Hamilton, John, and Tee, Singwhat (2011) The business customer alignment index. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Business. pp. 45-49. From: 11th International Conference on Electronic Business, 29 November- 2 December 2011, Bangkok, Thailand.

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Abstract

The alignment of a service business to its engaging customers is a customer precursor consideration prior to the completion of a business-customer exchange or transaction. We adopt an interface outwards approach to this conundrum, and build the solution into both the business and the customer domains. We establish an alignment index as a measure of the inherent connectivity between the business and its engaging customers. The business offers its back-end developed services as the chosen service solution set it expects 'should be' most appropriately aligned to its engaging customers. These business-engaging customers come to this business interaction site with a different set of 'will get' expectations. The degree of alignment between these different sets-of-expectations is measured on a '0' to '1' scale as a 'business-customer alignment index'.

Item ID:	19453
Item Type:	Conference Item (Research - E1)
ISSN:	1683-0040
Keywords:	alignment index, customer perception, business, service
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Additional Information:	Conference topic: borderless e-business for the next decade.
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2012 22:05
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