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Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing: A Roadmap for Companies and Investors
by Denis Kilroy Marvin SchneiderThis book provides a roadmap for leaders of listed companies to follow in order to build enduring institutions that create value for customers and wealth for shareholders on an ongoing basis, in ways that also enhance the wellbeing of all other legitimate stakeholders - including the wider community and the environment. Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing is an inspirational work that confirms the very positive role that a more expansive, more inclusive and more conscious approach to business, can play within our society. It incorporates a breakthrough in understanding in applied corporate finance and business economics centred on the Bow Wave of Expected Economic Profits. This construct provides an economic underpinning for a new and more socially responsible business paradigm - demonstrating for the first time exactly how the performance produced by management in the market for their company's products and services, translates into the capital market outcomes experienced by shareholders.
Customer Value-centered Management: Understanding and Leveraging Value-to-Value, Pricing, Big Data, and Controlling (Future of Business and Finance)
by Andreas Krämer Thomas Burgartz Christina MuzzuThis book explores Customer Value-centered Management as a modern corporate approach, emphasizing its dual nature: data-driven yet comprehensive. Facing heightened time pressure and uncertainty, management grapples with decision-making challenges amidst VUCA conditions. While complexity rises, tools like big data and AI offer decision-making solutions. Customer centricity, epitomized by Amazon's success, emerges as pivotal, with customer value serving as the linchpin in relationship marketing. Authors advocate an integrated "value-to-value segmentation" approach, reconciling customer and company perspectives. They caution against simplistic interpretations of value-based pricing, stressing the need for holistic consideration of customer benefit, pricing, and costs.
Customer Visits for Entrepreneurs
by Frank V. CespedesProvides practical guidelines for conducting customer visits to explore and validate demand for an entrepreneurial offering. Reviews conditions under which visits will yield superior insights, compared to other research methods. Describes criteria for selecting visit sites; how to plan for visits; how to conduct them most effectively; and how to debrief after visits. The note is therefore relevant to MBA, Executive Education, Field Study, or project contexts where the focus is startups, entrepreneurial management, new product development, business development, or innovation.
Customer Visits: Building a Better Market Focus
by Edward F. McQuarrieVisits to customers by a cross-functional team of marketers and engineers play an important role in new product development, entry into new markets, and in exploring customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The new edition of this widely used professional resource provides step-by-step instructions for making effective use of this market research technique.Using a wealth of specific examples, Edward F. McQuarrie explains how to set feasible objectives and how to select the right number of the right kind of customers to visit. One of the leading experts in the field, McQuarrie demonstrates how to construct a discussion guide and how to devise good questions, and offers practical advice on how to conduct face-to-face interviews.Extensively updated throughout, this third edition includes three new chapters as well as expanded coverage of the analysis of visit data. It also discusses which industries and product categories are most (and least) suitable to the customer visit technique. The author also covers how the customer visit technique compares to other market research techniques such as focus groups.
Customer and Business Analytics: Applied Data Mining for Business Decision Making Using R
by Daniel S. Putler Robert E. KriderCustomer and Business Analytics: Applied Data Mining for Business Decision Making Using R explains and demonstrates, via the accompanying open-source software, how advanced analytical tools can address various business problems. It also gives insight into some of the challenges faced when deploying these tools. Extensively classroom-tested, the tex
Customer in the Boardroom?
by Rama BijapurkarIs the Customer In Your Boardroom? The business strategies of most companies in India are marked by the supply-sided, tunnel vision of the market and obsessively competitor-centred approaches. Customer in the Boardroom? highlights the need for companies to embed customer centricity into the heart of their business strategy development process, if they are to continue to grow profitably and secure their future. Rama Bijapurkar presents a compelling treatise on how to develop business strategy around the world of customers rather than the world of competitors. She draws a sharp distinction between the 'market = industry size' and the 'market = customers with needs' bases for developing business strategy. The book proposes Customer-Based Business Strategy (CBBS), a lucid and simple framework for the successful assimilation of customer-centricity in business strategy. The framework provides a blueprint for defining and choosing market segments, developing rivalry propositions, creating value delivery systems, reading markets and gaining customer insight, reading macro trends, strengthening strategy foundation analyses, removing organizational roadblocks and more. The book draws on the author's vast experience in consulting and teaching and places equal emphasis on both the theory and the practice of bringing the customer into the boardroom. The text is replete with anecdotes, examples and cases from India Inc. and is equally applicable to both B2B and B2C businesses. Written in the author's inimitable and accessible style, the text is an effortless and effectual read. Within these pages exists the roadmap for developing winning businesses strategy that enables businesses to beat competitors by providing value to the customer, in a way that competitors will find hard to imitate.
