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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

These four types of customers represent different levels of brand affinity: 1. Transactors : These customers have no loyalty to your brand. Example: Carol owns a small business and needs a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Evaluate your leadership team’s openness to co-creation as well.

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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

Harvard Business Review

Yet at the same time they use these standards as a springboard for creating unique solutions for each customer based on a deep understanding of their needs. (I I call this understanding and tailoring "customer intimacy" ). The result is a powerful combination that fulfills two customer value propositions at the same time.