Communication Integrated Marketing Program

All about today's IMC--what it is, what it means to you, and how to use it to power your organization's growth and financial success! With his breakthrough book "Integrated Marketing Communications, Don Schultz first showed marketers how to integrate internal and external communication into a dynamic, value-adding asset. In "IMC--The Next Generation, Schultz teams with Heidi Schultz to offer updated insights on today's newly powerful business and communication model using the IMC approach. Let it show you how to focus on identifying the right customers, determining their value, investing in them with communication programs, and then measuring the impact of and returns on those communication activities. Praise for "IMC--The Next Generation "Having pioneered the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC), Don and Heidi Schultz now show all of the strategic and tactical steps that will make the 'new marketing' work for you. I will gladly recommend this book to CMOs and CEOs who want to win using a combination of strong brand building and direct-to-customer marketing." --Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and author of "Marketing Management "Don and Heidi Schultz have placed IMC where it belongs--at the center of the organization as a core business strategy to drive long-term shareholder value. The book is fundamental in scope, detailed in its analysis, and far-reaching in its implications." --Shekar Swamy, President, R K SWAMY/BBDO Advertising Ltd. "A marketing book that every senior executive has to read. Don and Heidi have the ability to communicate IMC principles with compellingsimplicity, using practical examples to support well-thought theories.

A comprehensive new framework for winning at M&A--from up-front planning to postmerger integration The challenges of mergers and acquisitions can be daunting--but the opportunities and benefits they offer forward-thinking companies can be tremendous. Winning at Mergers and Acquisitions offers a critical new approach to strategic M&A based on the authors' pioneering concept of marketing due diligenceSM. Covering every stage of market-driven M&A planning and integration, this book shows how to look beyond the quick hit to focus on long-term growth rather than short-term cost-cutting. Featuring dozens of real-life case studies--including both failures and extraordinary successes--plus inside comments from leading M&A specialists, this book contains crucial guidance on: Predeal planning--how to identify your strategic needs and pinpoint the merger candidate(s) that will help you meet them Sizing up targets for acquisition--how to examine the essential marketing, sales, and product issues that will determine a good company "fit, ."strategically and culturally Revenue enhancement planning--how to identify ways to drive top-line growth and develop action plans to generate near- and long-term revenues Filling the pipeline--how to prioritize and actualize the critical steps necessary to drive shareholder value Developing communication programs--how to design and execute communication strategies to garner support for the merger by employees, customers, and other stakeholders Building a comprehensive postmerger integration plan--how to align diverse corporate cultures, develop training and reward programs, and move beyond the turf wars and lack of productivity thathamper the success of mergers and acquisitions. Last year more than 7,000 mergers and acquisitions were completed, with a collective price tag estimated at more than $800 billion.