Customer loyalty will be an increasingly pivotal battle in the war for survival. This month we ask a select panel of experts what type of companies will rule the IT roost. These days experts agree it's in a constant state of flux.
This is increasingly important in areas such as financial services, telecoms and utilities where deregulation and competition have increased rates of churn, and often made a mockery of assumed customer loyalty.
What is a typical scenario? As consumers, we are only small cogs to the big wheels of business. Customer relationship management is a brilliant idea. It moves away from creating products in isolation to driving a company forward by reference to the...
MapPoint .Net 3.0 expands the geographic coverage of maps offered through MapPoint both in Europe and North America and includes more business listings and points of interest. Microsoft said the merged MapPoint business group will focus on...
Bloom's argument raises a couple of points of general interest. While business-to-consumer activity is the most visible, the internet is driving massive changes in the business-to-business sector. A simple example is customer relationship...
Vendors are focusing their efforts on building up a long-term relationship, preferring the subscription model, which brings predictable revenue flows and hardened customer loyalty. Also, consumers are worried about the security of the internet.