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About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and InformationManagement at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management.
While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of informationmanagers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures.
And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Enhance customer service.
So: manage change first to set up the buy-in; then offer information. Conventional sales, marketing, training, coaching, parenting, and leadership models use sharing and gathering information at their core. Hence long sales cycles/lost sales and implementation problems, ignored advice, and lost opportunities.
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