Does it Matter if You Are Black or White?
Martin Luther King’s dream ” a dream where one day black and white kids could hold hands”. In my point of view this dream unfortunatly has not been realized integrally and perfectly till now.
Michael Jackson sang that it didn’t.
Yet again there are those who argue that it did actually matter to him. Percolate on that one.
There is something peculiar about the need for various countries, cultures and economies around the globe to classify citizens or groups by race categories. In doing so these categorisations have an impact how such groups are perceived whether through education, employment opportunities, law and order and mass media.
To be fair it is not so peculiar when you realise the link between race and economics.
Most of the imperial or colonial juggernauts that cut a swathe of exploratory and economic dominance over the last few centuries did so with a race superiority complex. The effects of which are still being felt in a post colonial world. Regardless of independence.
I am still perplexed why there really has to be racial groupings. Well actually I think I…
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StartupBus Builds Tech Companies in 72 Hours
Build My Tech Companie in 72 Hours? that’s good!!!
If you think it’s impossible to build and launch a technology company in just 72 hours, you’d be wrong.
Young entrepreneurs from across the United States, Canada, and Mexico set out earlier this week on buses bound for San Antonio, Texas where they’ll pitch their new business plans to judges and potential investors.
The StartupBus—founded in 2010—brings together promising entrepreneurs, coops them up on a bus for three days and tasks them with building a business from the ground up – all while traveling 70 mph down the highway.
Competitors from New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Nashville, Kansas City, Florida, Canada, and Mexico must form teams on their buses and turn ideas into actionable items.
The “buspreneurs” are mostly techies – software engineers and web designers, with a few marketers thrown in for good measure. The buses stop in cities along the way so competitors can meet up with mentors…
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Can we say that “CCDVTP” is a new Marketing Theory ( By Philip Kotler)?
Can we say that “CCDVTP” is a new Marketing Theory ( Philip Kotler)?
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Philip Kotler is a well known marketer and professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. He has written and co-written multiple books and textbooks for thousands of students. I personally have two and let’s just say, he is credible.
The Strategic Marketing mantra that Kotler talks about is “CCDVTP”:
C: CREATE.
C: COMMUNICATE AND
D: DELIVER.
V: THE VALUE.
T: TO THE TARGET MARKET.
P: AT A PROFIT.Three basic activities required for a SUCCESSFUL FIRM.
CREATING VALUE = PRODUCT MANAGEMENT.
COMMUNICATE VALUE = BRAND MANAGEMENT.
DELIVER VALUE = CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT.Product Management: It’s is an OPEN technology,
outsource the best technology from outside open
technology or open technology.Brand Management: Brand management is Packaging. It’s a
PROMISE. It’s all about MIND share,
HEART share and now
it’s SPIRIT share.Customer Management: Have a database of Customers.
It’s just dealing with the date base, a database
management. But according to the GURU,
you have to meet with the Customers
and share his thoughts and CO-CREATE
new value to your product.There is a radical change in the thought process of marketing; a
new evolution of thought process has come along this new
Marketing Mantra.So you, what do you think and say about that?
The Complexity of Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
The Complexity of Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
The expression customer relationship management (CRM) has only been in use since the early 1990s. Since then there have been many attempts to define the domain of CRM, a number of scholars, marketers and businesses’ experts but till now nothing in consensus. As a relatively immature business or organizational practice, a consensus has not yet emerged about what counts as CRM. Even the meaning of the three-letter acronym CRM is contested. For example, although most people would understand that CRM= CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT, others have used the acronym to mean: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MARKETING!
The information technology (IT) companies have tended to use the term CRM to describe the software applications that automate the marketing, selling and service functions of businesses. This equates CRM with technology. Although the market for CRM software is now populated with many players, it started in 1993 when Tom Siebel founded Siebel Systems Inc. Use of the term CRM can be traced back to that period. Forrester, the technology research organization, estimates that worldwide spending on CRM technologies will reach US$11 billion per annum by 2010. Others with a managerial rather than technological emphasis claim that CRM is a disciplined approach to: developing and maintaining profitable customer relationships and that technology may or may not have a role.
Some of the differences of opinion can be explained by considering that a number of different types of CRM have been identified:
1- Strategic: Strategic CRM is a core customer-centric business strategy that aims at winning and keeping profitable customers.
