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The Centre for Strategic Marketing and Sales is renowned for its state-of-the-art approach to marketing and sales. Our focus on knowledge into action brings you the latest thinking and solutions through our customer-centric approach to programme design. Our faculty work with the boards of many world's leading multinationals. We run active Open Programmes, Customised ProgrammesResearch Programmes and are always looking for new participants in our Research Clubs. Cranfield has a long-standing reputation for research and we are sponsored by world leading companies, such as IBM, HSBC and BP. Our research appears in reports for sponsors, articles, books, consultancy and makes our courses, workshops and seminars second to none.

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  • Better Customer Insight in Real Time

    By Emma Macdonald and Hugh Wilson | 04/09/2012

    Dr Emma Macdonald and Professor Hugh Wilson have been working with a number of leading companies over the past two years on a new research tool ‘real-time experience tracking’ (RET) that helps companies to better understand the needs of their customers. The research has been published in the Harvard Business Review.

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  • Customer Experience: Are we measuring the right things?

    By Stan Maklan | 17/07/2012

    Organisations are increasingly competing on the basis of customer experience, academics and practitioners are struggling to understand and define the concept. Maklan and Klaus argue that customer experience is still being measured against criteria more suited to evaluating product and service marketing. Therefore, there is a need to update customer experience measurement and align it with the nature of the firms’ offer to customers.

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  • Explaining Cameron's Coalition: Explaining the Outcome of the 2010 British General Election

    By Robert Worcester, Roger Mortimore, Paul Baines and Mark Gill | 05/05/2011

    A detailed view of the 2010 British general election and how it resulted in a coalition Government. Its discussions centre around the results of opinion polls capturing the public’s opinion of the political parties, their leaders and the election, and giving depth to what happened in the periods before, during and after the election.

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