• DocumentCode
    3471402
  • Title

    Strengthening of collaboration between IT vendors and their customer through proposal-based sales

  • Author

    Kobayashi, Hideo ; Osada, Hiroshi

  • Author_Institution
    Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    14-17 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    556
  • Lastpage
    560
  • Abstract
    To solve the business issue, a lot of enterprises have used Information Technology. And, IT vendor provide a solution. IT vendor is required to contribute to the management of customer and to solve customer´s issue. The proposal-based sales are important to understand true needs of the customer, and to propose solution. IT vendor´s sales department understands the business issue and proposes a solution. The proposal gives the customer the new awareness, and the potential needs of customer become clear. Through the interactive communication the real needs of customer become clear. IT vendor can gain the trust of customer, and it is possible to build continuous relationships with the customer. In this research, we analyzed how to build the relationship by the vendor´s proposal-based sales using the case study, and clarified the critical factor for gaining a customer´s trust and strengthening relationships.
  • Keywords
    business data processing; information technology; IT vendors; customer management; information technology; interactive communication; proposal based sales; Auditory system; Companies; Concrete; Diamond-like carbon; Marketing and sales; Proposals; Collaboration; IT vendor; Proposal-based sales; Self assessment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quality and Reliability (ICQR), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangkok
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0626-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICQR.2011.6031601
  • Filename
    6031601