Monday, April 5th, 2010
Phil Kotler once characterized marketing as “the science and art of finding, keeping and growing profitable customers.” There is no agreement that I know of regarding the balance of science and art, but recently there have been many criticisms of marketing as being too intuitive. This would suggest an imbalance ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Traditional marketing, and for that matter, many Six Sigma practitioners, are captive to the “contented customer theory” which postulates that a satisfied customer is a profitable customer. Let’s look at this issue more closely.
When customer satisfaction is the objective of either marketing efforts or Six Sigma deployments, it is elevated ...
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