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WINNER: Choice Reviews - Outstanding Academic Title, 2024FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2024 - Business: Marketing & AdvertisingDo you know how to turn the attention your content receives into profit? With a meaningful content marketing strategy, you can.An organization's content communicates everything to consumers. Content marketing is one of the most important pieces of the marketing plan, but many businesses do not take approach it strategically. As Chief Strategy Advisor for the Content Marketing Institute and CEO and Chief Strategy Officer for The Content Advisory, Robert Rose helps transform brands by honing their content marketing. In this book, he walks readers through his scalable, strategic approach.Content Marketing Strategy explains what top brands are doing to streamline their content and how marketing strategists can scale their methods to create business success. The chapters cover stacking a team, working with marketing and branding professionals on a consistent tone and message, setting meaningful goals for the content strategy, implementing it, and measuring the resulting outcomes. Filled with compelling examples from leaders in content marketing, including Salesforce, Cleveland Clinics, Amazon, and Arrow Electronics, the book offers a new model that will transform and optimize your content marketing.

Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to develop products successfully?Lorraine Marchand—a seasoned practitioner who has guided Fortune 500 companies and start-ups on developing and launching new ideas—lays out a step-by-step framework for spurring success. She shares her eight laws of innovation, a formula for driving significant and lasting transformation in any organization. Marchand emphasizes the frame of mind needed to spark the innovation process, underscoring the importance of creating a problem-solving culture and supporting personal curiosity, passion, and talent. She pinpoints the strengths shared by the big ideas that break through and debunks the myths that hold back aspiring creators. Drawing on her experience as a woman in a male-dominated field, Marchand discusses how to support entrepreneurship by women and highlights the contributions of underrepresented innovators.Marchand's how-to program for innovation is clear and easy to follow, featuring a toolkit of strategic templates and planning frameworks that are illustrated by helpful case studies. Written in authoritative but conversational language, The Innovation Mindset offers a practical plan for both the veteran with another great idea and the first-timer with a big dream.

Most of us have an intuitive sense of superior branding. We prefer to purchase brands we find distinctive—that deliver on some important, relevant dimension better than other brands. These brands have typically achieved positional advantage. Yet few professionals have had the formal training that goes beyond marketing theory to bridge the “theory-doing gap”—understanding the specific techniques and strategies that can be used to create brands that attain positional advantage in the marketplace.Positioning for Advantage is a comprehensive how-to guide for creating, building, and executing effective brand strategies. Kimberly A. Whitler identifies essential marketing strategy techniques and moves through the major stages of positioning a brand to achieve in-market advantage. Introducing seven tools—from strategic positioning concepts to strategy mapping to influencer maps—Whitler provides templates, frameworks, and step-by-step processes to build and manage growth brands that achieve positional advantage. This book presents real-world scenarios, helping readers activate tools to increase skill in creating brands that achieve positional advantage. Brimming with insights for students and professionals alike, Positioning for Advantage helps aspiring C-level leaders understand not only what superior branding looks like but also how to make it come to life.

Today, brand has been accepted globally as an undisputed and dynamic major asset by the corporate world. Therefore, building brands, their specific identities, and values have assumed strategic importance for companies to survive in the severe and chaotic market environment of the twenty-first century. The need to design brands through research and analysis, and to create a strong brand equity have forced companies to give due importance to brand management. For these reasons brand management has become an important subject to study at the Master of Business Management level. The case studies of several established Indian brands included in this book take the students through the virtual corporate world so as to experience the creation, plans and implementation of the process of increasing brand equity as also through the process of creating companies'brand asset. To make the learning process more interesting, the author has included a brand management game too! Some of the salient features of the book are:-It presents the relationship between effective brand identity and creating, building and managing successful brands-It presents case studies from several successful Indian corporate-It presents a toolkit to the management students for an in-depth study of branding-It is comprehensive, easy to understand and is reader friendly

The Brand-Driven CEO demonstrates how senior leadership can use their brand to align and guide the behaviors, decisions, and operations of their entire organization in order to drive value. David Kincaid delivers practical assessments and game plans for senior executives and managers across functional areas, clarifying the confusion between brand and marketing management. He introduces the'New 4Ps'of brand management: People, Process, Intellectual Property, and Partnerships. This paradigm shift equips business leaders with a new approach to managing growth, profitability, risk, and sustainable value. Using real-life, current case studies from today's fastest growing and most valuable brands – including Starbucks, Apple, and BMW – this book reveals the critical importance of managing big businesses as integrated business systems. The Brand-Driven CEO includes criteria to conduct your own brand self-assessment and a stepby-step roadmap that can be applied to help transform your brand and its management.

