Customer-centric Service: Revealing Consumer Desires
Second Conference on Advances in Retail Supply Chains

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Columbia Business School W. Edwards Deming Center


January 12th, 2001
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, New York, USA


8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast  
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome Alfred Spector,
Vice President, Services & Software,
IBM Research
8:45- 9:30 Data-driven Customer Intimacy:
Using the Customer and Market Focus Criteria
Pat Mene,
Vice President of Quality,
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC
9:30-10:15 Industrialized Intimacy:
A Service Concept for the Information Technology Era

Peter Kolesar, Professor,
Graduate School of Business,
Columbia University

10:15-10:35 Break and Footprints video  
10:35-11:20 Extending the Customer Loyalty Program: Malaysia Airlines Golden
Boutique Buy N Fly Program
Syed Ahmad Syed Salim,
Chief Operating Officer,
Malaysia Airlines Golden Boutiques
11:20-12:05 Best-of-Breed Modeling Techniques for the Direct Mail Industry & Beyond Deb Campbell,
Project Manager, Business Intelligence, Fingerhut Companies, Inc.
12:05-1:00 Lunch  
1:00-2:00 Demonstrations:
SafeWay-EasiOrder, Airport Self-Check In, Advanced Target Marketing, PSA, Intellient Web Guide, CyberPop
 
2:00-2:30 Store-Specific Marketing: Promotion Optimization using Digital Signage Corey Perine, co-founder and Executive Vice President, Business Development,
i-Open, Inc.
and
Julien Bramel, Director of Internet Consulting, Dash Optimization
2:30-3:00 Experience Management Systems in the 21st Century Lou Carbone,
Chief Experience Officer and President, ExperienceEngineering, Inc.
3:00-3:15 Break  
3:15-3:45 Customer Driven Retail:
Maximizing Market Opportunity
Vicki Raport,
Vice President, Benefits Realization,
Retek Inc.
3:45-4:00 Concluding Remarks Nelson Fraiman, Professor,
Graduate School of Business,
Columbia University