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Implementing Market Segmentation Strategies in UK Personal Financial Services: Problems and Progress

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  • Maureen Meadows
  • SALLY DIBB

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Most academic research into segmentation in the financial services industry has focused on alternative analytical approaches and base variables; relatively little attention has been paid to implementation issues, despite managementS concerns about the practicality and usefulness of segmentation. Some significant barriers to effective implementation of segmentation have been encountered by major financial services firms. This paper reviews these barriers, and finds that weaknesses in customer data, and the importance of a good fit with the company'S distribution channels, can limit the range of segmentation approaches that a company can adopt, while the organisational context, structure and strategic positioning canfail to support effective segmentation. The paper also considers some of the newer entrants to the financial services industry, and finds that they are making progress in all of these areas.

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  • Maureen Meadows & SALLY DIBB, 1998. "Implementing Market Segmentation Strategies in UK Personal Financial Services: Problems and Progress," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 45-63, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:18:y:1998:i:2:p:45-63
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069800000018
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    1. Fonseca, Jaime R.S., 2014. "e-banking culture: A comparison of EU 27 countries and Portuguese case in the EU 27 retail banking context," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 708-716.

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