CRM remains the biggest revolution yet in marketing, the power of new technology having swept it to the forefront of management thinking. Although based on apparently simple ideas, involving keeping in touch and responding to customer contacts, many companies still shy away from the daunting task of building a relationship with thousands or even millions of people. Up Close & Personal? provides practical new insights into effective customer relationship marketing. The book explores in depth a variety of issues including *strategies, policies and plans; *measuring the impact; *segmentation; *the implementation programme; *customer loyalty and continuity; *transparent marketing, customer value and process management; *customer knowledge management; *technical systems and data management; *managing good and bad customers; and *establishing ROI and satisfying the board. Based on worldwide research into CRM supported by IBM, Up Close & Personal? brings together the work of four leading experts in the field: Gamble, Stone, Woodcock and Foss.
Paul R Gamble is the Professor of European Management at the University of Surrey, UK. He is also Director of the Surrey European Management School (SEMS) the University's graduate business school. During his 25-year marketing career, he has written over 150 papers and published several books. In recent years, he has worked on several major relationship marketing projects for leading corporations in Europe and the USA.
Professor Merlin Stone is one of the UK's top specialists in changing organisational capability to meet the needs of customers and stakeholders. His experience covers many sectors, and he also trains, coaches and mentors senior managers. He is Research Director and Director responsible for the Customer, Citizen and Stakeholder Management Practice at WCL, specialists in change management and customer/stakeholder management.
Merlin Stone is author or co-author of many articles and thirty books on transforming marketing, sales and customer service capabilities, including Customer Relationship Marketing, Consumer Insight, Marketing Revolution and Business Solutions on Demand. The UK's Chartered Institute of Marketing listed him in 2003 as one of the world's top 50 marketing thinkers, while NOP World nominated him in 2004 as one of 100 most influential individuals for their input and influence on the development and growth of e-commerce and the internet in the UK over the previous 10 years. He is an Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an Honorary Life Fellow of the UK's Institute of Direct Marketing. He is also on the editorial advisory boards of several academic journals and writes for several trade publications.
Merlin Stone has a first class honours degree and doctorate in economics from Sussex University, UK. In parallel to his business career, he has also pursued a full academic career. He has held senior academic posts at various universities. He is now a part-time professor at Bristol Business School and a visiting professor at several others.
Neil Woodcock has worked on customer management projects with multi-national companies in Europe, the Far East, South Africa and the USA, specializing in the use of data to plan, implement and analyse strategies and activities. He has co-authored several books, including
Up Close and Personal? and
Customer Relationship Marketing (both Kogan Page) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Customer Relationship Management and the Journal of Database Marketing.
Bryan Foss is an independent non-executive director (NED), board level adviser, mentor and Visiting Professor. The majority of his work is in board governance and risk management (including operational, systems and data risks), also Business-to-Business marketing and sales, including international Key Account and partner management, SMB marketing and through-the-value-chain distribution management to employees and consumers. Bryan has a combination of commercial, regulatory, academic and professional roles, he is also an active board mentor for a very wide variety of organisations and individuals.
