Achieving Excellence in Stakeholder Management

Today, Stakeholder Management is a term commonly used to describe the policy towards all interest groups that have a stake in a company or an institution, but the crucial question is how this concept can be best applied to a company's context. In this boo

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Joachim Scharioth ´ Margit Huber (Editors)

Achieving Excellence in Stakeholder Management With 44 Figures

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Dr. Joachim Scharioth Dr. Margit Huber TNS Infratest Landsberger Straße 338 80687 München Germany [email protected] [email protected]

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Preface Since the 1980s, many businesses have made the question of the customer's needs their central topic of concern. However, customer satisfaction does not automatically imply customer loyalty, which is of central importance to profitability. Today it is generally known that satisfied customers are far from necessarily being loyal customers. A quarter of all customers worldwide are highly satisfied with their suppliers, but with every purchase the decision about which supplier to use is taken anew, due to the fact that many products and services are perceived as similar to others. This is where the use of an effective Stakeholder Management System is of great advantage. Stakeholder Management is a term commonly used to describe all interest groups having a stake in a company or an institution (i.e. customers, employees, shareholders). The crucial question is, how it can be best applied to a company's context. In this book companies using a Stakeholder Management tool give their first-hand account of how this tool enables them to successfully measure, monitor and manage their Stakeholders. The experience of these companies with Stakeholder Management tools highlights, how across different sectors and countries strong customer relationships, committed employees and succes