Customer Knowledge Management, 2014 Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve Customer Focus Management for Professionals Series

Prof. Dr. Soumit Sain is a full time professor of International Management at University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Essen, Germany. He also lectures International Marketing at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo, The Netherlands. His main research areas are in the field of Knowledge Management, International & Global Strategies and Intercultural Studies of multinational and global conglomerates. Prior to his academic career he has worked as software developer and analyst for a global company in India and USA.

Silvio Wilde, MBA, studied International Strategy and Sales Management and International Entrepreneurship in Düsseldorf at the University of Applied Sciences in Economics and Management. Thanks to his previous employments at Siemens, BASF, Bayer and Lanxess, he can look back on a broad range of experience in different corporate knowledge cultures. He currently works as a sales expert, including direct interaction with customers. This enables him to be close to customers and their knowledge and to gain insights into the management of this customer knowledge day by day.