David A. Aaker

Advises corportations on the functions of brands, offers strategies for marketing them, and presents success stories from the marketplace

Building Strong Brands

Erich Joachimsthaler

A comprehensive exploration of strategic brand leadership, from an expert in the fastgrowing field of brandequity, uses hundreds of studies of leading firms including General Electric, to show the strategic potential of brand management in a worldbased economy.

Brand Leadership

As industries turn increasingly hostile, it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker's pathbreaking book, MANAGING BRAND EQUITY, managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company's primary source of competitive advantage. Now, in this compelling new work, Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn, General Electric, Kodak, Healthy Choice, McDonald's, and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and managed. A common pitfall of brand strategists is to focus on brand attributes. Aaker shows how to break out of the box by considering emotional and self-expressive benefits and by introducing the brand-as-person, brand-as-organisation, and brand-as-symbol perspectives. A second pitfall is to ignore the fact that individual brands are part of a larger system consisting of many intertwined and overlapping brands and subbrands. Aaker shows how to manage the "brand system" to achieve clarity and synergy, to adapt to a changing environment, and to leverage brand assets into new markets and products. As executives in a wide range of industries seek to prevent their products and services from becoming commodities, they are recommitting themselves to brands as a foundation of business strategy. This new work will be essential reading for the battle-ready.

Marketing research

Developing business strategies

Looks at the intangible value of company name, brand, symbol, and slogan, and discusses cases in which this brand equity has been used successfully or poorly

Managing Brand Equity

Branding guru Aaker shows how to eliminate the competition and become the lead brand in your market This ground-breaking book defines the concept of brand relevance using dozens of case studies-Prius, Whole Foods, Westin, iPad and more-and explains how brand relevance drives market dynamics, which generates opportunities for your brand and threats for the competition. Aaker reveals how these companies have made other brands in their categories irrelevant. Key points: When managing a new category of product, treat it as if it were a brand; By failing to produce what customers want or losing momentum and visibility, your brand becomes irrelevant; and create barriers to competitors by supporting innovation at every level of the organization. Using dozens of case studies, shows how to create or dominate new categories or subcategories, making competitors irrelevant Shows how to manage the new category or subcategory as if it were a brand and how to create barriers to competitors Describes the threat of becoming irrelevant by failing to make what customer are buying or losing energy David Aaker, the author of four brand books, has been called the father of branding This book offers insight for creating and/or owning a new business arena. Instead of being the best, the goal is to be the only brand around-making competitors irrelevant.

Making Competitors Irrelevant

Brand Relevance

Did you know Brands Are Assets? Do you know how to create a Brand Vision? Is it possible to bring a Brand to Life? This is the definitive book that answers these questions and more... Aaker on Branding presents in a compact form, the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. These principles provide a broad understanding of brands, brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand building that all business, marketing, and brand strategists should know.

20 Principles That Drive Success

Aaker on Branding

Management fads come and go in the blink of an eye, but branding is here to stay. Closely watched by the stock market and obsessed over by the biggest companies, brand identity is the one indisputable source of sustainable competitive advantage, the vital key to customer loyalty. David Aaker is widely recognised as the leading expert in this burgeoning field. Now he prepares managers for the next wave of the brand revolution. With coauthor Erich Joachimsthaler, Aaker takes brand management to the next level - strategic brand leadership. Required reading for every marketing manager is the authors' conceptualisation of 'brand architecture' - how multiple brands relate to each other - and their insights on the hot new area of Internet branding. Full of impeccable, intelligent guidance, BRAND LEADERSHIP is the visionary key to business success in the future.

The most important assets of any business are intangible: its company name, brands, symbols, and slogans, and their underlying associations, perceived quality, name awareness, customer base, and proprietary resources such as patents, trademarks, and channel relationships. These assets, which comprise brand equity, are a primary source of competitive advantage and future earnings, contends David Aaker, a national authority on branding. Yet, research shows that managers cannot identify with confidence their brand associations, levels of consumer awareness, or degree of customer loyalty. Moreover in the last decade, managers desperate for short-term financial results have often unwittingly damaged their brands through price promotions and unwise brand extensions, causing irreversible deterioration of the value of the brand name. Although several companies, such as Canada Dry and Colgate-Palmolive, have recently created an equity management position to be guardian of the value of brand names, far too few managers, Aaker concludes, really understand the concept of brand equity and how it must be implemented. In a fascinating and insightful examination of the phenomenon of brand equity, Aaker provides a clear and well-defined structure of the relationship between a brand and its symbol and slogan, as well as each of the five underlying assets, which will clarify for managers exactly how brand equity does contribute value. The author opens each chapter with a historical analysis of either the success or failure of a particular company's attempt at building brand equity: the fascinating Ivory soap story; the transformation of Datsun to Nissan; the decline of Schlitz beer; the making of the Ford Taurus; and others. Finally, citing examples from many other companies, Aaker shows how to avoid the temptation to place short-term performance before the health of the brand and, instead, to manage brands strategically by creating, developing, and exploiting each of the five assets in turn