Customer's New Voice
by John S. MckeanFind out how to reap the benefits of motivating and engaging thenew, direct customer voice The Customer's New Voice shows businesses how to motivateand transform directly volunteered consumer knowledge intoprofitable insights, enabling a new echelon of marketing relevancy,customer experience, and personalization. With a deep look at theinner workings of how a modern generation of business innovatorsare tapping into the fresh opportunities with the customer's newvoice, this book describes how businesses are transforming"inference-based" predictions of purchase intent with directconsumer knowledge of their actual intentions and buying context.The result: An untouchable/unprecedented level of offer relevancy,experience, and personalized service levels.Those offers range from the most basic app model of "Give meyour physical location, we'll find the best Thai restaurant nearyou, and give you an instant coupon" to a more complex model suchas an Electric utility value proposition: "We'll give you discountsto charge your Prius during certain times to help us optimize ourgrid efficiency while allowing Toyota to monitor and optimize yourbattery to enable Toyota's R&D and customer experienceenhancement." Forty case studies detail proven approaches fordirectly engaging the new consumer, showing companies how to takeadvantage of rapidly evolving personal technology--smartphones, homes, vehicles, wearable technology, and Internet ofThings--and the new sharing culture to collect the highervalue "intentionally/ discretionarily" shared information. Readersgain access to a robust tool set including templates, checklists,tables, flow diagrams, process maps, and technical data schematicsto streamline these new capabilities and accelerate implementationof these transformational techniques.Ninety percent of the data that businesses use to determine whatthey sell or how to personalize a customer experience results fromconsumers unintentionally volunteering "indirect" data; however,this type of data has less than 10 percent accuracy. This loweffectiveness also necessitates up to 70 percent of a business'scost infrastructure. Direct consumer knowledge is now available andboasts up to 20-50 percent accuracy, yet businesses remain anchoredin the old "indirect" competencies. This book helps companiesintegrate compelling sharing motivators and controls for consumersto feel motivated and safe about directly sharing their product andexperience desires, providing the ultimate market advantage.Learn how to catch up to the new digitalized consumerLeverage direct consumer information from currentmegatrendsNavigate privacy's current and future metamorphosisUnlock the untapped value of Big Data's trueenabler--Little DataParsing "incidentally" volunteered data has been stagnant fordecades due to the capabilities and expectations of a newgeneration of enabled consumersThe timeless reality is that any level of investment incomputing power, data, and analytics will never approach their fullROI potential without interfusing the direct, intentional insightsfrom the consumer. If today's forward-thinking companies want toprofitably engage the new consumers, they must learn the secrets ofmotivating and safeguarding this new potential of customertransparency. The risks of not engaging these new consumer voices?Irrelevancy and Silence. The Customer's New Voice showsbusinesses how to fulfill the promise and caveat of the newconsumer: "If you make my life easier, reward me, and respect myshared information: I will tell you my secrets."
Customer-Centric Design: Based on QFD Principles (Best on Quality)
by David Menichelli Glenn H. MazurThis book presents a cutting-edge customer-centric design approach, equipping readers with specific tools to effectively analyze customer needs and develop top-tier designs while taking pricing and competition into account. The meticulously chosen tools, rigorously tested by the authors, are derived from Quality Function Deployment (QFD), a proven method with a 50-year track record of successful implementation across various industry sectors.Customer-Centric Design: Based on QFD Principles introduces a contemporary guide to the design principles of Blitz QFD®, a groundbreaking methodology developed by the QFD Institute over 25 years back. This book is crafted to optimize customer processes, leading to heightened success and increased business opportunities. By tackling customer concerns and concentrating on top-line revenue growth through the sale of high-value goods and services, the book offers a strategic approach to business development. Additionally, it focuses on the fundamentals of QFD prioritization, including the analytic hierarchy process, enabling more precise measurement of customer priorities and critical design decisions. Moreover, the book is compliant with the new ISO 16355 for QFD standard, ensuring that it aligns with the latest industry requirements. Relevant references will also be provided for further exploration. Product managers, engineers, and technologists will find this book particularly valuable, as it offers user-friendly methods and tools for validating marketing requirements and conducting market studies independently, as well as strategies to efficiently use these tools within tight time constraints.
