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Book Customer Centric Marketing A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book Customer Centric Marketing A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the need? How do you accomplish your long range Customer-centric marketing goals? How will you insure seamless interoperability of Customer-centric marketing moving forward? How do you catch Customer-centric marketing definition inconsistencies? Risk events: what are the things that could go wrong? This astounding Customer Centric Marketing self-assessment will make you the assured Customer Centric Marketing domain leader by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Customer Centric Marketing challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Customer Centric Marketing work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Customer Centric Marketing task and that every Customer Centric Marketing outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Customer Centric Marketing costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Customer Centric Marketing advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Customer Centric Marketing essentials are covered, from every angle: the Customer Centric Marketing self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Customer Centric Marketing outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Customer Centric Marketing practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Customer Centric Marketing are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Customer Centric Marketing self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Customer Centric Marketing Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book Product Marketing  Simplified

Download or read book Product Marketing Simplified written by Srini Sekaran and published by Srini Sekaran. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to product marketing — from messaging to influencing the product roadmap. Learn how to launch products, deliver value to the right customer, and grow your business. Whether you're looking to become a product marketer, a product manager, or an entrepreneur, this is the handbook you need to learn how to deliver value and take a product to market the right way.

Book Customer Centric Design A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book Customer Centric Design A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customer Centric Design A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition.

Book Customer Centric A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book Customer Centric A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What security measures handle security at the boundary of the system? What is the quality of the data collected? Are employees truly committed to helping you achieve your desired identity? Who are new customer experience executives and why do other organizations appoint them? What would the customer-centric organization look like? This breakthrough Customer Centric self-assessment will make you the established Customer Centric domain adviser by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Customer Centric challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Customer Centric work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Customer Centric task and that every Customer Centric outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Customer Centric costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Customer Centric advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Customer Centric essentials are covered, from every angle: the Customer Centric self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Customer Centric outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Customer Centric practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Customer Centric are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Customer Centric self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Customer Centric Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book Customer Centric Marketing

Download or read book Customer Centric Marketing written by Aldo Cundari and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical, expert guide to reaching the new consumer Customer-Centric Marketing is a comprehensive game plan on succeeding in the new marketing landscape by focusing on the customer. Written by one of Canada's top communications pioneers, this book examines the complex forces influencing the rise of empowered and demanding customers and outlines a framework that helps marketers exploit these forces to engage them. You'll find actionable advice to help you pull together these seemingly independent elements to create a customer-centric business model that is ideally positioned to take on the dynamic requirements of today's marketing environment, and learn the strategic rules that CMOs can use to model their organizations to win. Valuable insights on customer experience, innovation, content, social media, and operating strategies will help you formulate a workable plan, and when combined with the practical guidance and expert advice, enable you to put your plan into action today. The new purchasing journey has created a whole new set of customer touch points with unique needs, and has identified key activity areas that drive success or failure in the marketplace. This guide helps you sort it all out, and make your organization rise to the top. Define the new customer-purchasing journey Identify and influence the new consumer Engage, nurture, and utilize brand advocates to spread your message Position your organization to win in the new marketplace As customers evolve, smart companies evolve with them, and, with a track record that speaks for itself, putting the customer at the center of strategic thinking is the key to a winning plan,. Consumer evolution is happening more rapidly than ever before, and keeping your organization out in front has never been more important. Customer-Centric Marketing provides the concrete framework, expert insight, and actionable advice that turns strategy into reality.