This book is an essential guide or foundational toolkit for anyone who is involved in the process of developing, offering or selling any type of product or service. Based on how to surf on the waves of innovation and the principle of “form follows function” (System Architecture), it introduces and connects concepts like Market Understanding, Design Thinking, Design to Value, Modularization and Agility. It introduces readers to the essence of these main frameworks and provides a toolkit that explains both theoretically and practically when and how to utilize which one. The methods and processes described in this book have all been successfully tested in many industries. They apply in today's market context of high uncertainty, complexity and turbulence, where innovation and disruption are essential. Readers will find answers to two fundamental questions: How can we implement an innovation process and environment that are conducive to successful product design? And, if our products fail to appeal to customers, how can we achieve a major turn-around with regard to product development? A wealth of examples and case studies help readers to benefit from the authors'broad professional experience. Further, lessons learned and conceptual summaries provide valuable shortcuts to the methods and tools discussed. For today's CEOs, enabling innovation is one of THE most complex leadership tasks. But innovation is not about theory and nice buzzwords. It's about succeeding in the real world. This ‘hands-on'book connects the dots and introduces the reader to some of the most relevant ideas and pragmatic concepts fitting today's business reality. Dr. Robert Neuhauser, Executive VP and Global Head People and Leadership Development, Siemens At the most fundamental level this book brings order to chaos. It sets different and highly relevant design approaches into a complementary picture, rather than presenting them as competing ways of solving the same problem. Product designers, managers, consultants, scholars and students will surely have this valuable book within reach on a daily basis. Olivier L. de Weck, Ph.D – MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Editor-in-Chief Systems Engineering

This book is for product managers, product owners, product marketing managers, VPs and Heads of Product, CEOs, and start-up founders. In short, it serves anyone interested personally or professionally in software product management. You'll learn how to plan, coordinate and execute all activities required for software product success. It enables you to find the right balance for delivering customer value and long-term product success.The book offers a comprehensive introduction for beginners as well as proven practices and a novel, holistic approach for experienced product managers. It provides much-needed clarity regarding the numerous tasks and responsibilities involved in the professional and successful management of software products. Readers can use this book as a reference book if they are interested in or have the urgent need to improve one of the following software product management dimensions: Product Viability, Product Development, Go-to-Market / Product Marketing, Software Demonstrations and Training, The Market / Your Customers, or Organizational Maturity.The book helps product people to maximize their impact and effectiveness. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner, new to software product management, or just want to learn more about the best-of-all disciplines and advance your skills, this book introduces a novel and “business” tested approach to structure and orchestrate the vital dimensions of software product management. You will learn how to create focus and alignment on the things that matter for product success.The book describes a holistic framework to keep the details that matter for product success in balance, taking into consideration the limiting factors, strategies and responsibilities that determine the overall product yield potential. It explains how to leverage and adapt the framework with regard to aspects like product viability, product development, product marketing and software demonstrations and training,as well as more general aspects like markets, customers and organizational maturity.The book focuses on the unique challenges of software product managers or any related roles, whether you are a founder of a small to mid-sized software company or working in the complex ecosystems of large software enterprises or corporate IT departments.

Reinhard Ematinger und Sandra Schulze unterstützen Sie in diesem essential dabei, mit Struktur und Tempo wieder „vom Kunden aus“ zu denken und Ihre guten Ideen für Produkte und Dienstleistungen weniger von ihren functions and features und mehr vom potentiellen Kunden aus zu betrachten. Aktuelle Fallbeispiele begleiten Sie durch dieses essential und passende Fragen unterstützen Sie bei Transfer und Umsetzung in die Realität Ihrer Organisation.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives. This book also explains why PLM emerged, why it is so important, the principles of PLM strategy, and the typical steps in a PLM initiative. Throughout the book, the author presents examples and cases studies, demonstrating the various roles of executives in PLM initiatives. The coverage is informed by John Stark's experience of working with companies on more than 100 PLM initiatives. The present book broadens the reader's understanding of PLM, nurturing the skills needed to implement PLM successfully and to achieve world-class product performance across the product lifecycle. The book provides the executive reader with a thorough explanation of PLM, and the required knowledge to lead or participate in a PLM Initiative.