Customer-Centric Innovation in Finance: Leveraging Human Insights to Drive Product Innovation in the Digital Age
by Dr Erin B Taylor Dr Anette BroløsThe competition landscape of finance is changing fast and it has never been so important for the finance industry to truly understand their customers.Customer-Centric Innovation in Finance helps finance and fintech innovators understand customers' behavioural motivations to drive effective product development. Relying on quantitative data is not enough: numbers can be great at telling us what people are doing but they often fail to explain why people do what they do. And if a service doesn't exist yet, there is no data to tell us how people use it. Human insights, behavioural science and qualitative data add immense value to product development. Readers will learn to innovate smarter by getting a firm understanding of why customers like their solutions and how they adapt them to suit their needs.The book presents real-life examples throughout of how customers are changing their behaviour in response to a fast-evolving financial landscape and provides practical advice on how to transform such insights into innovation. It explores how to produce customer insights for services that don't exist yet, for instance Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). It also provides descriptions of hands-on tools to build new insights and apply them to innovation and of methodologies such as portable kits, personas, digital ethnography, observations and interviews.
Customer-Centric Marketing
by Aldo CundariThe practical, expert guide to reaching the new consumer Customer-Centric Marketing is a comprehensive game plan on succeeding in the new marketing landscape by focusing on the customer. Written by one of Canada's top communications pioneers, this book examines the complex forces influencing the rise of empowered and demanding customers and outlines a framework that helps marketers exploit these forces to engage them. You'll find actionable advice to help you pull together these seemingly independent elements to create a customer-centric business model that is ideally positioned to take on the dynamic requirements of today's marketing environment, and learn the strategic rules that CMOs can use to model their organizations to win. Valuable insights on customer experience, innovation, content, social media, and operating strategies will help you formulate a workable plan, and when combined with the practical guidance and expert advice, enable you to put your plan into action today. The new purchasing journey has created a whole new set of customer touch points with unique needs, and has identified key activity areas that drive success or failure in the marketplace. This guide helps you sort it all out, and make your organization rise to the top. Define the new customer-purchasing journey Identify and influence the new consumer Engage, nurture, and utilize brand advocates to spread your message Position your organization to win in the new marketplace As customers evolve, smart companies evolve with them, and, with a track record that speaks for itself, putting the customer at the center of strategic thinking is the key to a winning plan,. Consumer evolution is happening more rapidly than ever before, and keeping your organization out in front has never been more important. Customer-Centric Marketing provides the concrete framework, expert insight, and actionable advice that turns strategy into reality.
Customer-Centric Marketing
by Jon James Neil Richardson Neil KelleyTwo of the major parallel challenges facing businesses today are how to adapt to the changes of fast-paced, fragmenting markets and how to grow a business whilst engaging in recognisably sustainable practices. It is not enough to just be sustainable, it is about communicating it and getting the customer involved in the message. Customer-Centric Marketing shows readers how sustainable development practices and digital marketing techniques work naturally together to add value, leading to improved customer satisfaction, better professional relationships and increased effectiveness.Ideal for senior marketing professionals and students on digital marketing or marketing strategy modules who wish to utilise the benefits of sustainable development and forms of digital marketing, this accessible and straight to-the-point book uses case studies to show how the marketing theories and tools work in actual business scenarios. Customer-Centric Marketing covers contemporary issues such as the increasing use of mobile, QR codes and social network sites for consumers interested in ethical, environmental and sustainable marketing.
Customer-Centric Marketing: A Pragmatic Framework
by R. Ravi Baohong SunState-of-the-art analytic and quantitative methods for using big data to craft effective real-time, dynamic customer-centric marketing plans.The revolution in big data has enabled a game-changing approach to marketing. The asynchronous and continuous collection of customer data carries rich signals about consumer preferences and consumption patterns. Use of this data can make marketing adaptive, dynamic, and responsive to changes in individual customer behavior. This book introduces state-of-the-art analytic and quantitative methods for customer-centric marketing (CCM). Rather than using a snapshot from the data to plot a single campaign-centric marketing plan, these methods draw on cutting-edge research in optimization and interactive marketing with the goal of maximizing long-term profit from data collected over time. The aim is to teach readers to apply optimization tools to derive analytical solutions leading to customized, dynamic, proactive, and real-time marketing decisions.The book develops the CCM framework and illustrates it with four cases that span the life cycle of marketing: pricing, win-back, cross-sales, and customer service allocation. The text walks the reader through real-world examples of applying the framework (supported by spreadsheet models available online), then explains the key concepts: modeling consumer choice; segmenting customers into latent classes based on sensitivity; computing customer lifetime value (CLV); and dynamic optimization. The reader then learns to incorporate the continuous learning of customer preference into an adaptive feedback loop for marketing decisions. The book can be used as a text for MBA students or as a professional reference.This book is based on joint research developed at Carnegie Mellon University when both authors were on the faculty at the Tepper School of Business.
