BEST PRACTICES MATRIX
Selling and Customer Service - General

High
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USAGE
Percentage of companies that use a practice
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Low
Quadrant IV
Quadrant III
Expected
  • Have an integrated information system that is informative, flexible, and used throughout the company
  • Ensure that all customers know how to contact the organization
  • Recruit and train people who can interact well with customers and resolve problems
  • Provide value-added services ( e.g. usage information ) to high-value customers
  • Provide special access for key customers
Proven
  • Establish and periodically re-evaluate long-term agreements between customers and the company
Quadrant I Quadrant II
Innovative
  • Formally measure order processing time ( e.g. average number of days from order receipt billing customer )
Differentiated
  • Use customer billing data for strategic marketing
GAP

High
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Degree to which the percentage of high-ROTA firms using a practice exceeds the percentage of all companies using it -->
Low