Paul Wiefels

The Chasm Companion

A Field Guide to Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Chasm Group is one of the world's leading high-tech consulting practices, headed by best selling author, Geoffrey Moore, whose books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado are required reading for anyone venturing into the high-tech industry.
Now Moore's partner, Paul Wiefels, analyses and clarifies the ideas covered in these bestsellers with a step-by-step field guide organized around three major concepts:
_ How high-tech market develop
_ How to specify a winning market development strategy
_ How to plan go-to-market programmes at different points in the life cycle.
Wiefels' back-to-basics approach presents a series of models, tools and frameworks that management teams can adapt to increase market share and create a sustainable platform for increasing shareholder value. The Chasm Companion reveals formulas drawn from real life that can be - and are being - used to stay on top in any economic climate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 174mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781841124681
• ISBN-10: 1841124680
• Artikelnr.: 11148450

Autorenporträt

PAUL WIEFELS is a founding partner and managing director of The Chasm Group plc a strategy consulting firm serving technology-based companies and organisations around the world. He has worked in the high-tech industry for 20 years and speaks frequently to high-tech industry organisations. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: How High-Tech Markets Develop. Back to Basics. The Basis for
Strategy Decisions. The Early Market. The Chasm. The Bowling Alley. The
Tornado. Main Street. Part 2: Developing a Strategy. Finding Your Place on
the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Assessing the Sources and Impact of
Discontinuity. Building a Market Development Strategy. Market Development
Strategy Research: Market Creation Variables. Market Development Strategy
Research: Market Attractiveness Variables. Market Development Strategy
Research: Market Penetration Variables. Part 3: Taking the Market
Development Strategy to Market. Strategy Validation. Whole Product
Management. Marketing Communications Planning. Field Engagement Strategy.
Epilogue: Using This Book. Appendix. Worksheets.