Professor Kaj Storbacka
University of Auckland Business SchoolM.Sc (naval architecture), Aalto University, School of ScienceM.Sc (business admin), Hanken School of EconomicsPh.D. (marketing), Hanken School of EconomicsDr. Storbacka is one of the global forerunners in the field of developing customer oriented business models. He has thirty years of experience as a strategy consultant to major European and global companies - in finance, media, travel, retail, utility, manufacturing and telecommunications.Dr. Storbacka is one of the global forerunners in the field of developing customer oriented business models. He has thirty years of experience as a strategy consultant to major European and global companies - in finance, media, travel, retail, utility, manufacturing and telecommunications.Dr. Storbacka is a frequent speaker at internal seminars for major global corporations, at Executive MBA programs and leading management development institutions in Europe, Asia and the US.He has previously held professor chairs at Hanken School of Economics in Finland and at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands. In 1994, he founded Vectia Ltd., a management consultancy focusing on customer oriented strategy, solution business development and customer experience management. He is now on the board of Talent Vectia Ltd., the largest consulting firm in Finland and since 2004, on the board of the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA).Dr. Storbacka has published over sixty books and academic articles. His books Designing Markets: Are you Market Driven or Market Driving (with Dr. Suvi Nenonen) and Customer Relationship Management - Creating Competitive Advantage through Win-Win Relationship Strategies (with Dr. Jarmo R. Lehtinen) have been awarded as the best business books in Finland in 2010 and 1997. His academic research on Market and Business Model Innovation has been published in journals such as Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, European Journal of Marketing and Market Theory.Risto PennanenM.Sc (Technical Physics), Aalto University and Technische Universität München, Germany
MBA, Aalto University and INSEAD, FranceRisto Pennanen is a Senior Partner at the consulting firm Talent Vectia Ltd., Espoo, Finland. He has a long management experience in industry ranging from R&D to manufacturing and sales management as well as business line and business development responsibilities. During his consulting career in Vectia Ltd. and Talent Ltd. he has consulted since year 2000 a number of leading international companies in the ITC, electronics, metals, machinery, construction and paper & pulp industries in customer oriented strategy, solution business development and strategic account management.

First book with a comprehensive approach to the transformation towards solution business

Offers practical guidance on how to industrialise business solutions

Provides real-life examples globally collected from both multi-national and smaller firms

Helps to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage which is not visible to competitors

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Driving Growth and Profit With Solution Business.- Develop Solutions: Identifying New Value Creation Opportunities.- Create Demand: Generating Sales Opportunities.- Sell Solution: Turning an Opportunity to an Order.- Deliver Solution: Securing Customer Value Creation and Firm Value Capture.- Solution Platform: Foundation for Sustainable Success.- Making It Happen: Are You Ready for Solution Business?.