Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management - Softcover

Imhoff, Claudia; Loftis, Lisa; Geiger, Jonathan G.

9780471319818: Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471319813 ISBN 13: 9780471319818

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Strategies for leveraging information technologies to improve customer relationships
With E-business comes the opportunity for companies to really get to know their customers--who they are and their buying patterns. Business managers need an integrated strategy that supports customers from the moment they enter the front door--or Web site--right through to fulfillment, support, and promotion of new products and services. Along the way, IT managers need an integrated set of technologies--from Web sites to databases and data mining tools--to make all of this work. This book shows both IT and business managers how to match business strategies to the technologies needed to make them work. Claudia Imhoff helped pioneer this set of technologies, called the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). She and her coauthors take readers step-by-step through the process of using the CIF for creating a customer-focused enterprise in which the end results are increased market share and improved customer satisfaction and retention. They show how the CIF can be used to ensure accuracy, identify customer needs, tailor promotions, and more.

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From the Publisher:

"When it comes time to get serious about CRM, all paths lead to the infrastructure that CRM processing is built on. And no one understands that architecture better than Claudia Imhoff and her co-authors."--W. H. Inmon, billinmon.com

"Alvin Toffler predicted this in "Powershift" 10 years ago. No one can say they weren't warned! Claudia Imhoff and her co-authors, Jonathan Geiger and Lisa Loftis, are giving you a roadmap to CRM... This is a MUST READ for every serious manager."--John Zachman, Zachman International

"If your company wants to get closer to its customers, then read this book! It provides a practical guide for creating the technical infrastructure your company needs to effectively manage customer data and build lasting relationships with customers."--Wayne Eckerson, The Data Warehousing Institute

"Claudia Imhoff, along with her co-authors, has written another winner with Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise! Whether your company is just beginning to understand your customers' needs for personalized interaction, or has already made some inroads in providing a personalized customer experience, this book is for you. It describes not only what the move to CRM means, but also what frameworks, strategies, and structures will facilitate it." Susan Osterfelt, Bank of America

"For years, customer-focused companies have tried to understand who their best customers are and how to best serve them. Getting the data and the tools was hard. Now with supermarket scanners, loyalty programs and especially the Internet, we have the data. Now we need the tools. The Corporate Information Factory (CIF) is a valuable toolkit for customer-focused companies. The authors, all experts in the field, share their knowledge of CRM and CIF in chapters that build from the reasons to implement CRM to the data requirements and data management techniques for supporting CRM."--Bill Baker, Microsoft Corporation

From the Back Cover:

"Claudia Imhoff and her coauthors, Jonathan geiger and Lisa Loftis, are giving you a roadmap to CRM. . . This is a MUST READ for every serious manager."?John Zachman, Zachman International

Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise

You already know that customer relationship management (CRM) is critical to the success of your business, but how do you go about implementing it? This book shows you how to reshape your organization and develop appropriate business strategies to nurture mutually beneficial long-term customer relationships.

Drawing on the proven architecture of the Corporate Information Factory (CIF), Claudia Imhoff and her team clearly explain how to harness CIF technologies?including Web and data warehousing technologies?to ensure success in today?s hyper-competitive marketplace. By integrating the business strategies with the supporting technologies, you will be able to: