Download or read book The Marketing Director's Role in Business Planning and Corporate Governance written by Gerald Michaluk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance is a hot topic, as is the need for marketing to operate at board level. But no-one has yet brought the two issues together. This book changes that. Gerald MichIaluk builds on the latest research to help marketing directors incorporate marketing systems and best practice into a board’s decision-making process. Michaluk outlines marketing’s key role in alerting the board to market conditions that merit adjustment of the corporate strategy, thus ensuring that strategy is based on sound intelligence and grounded in market reality. The book is illustrated with examples from a host of top companies, as well as interviews with their CEOs and CMOs.