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Trends: 9 Actions to Consider Before 2015 For Digital Transformation
By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2014
Digital Strategy From The Analysts At Constellation Research Constellation’s year end checklist offers suggestions designed to enable you to take control of your digital strategy in 2015. Consider these actions to ensure you dominate digital disruption in the new year. 1. Matrix Commerce: Scrub your data By Guy Courtin When it comes to Matrix Commerce, […]
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Monday’s Musings: It’s Time To Identify, Recognize, and Reward The Rebels – The Constellation SuperNova Awards!
By R "Ray" Wang on July 15, 2013
Seeking The Rebels – Pioneers, Early Adopters, and Thought Leaders Since I started Constellation Research in 2010, we have had a single mission – serve the market leaders and fast followers. Yet, finding these market leaders and fast followers was no easy task. These folks shrugged off the legacy analyst firms as they failed to […]
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What Every CMO Needs To Know About The Five C’s Of Customer Engagement
By R "Ray" Wang on March 8, 2012
Forward And Commentary CMO’s seeking to avoid the desensitization that comes with the adoption of new media will want to quickly deploy the Five C’s of Customer Engagement. A. Introduction Social media effectiveness for brands and enterprises will rapidly mirror the trends that email and web sites experienced during the late 1990′s to early 2000′s. […]
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Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business
By R "Ray" Wang on August 15, 2011
Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant […]
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Best Practices: Applying Social Business Challenges To Social Business Maturity Models
By R "Ray" Wang on January 23, 2011
Early Adopters Cross Through Five Phases Of Social Business Maturity Interviews with over 100 early adopters of social business (i.e. social crm, E2.0, social media marketing, etc.) reveal 5 phases of social business maturity (see Figure 1): Discovery. A few individuals begin the process of discovering new tools. Individuals identify consumer tech innovations that impact […]
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Research Report: Constellation’s Research Outlook For 2011
By R "Ray" Wang on January 4, 2011
Organizations Seek Measurable Results In Disruptive Tech, Next Gen Business, And Legacy Optimization Projects For 2011 Credits: Hugh MacLeod Enterprise leaders seek pragmatic, creative, and disruptive solutions that achieve both profitability and market differentiation. Cutting through the hype and buzz of the latest consumer tech innovations and disruptive technologies, Constellation Research expects business value to […]
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Research Report: The 18 Use Cases of Social CRM – The New Rules of Relationship Management
By R "Ray" Wang on March 5, 2010
Analyzing The Demand For Use Cases In Social CRM
Since joining Altimeter Group, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with my colleague Jeremiah Owyang on Social CRM. On a daily basis, the requests for Social CRM strategies escalated from all parts of the organization. In fact, requests reflected all facets of CRM including the usual sales, marketing, […]
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