Market-Led Strategic Change, 5th edition, has been fully revised and updated to reflect the realities of 21st century business and the practical issues for managers in the process of going to market. The world of business has changed dramatically, with a more complex environment, more demanding customers and radical new ways of going to market. This textbook develops a value-based strategy examining the roles of market sensing, customer value, organizational change and digital marketing in the implementation of strategy.

This much-anticipated new edition has been carefully updated, now with Nigel Piercy's unique and clear-sighted views on the latest developments in marketing strategy, retaining Piercy's insightful, witty and provocative style. The text is supported throughout with brand new case studies from globally recognised companies such as Uber and Volkswagen, and covering topical issues such as the legalisation of marijuana and reinventing the healthcare business. Lecturers are assisted with a newly expanded collection of support materials including PowerPoint slides for each chapter, suggested frameworks for using the case studies in teaching, and case studies from previous editions.

If you're an ambitious marketing student or practitioner, whether you are new to strategic change through marketing or just want a different view, this is the book for you. Lecturers will find this engaging, funny, thought-provoking but always practical textbook is a sure way to get your students thinking and enthused.

About the Author

Nigel F. Piercy BA, MA, PhD, DLitt, FCIM was previously Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Warwick Business School, having earlier held a chair in strategic marketing at Cranfield School of Management. Before Cranfield and Warwick, he held the Sir Julian Hodge Chair in Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School.

Reviews

'As ever, Market-Led Strategic Change is intelligent, witty, though-provoking and what's more a damn good read! Whether you're a hardened old marketer or a fresh-faced student, this book will change the way you think about making stuff happen!' - Professor Lloyd C. Harris, Head of Department, Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham, UK

Praise for the fourth edition

'Much is known about good marketing practice, but little is known about how to transform a company into a first-rate marketing company. Nigel Piercy has provided the best guide I've seen to creating a market-led company -- replete with worksheets, diagnostics, and many convincing illustrative cases ... a very useful and readable book that will make a contribution to many companies that manage to read it and act on it.' - Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, USA

'Professor Piercy lives up to his promise to provide management with a number of tools and techniques to help implement marketing effectively in their own companies so that customer considerations and satisfaction are put at the top of the management agenda. A very practical manual, full of good useful advice ... I enjoyed reading it.' - John O'Shaugnessy, Professor Emeritus of Business, Columbia University, USA

'It is not just the chapter titles which are provocative. The more closely one reads the contents of the individual chapters, it becomes apparent that they constitute a healthy mix of foundation material (informative), well-reasoned questioning of certain heretofore unchallenged assumptions and practices (provocative), and clear directions to managers as to how the content of the individual chapters can be put to use in organizations (instructive) ... I was looking for new insights, needless to say I was not disappointed ... an outstanding contribution.' - P. Rajan Varadarajan, Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce, Texas A&M University, USA

'This is a marvellous, thought-provoking book on how to cultivate and implement a customer-focused strategy within a company. In a time when many marketing texts seem depressingly similar, this book is different and that is very much to the good ... No reader will walk away from this book without substantial new ideas on making customer-focused marketing work. On that basis, I think it is a book that should be on the shelf of every person seriously concerned with market strategy.' - Bruce H, Clark, Associate Professor and Group Coordinator of Marketing, Northeastern University, USA

'Every once in a while one reads a book and think "This makes so much sense, why didn't someone write it before?" Anyone seriously interested in the management of marketing is likely to have this reaction to Nigel Piercy's Market-Led Strategic Change ... Refreshing in its candor, stimulating in its arguments, practical in its applicability, Professor Piercy is to be congratulated. Buy it!' - James M. Hulbert, President of James M. Hulbert Associates Inc. and formerly Kopf Professor of International Marketing, Columbia University, USA

'This book is aimed at the reflective practitioner who wants to get things done. It is a management perspective on marketing, where marketing is not just the Marketing and Sales Department but a way of life that permeates every corner of the company. Market-Led Strategic Change demonstrates the author's ability to combine systematic analysis with practical advice for action. The book is rich in practical examples from the author's own experience and research.' - Professor Evert Gummesson, Professor Emeritus of Service Marketing and Management, University of Stockholm, Sweden

'By now everyone knows (or should know) what marketing is and what benefits will accrue to the marketing oriented organization. The problem is not WHAT but HOW. Virtually all the recent work on competitiveness and competitive success ... confirms that 'it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it'. In his new pragmatic and practitioner-oriented book Nigel Piercy provides usable insights and advice on how to establish, develop, deliver and sustain long-term customer satisfaction which can be the only guaranteed road to survival and success. I will use the book myself both as an educator and a senior manager/company director.' - Michael J. Baker, Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, UK

'I have always enjoyed reading what Nigel Piercy has to say about marketing, because he always has something interesting and useful to say. This book is no exception. It is creative, original, punchy, practical, challenging, thought-provoking, actionable, and a very enjoyable read to boot. I shall definitely be recommending it to as many people as possible. It will make an enormous contribution to marketing practice.' - Malcolm McDonald, Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Cranfield University School of Management, UK

Book Information
ISBN 9780415834278
Author Nigel F. Piercy
Format Paperback
Page Count 584
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1112g