
Indispensable
How To Become The Company That Your Customers Can't Live Without
Joe Calloway(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 24. May 2005
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-471-70308-2 (ISBN)
Description
A five-step strategy for turning a commodity into a necessity
When products and services become interchangeable, price becomes the ultimate determinant for consumers. Indispensable shows businesses how to break out of that cycle by using The Five Drivers-a strategy that takes companies to the next level of performance. Renowned business consultant Joe Calloway looks at how real companies have made their product or service "mission critical," and satisfied customers in the process.
Indispensable goes straight to the heart of the issue and reveals how successful companies-of any size, in virtually any manufacturing, selling, or service endeavor-achieve market leadership through The Five Drivers of fierce customer loyalty. Indispensable shows readers how to:
* Create and sustain momentum: overcome organizational inertia and keep moving forward
* Develop habitual dependability: make consistency of performance a defining characteristic
* Connect continuously
* See the Big Picture Outcome: create compelling customer experiences
* Engage, Enchant, Enthrall: make magic in the marketplace
With interviews, detailed case studies, and dozens of real-world, effective customer service ideas and initiatives, Indispensable is just what today's forward-thinking businesses need.
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Product info
gebunden
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
509 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-70308-2 (9780471703082)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
05/2005
Wiley
€24.99
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Person
JOE CALLOWAY is a consultant on branding and competitive positioning whose client list reads like a Who's Who in business-from newspapers in Sweden, hotels in Great Britain, and computer companies in South Africa to world brands like BMW and American Express. He speaks frequently on business trends, and has been inducted into the International Speaker's Hall of Fame. He owns an award-winning restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife, Annette, and daughter, Jess. He is also the author of Becoming a Category of One, from Wiley.
Content
Preface.
1. The Default Choice.
2. The Five Drivers.
3. Case Study: Deluxe.
4. Back to the Six New Basics.
5. Case Study: W Hotels.
6. Create Community.
7. Case Study: Gitomer.
8. Obvious but Often Overlooked.
9. Right Place--Right Time.
10. Case Study: The Pancake Pantry.
11. Big Picture Outcome.
12. Twenty-Eight Indispensable Lessons.
13. Case Study: Pinnacle Financial Partners.
14. Repeatable Process.
15. Stop Apologizing--Start Doing Your Job.
16. Case Study: LawTalk.
17. The Customer Decides.
Index.