Market Segmentation How to Do It and How to Profit from It
by McDonald, MalcolmEdition: 4th
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Pub. Date: 2012-11-28
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, 5th Edition is the only book that spells out a totally dispassionate, systematic process for arriving at genuine, needs-based segments that can enable organizations to escape from the dreay, miserable, downward pricing spiral which results from getting market segmentation wrong. Nothing in business works unless markets are correctly defined, mapped, quantified and segmented. Why else have hundreds of billions of dollars been wasted on excellent initiatives such as TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma, Knolwedge Management, Innovation, Relationship Marketing and, latterly, CRM? The answer, of course, is because of a structured approach to market segmentation. Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, 5th Edition provides a structured, no-nonsense approach to getting market segmentation right. It is an essential text for professionals and students based on a wealth of practical experience and packed with examples and easily used checklists.
Author Biography
Malcolm McDonald was recently cited as one of the top marketing gurus in the world, along with Philip Kotler and Michael Porter and, in a 2006 Times HE piece, he was named as one of the top ten consultants in the UK. He is now Emeritus Professor at Cranfield University School of Management where, until recently, he was Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director. Formerly Marketing Director of Canada Dry, he is Chairman of six companies and works with many of the operating boards of the world’s biggest multinationals on every continent. He is the author of over 40 books, many of which have been translated into several foreign languages and has published hundreds of articles and papers.
Although retiring from his teaching role, Malcolm continues to research and teach at Cranfield and other universities around the world and to promote himself via speaking engagements, visiting lectures, and consultancy.
Ian Dunbar is a segmentation practitioner with extensive, hands on experience in segmenting markets for a wide range of business sectors. Since establishing the Market Segmentation Company with Malcolm McDonald in 1995, Ian has worked with numerous companies around the world ensuring their segmentation projects deliver the insights required for successful marketing strategies. He has held senior marketing positions in companies from both the service and manufacturing sectors and obtained his MBA from Cranfield University School of Management in the UK.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
An important note to the reader from the authors
List of figures
List of tables
1 Market segmentation – the bedrock of successful marketing
2 Preparing for segmentation – additional guidelines for success
3 Fast tracking through the segmentation process
4 Determining the scope of a segmentation project
5 Portraying how a market works and identifying decision-makers
6 Developing a representative sample of different decision-makers
7 Accounting for the behaviour of decision-makers
8 Forming market segments out of like-minded decision-makers
9 Determining the attractiveness of market segments
10 Assessing company competitiveness and the portfolio matrix
11 Realizing the full potential of market mapping
12 Predicting channel transformation
13 Setting marketing objectives and strategies for identified segments
14 Organizational issues in market segmentation
15 Using segmentation to improve performance – a case study
Index 483
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