Customer Value Management Optimizing the Value of the Firm’S Customer Base
f a s t forward CUST O M E R V A L U E M A N A G E M E N T Customer and prospect data analysis should drive customer acquisition, retention, and expansion efforts, say Peter Verhoef and Katherine Lemon. Here, they outline critical lessons and emerging challenges for managers seeking to manage customers for value. Customer Value Management Optimizing the value of the firm’s customer base Peter C. Verhoef and Katherine N. Lemon MARKETING SCIENCE I N S TITUTE About the Authors Peter C. Verhoef is Professor of Marketing at the Department of Market- ing, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he is also the research director and founder of the Customer Insights Center. His research interests are customer manage- ment, customer loyalty, multichannel issues, marketing strategy, category management, and sustainability. His work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Inter- national Journal of Research in Marketing, Marketing Letters, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Retailing. Verhoef’s best article awards include the Donald R. Lehmann Award in 2003 and the Harold M. Maynard Award in 2009. He is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Interactive Marketing and an area editor for the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 at the School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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