Dieses Buch zeigt kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen, wie sie Marken authentisch, effektiv und gewinnbringend managen können. Anhand eines kritischen Selbsttests mit vielen konstruktiven Fragen kann eine strukturierte Analyse des Markenkerns vorgenommen werden, woraus konkrete Managementtools abgeleitet werden. Erfahren Sie, welchen wichtigen äußeren Einflüssen Ihre Marke im digitalen Zeitalter unterliegt und wie Sie die entscheidenden Meinungsbildungsfaktoren gezielt steuern. Die zahlreichen praktischen Checklisten und inspirierenden Anregungen zur Verbesserung Ihres Markenmanagements sind leicht nachvollziehbar aufbereitet und direkt in der Praxis anwendbar.Ein handfestes Arbeitsbuch für KMU, die im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung weiter erfolgreich sein möchten – mit garantiert überraschenden Ergebnissen!

Tim Posselt investigates the factors leading to organizational competence for servitization - a key strategic alternative in times of digitalization and globalization -, and analyses the transformation process servitizing firms undergo. He explores the issue through conceptual research and case studies, and identifies the ability to access and leverage customer knowledge as the foundation of successful servitization. The findings provide valuable insight for managers looking to strengthen their service business, and add to literature on servitization and service-dominant logic.

Dieses Buch schließt die Lücke bisher bestehender Design-Thinking-Literatur und zeigt, WIE Design Thinking in Unternehmen gelebt werden muss, um Innovationsprojekte erfolgreich zu implementieren.Zahlreiche Beispiele aus der unternehmerischen Praxis der Autoren vermitteln anschaulich, wie eine klare Nutzerfokusierung bei der Entwicklung neuer Ideen zum Wettbewerbsvorteil wird. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die drei Bereiche Mensch, interne Organisationskultur sowie das externe Unternehmensumfeld.

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Growth can be the most important attribute that any business can have, and yet is commonly the least well-managed area of a business'operations. Explaining why this is, The Growth Director's Secret examines the structural/cultural factors that hold many conventionally-organized companies back. The book explores important new insights from neurological research, which reveal near-universal misunderstandings about consumer motivations, shopping behaviour and brand choice. Andy Brent shows how these flaws lead many businesses to develop bland, undifferentiated consumer propositions and wasteful commercial/marketing plans, which condemn them to year upon year of stagnant growth. The book challenges much current commercial and marketing thinking, and introduces important new ideas such as: · The Big Growth Mistake that almost all companies make;· Shopping on Auto-pilot;· the crucial Moments of Maximum Emotional Impact (MoMIs) where all brand choice decisions are made; and · Marketing at Open Minds – a challenging new way to think about building growth-orientated marketing plans. The Growth Director's Secret is essential reading for business owners and managers, proposing a challenging and innovative Growth Paradigm for companies who want to break the constraints of conventional business thinking and set themselves up for significant, sustained, profitable growth.

In his new book Matthias Schrader, co-founder and CEO of SinnerSchrader, puts the digital transformation on its feet. Whoever starts the digital transformation at the company has already lost. In the meantime, digital products from companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are conquering the everyday life of users. They successfully penetrate sectors such as banking, insurance, telecommunications, retail and automotive. Many companies are in danger of losing their relationship with their customers. They become interchangeable. Matthias Schrader deciphers the code behind the Transformational Products, with which Google & Co. successfully reshape entire markets. The book also provides a playbook for the successful development of Transformational Products in the corporate context. In the end, it bridges the gap between product development and the digital transformation of companies. Transformational Products turn classic marketing into a legacy and thus from a solution to a problem. The weapons of advertising (promotion), distribution (place) and pricing policy (price) have become blunt. Digitisation is a huge challenge for the product, the fourth P in the marketing mix. The focus on the product as a success factor forces companies to focus on the concrete value-added contribution for their customers.

