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The Incumbent's Advantage

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This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. If you run a big company, you might think it's nearly impossible to grow profits organically. Think again, say MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and Selden, of Columbia Business School. Locked inside your firm's customer records is a wealth of information about what your customers need and how to make more of them profitable to you. Tapped strategically, this information can generate enormous value for your company and give you a big leg up on potential invaders. The authors call it the incumbent's advantage. Using the hypothetical example of Mix C Ment, based on the real experience of concrete manufacturer CEMEX, the authors walk through a step-by-step tutorial on strategic customer segmentation. They demonstrate how investing in and applying research about particular customers' needs for tailored products, marketing support, and technical services can greatly increase profits. But that requires seeing these offerings not as mere allocated costs but as deliberately invested resources. To exploit your incumbent's advantage, build a modest customer-characteristics database and rank your customers according to profitability. Then analyze in detail the needs and behavior of the most and least profitable 20% - and strategically use what you find. This customer-centric approach to your information should have as its counterpart a corporate structure in which cross-functional teams assigned to specific customer segments make smart resource investments using your evolving knowledge about each segment's needs and performance. Getting your customer information and your organization to work together in this way is the key to preserving your firm's dominance while increasing profits at every step of the process.

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ページ数:16ページ

サイズ:A4

商品番号:HBSP-R0810H

発行日:2008/10/1

登録日:2012/3/28

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