
Marketing Strategy
Description
This is a brand new textbook on marketing strategy that focuses on the pursuit of solutions to four fundamental marketing problems:
1. All customers differ 2. All customers change 3. All competitors react 4. All resources are limited
Structured around these four First Principles of Marketing, this important new textbook offers a unique and extensively classroom-tested approach to marketing strategy. It provides a structured framework to develop effective strategies to deal with diverse marketing problems while integrating data analytics into the decision-making process.
Authored by world-leading experts in marketing strategy, Marketing Strategy: First Principles and Data Analytics is the ideal companion for undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA students of marketing, and practicing executives looking to bring a more systematic approach to their firms' marketing strategy efforts.
Reviews / Votes
All customers differ, all customers change, all competitors react and all resources are limited - attribute that statement to Rob Palmatier and Hari Sridhar. Then get their book, read it, and you will understand the latest relevant research findings and how those principles apply in our data-intensive world. * Gary L Lilien, Penn State, USA * The authors accompany their book with a wealth of data-analytic techniques, the latest marketing research, and in-depth case studies. I predict this book to become a leading textbook on marketing strategy. * Adam Lindgreen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * This book is accessible and practical while also being highly sophisticated, providing a fresh take on many issues that are all the more important in today's increasingly data-driven and analytics-focused business environments. * Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford, UK *More details
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Persons
Robert W. Palmatier is Professor of Marketing, and he holds the John C. Narver Chair of Business Administration at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. He is also the founder and research director of UW's Center for Sales and Marketing Strategy, and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Hari Sridhar is the Center for Executive Development Professor of Marketing at Texas A&M University, Associate Research Director, and Director of Customer Analytics at the Institute for Study of Business Markets (ISBM), and a winner of the Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research.
Content
1 Marketing Strategy: A First Principles Approach.- Part 1 All Customers Differ.- 2 Marketing Principle #1: All Customers Differ ? Managing Customer Heterogeneity.- Part 2 All Customers Change.- 3 Marketing Principle #2: All Customers Change ? Managing Customer Dynamics.- Part 3 All Competitors React.- 4 Marketing Principle #3: All Competitors React ? Managing Sustainable Competitive Advantage.- 5 Marketing Principle #3: Managing Brand-based Sustainable Competitive Advantage.- 6 Marketing Principle #3: Managing Offering-based Sustainable Competitive Advantages.- 7 Marketing Principle #3: Managing Relationship-based Sustainable Competitive Advantage.- Part 4 All Resources are Limited.- 8 Marketing Principle #4: All Resources Are Limited ? Managing Resource Trade-offs.- 9 Marketing Strategy: Implementing Marketing Principles and Data Analytics.