Cómo optimizar el desarrollo de sus productos en un mercadoEste libro es una guía práctica y accesible para entender y aplicar el ciclo de vida del producto, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Entender las características de cada fase del ciclo de vida del producto: lanzamiento, crecimiento, madurez y declive• Optimizar el desarrollo y la implementación de sus productos en un mercado • Aplicar la teoría del ciclo de vida del producto para saber reaccionar en la fase de declive del producto y potenciar su fase de crecimientoSOBRE 50MINUTOS.ES | Economía y empresa50MINUTOS.ES le ofrece las claves para entender rápidamente las principales teorías y conceptos que rigen el mundo económico actual.Nuestras obras combinan teoría, estudios de caso y múltiples ejemplos prácticos para que amplíe sus competencias y conocimientos sin perder tiempo. ¡Descubra en un tiempo récord las claves para el éxito de su negocio!

Auf Basis theoretischer und empirischer Analysen entwickelt Isabelle Thilo ein internes Markenführungsmodell für Destinationen. Im Rahmen ihrer Untersuchung analysiert sie die Einflussfaktoren der relevanten Zielgrößen sowie die Fragestellung, wie sich die Forderung nach Identifikation der internen Anspruchsgruppen, z. B. aus Hotellerie und Gastronomie, mit der Marke und der Umsetzung in markenkonformes Verhalten in der Praxis realisieren lassen. Hierzu verdeutlicht sie die Relevanz der Kooperation mit den Stakeholdern und zeigt Ansätze zur Implementierung der Prämissen der identitätsorientierten Markenführung in das Destinationsmanagement auf. Denn steigender Wettbewerbsdruck sowie die Zielsetzung, sich mittels einer starken Marke zu profilieren, bestimmen auch die Tourismusbranche und die Handlungsweisen ihrer Akteure.

Jörg Sesselmann presents the first comprehensive guide to customer integration from a branding perspective. The author establishes a classification of the vast landscape of co-creation, co-design, co-production, interactive value creation and mass customization and evaluates benefits and success factors for brands. He provides insight into leading case studies from the fast food, apparel and toy industry as well as practical implementation checklists and guidelines. The book provides thought-provoking impulse for marketing, brand management and strategy professionals as well as for researchers, lecturers and students.

Mirjam Jentschke identifiziert anhand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Multiple Identity- und Multiple Commitment-Forschung Determinanten und Verhaltenswirkungen des Brand Commitment im Kontext mehrerer Marken. Die Zahl der Unternehmen, die mehr als eine Marke führen, steigt aufgrund einer wachsenden Marktsättigung und fragmentierter Kundenbedürfnisse stetig. Die innengerichtete Markenführung kann durch den Aufbau von Brand Commitment dazu beitragen, die unterschiedlichen Marken zu stärken und trägt so zum Gesamterfolg des Markenportfolios bei. Eine empirische Untersuchung in einem Unternehmen der Hausgerätebranche untermauert die Erkenntnisse der Arbeit und erlaubt die Herleitung praxisrelevanter Maßnahmen.

Florian Maier geht der Frage nach dem Einfluss von Social Media auf die B2B-Markenführung nach und nähert sich interdisziplinär diesem Thema an der Schnittstelle zwischen Marketing, Marken-, Unternehmensführung und Prozessmanagement. Dabei beschäftigt er sich intensiv damit, wie das Markenmanagement entsprechend ausgestaltet werden kann. Der Autor entwickelt zunächst eine Definition von Social Media, umreisst die psychologischen Grundlagen sozialer Vernetzung und stellt Verbindungen zu Kernaspekten der Brand Communities her. Auf Basis von Experteninterviews mit Markenentscheidern erweitert er schließlich die identitätsbasierte Markenführung zur trialogischen Markenführung.

