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Is the window closing on enterprise customer communities?

Is the window closing on enterprise customer communities?

By Dion Hinchcliffe on May 6, 2013

A surprisingly few number of people engage significantly with the companies they care about via social media, as little as 4% according to new research, despite the vast majority of businesses investing in or planning to invest in various forms of social media this year. Exactly why this is the case has various causes. These […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Harvard Business Review, Social Media | 1 Response

2013 predictions for enterprise social media

2013 predictions for enterprise social media

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 18, 2013

What will 2013 hold when it comes to the way businesses employ social media to how they operate? Or perhaps more accurately, to the way they find themselves increasingly surrounded by all things social? As organizations prepare their strategic plans for 2013, it sometimes feels that we’ve been on this treadmill for a good while […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Harvard Business Review, social analytics, social business, Social Media, Social network, social software

The leading indicators of social business maturity in 2012

The leading indicators of social business maturity in 2012

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 1, 2012

So, it’s about seven years after social media first began to be used for business purposes. It’s been a long journey for some and shorter, more intense journey for others. What have we learned so far? What is the state of the industry…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, ibm, Social CRM, Social Media | 3 Responses

How social data is changing the way we do business

How social data is changing the way we do business

By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 12, 2012

It’s a familiar litany now, that the openness and transparency of social media will unleash a wide range of compelling outcomes for our organizations, if we’ll only embrace it. While there is little doubt that social media is one of the great phenomenons of our age, there are certainly those that think the hype surrounding […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, Harvard Business Review, social data, Social Media, Social network

Marketing Isn’t Dead – It’s Everywhere

Marketing Isn’t Dead – It’s Everywhere

By Maggie Fox on August 16, 2012

Last week Bill Lee wrote a controversial article in which he claimed that “marketing was dead” (yet another clever use of a traffic-grabbing title.). It was later (correctly, IMHO) pointed out that what Lee probably should have said was that “advertising was dead”. Regardless of where you come down on this debate, it’s nice to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Harvard Business Review, Internet marketing, marketing, Metadata, Monty Python

Showing Up to Share: From Fear to Fun

Showing Up to Share: From Fear to Fun

By Susan Scrupski on May 15, 2012

During the 1990s, a recession gave rise to a series of popular belt-tightening management edicts that consultants vowed would bring our economy back from the brink by establishing predictable revenue streams and operational efficiencies.  Management gurus such as Michael Hammer led the charge with his audacious howl writing in the Harvard Business Review, “Don’t automate! […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process reengineering, Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, Web 2.0

Reengineering Is Very Much Like Sex

Reengineering Is Very Much Like Sex

By Naomi Bloom on March 21, 2011

Sex Sells!

For reasons too complicated to explain, even to myself, I’ve been doing a lot of clearing out of the “underbrush” in my office over the last couple of weeks.  Some of this was absolutely essential because the physical piles of papers that will never be read, the files of long gone clients, the insights […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Artifacts, best practices, Business process reengineering, Harvard Business Review, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Michael Hammer

Reengineering Work: Obliterate AND automate

Reengineering Work: Obliterate AND automate

By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 11, 2011

I have been invited to moderate a customer panel on next-gen BPO at the Cognizant Community event next week. The theme of the conference is The Future of Work”. When I look at the wide range of industries represented on the panel, the economic models behind today’s BPO, the technologies which are influencing every business […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business process, business process outsourcing, Geoffrey Moore, Harvard Business Review, Michael Hammer, QR Code, reengineering

Your Customer Service Duty

Your Customer Service Duty

By Denis Pombriant on March 8, 2011

There’s good news for any manager who has grown exasperated with trying to delight customers through “over the top” service.  You may be working too hard and the benefits are not forthcoming.  We’ll do anything to keep customers because they tend to buy more from us and the cost of replacing them if they leave […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged CRM, customer service, Harvard Business Review, HBR

Analytics Is the Social CRM Secret Sauce

Analytics Is the Social CRM Secret Sauce

By Denis Pombriant on November 3, 2010

A lot of information is coming together this quarter that begins to put new spin on Social CRM.  While we’ve all been busy getting networked in our personal lives and professionally, a huge mountain of data has been accumulating that will make our work in social technology more valuable. Last week Harvard Business Review released […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, CRM, customer sentiment, harvard, Harvard Business Review, HBR, SAS, secret sauce, Social CRM, Social Media, technology | 1 Response

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