The Quintessence of Strategic Management: What You Really Need to Know to Survive in Business [Paperback]

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 the focal areas and considerations of strategy in practice. It enables managers to analyze and interpret business information with regard to the underlying strategic notions. 

A hands-on introduction to strategic management by leading marketing authority Philip Kotler, top management consultancy founder Roland Berger, and strategy expert Nils Bickhoff.  

Introduction: Essential Strategy Know-How and Nothing More.- Strategy and Strategic Management: A First Basic Under-standing.- 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.- Summary: Its Your Turn!

Prof. Dr. Philip Kotler (M.A., University of Chicago, Ph.D., M.I.T.) is the S.C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He published his 13th edition of Marketing Management, the worlds leading textbook in teaching marketing to MBAs.  He has also published Marketing Models, Principles of Marketing, Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations, Social Marketing, Marketing Places, Kotler on Marketing, Marketing Insights A to Z, Lateral Marketing,  Museum Strategies and Marketing, Standing Room Only, Corporate Social Responsibility, Chaotics, Up and Out of Poverty, Marketing 3.0 and several other books. His research covers strategic marketing, innovation, consumer marketing, business marketing, services marketing, distribution, e-marketing, and social marketinlƒL