Strategic Marketing Management
· The management of the process of making
strategy and of making strategy happen.
· "a systematic approach to a major and increasingly
important responsibility of .. management:
to position and relate the firm to its
environment in a way which assures its success
and makes it secure from surprises"
Ansoff & McDonnell (1990).
· Underlying purpose: to maintain fit or alignment
between the organisation's activities and
its operating environment
· Staying in fit means managing the organisation
so as to stay aligned with changes in the
surrounding world.
Strategic marketing management’s primary focus
is that of ensuring that an organisation’s marketing
operations and activities align with its environment,
both external and internal.