Know your customer,
control your business

 

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Know your customer

Know your customer, control your business

By Joanna Perry

In this supplement we hope to engage retailers with examples of how customer data, when collected and analysed in context, creates insight that can provide answers to the big questions in their businesses.

Rethink every aspect of your business

By Lori J Schafer

In today’s world, the growth in customer data is explosive across all retail channels. Analytical tools are essential to retailers’ success in leveraging this data and turning it into valuable insights.

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Dunnhumby: A lifetime of loyalty?

By Joanna Perry

Loyalty scheme operator Dunnhumby continues to innovate to provide Tesco and suppliers with the customer insight they need to make business-critical decisions

M&S 'We Boobed' apology

Social media: Why M&S is listening to the word on the web

By Joanna Perry

Marks & Spencer is starting to engage with its customers online, analysing their feedback to help make commercial decisions. Joanna Perry finds out what this insight is teaching it

Media pie

Marketing: The perfect message mix

By Joanna Perry

Marketers have always been the biggest users of customer data. But by analysing it to create deeper insight, retailers can make their marketing budgets stretch further. Joanna Perry investigates

SOK Jamsa

From insight to action

By Joanna Perry

Retail is a data-rich business, but in this market it is crucial information gets turned into insight that can be acted upon at the point where it will have the greatest impact, argues Joanna Perry

Waitrose

The lessons to be learnt from online

By Joanna Perry

Properly used, customer data gleaned online can help not only web sales but the top line across all channels, says Joanna Perry

Carphone Warehouse

Customer-centricity across the enterprise

By Joanna Perry

Retailers make grand statements about how customer-centric their businesses are, but where can customer intelligence make the difference to top and bottom lines, asks Joanna Perry

Customers won’t put up with analysis paralysis

By Joanna Perry

Customer-centricity is the buzzword for retailers who like to think that they listen to their customers. But listening is no longer enough, super-fast analysis and response is also necessary for retailers to truly meet demand.

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