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Robert G. Cooper

In Product Leadership, Robert Cooper reveals the winners' secrets, and offers managers an invaluable resource to help implement and oversee systematic high-quality new product processes; develop new product strategies; manage product portfolios; determine which products to kill and which to back with resources; and foster ingenuity to outperform the competition. Showcasing examples from the winners, Cooper demonstrates that it takes a commitment from all managers, including marketing, finance, R&D, and HR, to triumph over the competition and become a leader in the new products war.

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Nicholas Ind and Rune Bjerke

Branding Governance challenges traditional thinking on brands. Bestselling author Nicholas Ind and cross-cultural communications expert Rune Bjerke expose the flaws in a marketing-led approach to brand-building, and offer in its place a highly-participative, organization-wide process that delivers fulfillment to employees and value to customers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they show that the key to a participatory approach is that customers and other external audiences must join managers and employees as active participants in defining and developing the brand. This requires the relationship between organization and customer to be one of trust, respect and authenticity.

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Wolfgang J. Koschnick

Anyone working in the worlds of social or market research is faced with a daunting plethora of special terms, techniques and jargon covering everything from statistical methods through to specialized advertising and social science terminology. The Dictionary of Social and Market Research has been compiled to provide academics, researchers and professionals with an exhaustive reference work containing definitions for, and explanations of, terms, techniques and concepts from all areas of social and market research. Entries have been selected on the basis of their value in answering questions arising from both the theory and practice of social and market research. The 2,500 entries in Dictionary of Social and Market Research therefore provide an invaluable reference to the terminology that is increasingly encountered in these complex and specialized fields.

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David Stewart and Michael Saren

"This book features a unique blend of core concepts and brief, international case studies in marketing. Each chapter presents a set of core concepts, frameworks, and tools, followed by five or more short, lively international case studies illustrating how the concepts and tools can be applied in the real world. The case studies are specifically designed to encourage readers to pursue additional independent research and to encourage them to articulate and defend their decisions. Throughout, the emphasis is on the reader as a marketing professional in the thick of it and responsible for the decisions they make"--