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Whole of Enterprise: An Atomic E-Business Model
Weill, Peter; Vitale, Michael R.Book Chapter HBS-4949BC-EInformation TechnologiesThe use of multiple business models across an organization can create confusion among customers, who may be required to navigate not just different computer systems, but also different ways of doing business. This chapter describes the benefits of adopting an integrated whole-of-enterprise e-business model. This chapter is excerpted from "Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models."Starting at €8.20
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Why Satisfaction Surveys Fail
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8177BC-EStrategyThis chapter looks at why you cannot build an effective customer-feedback system based on the shaky foundation of current satisfaction-survey methods and practices. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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Design Winning Customer Strategies
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8173BC-EStrategyMeasuring customers' feelings about your organization alone isn't sufficient. Just as you plan how to raise your profits, you must plan how to increase the number of customers who will act as promoters for your organization rather than detractors. This chapter examines how companies have designed winning customer strategies. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 7 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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Bad Profits, Good Profits, and the Ultimate Question
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8185BC-EStrategyBad profits choke off a company's best opportunities for true growth, they endanger its reputation, and alienate customers and demoralize employees. This chapter shows companies how to tell the difference between good and bad profits and asks the ultimate question that will determine the future of your business. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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The Enterprise Story--Measuring What Matters
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8179BC-EStrategyThis chapter looks at the case of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, examining the company's quest to tie measurement into action and to increase the number of customer promoters and reduce the number of detractors to improve the overall business. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 4 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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Allocating Decision Rights & Accountability: Elements of Effective IT Governance
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3595BC-EService and Operations ManagementEvery firm, at some level, needs a digitized platform, or integrated set of electronic business processes, to operate effectively. The only way to deliver a digitized platform--and superior business value from IT--is to design IT decision rights and accountabilities so that daily decisions about IT support the firm's strategic goals. In this chapter, the authors explain the importance of transparency in IT governance and describe how a firm's gov...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming IT from Strategic Liability to Strategic Asset
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3581BC-EService and Operations ManagementIn this day and age, it is impossible to successfully run a business without an effective system for tracking performance. But IT savvy firms take things a step further, building digitized platforms that leverage IT to consistently elevate firm performance. As Weil and Ross point out, simply having an IT system and someone to run it does not set your company up for success. In this chapter, they discuss major problems plaguing IT services and out...Starting at €8.20
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One Goal, One Number: Accountability for Customer Relationships
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8167BC-EStrategyToo many managers have come to believe that increasing shareholder value requires exploiting customer relationships. This chapter discusses why this approach is no longer acceptable and suggests that a trustworthy customer feedback process is necessary to allow free markets to reward organizations that practice Golden Rule behavior and punish those that don't. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 10 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving ...Starting at €8.20
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Closing the Customer Feedback Loop
Markey, Rob; Reichheld, Fred; Dullweber, AndreasArticle HBS-R0912C-EService and Operations ManagementRealizing that customer retention is more critical than ever, companies have ramped up their efforts to listen to customers. But many struggle to convert their findings into practical prescriptions for customer-facing employees. Some companies are addressing that challenge, say three Bain & Company consultants, by creating feedback loops that start at the front line. They forgo elaborate, centralized feedback mechanisms in favor of quickly pollin...Starting at €8.20
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The Measure of Success: Better Metrics for Customer Satisfaction
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8183BC-EStrategyConventional customer satisfaction measures have proven inaccurate predictors of actual customer behavior or a company's growth. This chapter recounts the author's development and implementation of a better metric for determining what customers think and feel about the companies they do business with, known as a Net Promoter Score (NPS). This chapter was originally published as Chapter 2 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Gr...Starting at €8.20