Strategic Marketing Management

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your marketing by putting it—and your customers—at the center of your business.

As globalization creates increasing challenges to established marketing practices, marketing efforts need to reposition and adapt continuously to maintain an organization's ability to reach potential customers. This Very Short Introduction provides a general overview of the function and importance of marketing to modern organizations. Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh discusses how marketing remains central to creating competitive advantage, and why it needs to be forward looking and constantly reinventing itself in line with new developments in the marketplace.

Most marketing books are written for marketers. This one is written for leaders. Stop treating marketing as a cost centre. Start leading it like a business executive. Marketing doesn’t fail because of bad campaigns. It fails when organisations fail to think strategically about marketing. Leaders become trapped in justifying budgets and defending headcount, instead of influencing outcomes and translating “marketing speak” into C-suite impact. The Marketing Movement changes that dynamic.

Strategic Advertising Management provides the firm foundation you need to understand the effective strategic planning of advertising and other marketing communications. Renowned experts in the field, the authors draw on their extensive experience to present the essential principles of communication that demonstrate how advertising works.