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The most important assets of any business are intangible: its company name, brands, symbols and slogans and their underlying association, perceived quality, name awareness, and customer base. These assets, which comprise brand equity, are a primary source of competitive advantage and future earnings, contends David Aaker, a national authority on branding. Yet, research shows that managers cannot identify with confidence their brand associations, level of consumer awareness, or degree of customer loyalty. Moreover, in the last decade, managers desperate for short-term financial results have often unwittingly damaged their brands through price promotions and unwise brand extensions, causing irreversible deterioration of the value of the brand name. In an examination of the phenomenon of brand equity, Aaker provides a structure of the relationship between a brand and its symbol and slogan, as well as each of the five underlying assets, which will clarify for managers exactly how brand equity does contribute value. The author opens each chapter with an historical analysis of either the success or failure of a particular company's attempt at building brand equity: the fascinating ivory soap story; the transformation of Datsun to Nissan; the decline of Schlitz beer; the making of the Ford Taurus; and others. Finally, with dozens of additional real company examples, Aaker shows how to avoid the temptation to place short-term performance before the health of the brand and, instead, to manage brands strategically by creating, developing, and exploiting each of the five assets in turn.

Branding guru Aaker shows how to eliminate the competition and become the lead brand in your market This ground-breaking book defines the concept of brand relevance using dozens of case studies-Prius, Whole Foods, Westin, iPad and more-and explains how brand relevance drives market dynamics, which generates opportunities for your brand and threats for the competition. Aaker reveals how these companies have made other brands in their categories irrelevant. Key points: When managing a new category of product, treat it as if it were a brand; By failing to produce what customers want or losing momentum and visibility, your brand becomes irrelevant; and create barriers to competitors by supporting innovation at every level of the organization. Using dozens of case studies, shows how to create or dominate new categories or subcategories, making competitors irrelevantShows how to manage the new category or subcategory as if it were a brand and how to create barriers to competitorsDescribes the threat of becoming irrelevant by failing to make what customer are buying or losing energyDavid Aaker, the author of four brand books, has been called the father of branding This book offers insight for creating and/or owning a new business arena. Instead of being the best, the goal is to be the only brand around-making competitors irrelevant.

"Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike."–– Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University A successful business strategy enables managers to provide organizational vision, monitor and understand a dynamic business environment, generate creative strategic options in response to environmental changes, and base every business effort on sustainable competitive advantages. Developing Business Strategies provides the knowledge and understanding needed to generate and implement such a strategy. This fully revised and updated edition of David Aaker’s highly influential strategic manual offers copious new information on important emerging business topics. Numerous new and revised sections cover such critical areas as the big idea, knowledge management, the customer as an active partner, creative thinking, distinguishing fads from trends, forecasting technologies, alliances, design as strategy, downstream business models, and more. Other important new features of this comprehensive guide include: *A new chapter on strategic positioning *Many new illustrative examples from B-to-B, high-tech, and the Internet *Increased focus on global leadership and global brand management *Using the Internet to develop and support business strategies For managers who need to develop and implement effective, responsive business strategies that keep the organization competitive through changing business conditions, Developing Business Strategies, Sixth Edition is the way to go.

Powerful product, country, and functional silos are jeopardizing companies' marketing efforts. Because of silos, firms misallocate resources, send inconsistent messages to the marketplace, and fail to leverage scale economies and successes--all of which can threaten a company's survival. As David Aaker shows in Spanning Silos, the unfettered decentralization that produces silos is no longer feasible in today's marketplace. It's up to chief marketing officers to break down silo walls to foster cooperation and synergy. This isn't easy: silo teams guard their autonomy vigorously. As proof of their power, consider the fact that the average CMO tenure is just twenty-three months. How to proceed? Drawing on interviews with CMOs, Aaker explains how to: Strength your credibility with silo teams and your CEO Use cross-functional teams and other strategic linking devices Foster communication across silos Select the right CMO role-- from facilitator to strategic captain Develop common planning processes Adapt your brand strategy to silo units Allocate marketing dollars strategically across silos Develop silo-spanning marketing programs In this age of dynamic markets, new media, and globalization, getting the different parts of your organization to collaborate is more critical--and more difficult--than ever. This book gives you the road map you need to accomplish that feat.

Using real brand-building case studies, this groundbreaking book describes how companies can increase brand identity by thinking 'out-of-the-box'.

In this long-awaited book from the world’s premier brand expert and author of the seminal work Building Strong Brands, David Aaker shows managers how to construct a brand portfolio strategy that will support a company’s business strategy and create relevance, differentiation, energy, leverage, and clarity.Building on case studies of world-class brands such as Dell, Disney, Microsoft, Sony, Dove, Intel, CitiGroup, and PowerBar, Aaker demonstrates how powerful, cohesive brand strategies have enabled managers to revitalize brands, support business growth, and create discipline in confused, bloated portfolios of master brands, subbrands, endorser brands, cobrands, and brand extensions. Renowned brand guru Aaker demonstrates that assuring that each brand in the portfolio has a clear role and actively reinforces and supports the other portfolio brands will profoundly affect the firm’s profitability. Brand Portfolio Strategy is required reading not only for brand managers but for all managers with bottom-line responsibility to their shareholders.

Wettbewerbsvorteile Erkennen Mrkte Erschliessen Strategien Entwickeln.

Die meisten Marketingstrategien zielen darauf ab, dass Produkte oder Dienstleistungen der eigenen Marke denen der Wettbewerber vorgezogen werden. Tatsächlich führt jedoch Marketing nach dem Motto "Meine Marke ist besser als deine Marke" in den seltensten Fällen zu signifikantem Absatzwachstum. Und dabei ist es völlig gleichgültig, wie hoch das Budget oder wie clever die Durchführung ist. Echtes Wachstum entsteht fast immer nur aus substanziellen oder sogar revolutionären Innovationen, die ein oder mehrere "Must-haves" für die Kunden erzeugen. Diese definieren dann eine neue Kategorie oder Subkategorie, in der die Wettbewerber nur schwach vertreten oder überhaupt nicht relevant sind. Das Buch von David Aaker zeigt, wie es Unternehmen und Marken aus den unterschiedlichsten Branchen, wie Bionade, Gilette, IBM, IKEA, Nivea und (natürlich) Apple, gelungen ist, sich vom Wettbewerb um Markenpräferenz abzuwenden, und wie sie stattdessen dafür sorgen, dass ihre Marken Relevanz und Dominanz auf den betreffenden Märkten erlangen. Es gibt Dutzende von Strategiebüchern, die sich in irgendeiner Weise mit Wachstumsstrategien auf der Grundlage von Innovationen befassen. David Aakers Buch - erstmals auf Deutsch und mit europäischen Fallbeispielen - weist jedoch mehrere einzigartige Denkansätze auf: Erstens liegt der Fokus auf Marken und den zugehörigen Methoden der Markenführung. Zweitens wird ein Schwerpunkt auf die Errichtung von Barrieren im Wettbewerbsumfeld gelegt, mit denen das eigene Unternehmen für einen längeren Zeitraum davon profitieren kann, dass die Wettbewerber kaum eine Rolle spielen. Und drittens werden substanzielle und revolutionäre Innovationen explizit als der Weg zur Schaffung neuer Kategorien und Subkategorien angesehen.