Customer-Centric Project Management (Advances in Project Management)
by Elizabeth Harrin Phil PeplowThere has been a sea-change in the focus of organizations - whether private or public - away from a traditional product- or service-centricity towards customer-centricity and projects are just as much a part of that change. Projects must deliver value; projects must involve stakeholders, and Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow demonstrate convincingly that stakeholders are the ones who get to decide what ’value’ actually means. Customer-Centric Project Management is a short guide explaining what customer-centricity means in terms of how you work and its importance for project performance; using tools and processes to guide customer-centric thinking will help you see the results of engagement and demonstrate how things can improve, even on difficult projects. The text provides a straightforward implementation guide to moving your own business to a customer-centric way of working, using a model called Exceed and provides some guidance for ensuring that customer-centricity is sustainable and supported in the organization. This is a practical, rigorous and well-researched text. It draws on established models and uses the example of project implementation in a healthcare environment to demonstrate the impact of this significant way of thinking about value. The authors can’t guarantee that the Exceed process will radically improve project success rates, and no process can. Adopting a customer-centric mindset and using the Exceed process to measure and monitor customer satisfaction will, however, help you move towards working with happier, more engaged stakeholders.
Customer-Centricity in Organized Retailing: A Guide to the Basis of Winning Strategies
by Manoj Kumar Dash Jishnu Bhattacharyya Manash Kumar Sahu Shivam SakshiThis book provides a compendium of cutting-edge knowledge for an efficacious retailing strategy, with lessons from the organized retailing sector in India. It explores customer needs and their impact on developing successful retailing strategies and organized retailing in emerging economies with changing consumer behavior. It discusses the importance of developing appropriate retailing strategies in the context of an emerging economy, being agile and forward-thinking to implement a customer-centric approach across the retail value chain's upstream and downstream actions, and the requirement of clarity on the exact tools and techniques that will allow the retailers to move from their present product-centric state to the looked-for customer-centric state.This book aids the practitioners in developing and adopting a culture of customer-centricity and focuses on various retail strategy concepts and their implementation. It aims to present the multifaceted and multifarious questions of retail marketing in two studies, where each study provides a comprehensive solution.
Customer-Committed: How to Create Outstanding Customer Experiences and Strengthen Your Brand
by Mathias WeberThis book demonstrates why companies must establish and maintain a new – customer-committed – culture and how this transformation can be achieved. A unique customer experience has never been as critical to success as it is today. Many companies are therefore focusing on customer-oriented processes and the collection of valuable customer data. However, customers are more than just the sum of their data. Special brand experiences and genuine wow moments almost always arise from empathy, a personal touch, or the famous extra mile that employees go for their customers. Mathias Weber vividly illustrates how genuine customer commitment can be achieved in companies and provides the essential tools and measures, along with insights into concrete case studies.
Customer-Data-Plattformen: Grundlagen, Systeme, Implementierung und Prozesse
by Jonas Rashedi Lena MauerDieses Buch beantwortet grundlegende Fragen zu CDP, gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle CDPs und identifiziert deren Vorteile und Schwachstellen. Zudem setzt es sich mit unterschiedlichen Entwicklungen im Marketingumfeld auseinander, die starke Treiber für den Einsatz einer Customer-Data-Plattform (CDP) sind. Marketing-Entscheider sowie Verantwortliche aus den Bereichen Online-Marketing und E-Commerce erhalten Tipps, wie die passende CDP ausgewählt und implementiert werden kann. Zudem ist dieses Buch interessant für alle Entscheider, die sich damit beschäftigen, wie sie ihren Konsumenten ein besseres Kauferlebnis bieten können. Dabei geht Jonas Rashedi nicht nur auf die technischen Aspekte ein, sondern beleuchtet auch die organisationsbezogenen Voraussetzungen für die erfolgreiche Implementierung und Verwendung einer CDP. Praxisbeispiele veranschaulichen die Inhalte.This book offers an excellent introduction to the CDP category. I recommend it for anyone trying to understand what CDPs do, whether a CDP is right for their company, and how to select the right CDP.David M. Raab, Gründer und CEO des CDP Institutes
Customer-Dominant Logic: Customer-Dominant Management as a New Target in Relationship Marketing
by Manfred Bruhn Karsten Hadwich Maxim SaleschusThis book provides a structured overview of Customer-Dominant Logic and formulates fundamental principles that form the basis for a realignment of customer-oriented corporate management. Customer-Dominant Logic is an innovative marketing logic that consistently places the customer at the center of all business activities. This requires a fundamental shift in perspective, where the integration of the provider with the customer takes precedence over the integration of the customer with the provider. Based on the principles of Customer-Dominant Logic, the authors present their own and new systematic management approach. They introduce "Customer-Dominant Management," detailing all necessary phases of a management process. Customer-Dominant Management aims to realize both customer and company goals through the establishment of a partnership with value-creating offerings in the customer ecosystem.
