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Managing customer relationships : a strategic framework

In today's competitive marketplace, customer relationship management is critical to a company's profitability and long-term success. To become more customer focused, skilled managers, IT professionals and marketing executives must understand how to build profitable relationships with each customer and to make managerial decisions every day designed to increase the value of a company by making managerial decisions that will grow the value of the customer base. The goal is to build long-term relationships with customers and generate increased customer loyalty and higher margins. In Managing Cust
eBook, English, ©2004
John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J., ©2004
1 online resource (xi, 516 pages) : illustrations
9780471656418, 9780471485902, 0471656410, 047148590X
55693785
Part 1. Principles of managing customer relationships. Evolution of relationships with customers; Thinking behind customer relationships
Part 2. "IDIC" implementation process: a model for managing customer relationships. Customer relationships: basic building blocks of IDIC and trust; Identifying customers; Differentiating customers: some customers are worth more than others; Differentiating customers by their needs; Interacting with customers: customer collaboration strategy; Using the tools of interactivity to build learning relationships; Privacy and customer feedback; Using mass customization to build learning relationships
Part 3. Measuring and managing to build customer value. Measuring the success of customer-based initiatives; Customer analytics and the customer-strategy enterprise; Organizing and managing the profitable customer-strategy enterprise; Delivery channel issues of the enterprise focused on building customer value; Store of the future and the evolution of retailing
Appendix: Where do we go from here?