Analytics and Dynamic Customer Strategy: Big Profits from Big Data

  • 3h 54m
  • John F. Tanner Jr
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2014

Dynamic Customer Strategy: Big Profits from Big Data is a comprehensive guide to exploiting big data for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing. This complete guide provides a process for rigorous decision making in navigating the data-driven industry shift, informing marketing practice, and aiding businesses in early adoption. Using data from a five-year study to illustrate important concepts and scenarios along the way, the author speaks directly to marketing and operations professionals who may not necessarily be big data savvy. With expert insight and clear analysis, the book helps eliminate paralysis-by-analysis and optimize decision making for marketing performance.

Nearly seventy-five percent of marketers plan to adopt a big data analytics solution within two years, but many are likely to fail. Despite intensive planning, generous spending, and the best intentions, these initiatives will not succeed without a manager at the helm who is capable of handling the nuances of big data projects. This requires a new way of marketing, and a new approach to data. It means applying new models and metrics to brand new consumer behaviors. Dynamic Customer Strategy clarifies the situation, and highlights the key decisions that have the greatest impact on a company's big data plan. Topics include:

  • Applying the elements of Dynamic Customer Strategy
  • Acquiring, mining, and analyzing data
  • Metrics and models for big data utilization
  • Shifting perspective from model to customer

Big data is a tremendous opportunity for marketers and may just be the only factor that will allow marketers to keep pace with the changing consumer and thus keep brands relevant at a time of unprecedented choice. But like any tool, it must be wielded with skill and precision. Dynamic Customer Strategy: Big Profits from Big Data helps marketers shape a strategy that works.

About the Author

John F. (Jeff) Tanner Jr., PhD, is professor of marketing and the executive director of Baylor University’s Business Collaboratory. He joined the faculty at Baylor in 1988, upon completing his PhD at the University of Georgia. He has published over 70 scientific research articles and presented over 200 conference papers or posters. His work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Journal of Business Research, and he is author or coauthor of 15 books, including the leading sales text Selling: Building Partnerships (9th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2014) and Principles of Marketing: How Marketing Gets Done (2nd ed., Flat World Knowledge, 2011). An active consultant to companies such as IBM, Pearson–Prentice Hall, and Cabela’s, as well as the federal government, he also serves on the board of directors of several companies and nonprofits.

In this Book

  • Analytics and Dynamic Customer Strategy—Big Profits from Big Data
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Big Strategy for Big Data
  • Mapping Dynamic Customer Strategy
  • Operationalizing Strategy
  • Creating a Big Data Strategy
  • Big Data Acquisition
  • Streaming Insight
  • Turning Models into Customers
  • Big Data and Lots of Marketing Buzzwords
  • Big Data Metrics for Big Performance
  • The Near-Simultaneous Adoption of Multiple Innovations
  • Leading (in) the Dynamic Customer Culture
  • Afterword
  • Additional Readings
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