Breaking Through, 2nd Edition Implementing Disruptive Customer Centricity [Hardcover]

Customer centricity is fundamental to business growth and ongoing success. Most executives appreciate the importance of it yet don't know how to execute it or sell the processes internally.This thoroughly revised edition of Breaking Through guides readers systematically through the ten breakthrough points of implementation, to explain how to execute a transformation to customer centricity, so that a company can engage continuously with its customers, making them allies and advocates with all the rewards that it brings. With updates on digital opportunities, social media, emerging markets (including Africa), and the social as well as financial impacts of customer centricity , this book successfully blends strategy with implementation and also features a range of innovative new and traditional business examples from across the globe. Easy to read, in-depth and full of practical advice, this is the essential step-by-step guide to implementing customer centricity to endure in the long-term.Introduction PART I: FIRST PHASE: THE AWAKENING Breakthrough 1: Create Strategic Discomfort and Excitement Breakthrough 2: Reframe New Beliefs PART II: SECOND PHASE: THE DISCOVERY Breakthrough 3: Articulate the 'Market Space' Breakthrough 4: Identify the Value Opportunities PART III: THIRD PHASE: THE STORY Breakthrough 5: Build a Compelling Case Breakthrough 6: Size the Prize PART IV: FOURTH PHASE: THE ENGAGEMENT Breakthrough 7: Model the Concept Breakthrough 8: Get People Working Together PART V: FIFTH PHASE: THE REWARD Breakthrough 9: Reach Critical Mass Breakthrough 10: Gather and Sustain MomentumSandra Vandermerwe is a best-selling author who has worked as a consultant alongside senior management and boards for a range of private public and NGO enterprises in the field of customer centric transformation more recently specializing in emerging market innovation. Her ideas and methodologies have been implemented widely bylW