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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

B2B buyers go through similar stages but there are often more people involved in the purchase decision – Gartner (2020) offers a model with six stages (problem identification, solution exploration, requirements building, supplier selection, validation and consensus creation). A brand is a promise that it will deliver a set of attributes.

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20 Strategic Planning Models to Consider

ClearPoint Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy is a strategic planning model that emerged in a book by the same name in 2005. Porter’s Five Forces is an older strategy execution framework (created by Michael Porter in 1979) built around the forces that impact the profitability of an industry or a market. The bargaining power of suppliers.