Gautam Mahajan
Gautam Mahajan
Gautam Mahajan, President of Customer Value Foundation is the leading global leader in Customer Value Management. Mr Mahajan worked for a Fortune 50 company in the USA for 17 years and had hand-on experience in consulting, training of leaders, professionals, managers and CEOs from numerous MNCs and local conglomerates like Tata, Birla and Godrej groups. He is also the author of widely acclaimed books "Customer Value Investment: Formula for Sustained Business Success" and "Total Customer Value Management: Transforming Business Thinking." He is Founder Editor of the Journal of Creating Value (jcv.sagepub.com) and runs the global conference on Creating Value (https://goo.gl/4f56PX).
Are You Adding Value to Employees, So They Can Add Value to Customers?
From my recent posts in my column, you know about Total Customer Value Management, how we add ...
Amazing Amazon slipups: Lessons to be learnt
Amazon has an amazing name for great service and being customeric. So much so that Shep Hyken lauded them. And I have been an admirer,...
Customer-Centric Circles: The Bottom-Led Customer Focus
We studied Customer Strategy in the last article. The Customer Strategy starts a Customer alignment and culture...
From Value Grabbing to Value Creating : Lesson for Leaders
Sage’s Whitepaper: Delivering happiness, giftivism, and conscious capitalism all have common messages, one of which is “give forward.” That is, you Create Value for someone,…
The Value Co-Creation Platform Welcome to the Platform Economy
The Value Co-Creation model has been in place for some time, yet most companies have not adopted this powerful way of differentiating themselves. Early movers...
How Customer Strategy Relates to Business Strategy and Customer Culture
So far we have focused on the tools of Total Customer Value...
Total Customer Value Management and Customer Culture
So far we have focused on the tools of Customer Value Management, what Customer Value is, how it is measured...
Value is Waiting to Happen. What you can do about creating disruptive value for yourself?
This elusive word value, which we all seek but do not always find…Is it there, is it discovered, or is it created? Is it a...
Customer Value and Loyalty
What is loyalty? To add Customer Value one must be very clear about terminology. Loyalty is often...
Don’t waste money on blindly starting loyalty, CJ, CX, CR, or CS programs.
Every day I read that some company has started a new program for Customer Loyalty, or for Customer Journey or for Customer Experience or...
How to get a Service Culture Mind-set?
I recently gave a talk to ISSIP (pronounced IZip and stands for International Society of Service Innovation Professionals) on Service Value Creation. Jim Spohrer...
Loyalty Curves and Value Maps
In my last post, we learnt how Customer Value data correlates to business results. We saw how much of a...
Customer Value Data and Business Results
In previous posts, we learnt how to use data for improvement of the Customer Value we create and for communicating...
Tabulating Customer Value Data in a Usable Manner
When we get data back from the market place, we conduct the analysis and then put it into a format...
Do Unethical Practices Create Or Destroy Value?
Certainly the answer depends on your point of view. And for whom you are trying to create or destroy value. You could be trying...
Customer Value: The Meaning of Data and How to Use It
So far we have learnt how to make attribute trees, and how the market research data or desk study data...
Measuring Value (Customer Value Added)
In the last post we learnt that to understand Customer Value, we have to build a customer’s Waterfall of Needs...
Can Customer Value Change Customer Behaviour and Vice Versa?
The answer to both questions is yes. But as I go through articles on changing behaviour I see very little or no mention of...
C2C: Its Importance
C2C is normally Customer to Customer or Consumer to Consumer, or Citizen to Citizen Contextually, it has meant one citizen selling to another, and a...
Components of Customer Value: How to Build a Waterfall of Needs and Attribute Trees
An easy way to understand Customer Value is to build an attribute tree to illustrate the components of Customer Value. Customer Value normally breaks...