EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Objectives for Developing Customer-Driven Competencies
- Define customer driven competencies and their impact on the total organization
- Explore the evolving nature of customers including segmentation and customer intimacy strategies
- Understand the key concepts used by successful organizations to build stronger customer relationships
Readings:
Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value, Stefan Thomke and Eric von Hippel, HBR 2002
The Strategy Focused Organization, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, HBS, 2001
Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy, Roland T. Rust, Valerie A. Zeithaml and Kathleen Lemon, 2000, The Free Press