Case Analysis: Harrah’s Entertainment, Rewarding Our People Harrah’s Entertainment is one of the world’s largest casino entertainment companies. Harrahs concentrates on building customer loyalty through an optimal service, excellent products, operational excellence and technology leadership. The company decided to change its operating strategy from a more product orientated to a strategic marketing orientated company, after what products and services are based on customer data. Regarding to this
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Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. February 7, 2011 The goal of introducing the Gainsharing program was to increase employee motivation so they provide outstanding customer service. The differentiating factor in regaining and keeping bigger market share was through customer satisfaction. The Gainsharing program was effective in increasing both customer satisfaction and employee loyalty. Turnover went down from 70% to 50% in one year. It also proved to be an effective motivator to the food
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mission statement. HARRAH’S ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (renamed Caesars entertainment in 2010) the largest U.S. Casino emblem, is committed in the American public gaming company that retains casinos, hotels, and golf techniques under several brands (Stutz, "Harrah's opts to hail name of Caesars"., 2008-04-10). The prime conclusion maker in the business is Mr. Gary William Loveman, leader, CEO, and head person of the Board (Harrah Entertainment, Company Profile of Harrah's Entertainment, 2001). Following
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Case Study - Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.: Rewarding Our People Section I - Case Overview Harrah’s Entertainment, a fortune 500 and one of the largest casino entertainment companies had decided to move away from being a product based to more of a strategic marketingoriented company whereby tailoring its products and services based on customer data and creating a customer focused reward program. At the heart of Harrah’s reward program are its employees who would ultimately carry it out in
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1: The fundamental argument underlying Harrah’s strategy; is it better to catch many small fish or one big whale? The most rewards should be given to the group of customers with high customer worth, or customers who could potentially transition into that category (high predicted worth). Casinos typically target high rollers with a large bank roll who play high stake games. They court these types of players, offering complimentary rooms or services. Harrah’s on the other hand chooses to target low
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12/6/2011 Barcenas|Bathan|Erum|Joseco|Pragacha|Rara|Ricafrente|Rivera | BA 170 Group 2 | Harrah’s Entertainment: Hitting the crm Jackpot | BA 170 Group 2 | Harrah’s Entertainment: Hitting the crm Jackpot | Harrah’s Entertainment Inc: Come out and Play In 1931, the casino gaming was legalized in Nevada and has become a socially acceptable form of recreational entertainment, thus, proliferation of casinos followed. In the early period of the industry, religious settlers felt that
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White Paper: An Analysis of Harrah’s Total Rewards Players Rewards Program © 2006 Gaming Market Advisors December 2006 Prepared by Gaming Market Advisors 330 E. Warm Springs Rd Las Vegas, NV 89119 4340 E. Kentucky Ave. Suite 311 Denver, CO 8024 Table of Contents I. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS............................................................................................................................................1 II. PROJECT OVERVIEW..................................
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ADM1370 – Case Study #1, Winter 2012 Harrah's-Gambling Big on Technology The large investment made by Harrah's Entertainment Inc. in its information technology strategy has been tremendously successful. The results of Harrah's investment include: 10-percent annual increase in customer visits. 33-percent increase in gross market revenue. Yearly profits of over $239 million. Highest three-year ROI (return on investment) in the industry. A network that links over 42,000 gaming machines
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Harrah’s Entertainment Inc Abstract Harrah, a prominent name in the gambling industry, is seeking for new initiatives in order to attract and retain customers. The main focus of the company is on the database management program which will consolidate the information of customers and make a profile of each individual in order to track their preferences. Harrah has to implement additional strategies with the one mentioned above to gain competitive advantage in the industry. The importance of realization
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Harrah's Entertainment case Hiroaki Tanaka 48167388 1. First, the objective of “New Business Program” was establishing relationships with new customers. The program was designed to develop the effectiveness at converting new Total Gold members into loyal customers by sending redeemable offers. Exhibit 2b showed that this program worked well. In April 1999, 1,022 new customers came to Harrah’s and the predicted worth of these customers was $31,992. In May, 125 customers of these 1,022 customers
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