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Customer Portfolio Management

Creating Value with a Large Leaky Bucket of Customers

Part of Management on the Cutting Edge

Author Fred Selnes, Michael D. Johnson
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On sale Mar 18, 2025 | 144 Pages | 9780262049627
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How to create value with all the customers in a portfolio, from the stronger relationships that increase profit margins to the weaker relationships that increase scale.

Which would you rather have: a smaller, watertight bucket of loyal customers or a larger leaky bucket of both loyal and not-so-loyal customers? In Customer Portfolio Management, Fred Selnes and Michael Johnson argue that for most companies and organizations the larger leaky bucket is more valuable. While loyal customers are generally more profitable, the weaker, or “leaky,” relationships in a portfolio provide scale economies and a source of future loyal customers. The basic principle behind customer portfolio management (CPM), they explain, is to view a company’s market strategies as long-term investments in the strength of relationships over an entire portfolio of current and future customers.

This book helps business leaders understand when and how much to focus on acquiring customers, how to defend and leverage those relationships, and how to convert some of these relationships into stronger, more profitable ones. The authors present an implementable framework for CPM that involves:
  • segmenting customers into strangers, acquaintances, friends and partners;
  • understanding the lifetime value, or revenues and costs over time, across relationship segments; and
  • determining when and how much to invest in customer acquisition, relationship defense, relationship leverage, and relationship conversion.

Case studies and examples that include Amazon, Apple, IKEA, and dozens of other companies are used along the way to illustrate effective portfolio management principles and growth strategies.
Fred Selnes is Profesor in the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian School of Business. He has published academic articles in leading academic journals, written several books, consulted in more than 50 industries, and started four companies.

Michael D. Johnson is Dean and E.M. Statler Professor Emeritus at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, as well as Marketing Department Chair at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published over 100 academic articles and industry reports and five previous books over the course of his career and consulted in over 20 industries.
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Chapter 1: The Value of a Large Leaky Bucket
Chapter 2: The CPM Framework and Relationship Segments
Chapter 3: CPM Growth
Chapter 4: Customer Portfolio Lifetime Value
Chapter 5: CPM Analytics
Chapter 6: Relationship Conversion and Defense through Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
Chapter 7: Capturing Value through CPM
Chapter 8: A Roadmap: Getting Started with CPM

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How to create value with all the customers in a portfolio, from the stronger relationships that increase profit margins to the weaker relationships that increase scale.

Which would you rather have: a smaller, watertight bucket of loyal customers or a larger leaky bucket of both loyal and not-so-loyal customers? In Customer Portfolio Management, Fred Selnes and Michael Johnson argue that for most companies and organizations the larger leaky bucket is more valuable. While loyal customers are generally more profitable, the weaker, or “leaky,” relationships in a portfolio provide scale economies and a source of future loyal customers. The basic principle behind customer portfolio management (CPM), they explain, is to view a company’s market strategies as long-term investments in the strength of relationships over an entire portfolio of current and future customers.

This book helps business leaders understand when and how much to focus on acquiring customers, how to defend and leverage those relationships, and how to convert some of these relationships into stronger, more profitable ones. The authors present an implementable framework for CPM that involves:
  • segmenting customers into strangers, acquaintances, friends and partners;
  • understanding the lifetime value, or revenues and costs over time, across relationship segments; and
  • determining when and how much to invest in customer acquisition, relationship defense, relationship leverage, and relationship conversion.

Case studies and examples that include Amazon, Apple, IKEA, and dozens of other companies are used along the way to illustrate effective portfolio management principles and growth strategies.

Author

Fred Selnes is Profesor in the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian School of Business. He has published academic articles in leading academic journals, written several books, consulted in more than 50 industries, and started four companies.

Michael D. Johnson is Dean and E.M. Statler Professor Emeritus at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, as well as Marketing Department Chair at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published over 100 academic articles and industry reports and five previous books over the course of his career and consulted in over 20 industries.
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Michael D. Johnson View titles by Michael D. Johnson

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Value of a Large Leaky Bucket
Chapter 2: The CPM Framework and Relationship Segments
Chapter 3: CPM Growth
Chapter 4: Customer Portfolio Lifetime Value
Chapter 5: CPM Analytics
Chapter 6: Relationship Conversion and Defense through Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
Chapter 7: Capturing Value through CPM
Chapter 8: A Roadmap: Getting Started with CPM

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