Strategic customer management [electronic resource] : strategizing the sales organization / Nigel F. Piercy and Nikala Lane.

ISBN:

9780191567643

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Author:

Piercy, Nigel.

Personal Author:

Piercy, Nigel.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

List of Figures and Table; About the Authors; What the Experts Say About Strategic Customer Management; Part I: Making the Case; 1. Introduction: Is Sales the New Marketing?; Part II: Making the Sales Organization Strategic; 2. Involvement: Putting Sales Back into Strategy; 3. Intelligence: You Are What You Know; 4. Integration: Getting Your Act Together Around Customer Value; 5. Internal Marketing: Selling the Customer to the Company; 6. Infrastructure: Aligning Sales Process and Structure with Business Strategy; Part III: Meeting Broader Challenges Yet.

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Subject Term:

Customer relations -- Management.

Customer services.

Added Author:

Lane, Nikala.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

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Summary

A revolution is taking place in the way companies organize and manage the 'front-end' of their organization, where it meets its customers.Traditional concepts of sales management, account management, and customer service are being overtaken by initiatives like customer business development, the strategic sales organization, and strategic customer management. This book aims to provide insights into how this revolution is unfolding and to provide a framework for executives and management students to address the issues involved. The book focuses on the transformation of the traditional sales organization into a strategic forceleading the strategic customer management process in companies.Traditionally, the area of sales management has mainly been treated as a tactical, operational topic in the conventional marketing literature - simply part of the communications mix within the planned marketing programme. However, the emergence of major customers as dominant buyers in many sectors as a result of pressures towards consolidation and enhanced scale of operations, is changing the way in which sales issues are addressed in supplier organizations. The growth of new forms ofbuyer-seller relationship based on collaboration and partnering has encouraged organizations to reconsider the sales and account management operation as an important source of competitive differentiation in commoditized markets. Increasingly, sales is being perceived as a central part of business strategy andattention given to the challenges in better aligning sales processes with strategy. This has many implications for the design of the sales organization and its management strategy, which go far beyond the confines of conventional marketing views.

Author Notes

Nigel F Piercy BA, MA, PhD, DLitt, FCIM is one of the best-known business school academics in marketing and strategy in the UK. He is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Warwick Business School. He was previously professor of strategic marketing at Cranfield School of Management, where he was head of the marketing group. His research interests are in strategic marketing, most recently emphasizing the sales/marketing interface and the impact of strategic customerson buyer-seller relationships. Nigel has published twenty books and written around 300 articles and papers appearing in the management literature throughout the world.Nikala Lane is Associate Professor of Marketing at Warwick Business School.