Book Customer Centric Design A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book Customer Centric Design A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the key characteristics to consider when designing a customer-centric sales & service organization? Why has it taken so long to find a solid approach to UX maturity that will not derail? Do different customer groups/segments behave differently? How is the sales organization organized? What is the normal behavior of people when interacting with your organization? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Customer Centric Design investments work better. This Customer Centric Design All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Customer Centric Design Self-Assessment. Featuring 958 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Customer Centric Design improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Customer Centric Design projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Customer Centric Design and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Customer Centric Design Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Customer Centric Design areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Customer Centric Design self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Customer Centric Design Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book Customer Centric A Complete Guide   2019 Edition

Download or read book Customer Centric A Complete Guide 2019 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why not do customer centric? Does customer centric create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered? Has the customer centric work been fairly and/or equitably divided and delegated among team members who are qualified and capable to perform the work? Has everyone contributed? How do you hand over customer centric context? Do you have past customer centric successes? This valuable Customer Centric self-assessment will make you the accepted Customer Centric domain authority by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Customer Centric challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Customer Centric work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Customer Centric task and that every Customer Centric outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Customer Centric costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Customer Centric advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Customer Centric essentials are covered, from every angle: the Customer Centric self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Customer Centric outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Customer Centric practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Customer Centric are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Customer Centric self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Customer Centric Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book Customer Centricity

Download or read book Customer Centricity written by Peter Fader and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all customers are created equal. Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right. Not all customers deserve your best efforts: in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers...and then there is pretty much everybody else. Upending some of our most fundamental beliefs, renowned behavioral data expert Peter Fader, Co-Director of The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, helps businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. He provides insights to help you revamp your performance metrics, product development, customer relationship management and organization in order to make sure you focus directly on the needs of your most valuable customers and increase profits for the long term.

Book The End of Marketing

Download or read book The End of Marketing written by Carlos Gil and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2020 - Marketing and Advertising category WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Business: Small Business and Entrepreneurship category WINNER: BookAuthority Best New Book to Read in 2020 - Social Media Marketing category FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - International Business Book category Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, always-on culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean. In an era where a YouTube star gets more daily impressions than Nike, Coca-Cola and Walmart combined, traditional marketing as we know it is dead. The End of Marketing revolutionizes the way brands, agencies and marketers should approach marketing. From how Donald Trump won the American presidency using social media and why Kim Kardashian is one of the world's biggest online brands, through to the impact of bots and automation, this book will teach you about new features and emerging platforms that will engage customers and employees. Discover bold content ideas, hear from some of the world's largest brands and content creators and find out how to build smarter paid-strategies, guaranteed to help you dominate your markets. The End of Marketing explains that no matter how easy it is to reach potential customers, the key relationship between brand and consumer still needs the human touch. Learn how to put 'social' back into social media and claim brand relevancy in a world where algorithms dominate, organic reach is dwindling and consumers don't want to be sold to, they want to be engaged.

Book Ignore Your Customers  and They ll Go Away

Download or read book Ignore Your Customers and They ll Go Away written by Micah Solomon and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to transforming your customer service, company culture, and customer experience, endorsed by all the top names in the field. Great customer service may be today's most essential competitive advantage. This book gives a step-by-step plan to craft a customer service culture and customer experience so powerful that they'll transform your organization and boost your company's bottom line. You'll enjoy inspirational and hilarious tales from the trenches as author Micah Solomon, one of the world's best-known customer service consultants and thought leaders, brings you with him on hands-on adventures assessing and transforming customer service in a variety of industries. In Ignore Your Customers (and They'll Go Away), you will find: Exclusive customer service secrets and proven turnaround methodologies showing you how to perform effective and lasting customer service transformation within your company. A dive into one of the hottest topics in business today: company culture, specifically how to build and sustain a customer-centric company culture. Case studies and anecdotes from the great customer-centric companies of our time. Each chapter concludes with a Business Reading Group Guide and a point-by-point summary to maximize your memory retention and make every insight actionable. Drawing on a wealth of stories assembled from today's most innovative and successful companies including Amazon, USAA, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Nordstrom, MOD Pizza, and more, Solomon reveals what it takes to turn an average customer interaction into one that drives customer engagement and lifelong loyalty.

