Customers are People: The Human Touch Book

"McKean’s compelling book reveals how companies must compete for customers as ‘people’ in this new customer era and why shareholders will suffer if they falter." Horst H. Schulze, Founding President, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company "The rise of customer power is one of the most important trends in business today. As John McKean points out in his compelling new book, successful firms are using the power of the Internet and related technologies to humanize their interactions with customers. This means building trust and working toward a win-win outcome based on convenience, simplicity, honesty and openness." Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Professor, MIT Sloan School Co-Director, Center for eBusiness at MIT "Deluged by technology buzzwords and designer customer approaches, it’s sometimes easy to forget that human beings are the real secret to business success. But John McKean hasn’t forgotten it, and his powerful book is a testament to the fact that, in the final analysis, all business achievements boil down to plain, old-fashioned human interaction." Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Peppers and Rogers Group, authors of The One-to-One Future and One to One B2B "John McKean’s simple yet powerful book is a timely reminder that an organization’s people and technology can too often divorce themselves from customers rather than enabling what really matters - each human interaction. John McKean clearly illustrates how to transform a customer’s reaction from ‘I don't want to be loyal, and will shop around on price, value, range and convenience’ into ‘You showed that you understand me as a consumer and person, so I trust you and am loyal to you.’ " Clive Humby FIDM, Chairman, Tesco Customer Analytics  Read More