Defending market position and profitability, this book shows how to achieve "standout" with major customers designed to ensure you become less of a supplier of a commodity and more of a co-developer of wealth-creating initiatives. Using a step-by-step methodology, the author goes through the planning stage of defining a true partnership, from identifying potential alliances, utilizing efficient filters for selection and profiling customers, to the choice of the strategic initiative which will be tackled. He then focuses on implementation, highlighting how to gain customer commitment, the technical and commercial study, building the partnership team, and evaluating and feeding back its progress. The text is also backed up with international case examples which show how different companies have developed partnerships and the outcomes realized from them.
- ISBN10 0566081016
- ISBN13 9780566081019
- Publish Date 29 April 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gower Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English