Damien McLoughlin

The text is a European adaptation of our current US book:Strategic Market Management, 9th Edition by David Aaker. This new edition is a mainstream textsuitable for all business students studying strategy and marketingcourses. Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives ismotivated by the strategic challenges created by the dynamic natureof markets. The premise is that all traditional strategicmanagement tools either do not apply or need to be adapted to amore dynamic context. The unique aspects of the book are its inclusion of: A business strategy definition that includes product/marketscope, value proposition, and assets and competences. A structured strategic analysis including a detailed customer,competitor, market, and environmental analysis leading tounderstanding of market dynamics that is supported by a summaryflow diagram, a set of agendas to help start the process, and a setof planning forms. Concepts of strategic commitment, opportunism, and adaptabilityand how they can and should be blended together. Bases of a value proposition and strong brands. A strategywithout a compelling value proposition will not be market driven orsuccessful. Brand assets that will support a business strategy needto be developed. Creating synergetic marketing with silo organisations definedby products or countries. All organisations have multiple productsand markets and creating cooperation and communication instead ofcompetition and isolation is becoming an imperative. A global perspective is an essential aspect of this new edition.This reflects the lived experience of the student reader but alsotheir likely professional challenges. This is achieved by theextensive use of new examples and vignettes.

Global Perspectives

Strategic Market Management

Market_Desc: · Business Professionals· MBA Students Special Features: · The most direct and comprehensive treatment of the role of marketing in a corporation's strategic decision making· Strong coverage of branding· Provides a structure and methodology for analyzing the external environment· Emphasizes the importance of sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs) in a business About The Book: This book describes and illustrates a structured approach to external market analysis that business managers can apply to their strategic decision-making. By using a variety of concepts and methods such as strategic questions, portfolio models and scenario analysis, this book help managers identify and evaluate numerous strategic investment alternatives. It also discusses how an organization can create dynamic strategies that are responsive to changing conditions. The book also places greater emphasis on the importance of external market analysis including the value proposition, product category analysis, the value of relevance, and competitor analysis.

STRATEGIC MARKET MANAGEMENT, 7TH ED

Focuses on the need to analyze the external environment and the competitive marketplace to make strategic market selections and competitive positioning decisions. The most complete, systematic approach to external analysis available. Addresses key current strategy issues, and is noted for its extensive use of business examples.

Alexander L. Biel

The tenth annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference held in San Francisco focused on branding -- a subject generating intense interest both in academia and in the "real world." The principle theory behind these conferences is that much can be gained by joining advertising and marketing professionals with academic researchers in advertising. Professionals can gain insight into the new theories, measurement tools and empirical findings that are emerging, while academics are stimulated by the insights and experience that professionals describe and the research questions that they pose. This book consists of papers delivered by experts from academia and industry discussing issues regarding the role of advertising in the establishment and maintenance of brand equity -- making this volume of interest to advertising and marketing specialists, as well as consumer and social psychologists.

Advertising's Role in Building Strong Brands

Brand Equity & Advertising

Practical Perspectives

Advertising Management

Christine Moorman

Strategic Market Management, helps managers identify, implement, prioritize, and adapt market-driven business strategies in dynamic markets. The text provides decision makers with concepts, methods, and procedures by which they can improve the quality of their strategic decision-making. The 11th Edition provides students in strategic marketing, policy, planning, and entrepreneurship courses with the critical knowledge and skills for successful market management, including strategic analysis, innovation, working across business units, and developing sustainable advantages.

George S. Day

Search for the Consumer Interest

Consumerism

V. Kumar

This new edition brings to the forefront the relevance of marketing intelligence and the power of the Internet in marketing research applications. The book focuses on the recent trends in marketing intelligence and explains how its various functions are linked to each other in a way that ensures efficient management of the customer-firm relationship. Readers will then learn how to apply the research to business strategies in order to win the customers' share of purchases.· The Nature and Scope of Marketing Research· Data Collection· Data Analysis· Special Topics in Data Analysis· Applications of Marketing Intelligence

Marketing Research, 9Th Ed

The European edition of Strategic Market Management has been prepared with the objective of taking David Aaker’s outstanding and well–established textbook and presenting it to a European audience. It retains the culture of the original text, to maintain its accessibility and continue its emphasis on practical action. It has also kept the compactness, which has made it so popular with graduate and executive students and managers, while keeping a comprehensive coverage of major and emerging themes in strategy. The core value of the original text, that the development, evaluation and implementation of business strategies are essential to successful management, is also retained in the European edition. The book is essential reading for any management or business school course that focuses on the management of strategies. It is especially appropriate for marketing strategy, strategic management and business policy courses. It is also designed to be used by managers who need to develop strategies or who run a small business and want to improve their strategy development and planning processes.

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