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The authors are consultants with the Arthur Anderson Company and share here a summary of the findings from Anderson's massive Global Best Practices Database. Narrated expertly by Cotter Smith, their study offers learning from thousands of businesses representing breakthrough thinking in customer service. Rather than presenting yet another mish-mash of theoretical customer service principles, the work instead presents practical, cutting-edge examples of what the authors call "best practices" that can be applied in any organization. The six key ideas covered here include understanding markets and customers, designing products and services, marketing and selling, producing and delivering products and services, and providing customer service. Numerous examples, along with additional discussions of the key processes, fill this solid, substantive work. Highly recommended for all libraries.?Dale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The authors are consultants with the Arthur Anderson Company and share here a summary of the findings from Anderson's massive Global Best Practices Database. Narrated expertly by Cotter Smith, their study offers learning from thousands of businesses representing breakthrough thinking in customer service. Rather than presenting yet another mish-mash of theoretical customer service principles, the work instead presents practical, cutting-edge examples of what the authors call "best practices" that can be applied in any organization. The six key ideas covered here include understanding markets and customers, designing products and services, marketing and selling, producing and delivering products and services, and providing customer service. Numerous examples, along with additional discussions of the key processes, fill this solid, substantive work. Highly recommended for all libraries.?Dale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
What makes the world's top companies so adept at providing stellar customer service? How do they meet the needs of every customer and still turn healthy profits? And, most important, how can you adapt their practices to fit your business?
Thanks to over six years of ongoing research and an investment of $30 million, Arthur Andersen has created its Global Best Practices Database to uncover breakthrough thinking at world-class companies. Now, in Best Practices, Arthur Andersen for the first time shares its understanding of how more than forty best-practices companies focus on their customers, create growth, reduce cost, and increase profits. Managers of any business in any industry can adapt and apply what those companies do best.
Unlike most books based merely on an author's own theories or limited anecdotal experience, Best Practices is backed up by 30,000 pages of active, documented data on hundreds of companies worldwide. This book concentrates primarily on customers and how to involve them in everything from the design of products and services to marketing, selling, and product delivery.
Perhaps the greatest value of the book lies in its linking of best practices to business processes, thereby encouraging managers to expand their thinking and engage in creative problem-solving with the help of insights from companies inside or outside their own industry For example, the manager of a clothing store chain can study how Federal Express adapted the concept of just-in-time manufacturing to its rapid delivery of parts between supplier and customer. The owner of a small coffee shop chain might learn from American Express and Peapod how to target customers by offering particular products and predicting exactly when they will make their next purchases.
These and other examples will help business people diagnose the processes in place at their own companies and determine how best to improve them. Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, Best Practices will serve as an invaluable information resource.
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