Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW.

1. Business Strategy: The Concept and Trends in Its Management.

2. Strategic Market Management: An Overview.

PART II: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS.

3. External and Customer Analysis.

4. Competitor Analysis.

5. Market Analysis.

6. Environmental Analysis and Strategic Uncertainty.

7. Internal Analysis.

PART III: ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS STRATEGIES.

8. Obtaining a Sustainable Competitive Advantage.

9. Differentiation Strategies.

10. Cost, Focus, and the Preemptive Move.

11. Strategic Positioning.

12. Growth Strategies: Penetration, Product-Market Expansion, Vertical Integration, and the Big Idea.

13. Diversification.

14. Strategies in Declining and Hostile Markets.

15. Global Strategies.

PART IV: IMPLEMENTATION.

16. Implementation.

Appendix: Planning Forms.

Index.

About the Author

DAVID A. AAKER is the Vice Chairman of Prophet Brand Strategy and Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an active speaker and consultant on business and brand strategy throughout the world. His books, including Marketing Research, Fourth Edition (Wiley), Building Strong Brands, and Brand Leadership, have been translated into over a dozen languages.