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Customer Intimacy vs. Customer Satisfaction

CO2

These paths are clearly and effectively outlined by Fred Wiersema and Michael Treacy in The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market : 1) Operational Excellence – Lowest Cost. 2) Product Leader – Best Product or Service. 3) Commit, commit, commit!

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5 Ways to Become Indispensable

N2Growth Blog

If you do this, you’ll likely to inspire your clients to grow a fondness for your commitment to their cause – whatever that cause may be. To close, every business aspires to become indispensable to their customers. Here are 5 tips to improve your odds: Put Your Clients First: This is an easy principle to embrace.

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IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition

Harvard Business Review

IBM began as a computing and tabulation company, selling an array of products, including meat slicers, scales, employee time-keeping systems, and other goods. Launched in August 1981, the IBM PC was an extraordinary triumph — in the first full year of production, the company's microcomputing revenues topped $500 million.