In today's connected global marketplace, success and failure is bound up with the management of your inter-organisational partnerships. Competition is no longer between individual organisations but between alliances of companies and networks of supply chains. Richard Gibbs and Andrew Humphries provide a practical guide to the management process and skill sets needed for co-ordinating the business activities that are essential to creating a competitive advantage. Their eight partnership types developed from earlier research help readers adapt their relationship strategies to the different opportunities that present themselves and focus their greatest time and resources on the collaborations that offer the greatest value. The text includes an explanation of the context for collaboration, the principles and drivers for success, as well as techniques for appraisal and management. This is an excellent overview of the tools, techniques and philosophies behind an enterprise’s successful management of its strategically important relationships. Enterprise Relationship Management will help ensure your organisation has the requisite ability to form, manage, retire and exit partnerships in a fluid and agile way. Whether you are in sales or marketing or finance and operations, this book will show you how to get the most from your partnerships.

In today's connected global marketplace, success and failure is bound up with the management of your inter-organisational partnerships. Competition is no longer between individual organisations but between alliances of companies and networks of supply chains. Richard Gibbs and Andrew Humphries provide a practical guide to the management process and skill sets needed for co-ordinating the business activities that are essential to creating a competitive advantage. Their eight partnership types developed from earlier research help readers adapt their relationship strategies to the different opportunities that present themselves and focus their greatest time and resources on the collaborations that offer the greatest value. The text includes an explanation of the context for collaboration, the principles and drivers for success, as well as techniques for appraisal and management. This is an excellent overview of the tools, techniques and philosophies behind an enterprise’s successful management of its strategically important relationships. Enterprise Relationship Management will help ensure your organisation has the requisite ability to form, manage, retire and exit partnerships in a fluid and agile way. Whether you are in sales or marketing or finance and operations, this book will show you how to get the most from your partnerships.

How Business Relationship Management can accelerate time to value in the Digital Enterprise.

Enterprise relationship management or ERM is a business method in relationship management beyond customer relationship management. Enterprise Relationship Management is basically a business strategy for value creation that is not based on cost containment, but rather on the leveraging of network-enabled processes and activities to transform the relationships between the organization and all its internal and external constituencies in order to maximize current and future opportunities. This book is your ultimate resource for Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM). Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) right away, covering: Enterprise relationship management, Attitudinal analytics, Brand community, Business Augmentation Services, Catriona Campbell, ClickTale, COPC Inc., Customer Data Integration, Customer dynamics, Customer experience, Customer experience analytics, Customer experience systems, Customer experience transformation, Customer Feedback Management services, Customer insight, Customer Integrated System, Customer intelligence, Customer interaction management, Customer intimacy, Customer involvement management, Customer lifecycle management, Customer reference program, Customer relationship management, Customer service, Customer service training, Demand chain, Extended Relationship Management, Facing (retail), Foviance, Help desk, House call, Incentive program, Institute of Customer Service, Kampyle (Software), Lead scoring, Music on hold, National Asset Recovery Services, Outsourcing relationship management, Product support, Quality Assurance in Public Transport, Relationship Management Application (RMA), Sales process engineering, Saveology.com, Service guarantee, Service rate, Social CRM, Speech analytics, Customer support, SWIFTNet InterAct Realtime, SWIFTNet InterAct Store and Forward, Tealeaf, Technical support, The International Customer Service Institute, Touchpoint, Usability Sciences, 24SevenOffice, Abacus (GDS), Access Commerce, Account aggregation, ACT!, Association Management System, BigMachines, CGram Software, CiviCRM, Clear Enterprise, Comparison of CRM systems, Comparison of marketing workflow automation software, Constant Contact, Dolibarr, Ebase, ECRM, EngageIP, Entellium, EpesiBIM, Field Force Automation, FonGenie, Foundation network, FrontAccounting, Fuzzies, GoldMine, IKnowWare, InContact, Intelestream, Kayako, Lynkos, Maximizer Software, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, MSSolve, NGenera CIM, OpenMFG, Oracle CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, Paretoplatform.com, Pegasystems, Pivotal, Pivotal CRM, Quosal, Quotewerks, Really Simple Systems, Salesforce.com, SalesLogix, SalesPage, SAP Business One, SAP CRM, Selltis, SugarCRM, TaskHub, TeleMagic, Tessitura (software), WebCRM, Workbooks.com This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM). It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

Business Relationship Management: Relationship Management is the solution for getting to know your customers and developing your business.

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