Understanding Customers

Changed career to Personnel Management after originally training as an engineer. Followed by personnel experience in the engineering industry and later as Personnel Manager with Oxford University Press. Research degree awarded (in Adult Education) for work on the evaluation of training. Training conducted for many organisations including Bass, Plessey, Marks & Spencer, GPT, Lloyds/TSB, Northern Foods, Siemens. Has also been involved in setting up management education programmes in Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Zimbabwe.

• A historical perspective; Perception; Ideas from economics; Marketing aspects of sociology; People in groups; Attitudes and social behaviour; The behavioural sciences - problems and methods; An introductory look at marketing research; The presentation and interpretation of data; Consumer decision making and modelling; Learning; Segmentation; Attitude change; Forecasting, change and the future; References, bibliography

'It is even more comprehensive than before, yet remains firmly focused on the instrumental demands of students. It can be picked up voluntarily and read for pleasure. Few technical publications justify such an accolade, yet in Rice's case it is well deserved' Ted Johns, CIM Senior Examiner, Understanding Customers