Collaborative Communities: Partnering for Profit in the Networked Economy challenges your most deeply held assumptions about how to build a profitable business. It is the first and only book to show how to organize your business around customers in collaboration with business partners and suppliers. 
Business is going through a revolution and companies and industries as we know them are ceasing to exist. Regardless of how long you’ve been in business, no matter how many customers you have, or your company’s revenues and profits, you must embrace the Collaborative Community™ as the business pattern for achieving success in the networked economy. 
Business is quickly becoming defined by the choices the individual customer wants businesses to make available to him or her, not what a business chooses to make available. Customers are increasingly expecting to collaborate in the development of personalized goods, services, and information. The problem, quite simply, is that the business structures that prevail in our economy are not designed to fulfill the needs and wants of knowledgeable and powerful customers. 
The challenge facing all businesspeople is to disregard how their business works today, to discard their legacy thinking, take out a “clean sheet of paper,” begin with the customer, and then work backward through the value creation process, developing an understanding of when, where, and how value is created. 
Collaborative Communities explains in detail how to build this new business pattern – the seamless alliance of businesses best able to profitably satisfy the shared set of needs and wants of a virtual customer community. This alliance is led by a “choreographer,” a business whose function is to balance the satisfaction of the customers’ personal needs with the need of the business members in the community to operate profitably. 
Collaborative Communities describes in detail what you need to know to benefit from this emerging business pattern and gain customer loyalty, grow profitably, and increase shareholder value in the Networked Economy.

Collaborative Communities: Partnering for Profit in the Networked Economy

Business & Money

Rottenberg, David

Shuman, Jeffrey

Twombly, Janice

Management & Leadership

Dearborn Trade Pub

A proven method for measuring the value of every relationship in the era of collaborative business. 
 Progressive companies claim to focus on customers, yet too few understand how to profitably deliver what their customers truly value. Award winning business architects, Jeffrey Shuman and Janice Twombly have developed a proven method for measuring the value of every relationship. It is a method specifically designed for today's era of collaborative business. Their book, Everyone is a Customer, offers entrepreneurs and business executives easy to follow advice about how to achieve success through "win-win" collaborative relationships. Readers will learn how to redefine every business relationship as a "customer" relationship; value, measure and manage those relationships; and create new value and improve company performance.

Everyone Is a Customer: A Proven Method for Measuring the Value of Every Relationship in the Era of Collaborative Business

Skills

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Ronstadt, Robert

Lord Pub

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