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Customer focus ‐ a commercial imperative

George Cox (IBC Customer Service Congress: Creating and Maintaining Service Excellence, in London, June 1996. For further details of this and other IBC events, contact IBC. Tel: 44 (0)171 637 4383; Fax: 44 (0)171 631 3214)

Managing Service Quality: An International Journal

ISSN: 0960-4529

Article publication date: 1 February 1997

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Abstract

Argues that, underpinning the competitive features in today’s business world ‐ products, quality, price, service, customer base and market access ‐ are four key elements: culture, processes, systems and organization. Discusses each of these elements and advises that to achieve a truly personalized customer focus throughout the whole organization, companies must be prepared to make drastic changes to some or all of these factors.

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Cox, G. (1997), "Customer focus ‐ a commercial imperative", Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 27-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/09604529710158265

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MCB UP Ltd

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