Driving Customer Equity : How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy: Roland Rust, Valarie Zeithaml, Katherine Lemon

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Serban Teodoresco VP Operations, DiverseyLever Consulting, Unilever Group An insightful and powerful new model for establishing clear strategic priorities. Faced with fast wealth migration in their industry and customers with more options than ever, companies will need such models if they want to remain [...]

1,001 Ways to Keep Customers Coming Back: WOW Ideas That Make Customers Happy and Will Increase Your Bottom Line: Donna Greiner, Theodore B. Kinni

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1,001 Ways is chock full of smart, savvy advice for marketers — online and off. What sets the book apart from so many business books written today is that it is clearly written — no jargon — and based on common sense — no complicated [...]

Many Unhappy Returns: One Man’s Quest To Turn Around The Most Unpopular Organization In America (Leadership for the Common Good): Charles O. Rossotti

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A successful businessman but political neophyte, Rossotti was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997; this book is a matter-of-fact recounting of his five-year tenure, which included many of President Bush’s changes to the code. An entertaining insider’s account, it reads like the [...]

Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run: Sunil Gupta, Donald Lehmann

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What’s a customer really worth? Can you find out, without endlesslycomplex modeling? And once you know, what should you do with thatknowledge? Managing Your Customers as Investments has the answers.You’ll learn simple ways to get reliable customer value information–ina form you can use. You’ll discover how to use it to measure marketingeffectiveness, [...]

Value Creation: Strategies for the Chemical Industry: Florian Budde, Utz-Hellmuth Felcht, Heiner Frankemölle

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“This reviewer would have been very glad to have had a book such as this, about value creation in the chemical industry, at the start of his industrial career! In this book, which contains 33 chapters written by over 50 authors, the three editors have succeeded [...]

Competing in a Service Economy: How to Create a Competitive Advantage Through Service Development and Innovation: Michael D. Johnson, Anders Gustafsson

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“…a very useful book…” (Managing Service Quality, June 2004)
a very useful book (Managing Service Quality, June 2004)
Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenience [...]

Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Profit : An Integrated Measurement and Management System: Michael D. Johnson, Anders Gustafsson

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A Book in the University of Michigan Business School Series It’s a simple equation: no customers equals no profits. So how can a company ensure that its customers enjoy a consistently satisfying experience? In this book, two experts from the University of Michigan Business School lay out a five-stage process that links [...]

Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run: Sunil Gupta, Donald Lehmann

Editorial Reviews
What’s a customer really worth? Can you find out, without endlesslycomplex modeling? And once you know, what should you do with thatknowledge? Managing Your Customers as Investments has the answers.You’ll learn simple ways to get reliable customer value information–ina form you can use. You’ll discover how to use it to measure marketingeffectiveness, [...]

Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Profit : An Integrated Measurement and Management System: Michael D. Johnson, Anders Gustafsson

Editorial Reviews
A Book in the University of Michigan Business School Series It’s a simple equation: no customers equals no profits. So how can a company ensure that its customers enjoy a consistently satisfying experience? In this book, two experts from the University of Michigan Business School lay out a five-stage process that links [...]

Building the Customer Specific Retail Enterprise: Gary Hawkins

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Chuck McNett, Director of Marketing, Niemann Foods
“Gary Hawkins’ book is outstanding! It delivers powerful insight into the measuring and managing of one’s customer base. This book gives us a road map to organize our future around customers rather than product. Gary is truly [...]