Book The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection  3 Books

Download or read book The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection 3 Books written by Peter Fader and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the First Time—Three Books in One! The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection is a must-have for any business leader looking to understand and implement customer-centric strategies. This collection includes three essential books by renowned experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, Michael Ross, and Sarah Toms, all of whom are leaders in the field of customer centricity. The collection includes three books in a single volume:Customer Centricity, by Peter FaderThe Customer Centricity Playbook, by Peter Fader and Sarah TomsThe Customer-Base Audit, by Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection offers a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and measuring the impact of customer-centric strategies.

Book Marketing with Purpose

Download or read book Marketing with Purpose written by Ric Navarro and published by Ric Navarro. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook on Customer Centricity

Download or read book Handbook on Customer Centricity written by Robert W. Palmatier and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of leading marketing scholars, this book provides managers and researchers with insights into the fundamentals of customer centricity and how firms can develop it. Customer centricity is not just about segmentation or short-term marketing tactics. Rather, it represents an organization-wide philosophy that focuses on the systematic and continuous alignment of the firm’s internal architecture, strategy, capabilities, and offerings with external customers.

Book The Customer of the Future

Download or read book The Customer of the Future written by Blake Morgan and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it's important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow's customers need to be targeted today! Customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines ten easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective. The Customer of the Future explains how today's customers are already demanding frictionless, personalized, on-demand experiences from their products and services, and companies that don't adapt to these new expectations won't last. This book prepares your organization for these increas­ing demands by helping you do the following: Learn the ten defining strategies for a customer experience-focused company. Implement new techniques to shift the entire company from being product-focused to being customer-focused. Gain insights through case studies and examples on how the world's most innovative companies are offering new and compelling customer experiences. Tomorrow's customers will insist on experiences that make their lives significantly easier and better. Craft a leadership development and culture plan to create lasting change at your organization!

Book Marketing Analytics

Download or read book Marketing Analytics written by Mike Grigsby and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is most likely to buy and what is the best way to target them? How can businesses improve strategy without identifying the key influencing factors? The second edition of Marketing Analytics enables marketers and business analysts to leverage predictive techniques to measure and improve marketing performance. By exploring real-world marketing challenges, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations on how to apply different analytical models for each purpose. From targeted list creation and data segmentation, to testing campaign effectiveness, pricing structures and forecasting demand, this book offers a welcome handbook on how statistics, consumer analytics and modelling can be put to optimal use. The fully revised second edition of Marketing Analytics includes three new chapters on big data analytics, insights and panel regression, including how to collect, separate and analyze big data. All of the advanced tools and techniques for predictive analytics have been updated, translating models such as tobit analysis for customer lifetime value into everyday use. Whether an experienced practitioner or having no prior knowledge, methodologies are simplified to ensure the more complex aspects of data and analytics are fully accessible for any level of application. Complete with downloadable data sets and test bank resources, this book supplies a concrete foundation to optimize marketing analytics for day-to-day business advantage.

Book The Customer Culture Imperative  A Leader s Guide to Driving Superior Performance

