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Marketing is a key business function to market and lead a business towards sustained profitable growth but the problem is it lacks a systems perspective in its operations, strategy, and practice. Further, given the confluence and systemic interactions of various economic, digital, and competitive forces; the challenge for different business functions\u2014including marketing\u2014increases tremendously. In this context, it is important for business enterprises to have a systems perspective to find their ways to growth that will be sustained. This calls for a holistic approach to assimilate and steer the business functions in any enterprise. The present conceptual paper focuses on an important business function for sustained growth in a holistic way and presents a systems model, called \u2018Value Based Business Approach (VBBA)-marketing\u2019, which has potential to guide and steer companies and business enterprises to create a path for their sustained profitable growth.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems5020041","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,1]],"date-time":"2017-06-01T10:36:36Z","timestamp":1496313396000},"page":"41","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A Systems Model to Make, Market, and Lead Your Way towards Sustained Growth"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3468-866X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raman","family":"Agrawalla","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bhubaneswar 751024, India"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Kotler, P. 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