This book provides guidelines for the pragmatic integration of new marketing tools and business strategies for managers, researchers and students to implement innovative strategies in various industries. Practical and actionable guidance is key to achieving high standards of strategic marketing across different organizations. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the application of diverse tools and strategic practices in the finance, e- commerce, fashion, entertainment and tourism industries, among others. It provides deep insights into consumer behaviour through extensive research and analysis in different sectors of business, especially during the COVID- 19 pandemic, as well as industry perspectives on shifts in consumption practices. It assesses buying behaviour and trends, demographic classifications, operational practices and the integration of technology in marketing and strategy. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series, this book will be useful to practicing managers, researchers and students who are interested in marketing, business studies, management studies, innovation and business strategy and communications.

This book provides guidelines for the pragmatic integration of new marketing tools and business strategies for managers, researchers and students to implement innovative strategies in various industries. Practical and actionable guidance is key to achieving high standards of strategic marketing across different organizations. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the application of diverse tools and strategic practices in the finance, e- commerce, fashion, entertainment and tourism industries, among others. It provides deep insights into consumer behaviour through extensive research and analysis in different sectors of business, especially during the COVID- 19 pandemic, as well as industry perspectives on shifts in consumption practices. It assesses buying behaviour and trends, demographic classifications, operational practices and the integration of technology in marketing and strategy. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series, this book will be useful to practicing managers, researchers and students who are interested in marketing, business studies, management studies, innovation and business strategy and communications.

It would be difficult to find a CEO today that would not rank "innovation" as one of the top means by which a firm can sustain growth and survive a harsh competitive environment. However, it is unlikely that many CEOs would place "Marketing" as one of the top functions in charge of formulating innovation strategy or ensuring the success of an innovation initiative. Marketing and Innovation Management discusses why marketing has been perceived as being less relevant for innovation strategy and explains how this can be remedied. Recent work by marketing scholars holds the promise of an increased marketing impact on innovation decision-making. Marketing and Innovation Management reviews the role marketing plays at the early phases of innovation management when decisions are being made on new products and services. Marketing's role in innovation management can be reinforced by shifting marketing input to innovation and by moving the focus away from quantifying consumer input through surveys and toward uncovering qualitative insights by engaging and observing consumers. This monograph addresses the topic of understanding customer adoption and the diffusion of innovations. The authors review recent developments and demonstrate how marketing concepts and frameworks fit with and enrich those proposed in other disciplines. Finally, Marketing and Innovation Management examines the launch of innovation into the marketplace and how recent trends are changing how marketers approach this critical task. Marketing and Innovation Management provides an understanding of what marketing can bring to the table when it comes to setting innovation strategy and proposes a way to approach research in this domain so that it has the intended effect of helping firms integrate the customer perspective.

The majority of existing innovation textbooks either discuss innovation in an all to general way or lean towards a general management or technology perspective. This book combines the fields of marketing and innovation management, acknowledging that marketing plays an important and proactive role in radical product, brand and market innovaton processes. Structured around two key themes – 'Knowledge, Processes and Capabilities for Market Creation' and 'Co-Creation of Meaningful Experiences with Customers', this book fills an important gap in the market.

In The 24-Hour Customer, Adrian C. Ott—the CEO and founder of a top Silicon Valley–based consulting firm—challenges businesses to re-conceive their approaches to time and technology in order to win an unprecedented share of their customers’ attention and loyalty. Filled with powerful and provocative ideas, The 24-Hour Customer is an indispensible handbook for any company competing for business in today’s around-the-clock economy.

Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices provides a foundation in the principles of innovation and introduces some cutting-edge concepts. The core of the book demonstrates how to generate, evaluate, and design ideas to solve business problems. Over the course of eight chapters, the anthology delivers insightful articles carefully selected from leading authors such as Clayton Christensen, Robert Cooper, Ram Charan, and Vijay Govindarajan, as well as award-winning case studies on how prominent businesses, including Apple and Google, have leveraged innovation. Readers explore insightful articles about driving business growth through innovation, creating a culture of innovation, identifying customer needs, and using innovation to solve customer problems. Additional readings examine idea evaluation, how to design new products and services to meet customer's needs, and the implementation of innovation processes and practices. Business Creativity and Innovation is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in business innovation, product development, strategic management, business leadership, entrepreneurship, design thinking, marketing strategy, and decision making. The book can also serve as an enlightening manual for businesses and corporations, as it provides a framework for managing the innovation process from which organizations of any size can benefit. A former business innovation executive for Fortune 100 companies like AT&T and Bank of America, Len Ferman earned his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, M.A. in economics from Duke University, and B.S. in economics from Lehigh University. He is an adjunct professor of management at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses he developed on business innovation, and is a faculty member of the American Management Association. He is the founder and managing director of Ferman Innovation and a frequent speaker on business innovation.