Product desciption
Defensive Strategy Apples Overlooked Key To Success Sharam Sadeghi by Sharam Sadeghi 9783844231434, 3844231439 instant download after payment.
The Publication:
Apple gets a lot of credit for being an innovative and cool brand. The purity in design, seamless interaction between hardware and software, as well as, the unique user-experience are usually its top-three key success factors highlighted. But, while that might be true, it is not the real secret behind its success:
The underestimated and often overlooked truth lies in the way of how Apple protects its innovations. The objective of this work is to examine, why having a defense system in place, for immediate and appropriate response, is crucial for successful companies to sustain their profitability and position in the market at the same time. We will further analyze why leading incumbents fail to respond to offensive threats and lose their right to exist. Moreover, we will discuss the defensive strategies and tactics a company might utilize, when under attack.
To visualize the need for and the effectiveness of successful defensive strategies, we will analyze the way how the Cupertino-based company has succeeded in retaining its leading position to become the business world’s most valuable brand of today.
The Author:
SHARAM SADEGHI, the author of this eBook, is a sales and marketing professional with proven success in driving marketing strategies and execution at Fortune Global 500 companies: His career started at The Coca-Cola Company, before he moved to Sony, LG Electronics and Vodafone in Germany. His marketing expertise spans the full marketing mix spectrum with key responsibilities in product marketing, brand management and direct marketing.
Defensive Strategy – Apple’s Overlooked Key to Success is the topic of his Master Thesis to complete the two-year’s Executive MBA program in August 2012, held at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in partnership with WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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TIM CALKINS, the supervisor of this publication, is clinical professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Tim teaches marketing strategy, biomedical marketing and strategic marketing decisions in Kellogg’s full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs. He is co-academic director of Kellogg’s branding program.
He is the author of Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Breakthrough Marketing Plans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He is co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). Tim has published more than a dozen Kellogg case studies including Crestor, MedImmune: FluMist Introduction and Genzyme: the Synvisc-One Investment Decision.