Diederich Bakker develops a comprehensive planning process that can guide brand manufacturers in assessing the internal and external environment. The step-by-step planning process includes strategies to thoroughly audit brand portfolios and to review an organisation's brand management capabilities. The planning process aides brand manufacturers in assessing product categories and in determining retailers for their suitability as cooperation partners. The proposed Vertical Brand Portfolio Management is based on the principles of brand portfolio strategy assigning clear roles for all brands including private labels. Instead of fighting the retailer products brand manufacturers are encouraged to cooperate with retail partners by offering vertically integrated brand portfolios. Based on numerous international case studies, the author offers brand manufacturers and retailers practical tools to consider collaborations in the production and management of private labels.

Arnd Zschiesche und Oliver Errichiello verdeutlichen mit dieser Einführung in die Markensoziologie, welche sozialen Dynamiken für den Erfolg von Marken ausschlaggebend sind. Denn Markenkraft ist immer das Resultat einer langen Kette verlässlicher Leistungen, die sich zu einem positiven Vorurteil verdichten. Die Autoren beschreiben die sozialen Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Kundschaftsbildung im Umfeld eines unternehmerischen Angebots. Erst mit diesem Wissen können Marken gezielt aufgebaut und gestärkt werden – unabhängig von Managementmoden und Trends.

The fundamental stages behind every productThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and applying the concept of product lifecycle, providing you with the essential information and saving time. In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Understand the theory of the product lifecycle and the features of each of the four phases: launch, growth, maturity and decline • Learn how to make the right decisions according to the lifecycle phases of your product and how to react during the decline phase • Identify how you can use the product lifecycle to tailor your marketing strategies and constantly innovate and improve your product in order to prolong its growth phaseABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | Management & Marketing 50MINUTES.COM provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications are easy to use and they will save you time. They provide elements of theory and case studies, making them excellent guides to understand key concepts in just a few minutes. In fact, they are the starting point to take action and push your business to the next level.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre le concept de cycle de vie des produitsConceptualisé par l'économiste Raymond Vernon, le modèle de cycle de vie des produits comprend, à l'image d'une existence humaine, un développement en quatre phases majeures : le lancement/la naissance, la croissance, la maturité et le déclin. À la fois simple et universelle, la courbe de vie d'un produit permet dès lors aux entreprises de répartir stratégiquement leurs ressources et de travailler leur discours marketing en fonction des stades et de la réceptivité des clients. Ce livre vous aidera à :• visualiser la courbe de vie d'un produit ;• adapter votre stratégie marketing ainsi que votre discours commercial en fonction des phases que connaît le produit ;• privilégier l'expérience client ;• et bien plus encore!Le mot de l'éditeur : « Avec l'auteur, Layal Makki, nous avons cherché à présenter un concept majeur qui, par sa simplicité et son aspect universel, sous-tend de nombreuses réflexions marketing et stratégiques en entreprise. En visualisant davantage les phases de vie de leurs produits, les managers parviennent dès lors à mieux anticiper les déclins en proposant des stratégies de relance ou d'abandon au profit d'un nouveau produit. » - Juliette NèveÀ PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Gestion & MarketingLa série « Gestion & Marketing » de la collection 50MINUTES fournit des outils pour comprendre rapidement de nombreuses théories et les concepts qui façonnent le monde économique d'aujourd'hui. Nous avons conçu la collection en pensant aux nombreux professionnels obligés de se former en permanence en économie, en management, en stratégie ou en marketing. Nos auteurs combinent des éléments de théorie, des études de cas et de nombreux exemples pratiques pour permettre aux lecteurs de développer leurs compétences et leur expertise.

A fundamental shift is underway that will change how we conceive of value. In an era of increasing interconnectedness, individuals, as opposed to institutions, stand at the center of value creation. To adapt to this tectonic shift, organizations can no longer unilaterally devise products and services. They must engage stakeholders—from customers and employees to suppliers, partners, and citizens at large—as co-creators. Co-creation guru Venkat Ramaswamy and Kerimcan Ozcan call for enterprises to be mindful of lived experiences, to build engagement platforms and management systems that are designed for creative collaboration, and to develop'win more-win more'strategies that enhance our wealth, welfare, and, well-being. Richly illustrated with examples of co-creation in action, The Co-Creation Paradigm provides a blueprint for the co-creative enterprise, economy, and society, while presenting a conceptual framework that will guide organizations across sectors in adopting this transformational approach. Challenging some of our most deeply held ideas about business and value, this book outlines the future of'business as usual.'

