3rd Edition

Meeting Customer Needs

By Ian Smith Copyright 2004

    This is a third edition of Meeting Customer Needs, a diploma level book in the Chartered Management of Institute series. This particular title meets the specific requirements of those taking the Unit DM45 entitled Customer Focus, Marketing and Planning.

    A new website available for use with the text to provide revision notes and lecturers' notes. This book is ideal for managers seeking to establish or improve customer service and customer focus standards. It includes action plans, sample communications and checklists for managers to adapt for their own purposes. Real examples and new case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a practical context.

    Introduction; First, know yourself; But what do your customers think they're getting?; The route to your customers; Competitors and how to make the most of them; Starting the planning process - where you think you want to be; Marketing - the tools for understanding and analysing; Marketing - changing things, learning to focus; Marketing - measuring all that is important; Marketing - the doing word; Virtuous cycles; Balancing internal and external; Checking progress and sorting problems; Conclusions - not the end, this is just the start!

    Biography

    Ian Smith