Business Analytics for Sales and Marketing Managers : How to Compete in the Information Age

by Laursen, Gert H. N.

• ISBN13: 9780470912867
• ISBN10: 0470912863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-05
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Expert guidance on information management for optimum customer intelligence processesProviding essential guidance for information management, this book helps you understand the basics of information management, how to design and launch customer intelligence campaigns, and optimize existing customer intelligence processes. How to align information management with company strategy Examines how to get, grow, and retain valuable customers Discusses how to optimize existing customer intelligence processesShowing you how to make extensive use of data, statistical, and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making, Business Analytics for Customer Intelligence provides you with the tools your business needs to optimize you data driven processes.

Author Biography

Gert H. N. Laursen is head of customer intelligence at Maersk Line, the largest containerized shipping company in the world. He focuses on helping product-oriented organizations become more customer-centered through the use of various data sources, including data warehousing, questionnaires, and one-to-one interviews with customers, first-line staff, sales organizations, and other subject matter experts.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Identify What You Want to Achieve: The Menu on a Strategic Level	p. 19
Lead Information for Identifying Valuable Customers: The Recipe	p. 41
Lead Information: What You Need to Know before Launching New Acquisition Activities	p. 67
Lead Information: What You Need to Know before Launching New Sales Activities	p. 107
Lead Information for Customer Retention	p. 143
Working with Lag Information	p. 179
Working with Learning Information: The Recipe	p. 199
Case Study of a Retention Strategy	p. 215
About the Author	p. 235
Index	p. 236
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