Next-best-action marketing (also known as best next action or next best activity or recommended action), as a special case of next-best-action decision-making, is a customer-centric marketing paradigm that considers the different actions that can be taken for a specific customer and decides on the ‘best’ one. The Next Best Action (an offer, proposition, service, etc.) is determined by the customer's interests and needs on the one hand, and the marketing organization's business objectives, policies on the other. This is in sharp contrast to traditional marketing approaches that first create a proposition for a product or service and then attempt to find interested and eligible prospects for that proposition. This practice, direct marketing, typically automated in the form of a campaign mana