Collaborative Customer Relationship Management Taking CRM to the Nex

Driven by rapidly changing business environments and increasingly demanding consumers, many organizations are searching for new ways to achieve and retain a competitive advantage via customer intimacy and CRM. In this context, new strategic frameworks and

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Alexander H. Kracklauer D. Quinn Mills ´ Dirk Seifert Editors

Collaborative Customer Relationship Management Taking CRM to the Next Level

With 99 Figures and 7 Tables

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Prof. Dr. Alexander H. Kracklauer Prof. D. Quinn Mills Prof. Dr. Dirk Seifert Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston, MA 02163 USA [email protected] and [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Preface of the Editors Driven by rapidly changing business environments and more demanding consumers, many organizations are searching for new ways to achieve and retain a competitive advantage via customer intimacy and customer relationship management. In this context, new strategic frameworks and cooperative efforts with all participants along the value chain are needed to allow managers to synchronize their efforts with changes in shopping patterns of consumers. This book presents a new strategic framework that has already been tested successfully at global companies through a large empirical study. New management concepts like CPFR (Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), CM (Category Management) and Mass Customization are integrated in one holistic approach to jointly develop customer bonding and loyalty. Experts from companies like McKinsey, Procter & Gamble, Accenture, A.C. Nielsen as well as authors from renowned academic institutions like Harvard Business School and Technical University Munich offer valuable insights on how to redesign organizations to meet future requirements of c