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1. Chapter 2 Being Customer Oriented Market Orientation
Customer Orientation 
2. Customer Commitment: How Market Leaders Do It Through masterfully creating and delivering value to their highly 
    satisfied and loyal customers
Greatness in marketing and customer services becomes a function of attitude, not resources. 
3. The Traditional Marketing Concept  Customer satisfaction at a profit
 
4. Relationship Marketing Concept (RMC) Evolved due to highly competitive global service markets
 2 objectives:
Maintaining and upgrading customer relationships (retention strategies) 
Growing business by finding new customers and creating long-term value 
6. The Marketing Continuum  
7. Market Orientation  A market orientation provides impetus for building an organizational culture which:
Puts customers first
Creates superior value for customers
Leads to increased overall business performance
Employees of marketing oriented companies become value-adders
Employees of marketing oriented companies know how to listen to and respond to customers 
8. Market Orientation Constructs and Models  Narver & Slater:
Customer Orientation
Competitor Orientation
Interfunctional Coordination 
Kohli & Jaworski:
Intelligence Generation
Intelligence Dissemination
Responsiveness
 
9. The Market Orientation Process Market orientation  involves learning about customers and competitors
Firms operating in a competitive industry are most likely to benefit from a market orientation 
Market orientation inputs are valuable for formulating an initial definition of your market and for staying in touch with your customer base 
10. Market Driving Vs. Market Driven Companies Market driving companies go beyond accepting given market structures and behaviors
Market driving firms shape or change markets/
    sectors  by eliminating, adding, or modifying  the players in markets and their functions
Market driving companies rewrite industry rules and compete in new market arenas 
11.   Market Driving Vs.  Market Driven Companies  contd 
Market driving companies have unique business systems and ideas
 
Market driving companies deliver large leap in customer value 
12. Developing a Customer-Oriented Organization Customer-centric marketing emphasizes understanding and satisfying needs, wants, and resources of individuals and customers rather than those of mass markets/segments (Sheth, et al., )
 
Table 2-2 
Contrast of New Customerization
Framework and Old Marketing Model 
13. Becoming Customer Oriented A customer oriented business culture:
Top managements values
Employee input
Interdepartmental dynamics
Organizational systems
Responses to environment
Dual customer and competitive emphases
Long term view of business/value 
14. Regis McKennas Marketing Philosophy   Marketing is the responsibility of everyone in the  organization
Customer orientation  equals  organizational function rather than departmental as in marketing department 
A customer orientation is a service organization practicing Japanese style marketing
Okyaku-sama  honored customer or the customer is God  
15. What Customers Require From Companies  Todays customers are quite smart and
sophisticated and looking for companies that::
Create maximum value for them based on their needs and wants
Demonstrate that they value their customers business  
16. Characteristics of New Value-Seeking Customers  Choice-seeking
Demanding
Knowledgeable
Believe that loyalty must be earned
Price conscious
Environmentally aware
Convenience-oriented 
17. Market Myopia  Organizations must avoid market 
myopia (forgetting customer needs) by: 
  Overcoming complacency
   Staying relevant in the marketplace/space
  Be creative in programs and processes  
18.    Market Myopia  - cont.  Organizations must avoid market myopia (forgetting customer needs) by: 
    Adapt and be flexible  responsive/proactive to market conditions and tastes
 Use a Kaizen philosophy  
continuous Improvement 
19. The Bias for Action Continuum 
20. Marketing Approaches to Achieve  Customer Focus Customer oriented organizations build 
on the marketing concept 
(market orientation is the firms implementation of the marketing concept);
 Designing customer-driven processes and programs 
    Establish a strong marketing information system
       Segment and target markets
          Hire the best talents
 Stress operational efficiency
 Continually measure and fine-tune their customer focus 
21. Trigger Points of Customer Value Company/customers (marketing mix)
 
22. Customer-Oriented Marketing Approaches