2025

  • Data Design: The Visual Display of Qualitative and Quantitative Information, 2nd edition to be published. Associated data sources will be found here.
  • Coansulting project: Strategic Advisor, Spreat.
  • Research project: Reframing Customer Service Digitalization

2024

  • Handbook of Good Research, Second Edition published on iBook Store and Amazon.

  • Coansulting project: Partner Retail NXT, the Retail Technology Conference.

2023

  • Coansulting website migrated to Joomla 4.x.

2022

  • Marketing-Automation - Erfolgsmodelle aus Forschung und PraxisData published. Contributed article: Evolution der Marketingtechnologie.

2021

  • Research project: The emergence and implications of Technologized Marketing, published in Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science.

  • Dr. Jürgen Brock, co-founder of coansulting.com joins the management board of OC fulfillment GmbH on April 1, 2021, as Chief Executive Officer. OC fulfillment GmbH is the developer and provider of the leading omnichannel fulfillment SaaS platform fulfillmenttools.

  • Research project: The Strategic Management of Customer Emotions.

2020

  • Data Design: The Visual Display of Qualitative and Quantitative Information, 2nd edition to be published. Associated data sources will be found here.

  • Research project: One-Voice Strategy for Customer Engagement, published in Journal of Service Research.

2019

  • Research project: Demystifying AI – What Digital Transformation Leaders Can Teach You about Realistic Artificial Intelligence published in the California Management Review Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence. Table of contents of the special issue can be found here.


  • Coansulting project: Advisor to Preventum an iPug brand.

  • Business research project: The Evolution of Marketing Technology published in Handbook of Advances in Marketing in an Era of Disruptions.
     Handbook of Advances in Marketing in an Era of Disruptions

  • Coansulting website 2.0

2018

  • Business Research project: The Evolution of Marketing Technology, to be published in 2019.

  • Coansulting project: Strategic Advisor and Member of the Board of Advisors at Unboxed Network and Advisor to Preventum an iPug brand.

2017

  • Coansulting and Coansulting Press move to Tokyo, Japan.

  • Handbook of Good Research print edition released. ISBN 9783945905029. $75 plus shipment. Sold out.

2016

  • Business Research project: Displaying Data.

  • Data Design: The Visual Display of Qualitative and Quantitative Information published on the iBook Store. ISBN 9783945905012

2015

  • Handbook of Good Research published on Amazon. ISBN 9783945905005

  • Handbook of Good Research published on the iBook Store. ISBN 9783945905005

  • Coansulting Press founded.

  • Coansulting and Coansulting Press move to Silicon Valley, Mountain View.


2014

  • Business Research project: Handbook of Good Research.

2013

  • Coansulting project: MBI project in the German Internet industry.

  • Business Research project: Solutions selling skills.

2012

  • Business Research project: Customer intimacy. Published in Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 27 Iss: 5.

  • Business Research project: Handbook of Research.

  • Coansulting project: Start-up coansulting in the Internet and security sector.

2011

  • Business Research project: Does distance matter for internationally-oriented small firms? Published in Industrial Marketing Management. Special Issue on Industrial Marketing Strategy and B2B Management by SMEs.

  • Business Training project: Global Online Entrepreneurship.

  • Business Training project: How to conduct good research.

2010

  • Business Research project: The Senior Traveler in Germany. Motivations and Barriers.

  • Business Training project: Online Marketing Management.

  • Business Training project: Global Online Entrepreneurship.

  • Business Training project: How to conduct good research.

2009

  • Zhou Coansulting changes legal form to a GbR (German law).

  • Business Research project: Customer Intimacy in Business-to-Business Relationships released (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Relationship Marketing. American Marketing Association).

  • Business Training project: Online Marketing Management.

2008

  • Business Research project: Customer Intimacy in B2C Markets.

  • Zhou Coansulting moves from Bad Homburg to Munich, Germany.

2007

  • Business Research project: Does Distance Matter for Internationally-Oriented Small Firms? released (Tenth Anniversary McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference).

  • Release of the B2B Customer Intimacy Scale, Mark I.

  • Consulting.com Website 1.1
     

2006

  • Formal inception of Zhou Coansulting.

  • Business Training projects: Understanding Chinese Tourist Behaviour.

2005

  • Business Research project: Chinese Incoming Tourists to Europe.

  • Business Research project: Organizational Internet Use Benchmarking.

  • Release of the Organizational Internet Use Scale, Mark I.

  • Business Research project: MNE Knowledge Management Across Borders and ICT published (Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management).

  • Business Research project: Does Global Virtuality Render FDI Obsolete? released (Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy).

2004

  • Business Research project: Organizational Internet Use Benchmarking.

  • Business Research project: The Drop and Collect Survey in Industrial Populations published (Industrial Marketing Management).

2003

  • Release of the Marketing Performance Management System, Mark I. Subsequently implemented and utilized by a major European IT provider.

2002

  • Business Research project: Development of a Marketing Performance Management System.

2001

  • Business Research project: The Drop and Collect Survey in Industrial Populations released (Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference).


2000

  • 4th and final year of the coansulting project with GD International Hotel Group Ltd., Hong Kong, China.

1999

  • 3rd year of the coansulting project with GD International Hotel Group Ltd., Hong Kong, China.

1998

  • 2nd year of the coansulting project with GD International Hotel Group Ltd., Hong Kong, China.

1997

  • Start of the 1st coansulting project with GD International Hotel Group Ltd., Hong Kong, China