Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control (Hardcover)

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An analysis of trends and developments in global marketing management. The book includes a section on brand development as one of the keys to successful marketing. Emphasis is placed on managing business processes and core competencies, not just departmental functions. Also emphasized is the importance of teamwork between marketing and all the other functions of the business. Different perspectives are introduced in strategic market planning. The text provides company examples of creative, market-focused action. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Best-seller world-wide, the ninth edition of this classic text highlights the most recent trends and developments in global marketing. It emphasizes the importance of teamwork between marketing and all the other functions of the business; introduces new perspectives in successful strategic market planning; and presents additional company examples of creative, market- focused, and customer-driven action. Kotler underscores the importance of computers, telecommunications, and other new technologies in improving marketing planning and performance. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; 9 edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139149465
• ISBN-13: 978-0139149467
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,046,242 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ONLY GUIDE TO MARKETING YOU'LL EVER NEED, February 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control (Hardcover)

When I decided to cross-register from classes at Harvard Law School to those at Harvard Business School, I asked a friend who was publisher of the Harvard Business Review what I should take. He advised me to take marketing, because the second year classes were the same as the first year ones. I soon found myself dealing with simple problems of how to market Heinz Ketchup. I did well in marketing at Harvard Business School, but most of what I learned about marketing I learned from reading this book. I now practice as a management consultant, and I constantly find clients who do not understand what marketing management should be all about. I constantly encourage them to read this book. In fact, in my stock-price improvement practice, much of what I did initially was to apply Kotler's principles to the idea of marketing a stock. The model worked, and I have found that part of Kotler's thinking also applies to solving nonmarketing problems. I have a hard time imagining a better book can come out to replace this one. There are individual works that are excellent in a narrow segment (such as POSITIONING and THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING), but you need the big picture. MARKETING MANAGEMENT is a perfect book for that purpose, whether for student, intern, assistant brand manager, head of marketing, or CEO. If I may make one suggestion: Have those who have nothing to do with marketing read this book. That will give your organization a better way of sharing information and ideas for improving what you offer customers.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control (Hardcover)

I have gone through this book during my MBA at Lahore, Pakistan. It is an excellent book on advanced Marketing. Those who have basic knowledge of Marketing and now seeking for advanced knowledge must read this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book on marketing if you are in US, February 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control (Hardcover)

Marketing requires learning and practicing. It is not only a business, but also a social as well as cultural subject. A lot of cultural issues are involved in practising marketing. As a book, this gives you a firm foundation on concepts. It is wonderful - provided you are able to understand examples mentioned. For we in India, most of the examples are alien. Also recent developments in online marketing ( like that of Amazon) find no mention. Interestingly these type of internet based examples can be experienced globaly. It is a good book to build your marketing foundations. Asian, European students, however will have to learn a lot outside the book. I hope that future editions of this book take in to account the differences in social and cultural settings across the globe. This limitation reduces the value of this book to those students. That is why my rating is 4 star