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by Malcolm McDonald (Author), Keith Ward (Author), Brian Smith (Author) "Since the Second World War, Western Europe has seen a steady and unrelenting decline in its traditional manufacturing industries ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title; New Ed edition (17 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750667273
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750667272
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 527,787 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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CEOs will quickly make it mandatory reading, as it ties marketing back to the things that matter to the board of directors: profit and shareholder value. Marketing Due Diligence is not just a book, it's a process developed at Cranfield School of Management in the U.K. that says marketing needs to be a disciplined function, just like finance, rather than just the promotions division that makes cool ads. - Marketing Magazine

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At the top of a company, sales do not matter, profits do not matter, even return on investment is a secondary concern. What matters is share price and what drives share price is the creation of shareholder value. Many marketing directors, obsessed with branding and other promotional tactics, miss this fundamental truth of modern business and so destroy the wealth of their company's ultimate owners. By failing to consider and manage the business risk associated with their strategies, they deliver returns below the cost of capital and neglect the firm's raison d'etre. The board needs a way of holding these marketers to account.

Marketing Due Diligence is a new process which has emerged from years of research at Cranfield, one of Europe's leading business schools. It blends proven ideas from strategic and financial management with new concepts about organisational effectiveness to create a process that directly connects marketing strategy to shareholder value. CEOs and CFOs cannot afford to operate without Marketing Due Diligence. Bad marketing directors cannot afford to work with it.

* Top level Cranfield based author team utilising latest Cranfield in-company research
* Connects marketing plans and investment to the valuation of the firm and how it can contribute to increasing stakeholder value
* Systematic and practical approach so that it can be used by both practitioners and students

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5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary yet applicable in practice, 29 Oct 2005
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This is one of those rare books that is simultaneously revolutionary and yet is can be applied in the real world.

Anyone who is concerned with the effectiveness of marketing at a senior level will know that it is, frankly, slippery. Those of us who sit on the board are, I think rightly, sceptical of our marketing colleagues. We would like a practical but well-founded way of holding them to account.

This book seems to be it. Unsurprisingly, it's written not just by marketers (McDonald and Smith are two well known names in this field) but also by a finance guy, Keith Ward. Together, they've come up with a very robust process for testing whether a strategy will destroy or create shareholder value BEFORE we go to the expense of implementing it.

In short, they've looked at what makes plans fail to create value and come up with a comprehensive set of tests to evaluate the "market risk", "share risk" and "profit risk" inherent in any plan. From there it's a short step to calculating the shareholder value creation (or more often in my experience, destruction).

After reading it (it's refreshingly succinct and well written), my first thought was "of course, why didn't we think of that before". I think the answer is that these ideas needed a blend of marketing and finance thinking that is rare in this silo'd world.

What I like best about this is the fact that the process can be applied without expensive new market data and research. The raw material for the process is the business plan we write anyway.

What I like least is the title. I suspect a lot of us will pass it over because we mistake it for a marketing book. I only got it because a friend bought it for me. In fact, this book will be far more useful to CEOs and CFOs, I think many marketers will be scared of it as it will reveal the weaknesses of their strategies.

I've no hesitation to recommend this book 100% to anyone at board level in any medium or larger company. If, however, you're a marketer then I suggest you buy every copy you can and burn them, to stop your boss asking you very difficult questions.

Further, I predict it is only a matter of time before this Marketing Due Diligence process becomes as widespread and popular as balanced scorecard and other ideas that are now "de rigeur" in the boardroom.

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