Marketing Due Diligence: Reconnecting Strategy to Share Price - Softcover

McDonald, Malcolm; Ward, Keith; Smith, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750667273 ISBN 13: 9780750667272

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Synopsis

At the top of a company, sales do not matter, profits do not matter, even return on investment is a secondary concern. What matters is share price and what drives share price is the creation of shareholder value. Many marketing directors, obsessed with branding and other promotional tactics, miss this fundamental truth of modern business and so destroy the wealth of their company's ultimate owners. By failing to consider and manage the business risk associated with their strategies, they deliver returns below the cost of capital and neglect the firm's raison d'etre. The board needs a way of holding these marketers to account. Marketing Due Diligence is a new process which has emerged from years of research at Cranfield, one of Europe's leading business schools. It blends proven ideas from strategic and financial management with new concepts about organisational effectiveness to create a process that directly connects marketing strategy to shareholder value. CEOs and CFOs cannot afford to operate without Marketing Due Diligence. Bad marketing directors cannot afford to work with it.

* Top level Cranfield based author team utilising latest Cranfield in-company research* Connects marketing plans and investment to the valuation of the firm and how it can contribute to increasing stakeholder value* Systematic and practical approach so that it can be used by both practitioners and students

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About the Author

MA(Oxon), MSc, PhD, D.Litt. FCIM FRSA, until recently was Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director Cranfield School of Management, with special responsibility for E-business. Malcolm is a graduate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, in Business Studies from Bradford University Management Centre, and has a PhD from Cranfield University. He also has an Honorary Doctorate from Bradford University. Malcolm has extensive industrial experience, including a number of years as Marketing Director of Canada Dry.

From the Back Cover

At the top of a company, sales do not matter, profits are not the main focus, even return on investment is a secondary concern. What matters is share price and what drives share price is the creation of shareholder value. Many marketing directors, obsessed with branding and other promotional tactics, miss this fundamental truth of modern business and so destroy the wealth of their company's ultimate owners. By failing to consider and manage the business risk associated with their strategies, they deliver returns below the cost of capital and neglect the firm's raison d'etre. The board needs a way of holding these marketers to account. This important new book demonstrates how the process of marketing due diligence is the rigorous and practical way to:* Identify the shortcomings of traditional marketing metrics* Diagnose the parts of your strategy which create excessive risk and so destroy shareholder value* Correct the flaws in your strategy, improve shareholder value creation and justify a higher share price.Marketing Due Diligence is a new process that has emerged from years of research at Cranfield, one of Europe's leading business schools. It blends proven ideas from strategic and financial management with new concepts about organisational effectiveness to create a process that directly connects marketing strategy to shareholder value. CEOs and CFOs cannot afford to operate without Marketing Due Diligence. Bad marketing directors cannot afford to work with it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750667273
• ISBN 13: 9780750667272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300