Barton Goldenberg
Barton Goldenberg, president of ISM Inc., has established his Bethesda, Maryland-based company as premier Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) strategic advisors, offering consulting and research services to Global 2000 companies, vendors and financial organizations. He founded ISM in 1985.Goldenberg's foresight and vision to integrate sales, marketing, customer service, e-business, and business intelligence has been central to today's CRM industry success. He is now pioneering a new business model for the 21st century, which will be in his upcoming book, Creating the Real-Time Enterprise.Goldenberg is co-chairman and co-founder of the CRM and RTE conferences and expositions sponsored by DCI Inc worldwide.His bottom-line, results-oriented style has made him popular with chief executives around the world and has helped to make him a sought-after speaker and writer. In the United States, Europe, and Asia, Goldenberg conducts CRM and RTE management briefings and has helped companies worldwide successfully implement CRM. Clients include Abbey National, IBM, Lucent Technologies, AAA Mid-Atlantic, New York Stock Exchange, McGraw-Hill, Roche and Xerox.Goldenberg is the author of CRM Automation (Prentice Hall, 2002 and 2003), which provides a step-by-step process for successfully implementing a CRM program, and the benchmark Guide to CRM Automation (now in its 12th edition), which features ISM's selection of the Top 30 software packages for the enterprise and the small and medium size business sectors. The Guide and CRM-related software reviews are featured online at www.ismguide.com.Goldenberg is a columnist for CRM Magazine and serves as a member of the Editorial Board. He contributes to eWeek and Sales and Marketing Management magazine, for which he also serves as an editorial advisor. He is often quoted in the media, including BusinessWeek, CIO, Computerworld, Information Week, and Selling Power.In 1999, he was recognized by CRM Magazine as one of the 'Ten Most Influential People in Customer Relationship Management' for his leadership in galvanizing the CRM industry and his role in co-founding and co-chairing DCI's CRM conferences. In 2002, CRM Magazine awarded Goldenberg as one of the '20 Most Influential CRM Executives of the Year.'Goldenberg is one of only three inductees into the newly-created CRM Hall of Fame presented by CRM Magazine at the August 2003 DCI CRM Conference in New York.Prior to founding ISM, Mr. Goldenberg held senior management positions at the U.S. Department of State and Monsanto Europe S.A. He holds a B.Sc. (Economics) degree with honors from the Wharton School of Business and a M.Sc. (Economics) degree from the London School of Economics.
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