Marketing Planning by Design: Systematic Planning for Successful Marketing Strategy - Hardcover

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Dr RALF E. STRAUSS has been the Chief Marketing Officer for SAP in Germany and Central Europe since 2003. And, from April 2008 he takes over global product management responsibility for all SAP CRM Marketing solutions, responsible for solution strategy, product vision and roadmap. SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, with more than 46,100 customers in more than 120 countries running SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

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"Marketing Planning by Design not only helps internationally active companies to organize their marketing function more efficiently, it also provides medium-sized companies a blueprint for creating and securing high marketing efficiency. Web 2.0 and numerous other new challenges demand the methodical preservation and safeguarding of marketing &; beyond individually motivated gut decisions. The book lays the foundation for that."
--Adriana Nuneva, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

"Time and again, marketing has to justify its demand for market-oriented corporate management. Marketing Planning by Design vividly covers how to meet this demand with systematic, well-grounded marketing planning with content aimed at the target group, and lots of inspiration for practical application. It is a plea for the quest for top performance in marketing with high added value."
--Dr Rainer Hillebrand, Member of the Board of Directors, Otto Group

"Medium-sized companies are increasingly faced with the challenge of choosing the right marketing options from an ever growing selection. A limited budget has to be implemented efficiently, as all that counts at the end of the year is success. The book offers clear planning aids that answer all essential questions to help you achieve a sound marketing plan in seven phases. A competent plan which also enjoys the trust of the company&;s growth drivers is a basic requirement for implementing successful campaigns. The content and structure of this book help marketing professionals and relevant areas to shape and optimize the planning process."
--Benno Lohausen, Member of the Management Board, edding AG

"Marketeers are under increased pressure. One reason is novel role models of the customers (see Web 2.0) &;they become more and more part of the value creation process &;they are also &;prosumer&;, creator and consultants to their peers. Another reason is the never seen before demand for justifying marketing investments, quantifying results and proof of efficiency and effectiveness of any marketing action. This calls for state-of-the-art marketing planning. This book pinpoints an excellent marketing planning approach. Clearly structured and enriched with real world examples and proven tools it is a must-read for any marketer. The structure of marketing planning laid out in this book will also foster to extract further requirements on all applications in the marketing planning arena as well as on information management (e.g. data management or collaborative filtering)."
--Prof Dr Detlef Schoder, Department of Information Systems and Information Management, University of Cologne

"Marketing Planning by Design heralds the big change in marketing to date. Thanks to the Internet and Web 2.0, masses of people outside the boundaries of traditional hierarchies can produce goods, services and content. In order to understand the opportunities this presents for companies as well as to get further clarity on the tangible benefits of marketing, this book is a clear must-read."
--Ralf Klein-Boelting, General Authorized Representative for Corporate Marketing and Communications, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin

"Dr Strauss provides much-needed insight for answering that age-old question, how do we measure return on marketing investment? For marketers who care about producing results that matter, one could hardly imagine a more timely and important topic."
--Woodruff W. Driggs, Managing Director &; CRM, Accenture, Boston (Mass.)

Aus dem Klappentext

Marketing is under immense pressure to perform: required to submit reports to management, judged by the sales department based on whether it helps sales, scrutinized by financial controlling regarding how efficiently it uses budgets, and last but not least, under constant review by customers, markets and the public. Marketing faces more dilemmas and conflicts of interest than any other part of a company.

This is not entirely undeserved. Even those involved in marketing themselves often underestimate the usefulness and opportunities inherent in systematic planning as a foundation for successful marketing.

The reason for this lies in the lack of a plan for marketing planning.

This book not only identifies numerous examples of this problem as experienced by businesses, it also offers ways of solving the problem. Ralf Strauss highlights a 7 phase process for marketing planning, where the potential marketing can reach is demonstrated. Useful check lists included in this book allow the readers to readily create their own &;plans for a marketing planning&;.

With insights drawn from more than 150 case studies included in the book, Marketing Planning by Design covers areas such as:

• How to overcome existing hurdles of marketing planning and marketing strategy.
• How to set up a project for managing the marketing planning cycle.
• How to develop a really target group and content driven marketing planning, which is stepwise cascaded from a program, campaign down to a tactical level.
• How to make marketing accountable in terms of performance measurement.
• How to implement an enhanced marketing planning in the organisation.
• How to systematically integrate Web 2.0 into marketing planning, or how to link marketing with modern IT.

This highly practical book is destined to be a must have reference work on any marketer&;s desk.