Martha Rogers

Updated at: Feb. 1, 2010, 12:08 a.m.

Business 2.0 magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology Network named her as an innovator 'most likely to create visionary ripple effects.' Recognized for the past decade as one of the world's leading experts on customer-based business strategies and growing customer value, Dr. Rogers is an acclaimed author, a world class-class speaker, and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world's leading customer-focused management consulting firm, based in Norwalk, CT, and boasting an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. Gartner Group has positioned Peppers and Rogers Group as the only CRM-services firm that can help clients with both 'vision' and 'implementation' of their customer strategy.

Martha's experience, expertise, and ability to think out of the box makes her equally popular with media interviewers, speaking event planners, and Fortune 1000 executives seeking to learn how to compete in the Information Age, how to get a payoff from their CRM software and technology, how to build the value of their customer base, and how to cascade the changes needed in an organization to realize ROC — the return on the investment companies make in their customers.

With Don Peppers, Dr. Rogers has co-authored five best-selling books on these subjects: The first, The One to One Future (1993), celebrating its 10th year in print, was named by Inc. magazine's editor, George Gendron, as 'one of the two or three most important business books ever written' and is widely acknowledged as the bible of the customer strategy revolution. The second, Enterprise One to One, received a top 5-star rating from the Wall Street Journal. All five have been international best sellers, including the latest book, One to One B2B, which made the NY Times Business Best Seller list within a month of its publication. The books have sold over a million copies and appear in a total of 14 languages.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Dr. Rogers is helping to spearhead the CRM coursework at the MBA level. She is also the co-director of the Teradata Center for Customer Relationship Management at Duke. She is widely published in academic and trade journals, including Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology. She has been named International Sales and Marketing Executives Educator of the Year. And with Don Peppers, she has been named Direct Marketer of the Year by DM Days New York. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Dr. Rogers began her professional career as a copywriter and advertising executive, and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee as a Bickel fellow. At Peppers and Rogers Group, she has led several large subscription-based research studies focusing on particular aspects of CRM.


Related Books

The One to One Future: Bulding Business Relationships One Customer at a Time

Managing Customer Relationships: A Strategic Framework 2nd Ed.

Clicks, Bricks and Brands: The Marriage of Online and Offline Business

Enterprise One to One: Tools for Competing in the Interactive Age

One to One B2B: Customer Development Strategies for the Business-to-Business World

One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a 1to1 Marketing Program

The One to One Manager: Real-World Lessons in Customer Relationship Management