This book is dedicated to the authors wives Gillian and Rosie and to Ben Gilligan for their support while it was being written.
Our thanks go to Janice Nunn for all the effort that she put in to the preparation of the manuscript.
Strategic Marketing Management
Planning, implementation and control
Third edition
Richard M.S. Wilson
Emeritus Professor of Business Administration
The Business School
Loughborough University
and
Colin Gilligan
Professor of Marketing
Sheffield Hallam University
and Visiting Professor, Northumbria University
Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
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First published 1992
Second edition 1997
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Third edition 2005
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Preface
In writing the first edition of this book in the early 1990s, we were motivated by a concern to help improve the effectiveness of marketing practice. Twelve years and two editions later, our purpose is unchanged. In doing this, we have sought to address a number of key questions that logically follow each other in the context of strategic marketing management:
- Where are we now?
- Where do we want to be?
- How might we get there?
- Which way is best?
- How can we ensure arrival?
The themes of planning, implementing and controlling marketing activities are reflected in the answers to these questions as offered in the eighteen chapters which follow. The structure of the book is designed to take the reader through each of the questions in turn. The sequencing of the chapters is therefore significant. We have sought to build the books argument in a cumulative way such that it will provide guidance in generating effective marketing performance within a strategic framework once the reader has worked through each chapter in turn.
Against this background we can specify the books aims as being:
- To make the readers aware of the major aspects of the planning and controlling of marketing operations
- To locate marketing planning and control within a strategic context
- To demonstrate how the available range of analytical models and techniques might be applied to marketing planning and control to produce superior marketing performance