IMPACT The Lixto Price Intelligence Suite is a solution that extracts price-comparison information from competitor online web channels and combines it with internal data sources so organizations gain greater visibility into the factors that might influence price. The suite works by navigating and extracting competitive product and pricing information from predefined online data sources before s...

Turbulence and competitiveness define the current global business environment. Firms need to develop high quality products and services quickly and at lower costs than competitors by improving their internal operations as well as focusing on core activities while outsourcing non-core activities. This increasing competition forces firms to integrate their suppliers and customers into the overall...

Purpose This paper aims to provide advanced market managers in Europe, the USA or Japan with a long-term framework prepare for and seize emerging innovation opportunities. Design/methodology/approach is based on eight years of studying opportunities, how them them. study mainly draws experiential learning automotive sector, particularly China. Findings The details strategic co-evolution firms, ...

Lululemon holds offline activities designed for different types of sports lovers to communicate with each other and acquire professional information from specialists in the field. This paper is going discuss Lululemon’s actions on promotion sales, representative marketing strategies, an additional assessment all strengths, weaknesses, opportunities threats aspects. In order obtain a relatively ...

In many markets, competing but differentiated firms offer a product line in order to target each product to a different type of customer. Under competition, firms, while trying to target different products to different segments, are also interested in "stealing" customers from the competitors and, in particular, customers from the most profitable segments. How should a profit-maximising firm al...

Entrepreneurs face different sort of difficulties especially with customers, organizations and employees. Emotional intelligence which is the ability to understand and control the emotions is an important factor to help entrepreneurs end up challenges to the result they prefer. So it is assumed that entrepreneurs especially those who have passed the first challenging years of starting a new bus...

This paper presents the connection between logistics and customer service. The customer service is one the most powerful elements available of the organization in the search competitive advantage, but the least well managed. The message of this article is that performance of customer service depends the skill with the logistics system designed and managed. The output of all logistics activity i...

Selecting a sales and distribution approach is a key element of a successful business model. The sales approach, or more broadly the overall process of selling and delivering products to customers, at once encompasses both a company’s connection to its customers and a significant portion of its total costs. Traditionally, companies selected from a defined, limited set of options (i.e. direct sa...

Krakatau Steel (KS) is a steel manufacturer in Indonesia. As manufacturer, KS has to operate efficiently by achieving the economies of scale. Plays commodity, make deal with price fluctuation. In uptrend price, customers tend place more order maximize profit. Customers less downtrend minimize risk high inventory. domestic competitors like Gunung Raja Paksi, Gunawan Dian Jaya Steel, Java Pacific...

s One of the requirements of competitiveness is the ability of the organizations to adjust themselves with the customer needs quickly. Increasingly competitions make the organizations have more contacts and have relationships with the customers in the world of markets.CRM is a commercial process in the B2B environment, which prepares the organizational structure to improve and survive in tradin...