2- Operational: Operational CRM focuses on the automation of customer-facing processes such as selling, marketing and customer service.
3- Analytical: Analytical CRM focuses on the intelligent mining of customer-related data for strategic or tactical purposes.
4- Collaborative: Collaborative CRM applies technology across organizational boundaries with a view to optimizing company, partner and customer value.
Let us see these definitions:
CRM is an information industry term for methodologies, software and usually Internet capabilities that help an enterprise manage customer relationships in an organized way.
CRM is the process of managing all aspects of interaction a company has with its customers, including prospecting, sales and service. CRM applications attempt to provide insight into and improve the company customer relationship by combining all these views of customer interaction into one picture.
CRM is an integrated approach to identifying, acquiring and retaining customers. By enabling organizations to manage and coordinate customer interactions across multiple channels, departments, lines of business and geographies, CRM helps organizations maximize the value of every customer interaction and drive superior corporate performance.
CRM is an integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the pre-sales and post-sales activities in an organization. CRM embraces all aspects of dealing with prospects and customers, including the call centre, sales-force, marketing, technical support and field service. The primary goal of CRM is to improve long-term growth and profitability through a better understanding of customer behavior. CRM aims to provide more effective feedback and improved integration to better gauge the return on investment (ROI) in these areas.
CRM is a business strategy that maximizes profitability, revenue and customer satisfaction by organizing around customer segments, fostering behavior that satisfies customers and implementing customer- centric processes.
Wow it is so wide! What do you thing?
Anyway, we know that the expression CRM has a variety of meanings. Four types of CRM have been identified: strategic, operational, analytical and collaborative. There are many misunderstandings about CRM. For example, some people wrongly equate CRM with loyalty programmers, whereas others think of CRM as an IT issue. Although CRM is generally thought of as a business practice, it is also applied in the not-for-profit context. A number of different constituencies have an interest in CRM, including CRM consultancies, CRM software vendors, CRM application service providers, CRM hardware and infrastructure vendors, companies that are implementing CRM and their customers. A number of different models of CRM have been developed.
Finally, we have looked at a different definition that underpins the subject. We can simply define CRM as: The core business strategy that integrates internal processes and functions, and external networks, to create and deliver value to targeted customers at a profit. It is grounded on high quality customer-related data and enabled by information technology.
So, welcome to customer relationship management’s generation (or you prefer marketing?)
NB: For more deails please read Francis Butte CRM book published 2009.
BUILDING A GOOD ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ONE SMILE
Welcome to my Blog dear! …
My name is Chehou Oussoumanou, I am Cameroonian by nationality, studied my higher degree and undergraduate degree in Cairo – Egypt, now I am enrolling my master of Art of strategic communications management at Galatasaray university Istanbul in Turkey.
My domains of skills are: Marketing, marketing communications (IMC) strategic planning, Public Relations, Advertising, Corporate Communication, Reputation management, customer relationships management, Business ethics, mass communication, empirical research, mass media, IT technologies, computer network, Internet & social media, languages and translation (French, Arabic, English, Turkish, Fulani and Hausa)…
So have you decided to know me better? …
Mmm… I think yes, … Then know that, my point of view is simple and realistic, in fact, I wish that everyone’s target and objective always be respecting the human’s value and environmental reputation, because, the humankind fundamental duty is being a peaceful, a lovable, a valuable, a loyal, a sincere and establishing and keeping everyone’s good images and reputation… Really for me it’s what I call happiness!
In fact, let us be who we want to be naturally, be the best leader and the best sociable person in the world… Let us accept ourselves by accepting our micro and macro environment. … Let us accept ourselves by being sincere with ourselves and by being sincere with others humans or nature and event by being sincere with our own sincerity forever.
The Humankind naturally always is good, he wants to see every good thing, he wants to look at every good thing, he wants to hear every good thing, he wants to taste every good thing and even he wants to smell every good thing…. So for that reason human must think by a good way, must communicate with by good words, must act the good actions to gain in the end every good thing he needs and deserves.
And let’s remember that with only one sentence, with only one smile we can build or destroy our Business and social environment, our business or our social images, our business or our social reputation forever!
Of course, a crisis always comes from communication breakdowns… So, let’s communicate effectively forever… Thanks a lot for your visit and I am happy again to communicate with you.
I wish you a great success in your communications endeavors.
Chehou Ous.
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