Date of Award

3-2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Operational Sciences

First Advisor

Stephan P. Brady, PhD

Abstract

This thesis evaluates a variety of documented cases of customer-focused business practice initiatives to discern common principles of implementation within the private and public sectors. The business practices Quality, Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) were found to be the major techniques utilized over the past three decades. Cases were collected which documented implementation of these customer-focused business practices in the private and public sectors. Using grounded theory methodology, the implementations were analyzed for emerging concepts. The concepts uncovered in this study were further analyzed through a comparison of private and public sector implementations. This research revealed similarities and differences between the implementations in the private and public sectors and provides a framework of common generalizable principles for further testing. The concepts which emerged are of particular interest to government managers seeking improvement in their organization. Managers can use the information discovered in this research to increase their knowledge of a basic conceptual framework in which implementations of customer-focused business practices were conducted.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GLM-ENS-04-19

DTIC Accession Number

ADA423010

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