A company’s future hinges on its ability to develop successful market offerings that create superior value for target customers, the company, and its collaborators. Market success is rarely an accident; it is typically a result of diligent market analysis, planning, and management. To succeed in the market, a company must have a viable business model and an action plan to make this model a reality. The key aspects of the process of marketing planning and management and the G-STIC framework for developing an action plan are the focus of this note. The discussion of marketing planning and management is complemented by an in-depth overview of three additional topics: developing a marketing plan, conducting a marketing audit, and the key project-management frameworks. This note is an excerpt (Chapter 3) from Strategic Marketing Management: Theory and Practice by Alexander Chernev (Cerebellum Press, 2019).
Économie et investissement