The Market Segmentation Workbook: Target Marketing for Marketing Managers

This workbook explains the key aims behind the segmentation process and shows how to build up a strategy for identifying and targeting segments effectively.

Table of Contents:
SECTION I: SCENE SETTING - MARKET SEGMENTATION PROCESS. 1. Introduction. 2. The Segmentation Process. SECTION II: CORE ANALYSES. Analyses 1 - Existing Segments/Sectors. Analyses 2 - Market Trends and The Marketing Environment. Analyses 3 - SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Analyses 4 - Customer Needs, Expectations and Buying Processes. Analyses 5 - Competition I - Competitive Stances and Strategies. Analyses 6 - Competition II - Basis for Competing and Brand Positioning. Analyses 7 - The Strength of the Portfolio - Future Directions. SECTION III: STRATEGY. 1. Strategy Recommendations. SECTION IV: PROGRAMMES FOR IMPLEMENTATION. 1. Marketing Programmes. 2. Resources, Schedules, Responsibilities, Implications and On-Going Requirements.

About the Author :
Lyndon Simkin is a Reader at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, U.K. He received his Ph.D. from Bradford University. His research interests are business planning, target market prioritisation, marketing planning, implementation of effective marketing programmes, promotions management and retail marketing. He is the author of other marketing texts and his long-term consulting clients include Calor, Fujitsu, JCB, Raytheon, Royal & Sun Alliance and many retailers. Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing at the Open University Business School. The Open University is the largest university in the UK, teaching over 200,000 people every year, and the UK's only university dedicated to distance learning. Before joining the Open University (in September 2005) Sally was a Reader in Marketing and Strategic Management at Warwick Business School (one of the U.K.'s leading three business schools), University of Warwick, U.K. She holds research degrees from the University of Manchester, UK and Warwick University: her Ph.D. examined consumer modelling. She has published widely in U.S. and European marketing journals on the marketing of services, marketing planning, market segmentation and corporate identity, as well as textbooks and practitioner-oriented workbooks on these themes. Sally chairs the U.K. Academy of Marketing's Special Interest Group on market segmentation and until recently, she was Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Warwick Business School. Her consulting clients include a range of companies such as JCB, ICI, Fujitsu, Midland Electricity, Diageo and AstraZeneca.

Review :
PART 1: SCENE SETTING: MARKET SEGMENTATION PROCESS 1. Introduction 2. The Segmentation Process PART 2: CORE ANALYSES Analyses 1 - Existing Segments/Sectors Analyses 2 - Market Trends and The Marketing Environment Analyses 3 - SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Analyses 4 - Customer Needs, Expectations and Buying Processes Analyses 5 - Competition I - Competitive Stances and Strategies Analyses 6 - Competition II - Basis for Competing and Brand Positionings Analyses 7 - The Strength of the Portfolio - Future Directions PART 3: STRATEGY 1. Strategy Recommendations PART 4: PROGRAMMES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Marketing Programmes 2. Resources, Schedules, Responsibilities, Implications and On-Going Requirements