Customer Relationship Management: A Strategic Imperative in the World of e—Business

Maximize customer satisfaction and maximize your bottom line

Over the last decade, too many organizations have assumed that their products or services were so superior that customers would automatically keep coming back for more. But in order to compete effectively in today's marketplace, organizations must change their strategy to become more customer focused, not product focused. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the best way to integrate this customer-facing approach throughout an organization. Aimed at understanding and anticipating the needs of an organization's current and potential customers, this innovative book shows how CRM links people, process, and technology to optimize an enterprise's revenue and profits by first providing maximum customer satisfaction.
* Covers developing a market-oriented strategy, innovation in products and services, sales and channels transformation, customer relationship marketing, and customer care

Stanley A. Brown (Toronto, Canada) is Partner in Charge of the Centre of Excellence in Customer Care at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto.

Stanley A. Brown is the Contributing Editor of Customer Relationship Management and a Partner in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He leads PricewaterhouseCoopers' International Centre of Excellence in Customer Care.

He is a frequent speaker on the topic of customer care, and writes regularly for newsletters and magazine around the globe. He is the author of five previous books: Strategic Customer Care: An Evolutionary Approach to Increasing Customer Value and Profitability (Wiley, 1999), Breakthrough Customer Service: Best Practices of Leaders in Customer Support (Wiley, 1997), What Customers Value Most: How to Achieve Business Transformation by Focusing on Processes That Touch Your Customers (Wiley, 1995), Total Quality Service, and Creating the Service Culture.