Marketing Strategy by Traditional Craftsmen:

Marketing strategy: learning by doing

Managers can create and implement their own efficient strategic plans to adapt to changes which have diminished the firm’s competitiveness in the market. A three-step method can be applied in its formulation as an alternative to relying on outsourced planning or business consultants. The method includes the identification of economic, technological, or competitive factors within the firm which ...

Crude craftsmen.

THIS MORNING, ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour and pleasure of addressing you on behalf of the consultant medical staff of this great hospital. A task approached with some diffidence for unlike so many of my illustrious predecessors I am neither orator, historian, scientist or philosopher, but simply one of a long line of crude craftsmen the title of my address who have endeavoured since...

Mobile Marketing: From Marketing Strategy to Mobile Marketing Campaign Implementation

Over the past few years, mobile marketing has generated an increasing interest among academics and practitioners. While numerous studies have provided important insights into the mobile marketing, our understanding of this topic of growing interest and importance remains deficient. Therefore, the objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive framework intended to guide research effort...

Marketing Strategy Models *

Many of the models and approaches outlined in other chapters of this book address single marketing issues (promotional spending, pricing, salesforce deployment, etc.) within the context of any organization where other factors are assumed constant. For the most part, such approaches are 'bottom-up', and closely akin to the operational philosophy of traditional ORIMS. Consider, in contrast, a lar...

Assessing Marketing Strategy Performance