Neue Produkte und neue Märkte sind für Unternehmen wichtige Wachstumsfaktoren. Doch die meisten Innovationen erweisen sich als Flops und scheitern bereits bei der Einführung. „Von der Produktidee zum Markterfolg“ liefert eine systematische Gebrauchsanweisung, mit der die gezielte Suche nach neuen Produktideen, deren Entwicklung und Markteinführung gelingt. Rainer H. G. Großklaus beschreibt Schritt für Schritt, wie Sie klug Chancen im Markt aufspüren, systematisch Ideen finden, die Akzeptanz Ihres Produkts im Vorfeld testen, marktfähige Preise kalkulieren, einen detaillierten Marketingplan erarbeiten und Innovationen im Unternehmen erfolgreich managen. Checklisten und konkrete Beispiele aus B-to-C- und B-to-B-Unternehmen lassen sich direkt auf die eigene Praxis übertragen. Außerdem: Der Beitrag'Neue Produkte für ältere Zielgruppen'von Prof. Dr. Thomas Jendrosch erklärt, wie Sie erfolgreich Innovationen für die immer größer werdende Generation 50plus einführen.

The first book focusing specifically on talent management, retention and leadership in the luxury industry. It explores how to lead and manage the people this industry attracts, and the major HR challenges the industry is about to face as the previous generation of luxury pioneers retire and Asia becomes a major player in the luxury world.

The Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and concepts of Lean and the practical use of the tools. It offers a practical, easily accessible resource for anyone preparing for, implementing or evaluating lean activities covering key areas such as: aspects of a Lean Programme; scoping a programme; value stream mapping; 2P and 3P events; Rapid Improvement Events; managing for daily improvement; engaging the team; spotting problems and communicating progress. In addition, it offers a quick snapshot summary of the key tool and concepts of Lean plus easily applicable templates.Online supporting resources for this book include instructor's manuals on communications, events and standard work, templates for problem-solving and tables such as event summaries

Brand Revolution offers a radical new approach to brand management. With big brand case studies including L'Oreal and Jaguar, the author draws on her extensive experience as a marketing consultant to put together this highly engaging and practical book for developing, improving and controlling the identity of your brand.

What do brands like Apple, Diesel, Abercrombie & Fitch and Virgin have in common and what differentiates them from other brands? These brands are able to maintain a relationship with their clients that goes beyond brand loyalty. This gives a complete analysis of Lifestyle Brands, that inspire, guide and motivate beyond product benefits alone.

Explores the growing importance of aesthetic factors in the success of brands and the reluctance of brand managers and academics to deal with these issues. Proposes a series of theoretical and practical managerial instruments which analyse the aesthetic aspects of various brand manifestations.

Positioning is hot. Not only in the realm of consumer goods manufacturers, but also for other companies, institutions, governments and even individual persons. An explosion of good quality products on the market and targeted media and advertising campaigns has led to an increasing interest from organizations as to how to strategically position their brand.Up to now, only a few books on positioning were published. Positioning the Brand picks up the gauntlet with an approach based on two fundamental choices: Firstly, the book was written from the perspective of the brand manager, and has therefore been shaped as a practical roadmap. Secondly, this book advocates a new stance on positioning, teaching the reader to look from the inside-out, instead of adopting the usual outside-in methodology. This inside-out approach departs from an analysis of the corporate identity, enabling better fulfilment of external positioning, and ensuring internal support.This book is intended for (future) managers, marketing professionals and communication professionals responsible for the commercial success and reputation of a brand. The contents have a practical set-up, reinforced by engaging examples, and enable the reader to individually complete a positioning process.

Here Calkins shows business how to create and maintain a defensive strategy including: how to understand and get competitive intelligence; how to determine if your brand or company is at risk; how to create a defensive strategy; limiting risk and preventing a trial; understanding your own IP as a weapon - and much more.

