FROM MIND TO MARKET

    From Roger Blackwell,called the "guru of...how to do business in a global marketplace"by the New York Times,comes a revolutionary new book that turns the traditional retailing paradigm on its head,providing businesspeople looking to dominate the marketplace of the new millennium with the key to the future:demand-chain management.
"The traditional approach to retailing-beginning at the point of manufacture and ending with the sale to the consumer-is gravely out of date and simply unrealistic,"explains Blackwell,one of the foremost authorities on con-explains Blackwell,one of the foremost authorities on con-sumer behavior and retailing worldwide."In an ultracom-petitive marketplace,manufacturers can no longer dictate what consumers will buy.The savvy consumer is more edu-cated than ever as to what he or she wants and where to get it at the best price.Using this information to develop the products consumers are looking for is demand-chain man-agement."
In From Mind to Market,Blackwell shows how and why reinventing the retail supply chain can make or break a company's profitability in the new economy.When com-panies like Wal-Mart,Kinko's,and Service Corp.Interna-tional adopted active,consumer-driven marketing strategies in place of traditionally passive supplier/consumer relation-ships,they not only became more profitable-they became market leaders as well.From Mind to Market leader and how any com-pany,large or small,can beat its competition by employing visionary leadership strategies.In addition,From Mind to Market glimpses how.

作者简介：
ROGER D.BLACKWELL is a professor of marketing at the Ohio State Universith and president of Blackwell Associates,Inc.,a con-sulting firm through which he has worked with many of America's most successful companies.

Roger D. Blackwell, a professor at Ohio State University, has appeared on CBS This Morning and is often cited in Business Week, USA Today, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Columbus, OH.

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
ONE
Consumer-Driven Demand Chains
TWO
Meeting the Needs of Today's Consumers
THREE
Demographic Trends:A Road Map to the Future
FOUR
Changing Consumer Lifestyles
FIVE
Ffueling Demand Chains with Knowledge
SIX
Shifting Functions Among Supply-Chain Players
SEVEN
Speed to Market
EIGHT
Strategies of Winning Retailers
NINE
The Final Link of the Demand Chain
Index