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Podcast Interview: Turning shoppers into advocates: The customer focused retail enterprise

While retailers are heeding the daily drumbeat of pundits on the importance of focusing on the customer experience, a gap remains between what retailers are delivering and what shoppers expect.
IBM Institute for Business Value study
Industry: Retail services
Last updated: 15 Jun 2007
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While retailers are heeding the daily drumbeat of pundits on the importance of focusing on the customer experience, a gap remains between what retailers are delivering and what shoppers expect. Retailers can close this gap by systematically integrating knowledge of what their best customers want and expect from their brand into every core operational decision. This is where the bar will be set for retailers – to turn shoppers into advocates and create a sustainable, differentiated advantage.

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Hosted by:
Maureen Stancik Boyce
Guest:
Herb Kleinberger, GBS partner at IBM and Global Strategy Lead for retail
Length:
13 mins, 59 secs
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