Customer-Dominant Logic: Kundendominantes Management als neue Zielgröße im Relationship Marketing
by Manfred Bruhn Karsten Hadwich Maxim SaleschusDieses Buches liefert einen strukturierten Überblick über die Customer-Dominant Logic und formuliert fundamentale Prinzipien, die die Basis für eine Neuausrichtung der kundenorientierten Unternehmensführung bilden. Die Customer-Dominant Logic ist eine innovative Marketinglogik, die den Kunden konsequent in das Zentrum jeglicher Unternehmensaktivitäten rückt. Dies erfordert einen grundlegenden Perspektivenwechsel, bei dem nicht die Integration des Kunden beim Anbieter, sondern die Integration des Anbieters beim Kunden im Vordergrund steht.Basierend auf den Prinzipien der Customer-Dominant Logic liefern die Autoren einen eigenen und neuen systematischen Managementansatz. Sie stellen ein „Kundendominantes Management“ mit allen notwendigen Phasen eines Managementprozesses ausführlich vor. Das Kundendominante Management dient dazu, durch den Aufbau einer Partnerschaft mit wertstiftenden Angeboten im Kunden-Ecosystem Ziele des Kunden und des Unternehmens zu realisieren.
Customer-Driven Change: What Your Customers Know, Your Employees Think, Your Managers Overlook (Customer Driven Change Ser.)
by Bud TaylorAn accomplished change consultant offers valuable insight into using customer perspective to drive employee engagement and strategic innovation.In the world of business, theories of change always agree on two essential ingredients: committed leaders and engaged employees. Most would say that if you have these, you will have successful change—but how do you get them in the first place? And how do you maintain them through reorganization, new strategies, or necessary cutbacks?Change management expert Bud Taylor has a simple yet profoundly effective answer. In Customer Driven Change, he demonstrates the power of thinking about change from the customer’s point of view. By encouraging leaders and employees to adopt a cohesive perspective—that of your customers—you will create sustained commitment and engagement within your organization faster than with any other approach.
Customer-Driven Disruption: Five Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve
by Suman SarkarBusinesses worry about new technologies, but customers are the ultimate disruptors—Suman Sarkar offers bold strategies for making sure you understand your customers and keep up with their ever-changing needs.Disruption—the brutal roiling of markets, the decline of long-established brands and products, and the rise of new upstarts—drives business failure and success. Most people think technology causes disruption, but technology merely enables it. Changing customer needs cause disruptions, and too many businesses get caught unaware. Suman Sarkar offers proven strategies that will enable any business to stay radically close to its customers and address their evolving needs. He argues that businesses need to focus on existing customers first—research shows they're likely to spend more and are more profitable than new customers. Personalization is becoming important for the newer generations in both developed and developing markets, so Sarkar describes approaches to make them cost-effective. In our era of instant gratification, customers want what they want now—Sarkar explains how you can develop and deliver products and services faster than ever. And since a few bad Yelp reviews, social media posts, or angry tweets from customers can ruin you, Sarkar shows how to proactively make sure the quality of your products and services stays better than that of your competitors. The key to survival in this era of changing customer needs is to focus on and address them quickly so customers don't switch to the competition. Drawing on his experiences with leading companies worldwide, Sarkar offers five strategies and techniques that will keep you ahead of the curve.
