Should our marketing team help define our customer strategy?
Should our marketing team be involved when defining and implementing a customer strategy? Why or why not?

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This is an organizational question for your firm, and the answer depends on how your company defines "marketing." We think marketing should involve everything customer-related, but there are many corporate organizations where sales, marketing and customer service are split into several different departments.

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This was first published in December 2007