born of the recession and increased concern for climate change; and it examines ways in which firms can differentiate their offerings through the recognition of environmental and social concerns. The book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules in Marketing Strategy, Marketing Management and Strategic Marketing Management.

Thoroughly updated with new examples and the latest research findings, this new edition also boasts updates case studies in each chapter, taken from recent editions of the Financial Times, that illustrate the practical implications of the issues raised.

Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning deals with the process of developing and implementing a marketing strategy. The third edition focuses on competitive positioning at the heart of marketing strategy and includes in-depth discussion of the processes used in marketing to achieve competitive advantage.

A revolution is taking place in the way companies organize and manage the 'front-end' of their organization, where it meets its customers. Traditional concepts of sales management, account management, and customer service are being overtaken by initiatives like customer business development, the strategic sales organization, and strategic customer management. This book aims to provide insights into how this revolution is unfolding and to provide a framework for executives and management students to address the issues involved. The book focuses on the transformation of the traditional sales organization into a strategic force leading the strategic customer management process in companies. Traditionally, the area of sales management has mainly been treated as a tactical, operational topic in the conventional marketing literature - simply part of the communications mix within the planned marketing programme. However, the emergence of major customers as dominant buyers in many sectors as a result of pressures towards consolidation and enhanced scale of operations, is changing the way in which sales issues are addressed in supplier organizations. The growth of new forms of buyer-seller relationship based on collaboration and partnering has encouraged organizations to reconsider the sales and account management operation as an important source of competitive differentiation in commoditized markets. Increasingly, sales is being perceived as a central part of business strategy and attention given to the challenges in better aligning sales processes with strategy. This has many implications for the design of the sales organization and its management strategy, which go far beyond the confines of conventional marketing views.

Meet any business or competitive analysis challenge: deliver actionable business insights and on-point recommendations that enterprise decision makers can’t and won’t ignore! All you need is one book: Business and Competitive Analysis, Second Edition . This generation’s definitive guide to business and competitive analysis has now been thoroughly updated with additional methods, applications and examples. Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan begin with a practical primer on the process and context of business and competitive analysis: how it works, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to communicate results. Next, they introduce their unique FAROUT method for choosing the right tools for each assignment. The authors then present dozens of today’s most valuable analysis methods. They cover “classic” techniques, such as McKinsey 7S and industry analysis, as well as emerging techniques from multiple disciplines: economics, corporate finance, sociology, anthropology, and the intelligence and futurist communities. You’ll find full chapters outlining effective analysis processes; avoiding pitfalls; communicating results; as well as drill-downs on analyzing industries, competitive positioning, business models, supply chains, strategic relationships, corporate reputation, critical success factors, driving forces, technology change, cash flow, and much more. For every method, Fleisher and Bensoussan present clear descriptions, background context, strategic rationales, strengths, weaknesses, step-by-step instructions, and references. The result is a book every analyst, strategist, and manager can rely on – in any industry, for any challenge.

This second edition of Brand Positioning helps marketing and advertising professionals differentiate their product and give it a distinct advantage in an overcrowded global market. It explores the concepts and principles involved in developing sound positioning strategy and discusses practical applications,as well as how to: Secure competitive advantage Use celebrity endorsements to market products Establish brand positioning on the Internet And much more!

Marketing Strategy offers a unique and dynamic approach based on four underlying principles that underpin marketing today: All customers differ; All customers change; All competitors react; and All resources are limited. The structured framework of this acclaimed textbook allows marketers to develop effective and flexible strategies to deal with diverse marketing problems under varying circumstances. Uniquely integrating marketing analytics and data driven techniques with fundamental strategic pillars the book exemplifies a contemporary, evidence-based approach. This base toolkit will support students' decision-making processes and equip them for a world driven by big data. The second edition builds on the first's successful core foundation, with additional pedagogy and key updates. Research-based, action-oriented, and authored by world-leading experts, Marketing Strategy is the ideal resource for advanced undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA students of marketing, and executives looking to bring a more systematic approach to corporate marketing strategies. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout to reflect new research and industry developments, including expanded coverage of digital marketing, influencer marketing and social media strategies - Enhanced pedagogy including new Worked Examples of Data Analytics Techniques and unsolved Analytics Driven Case Exercises, to offer students hands-on practice of data manipulation as well as classroom activities to stimulate peer-to-peer discussion - Expanded range of examples to cover over 250 diverse companies from 25 countries and most industry segments - Vibrant visual presentation with a new full colour design

In this pathbreaking book, Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals and forecast the direction of industry development.

It takes healthy brands to succeed in today's chaotic, fast-moving, competitive marketplace. Yet, marketers are confronted with, and their organizations are contributing to, an "age of sameness," where products and services are virtually indistinguishable. The result is that customers are commoditizing categories and discriminating principally on price. Offering more and/or enhanced features is not enough to win customers and create loyalty. COMPETITIVE POSITIONING - BEST PRACTICES FOR CREATING BRAND LOYALTY empowers marketing managers by sharing proven principles, insights from leading marketing practitioners, practical tools, and real-world examples, all of which will help you to successfully build your brand a brand that will connect emotionally with the heart, and remain uppermost in your customers' minds. Step by step, you'll learn best practices that will enable you to develop a competitive positioning.

"Since the sixth edition of this book, published in 2017, many economies around the world have continued to feel the aftershocks of the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, which started with the well-publicised 'credit crunch'. Despite continuing academic debate about the causes and extent, there is now little doubt that climate change and global warming is beginning to have a significant impact on our physical environment. Technology and the ever-growing acceptance and use of social media are having a profound effect on customer expectations, experience and behaviour. Despite ongoing economic difficulties and turbulence, climate change has not been ignored, and it presents significant challenges and opportunities for businesses. Sustainable energy technologies, such as wind, solar, wave and thermal biomass, are now being pursued more vigorously and attempts to reduce energy consumption (of cars, buildings and airplanes) are creating new business opportunities. Increasingly, companies, public sector organisations, individuals and nations are adopting and implementing measures, such as sourcing more raw materials locally to reduce 'carbon miles' and limiting the use of high-emission travel options to reduce their carbon footprint"--