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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828030103321

Autore

Williams Tim <1954->

Titolo

Positioning for professionals : how professional knowledge firms can differentiate their way to success / / Tim Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2010

ISBN

9786612653995

9781119199939

111919993X

9781282653993

1282653997

9780470877517

0470877510

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Wiley advisor

Disciplina

658.8/27

Soggetti

Branding (Marketing)

Success in business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Positioning for Professionals: How Professional Knowledge Firms Can Differentiate Their Way to Success; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Size Is Not a Strategy; Chapter 2: How and Why Brands Become Homogenized; Chapter 3: The Mature Company's Identity Crisis; Chapter 4: Expanding Your Business By Narrowing Your Focus; Chapter 5: Positioning as the Centerpiece of Business Strategy; Chapter 6: Building Brand Boundaries; Chapter 7: Validating Your Value Proposition; Chapter 8: Without Execution, There Is No Strategy; Chapter 9: Getting Paid for Creating Value

Chapter 10: A New and Better Way to Price Professional ServicesAppendix A: The Before-and-After Survey; Appendix B: More Ways to Differentiate Your Brand; Appendix C: Indicators of the Firm's Success; Notes; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It's not the best companies that prevail in the marketplace, but rather the best brands. The goal of business strategy is not just to be better, but different. Learn how to build a differentiating value proposition by



clearly and carefully defining your brand boundaries: Calling, Competencies, Customers, and Culture.  Positioning for Professionals shows how a well-defined value proposition can help professional service firms create their own success instead of copying the success of others, including such concepts as: How and why professional service brands bec