Elsevier LTD, Oxford Strategic Integrated Marketing

This is a comprehensive textbook dealing with all aspects of integrated marketing communication, but from a strategic rather than descriptive perspective. It will not be a survey of the various aspects of IMC. It is written at a level suitable for intermediate undergraduates through graduate courses. The text takes the position that IMC is a way of planning marketing communication in order to utilize those communication options most likely to maximize the likelihood of effectively communicating with the desired target audience; not simply the utilization of multiple communication options in a campaign.As a result, the book will provide the reader with an overview of the role ICM plays in contributing to healthy brands and a companys reputation, then the understanding needed for developing and delivering an effective ICM programme that fulfills the objective. This means the book itself will be an integrated whole, not a series of independent chapters. The text will first introduce the concept of IMC and what it can accomplish, then lead the reader through the thinking that is necessary to understand the issues involved with IMC strategic planning, how to develop effective executions within an IMC programme, and then how to optimize delivery to the appropriate target audience.The book is estimated to be approximately 300-325 pages in length, and will be international in scope, utilizing examples from around the globe.