Download or read book The Customer Culture Imperative A Leader s Guide to Driving Superior Performance written by Linden Brown and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BECOME THE ENVY OF YOUR INDUSTRY WITH A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE Winner of Marketing Book of the Year 2015 by Marketing and Sales Books For the first time, this groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets used by Amazon, Virgin, Apple, Starbucks, and salesforce.com. It creates a guide for success based on three years of scientific study drawing insights from more than 100 businesses to identify seven key factors. When implemented together these factors have been proven to drive superior business performance. Customer culture is as fundamental to business performance as breathing is to living. It is the life force of your business. This applies no matter what your industry sector. And with the evidence-based methods in this book, you can replicate their success in your business! The Customer Culture Imperative reveals the key disciplines of customer culture that consistently predict enhanced, sustainable business results. Each one is linked to a particular strategy and drives predictable and measurable improvements in one or more business performance factors--from innovation and customer satisfaction to growth in sales and profits to higher rates of new-product success. It gives you the tools to: Inspire everyone in the company to embrace a customer-centric culture Unify efforts across units by creating a "common language" for change Collect and measure data from your efforts and benchmark your progress Make change long term so you leave a legacy of an enduring business Creating a customer-centric company takes more than making an investment in the customer service department and systems. It's about building a culture in which the customer is at the heart of all decisions made within every function and unit. What's best for the customer is what's best for business. Make that a part of the DNA of your organization, and you will lead your company to unprecedented success. Guaranteed. PRAISE FOR THE CUSTOMER CULTURE IMPERATIVE "Linden and Chris Brown have written the best book on what it takes to build a genuine customer culture in an organization. Their framework and their stories will inspire you to take the next step." -- Philip Kotler, S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University "A customer-focused culture is a powerful competitive advantage. This book will show you how to diagnose the level of a customer culture and then make the leadership moves to raise this level." -- George Day, Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania "Creating unique customer engagements is an essential ingredient of the 'Starbucks Experience.' Crafting an authentic culture is essential to insuring that all employees consistently execute and innovate the highest quality customer experience. Linden and Chris provide a unique framework and road map to build this culture within large and small organizations." -- Arthur Rubinfeld, chief creative officer and president, Global Innovation and Evolution Fresh Retail, Starbucks "Smart phones, smart networks, and personalized apps are changing the way people live and work--giving control to an emerging class of globally connected customers that have the power to shift markets. Linden and Chris Brown’s work will help you understand what is happening and what it means to your business.” -- David Thodey, Chief Executive Officer, Telstra "Over the 40+ years of my life in business I have always known that a customer culture is the key to success. How to achieve it has been a continuous search and challenge. This book is the clearest roadmap I have read to truly achieve a customer culture and all the benefits it brings.” -- John Stanhope, Chairman, Australia Post "Some books (alas, very rare) summarise well-researched management theory, combined with current best practice, to deliver powerful and pragmatic guidelines for growing shareholder value. This is one such book. Read it. Enjoy it. It is a powerful contribution to best practice.” -- Malcolm MacDonald, Emeritus Professor, Cranfield University School of Management "Smart phones, smart networks, and personalized apps are changing the way people live and work,giving control to an emerging class of globally connected customers that have the power to shift markets. Linden and Chris Brown’s work will help you understand what is happening and what it means to your business.”--David Thodey, Chief Executive Officer, Telstra "Over the 40+ years of my life in business I have always known that a customer culture is the key to success. How to achieve it has been a continuous search and challenge. This book is the clearest roadmap I have read to truly achieve a customer culture and all the benefits it brings.”--John Stanhope, Chairman, Australia Post "Some books, alas very rare, summarise well-researched management theory, combined with current best practice, to deliver powerful and pragmatic guidelines for growing shareholder value. This is one such book. Read it. Enjoy it. It is a powerful contribution to best practice.”--Malcolm MacDonald, Emeritus Professor, Cranfield University School of Management "This easy to read book provides essential and unique guidance for driving the critical relationship between customer centricity and sustained organisational performance."-—Dr Ramzi Fayed, Executive Dean, Australian Graduate School of Leadership

Book Consumer Centric Category Management

Download or read book Consumer Centric Category Management written by ACNielsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some parts of the world, especially in developing markets, category management today remains a stretch goal – a new idea full of untapped potential. In other areas, the original eight-step process that emerged in the late 1980’s forms the foundation of many companies’ approach to category management. In still others, particularly in developed countries like the U.S., the U.K., and others, refinements are being made – most of them designed to place consumer understanding front and center. New ideas are emerging – from "trip management" to "aisle management" to "customer management." Whether a new descriptor emerges to replace "category management" is yet to be seen. Even if that does happen, what won’t change is the overall objective – to help retailers and their manufacturer partners succeed by offering the right selection of products that are marketed and merchandised based on a complete understanding of the consumers they are committed to serving. This book, which explores both the state of and the state-of-the-art in category management, is for everyone with a vested interest in category management. It can serve such a broad audience because category management is about bringing a structured process to how executives think and make decisions about their businesses, no matter what information and information technology they have access to.