This book provides practitioners with a basic understanding of strategy and the process of strategic management. Using academic foundations and best practices from business life, the authors present the most important strategy tools and how they interact. The book gives a concise overview over...

Introduction -- Driving Change with Strategic Customers -- Setting the Joint Transformation Agenda -- Guiding Customer Business Transformation -- Enabling Internal Transformation -- Undertaking the Transformative Journey.

An Ingredient Brand is exactly what the name implies: an ingredient or component of a product that has its own brand identity. This is the first comprehensive book that explains how Ingredient Branding works and how brand managers can successfully improve the performance of component marketing....

Strategy and Strategic Management: A First Basic Understanding -- Strategic Frames of Reference: The Key Tools of Strategy Determination, their Principles, and How they Interact -- Current Focal Areas in Strategy Practice: Four Significant Management Concepts of the Past 20 Years