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CHAPTER 14 STRATEGIC CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT AND THE STRATEGIC SALES ORGANISATION
sales organisation so that it can deliver the value and the customer relationship upon which marketing strategy implementation rests. However, the strategic sales organisation elevates attention from the salesforce as the route to implementing strategy, to a force that participates in shaping strategy around the realities of the marketplace. Analysis of the customer portfolio provides the basis for distinguishing between custom- ers in a direct channel and in the traditional middle market, but also importantly between major accounts and strategic accounts. Strategic account management represents a new business model based on collaboration and joint decision making between buyer and seller. It provides a mechanism for managing some dominant customer relationships. Nonetheless, while there is a compelling case for strategic account management, there is a balancing case of the vulnerabilities and risks in this model. Managers need to balance these factors care- fully in deciding whether to implement strategic account management models. The analysis of choices in marketing is closely related to strategic sales capabilities in the business-to- business marketing company. The global consumer group adapts to local tastes and targets micro-entrepreneurs Hervé Barrère is an amiable Tahitian with an easy smile and a flair for Congolese dance. He also has an eye for the ‘mummies on the table tops’. These are the women traders at markets across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mr Barrère, the coun- try director for Nestlé, the Swiss consumer group, believes these women are key to understanding local tastes and purchasing decisions. At ‘Petit Pont’, Kinshasa’s main spice market, one of the 29 open-air markets in the capital, a sprawl- ing array of wooden tables are topped with loose garlic, onions and red chillies, near to a rickety bridge that gives the market its name. Mummies are pitching cartons of Maggi’s red and yellow-wrapped stock cubes – the Swiss company’s flagship brand – against cheaper competitors from Spain’s Jumbo and China’s Top. Mr Barrère believes Maggi is now winning thanks to four strategic aspects – taste, margins, marketing and trade organisation. ‘We had to work on trade and consumer insight; you need to immerse yourself in this understanding,’ says Mr Barrère, who regularly visits the markets to talk to the mummies. As attempts to cash in on the ‘Africa rising’ phe- nomenon go, picking DR Congo must be among the bravest. For all the allure posed by untapped Afri- can markets and consistently impressive growth Case study rates, few multinationals set their sights on the vast sprawling country at the heart of the continent. It might have a population of 70m with growth rates close to 9 per cent a year, but poor roads, poor legal frameworks and poorer customers – 60 per cent exist on less than $2 a day – make it a tough market to crack. Since Nestlé took the plunge, investing $43m in a new factory in Kinshasa that started producing in 2011, the company has set about overcoming the hurdles in a fashion reminiscent of a smaller, more nimble business. But it is far from plain trading. The Swiss corporate is already in court over tax issues there and sales have been disappointing. It sells the Download 6.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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