Customer-Driven Supply Chains: From Glass Pipelines to Open Innovation Networks (Decision Engineering)
by Raúl Poler Andrew C. Lyons Adrian E. Coronado Mondragon Frank PillerIn recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors. Organisations dealing in dynamic business environments demand supply chains that support the satisfaction of customer needs. The principles of lean thinking that once permeated standalone organisations have now been transferred to the supply chain, making imperative the development of innovative approaches to supply chain management. Customer-driven Supply Chains: Strategies for Lean and Agile Supply Chain Design reviews the concept of lean thinking and its relationship to other key initiatives associated with supply chain management. Detailed industrial case studies based on the authors' experience illustrate the principles behind lean supply chains. Moreover, a series of diagrams are used to illustrate critical concepts and supply chain architectures. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of transferring lean principles from the organisational level to the supply chain level. The theory and principles behind lean supply chains are reviewed. Other concepts related to lean supply chains discussed in the book include: mass customisation, agility, information sharing and the bullwhip effect. A methodology used to measure the performance of supply chains is introduced; this methodology comprises the tools of decision timeline, data-flow diagramming, supply chain value stream mapping and a performance measurement scorecard. Readers will gain a clear picture of the competitive implications of lean supply chains. Customer-driven Supply Chains: Strategies for Lean and Agile Supply Chain Design will be a valuable resource of material to students studying supply chain/operations management as well as researchers in this field. Industry practitioners will learn how to develop sound supply chain strategies that can have a positive impact in their organisation.
Customer-Driven Transformation: How Being Design-led Helps Companies Get the Right Services to Market
by Joe Heapy Oliver King James SamperiService design is the activity of utilising resources and people to build and sustain services that not only meet customer needs, but can also add that little bit of magic or true competitive advantage. With an overcrowded market, there is little opportunity to break away from the pack and influence customer perceptions. Customer-Driven Transformation shows you how to use design thinking as a driver for organisational change translating your vision into compelling services that will delight customers. How did companies like Netflix, Airbnb or Uber revolutionize industries and win loyal followers? They started with them. By thinking about what customers need foremost, you can reinvent your value proposition and deliver services that just work. With this book, the authors show you how to instil an outside-in approach to strategy; moving away from management that's technology, marketing or resource optimization-led, to one that is customer-inspired and experimental with innovation. This book is a practical guide to leading a transformational programme within businesses using design thinking to change how services are created and ensuring everything is beautifully designed, elegant in use and brilliant in customer mindedness. With ground-breaking case studies featuring businesses like E-On Energy, Bupa, Dubai Airports, and Hyundai, Customer-Driven Transformation empowers companies to take control of customer experience and deliver long-lasting and impactful change. This is a cutting-edge book on one of the hottest management fields, and is inspiring content for any business leader who wants to understand how to reinvent their value proposition to gain market share and win customers.
Customer-Introduced Variability in Service Operations
by Frances X. FreiPresents a typology of customer-introduced variability and offers guidance on how to manage each type. Central to the ideas developed is how to mitigate the effects of the apparent trade-off between reducing variability and diminishing the service experience or accommodating variability and compromising operational efficiency.
Customer-Supplier Relationships in B2B: An Interaction Perspective on Actors in Business Networks
by Antonella La RoccaThis book explores customer-supplier relationships in B2B markets focusing on interaction between parties. Drawing on three fields of research – studies of relationships in marketing, social interactionism in sociology, and sense-making in social psychology – the author explores the concepts and roles of actors in business relationships and how the behaviour of actors within an interaction affects the development of those relationships.Based on a review of prior research and an original empirical study, the author argues that the presence of continuous close relationships between the customer and supplier organisations bestows features of a business network on B2B markets, with distinct interdependencies and ubiquitous interactions. Exploring buyer-seller interactions, the author contends that actors’ mutually perceived identities – continuously emergent and relationship-specific – are the main factor in the development of business relationships and discusses the implications for management practice and research.
Customers Are the Answer to Everything: How to Get and Keep All the Customers Your Business Wants
by Chris Williams Martha HanlonDo you dream of a bigger business, leaving your W-2 for your own thing or advancing your marketing or sales career? "Customers are the Answer to Everything" unravels the mystery of getting customers. This book explores and brilliantly illuminates the happy point where customers understand why they should choose you….over and over. Here are just a few discoveries in "Customers are the Answer to Everything": Find out what your customers really need but you may not be giving them. Discover how to talk to your customer &“on their level&”. Learn how your potential customers really make decisions to buy….or not. Uncover the formula for the customer who pays, stays and refers. "Customers are the Answer to Everything" is already changing the way businesses throughout the world think about and act to create new customers. Why not be next?