Publisher's Synopsis
"Wouldn't it be great if you had a tool for accurately predicting businesses' future successes or failures and winners or losers based on something other than historical facts and figures about those businesses? . . . Written by a leading business school professor, this book presents business executives, investors, students, educators, and others with that tool! "Market Segmentation" is the division of businesses' potential customers into groups based on a wide range of characteristics, including demographics, income and education levels, interests, and more. And "Needs-Based Market Segmentation," as presented in this book, is an innovative form of market segmentation that allows accurate forecasts of businesses' future competitive performance (successes and failures, winners and losers) by measuring today's consumer and business needs. This book is the result of requests from students and business executives to have a document that sum