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Marketing

Today's decision makers in marketing face major complexity. Marketing has to answer a series of questions. The core question that marketing has to answer remains: What does marketing contribute to the success of the company? How can this contribution be quantified? The Roland Berger approach to Marketing sets out to show the P & L impact.

In brief

Our Marketing concept addresses key questions of strategic management on relevant levels. Together with our clients, we provide solutions on strategy, structure and tool level.
All marketing activities are ultimately reflected in the profit & loss statement. Marketing first of all causes major cost. Impact is notoriously hard to quantify and prove. Therefore, impact there drives our approach. The guiding principle is the assessment of impact of all marketing activities on the profit & loss statement of the company.

 
Marketing that creates impact – Customer oriented Effectiveness and Efficiency
 

We assess the effectiveness of the marketing activities – Do they deliver the desired increase in sales or positioning?

We assess the efficiency of the marketing activities – Are the activities run at reasonable cost and with reasonable resources?

We offer a series of proven successful methodologies and tools to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Nevertheless, the starting point is a list of questions to identify the real challenges. Our upcoming Marketing Quick Check tool helps identifying hot topics and defining the way forward. Are you raising the right questions?

Our experts

Kai Howaldt
Kai Howaldt

Partner and Head of Marketing & Sales

Munich office, Germany
phone: +49 89 9230-8219
e-mail

 
Wim van Acker

Partner

Detroit office, USA
phone: +1 248 729-5000
e-mail

 
Antonio Benecchi

Partner

Detroit office, USA
phone: +1 248 729-5000
e-mail

 
Denis Depoux

Partner

Paris office, France
phone: +33 1 53670-903
e-mail

 
Pierre-Olivier Desmurs

Principal

Paris office, France
phone: +33 1 70 39 4-102
e-mail

 
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Christian Gieselmann

Principal

Milan office, Italy
phone: +39 02 29501-213
e-mail

 
Juan Antonio Gil

Partner

Madrid office, Spain
phone: +34 91 5647361
e-mail

 
Takayuki Kito

Partner

Tokyo office, Japan
phone: +81 3 358 76-660
e-mail

 
Lars Luck

Principal

Munich office, Germany
phone: +49 89 9230-8605
e-mail

 
Koichi Mizutome

Partner

Tokyo office, Japan
phone: +81 3 35876-660
e-mail

 
Jochem Moerkerken

Principal

Amsterdam office, Netherlands
phone: +31 20 7960-661
e-mail

 
Alexander Mogg

Partner

Munich office, Germany
phone: +49 89 9230-8310
e-mail

 
Tobias Schönberg
Tobias Schönberg

Principal

Berlin office, Germany
phone: +49 30 39927 3316
e-mail

 
Frederic Tiberghien

Partner

Brussels office, Belgium
phone: +32 2 66103-43
e-mail

 
Qi Wu
Qi Wu

Partner

Beijing office, China
phone: +86 10 84400088-608
e-mail

 

Further reading

Brand loyalty on the wane

Study, 2008

Drastic changes are occurring in consumer behavior. Today's shoppers are extremely sensitive to price, while brand names are increasingly leaving them cold. Manufacturers of well-known brands risk losing growing swathes of customers unless they fast improve their brand marketing and price communication …  >>

 
Eliten-Marketing

Book by Torsten Oltmanns, Christiane Diekmann and Vera Böhm (in German), 2008

Written by a team of Roland Berger experts, with contributions from leaders in the communications field, the authors examine how to conduct successful business-to-business information exchanges (B2B) …  >>

 
Use the PRICING PILOT to scope out your pricing options

Marketing & Sales Competence Center, 2007

Finding the optimal price is no easy feat, especially in light of a saturated market, increasing price awareness and intense competition. Established price management systems are no longer enough, making optimization even more challenging …  >>

 
Dr. Andreas Kricsfalussy, "Changing values"

Dr. Andreas Kricsfalussy, Speech given at Deutscher Marketing-Tag, 2007

In the past, traditional socio-demographic data and purchase behavior patterns allowed companies to make sound judgments about consumers’ values and desires …  >>

 
Executive review

Article in Executive Review (in German), 2005

Large companies who want to grow further in mature markets can't do so without professional key account management. Any company can launch initiatives to investigate potential at no great expense by using a system developed by Roland Berger. Once goals are clearly defined, then relationships to key clients can be expanded. The results are quite promising …  (PDF, 751 KB)

 
Executive review

Article in Executive Review (in German), 2004

Your new product has been shown at the trade show. The marketing materials are all present and correct. The road show is over. The only problem is: Your sales engineers don't seem particularly excited – and nor do your customers. Orders are trickling in but are well off target. So what is going wrong …  (PDF, 605 KB)