Once the customers and segments are defined, then core objective and measures are developed. Core objective and measure are those that are common across all organization. There are five key core objective increase Market share, increase customer acquisition, increase customer satisfaction, and increase customer profitability, Possible core measures for these objectives, respectively, are market share (percentage of the market), percentage growth of business from existing customers and percentage of repeating customers, number of new customers, ratting from customers satisfaction surveys, and individual and segment profitability. Activity-based costing is a key tool in assessing customer profitability (see chapter 4). Notice that customer profitability is the only financial measure among the core measure. This measures, however is critical because it emphasizes the importance of the right kind of customers. What good is it to have customers if they are not profitable? The obvious answer spells out the difference between being customer focused and customer obsessed.