Synopses & Reviews
“Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike.”
–– Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Create successful strategies for today’s dynamic business environment
It isn’t your Dad’s (or Mom’s) marketplace any more. Business environments once seemed quite stable and simple. Today, every market can be described as dynamic, and you need to adapt your strategies in order to counter the threats and maximize your opportunities.
The Eighth Editionof Strategic Market Managementis designed to give you the strategic management tools you need to meet the challenges created by the dynamic nature of markets. Using a variety of concepts and methods such as strategic questions, portfolio models, and scenario analysis, the book outlines the five competencies that spark successful, ongoing strategizing:
Strategic analysis—With an emphasis on external market analysis, this new edition illustrates a structured approach to understanding the customer, the competitor, and important trends that you can apply to your strategic decision making
Stimulating and managing innovation—Understand different types of innovation and deal with the organizational challenges involved in bringing innovations to market
Managing multiple businesses—Know how to allocate resources towards businesses of the future and away from businesses that lack growth potential
Creating advantage—Take a long-term perspective to develop truly sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs)
Developing growth strategies—Gain the skills to energize, leverage, globalize the business, or create new businesses
Significantly revised, with a wealth of new and updated material, Strategic Market Management, 8th Editionremains the most authoritative guide to creating business strategies that will be relevant and compelling to customers, sustainable even in face of competitive attack, and maximize the assets and competencies of your organization.
Synopsis
“Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike.”–– Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
The Leading Authority–Now Revised!
Completely revised and updated, David Aaker's authoritative book approaches strategy development from an external perspective driven by a structured analysis of customers, competitors, market trends, and the broader environment. It shows how to build on strategic analysis to create business strategies that will be relevant and compelling to customers, sustainable to competitive attack, and draw on assets and competencies of the organization. Additional topics such as strategic investment, strategic positioning, growth options, global strategies, and organization building provide guidance to strategists.
Highlights of this Seventh Edition include:
- Seven new cases include The Energy Bar Industry, Competing against Wal-Mart, Xerox: The Early Years, Hobart, Dove, Intel, and Samsung Electronics.
- New discussion questions, more than 65 in all, make the text an even more valuable classroom tool.
- New and revised coverage of such timely topics as emerging submarkets and the relevance challenge, the distinction between fads and trends, disruptive vs. sustaining innovation, and more.
- An emphasis on creating customer-oriented business strategies with a value proposition that is relevant, meaningful, and sustainable.
Synopsis
"Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike."
-- Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
The Leading Authority -- Now Revised!
Completely revised and updated, David Aaker's authoritative book approaches strategy development from an external perspective driven by a structured analysis of customers, competitors, market trends, and the broader environment. It shows how to build on strategic analysis to create business strategies that will be relevant and compelling to customers, sustainable to competitive attack, and draw on assets and competencies of the organization. Additional topics such as strategic investment, strategic positioning, growth options, global strategies, and organization building provide guidance to strategists.
Highlights of this Seventh Edition include:
- Seven new cases include The Energy Bar Industry, Competing against Wal-Mart, Xerox: The Early Years, Hobart, Dove, Intel, and Samsung Electronics.
- New discussion questions, more than 65 in all, make the text an even more valuable classroom tool.
- New and revised coverage of such timely topics as emerging submarkets and the relevance challenge, the distinction between fads and trends, disruptive vs. sustaining innovation, and more.
- An emphasis on creating customer-oriented business strategies with a value proposition that is relevant, meaningful, and sustainable.
About the Author
David Aaker is professor of Marketing, Emeritus at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. He is a leading expert on brand strategy and strategic marketing. He is the author of over seven books for both the practioner and the student of marketing.
Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW.
Chapter 1: Business Strategy: The Concept and Trends in Its Management.
Chapter 2: Strategic Market Management: An Overview.
PART II: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS.
Chapter 3: External and Customer Analysis.
Chapter 4: Competitor Analysis.
Chapter 5: Market/Submarket Analysis.
Chapter 6: Environmental Analysis and Strategic Uncertainty.
Chapter 7: Internal Analysis.
Case Challenges for Part II: The Energy Bar Industry, Competing against Wal-Mart.
PART III: ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS STRATEGIES.
Chapter 8: Creating Advantage: Synergy and Vision vs. Opportunism.
Chapter 9: Strategic Options.
Chapter 10: Strategic Options: Value, Focus & Innovation.
Chapter 11: Global Strategies.
Chapter 12: Strategic Positioning.
Case Challenges for Part III: Xerox: The Early Years, Hobart.
PART IV: GROWTH STRATEGIES.
Chapter 13: Growth Strategies: Penetration, Product-Market Expansion; Vertical Integration and the Big Idea.
Chapter 14: D iversification.
Chapter 15: Strategies in Declining and Hostile Markets.
Case Challenges for Part IV: Dove, Intel.
PART V: Implementation.
Chapter 16: Organizational Issues.
Case Challenge for Part V: Samsung Electronics.
Appendix: Planning Forms.
Index.