The Multichannel Challenge Integrating Customer Experiences for Profit

Based on work from the Cranfield Customer Management Forum, this is an essential practical guide for senior management in key areas like marketing, sales, customer services, and strategy.

While innovation in products and services continues apace, today’s competitive strategy is equally based on innovation in the route to market. Tesco.com, Direct Line, First Direct and easyJet are just a few examples of innovative channel strategies as a key component of the value proposition. We find ourselves in a multi-channel world. This book is drawn from the experience of major companies such as IBM, First Direct, Taylor Woodrow and BT. Lessons are explained clearly: be Multi not multiple; channels as weapons; think combinations; design from the top, but think people and measure it. The key concepts are backed by carefully tested practical advice from making organisational change to understanding channel metrics. Based on work from Cranfield's world leading Customer Management Forum, this is the essential practical guide for senior management in key areas like marketing, sales, customer services and strategy.

Introduction; The case for change (1): treat different customers differently (Case study: IBM); The case for change (2): channel combining for wealth (Case study: BT Major Business); The case for priority: picking win-winners (Case study: Intelligent Finance); The case for investment: mind the gap (Case study: General Motors – two generations of multi-channel CRM); Executing channel change (Case studies: DVLA, First Direct); Multi-channel metrics: where’s the customer gone? (Case study: Taylor Woodrow); Postlude: Future sense.