All companies, no matter what industry they are in, or what product or service they create, do four basic things. Offer something for sale, sell it, collect money for it, and create content about what they do. Product development, Marketing, Sales, and Finance are all essential to the organization and are typically managed at the VP or CXO level, yet a company's content, which contains all of its intellectual property, is often overlooked. The Content Pool: Leveraging Your Company's Largest Hidden Asset makes the case for placing content creation, management, and distribution on a par with other core strategic business activities. Inside the Book Identifying Your Content Organizing Your Content Managing Your Content Leveraging Your Content The Case for a Chief Content Officer Bibliography and Index

This Element is an excerpt from Conversational Capital: How to Create Stuff People Love to Talk About (9780137145508), by Bertrand Cesvet, Tony Babinski, and Eric Alper. Available in print and digital formats. Delivering one-of-a-kind products and one-of-a-kind customer experiences. With more than six billion people around, can anyone be truly unique? The explosive growth of customization in recent years tells us the answer is a loud, resounding “yes.” Consumers demand customization and differentiation. Given the chance to take advantage of these, no two people express themselves in the same way. Our desire to be one-of-a-kind is deeply seated--and it reflects reality....

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Conversational Capital: How to Create Stuff People Love to Talk About (9780137145508), by Bertrand Cesvet, Tony Babinski, and Eric Alper. Available in print and digital formats. How to create products that are truly iconic--and create conversation everywhere they go. The Red Bull can has become a modern-day icon. It took Dietrich Mateschitz and Johannes Kastner more than a year during the company's start-up phase to design the can. Some might argue that this micro-management of packaging minutiae was an overinvestment in time and resources, but the result speaks for itself. Through such care and attention, product and package design can take on iconic power….

In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existence.From near-extinction in the early eighties, Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existenceIn The Lean Machine, you will learn about their secret weapon and go-to formula for outstanding success as well as:the day-to-day transformation at Harley-Davidsontheir adapted Knowledge-Based Product Developmentidentifies universal change and improvement issues so that any company can incorporate thisRooted in Japanese productivity improvement techniques, the Knowledge-Based Product Development method helped Harley realize an unprecedented fourfold increase in throughput in half the time--powering annual growth of more than ten percent.The Lean Machine is part business journal, part analysis, and part step-by-step toolkit that will help companies in all industries achieve predictably excellent results.

From new product development to product elimination, this book holistically covers the entire product life cycle, including analysis of new product innovation strategy, new product ideas screening, product testing, managing growing and mature products, and product deletion. The nature and practice of these processes are central to the firm's overall strategy for competitiveness, and this book repeatedly emphasises the fundamental relationship between the success of a product and the survival of the firm. Whether they are studying at undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA levels, students will find this book essential to their understanding of this important subject area. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

The Pursuit of New Product Development: The Business Development Process begins with an understanding of market needs, within a sound business model, a well-defined financial strategy, and well-thought-out strategic goals. This new book by industry-expert Marc Annacchino, will help the professional engineer, manager, marketer, and all others who must come together as a working team, to better understand their respective roles and responsibilities in that process. Today, speeding the right value proposition to the market can make all the difference between success and failure. With case examples, organizational analysis and project planning tools, this new book looks at that longer, organizational view of product development, and how that view can improve product development cycle times and better take advantage of new market opportunities. It will help the product development team better adapt to change and a dynamic market in today's global economy through product platform management, and do so rationally and reliably. And it will help product development professionals to look for hidden value in existing product lines as they plan for that change and growth ahead. - Provides product development professionals with the concepts and tools for a more integrated, successful product development cycle - Promotes a more coherent deployment of managers, engineers, marketers, and sales personnel to achieve results within market opportunity in terms of time, cost and performance - Shows how to better identify and target product value propositions in product line extensions and in securing new markets

New product development is not just about creating successful new products. This book presents a blend of cases, original survey research and theory to show the principles used by successful firms in developing new products and pruning those that hold the company back.

The iPod is a harbinger of a revolution in product design: innovation that targets customer emotion, self-image, and fantasy, not just product function. Read the hidden stories behind BodyMedia's SenseWear body monitor, Herman Miller's Mirra Chair, Swiffer's mops, OXO's potato peelers, Adidas'intelligent shoes, the new Ford F-150 pickup truck, and many other winning innovations. Meet the innovators, learning how they inspire and motivate their people, as they shepherd their visions through corporate bureaucracy to profitable reality. The authors deconstruct the entire process of design innovation, showing how it really works, and how today's smartest companies are innovating more effectively than ever before.