Handbook of Key Customer Relationship Management (Crm): The Definitive Guide to Winning, Managing and Developing Key Account Business (Financial Times Series) [Hardcover]

Ken Burnett (Author)

Book Description

Series: Financial Times Series | Publication Date: December 2000

20% of your customers create 80% of your business revenue, but still 40% of suppliers cannot identify their key customers. The handbook of KCRM (Key Customer Relationship Management) is the definitive guide to winning, managing your key customers and provides you with all you need to know about how to develop your business for them. Enterprises that are not in the mainstream of technology will find themselves at a distinct competitive disadvantage as customers will equate lack of tailored technology with lack of concern. Get the competitive advantage, before your competition gets your customers. Including examples on: Procter & Gamble Marks & Spencers Ford Hawlett & Packard IBM

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The value of knowledge — in particular customer relationship knowledge — is only just being appreciated. The dot.com revolution is spearheaded by companies whose worth is measured not by profits but by the extent of their customer databases and their ability to mine that information.

Companies will spend more that 5 billion pounds on new CRM applications by 2002. 55% of companies plan to review Sales and Marketing systems within 12 months; 33% will purchase new, 22% will upgrade. But software is only about 25% of the cost. The real cost (and risk) is in implementation, and particularly with your key customers; Ken Burnett's book focuses on getting your KCRM implementation right.

Implement your KCRM strategy now.

"Knowledge, it is said, is power. Through this book Ken Burnett empowers readers to gain an insight into 'know-what' and 'know-how' aspects of customer knowledge management. If your business is on a 'bleeding edge' then this book will transform it into a 'leading edge'."—Sultan Kermally, Author of When Economics Means Business, and an Associate Lecturer in Knowledge Management, Open University Business School

"Throughout the book, the author demonstrates his extensive experience and mastery of this important subject. This book will be invaluable to the practitioner manager as well as students of marketing or business strategy."—Peter Woolliams, Ph.D. Professor of International Business, Anglia Business School

"Ken Burnett writes with the easy style and grace of a business man who has been there and done that ... and is gracious enough to let us in on the secret."—Ron Springer, Vice-President Sales (Americas), Arca Xytec Systems Inc.

About the Author

Ken Burnett, FIMC is a Management Consultant based in London specialising in management development, sales and marketing. He is a foremost authority, writer and seminar leader on the principles, practice and problems of constructively managing supplier-customer relationships. His consulting career spans over thirty years, in which he has worked with almost 400 different industrial, consumer and service industry corporations world-wide. He has spent the past few years developing practical software systems and training modules particularly in the area of customers relationship planning and development.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 401 pages
• Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0273650319
• ISBN-13: 978-0273650317
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,821,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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