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Marketing as strategy : understanding the CEO's agenda for driving growth and innovation / Nirmalya Kumar ; [foreword by Philip Kotler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, (c)2004.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781422163399
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HF5415 .M375 2004
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
From market segments to strategic segments -- From selling products to innovating solutions -- From declining to growing distribution channels -- From branded bulldozers to global distribution partners -- From acquiring to rationalizing brands for profit -- From market-driven to market-[d]riving -- From strategic business units to corporate marketing.
Review: "Today's Marketers face a dire situation. CEOs name marketing challenges such as retaining customers and avoiding price wars as top priorities, yet they increasingly doubt whether marketers can handle those challenges. Marketing's traditional goal - getting close to customers - has become the organization-wide mandate, yet marketing as a function has lost importance. Once viewed as a critical expenditure, marketing is now considered a cost sink. What happened? More important, what can marketers do to regain a prominent role in their organizations?" "Nirmalya Kumar argues that the only way for marketers to get back on the CEO's agenda is to tackle issues that merit the CEO's attention - and conducting market research and placing ads don't make the cut. The fate of marketing hinges on elevating the role of marketing executives from promotions-focused tacticians to customer-focused leaders of transformational initiatives that are strategic, cross-functional, and bottom-line oriented."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

From marketing as a function to marketing as a transformational engine -- From market segments to strategic segments -- From selling products to innovating solutions -- From declining to growing distribution channels -- From branded bulldozers to global distribution partners -- From acquiring to rationalizing brands for profit -- From market-driven to market-[d]riving -- From strategic business units to corporate marketing.

"Today's Marketers face a dire situation. CEOs name marketing challenges such as retaining customers and avoiding price wars as top priorities, yet they increasingly doubt whether marketers can handle those challenges. Marketing's traditional goal - getting close to customers - has become the organization-wide mandate, yet marketing as a function has lost importance. Once viewed as a critical expenditure, marketing is now considered a cost sink. What happened? More important, what can marketers do to regain a prominent role in their organizations?" "Nirmalya Kumar argues that the only way for marketers to get back on the CEO's agenda is to tackle issues that merit the CEO's attention - and conducting market research and placing ads don't make the cut. The fate of marketing hinges on elevating the role of marketing executives from promotions-focused tacticians to customer-focused leaders of transformational initiatives that are strategic, cross-functional, and bottom-line oriented."--BOOK JACKET.

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