Defending Your Brand How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks
by Calkins, TimFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-10-16
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Defensive strategy is a brutal business; the objective is the drive competitors into the ground and make off with their ideas. It isn't pretty but a good defense can be very effective. Indeed, a good defense is far more important that a good offense. If you fail trying to grow, you will miss your objectives. If you fail defending your business, you can lose everything. Here Calkins shows business how to create and maintain a defensive strategy including: how to understand and get competitive intelligence; how to determine if your brand or company is at risk; how to create a defensive strategy; limiting risk and preventing a trial; understanding your own IP as a weapon - and much more. Every business leader needs to understand how to play defense and this book will teach leaders how to make sure their valuable brand is protected.
Author Biography
Tim Calkins is clinical professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He teaches marketing strategy, biomedical marketing and branding. He is the author of Breakthrough Marketing Plans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). Prior to joining the Kellogg faculty, Tim spent 11 years at Kraft Foods leading businesses including A.1. Steak Sauce, Kraft BBQ sauce, Miracle Whip and Taco Bell Home Originals. In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Tim works with major corporations around the world on marketing strategy and branding issues. He is managing director of Class 5 Consulting, a marketing strategy firm. Tim is frequently cited by the media; he has been quoted in publications including BusinessWeek, Newsweek, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and CNBC.
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