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Beyond Marketing: Why Digital Disruption Requires a Deeper Transformation

The forces of digital disruption have toppled established business models, magnified the significance of digital channels and competences, and initiated the “customer-centric era.” CMOs and their marketing organizations would seem to be ideally positioned to lead organizational response, as they typically own the customer relationship and have developed sophisticated methods for understanding and communicating with… read more >

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Business 2020: Six Key Dynamics Will Determine Success

The few years since the introduction of the smartphone have brought unprecedented and unforeseen change to the business environment in nearly every company. Technology innovations such as mobile computing, analytics, cloud, and social platforms have empowered consumers in both B2C and B2B contexts, and fundamentally inverted the relationship between buyers and sellers. Looking forward to the business environment in… read more >

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Successful Customer Experience Calls For Customer Insight

The forces of digital disruption have empowered consumers and inverted the power relationship between buyers and sellers. Competitive advantages based on manufacturing, distribution, and IT are no longer sustainable. Customer loyalty has all but disappeared; buyers can and will shift their allegiance immediately if disappointed. In the era of the empowered consumer, business success depends… read more >

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The CEM Imperative: Customer Experience in the Age of the Empowered Consumer

The ability to effectively manage relationships with prospects and customers can make or break an organization. Unfortunately, there is currently no “one-size-fits-all” solution to managing these experiences, which means Customer Experience Management (CEM) is hard, complicated, and very new. In this Insight Paper, Tim Walters makes the case for CEM by explaining that empowered customers,… read more >

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Managing the New Marketing Complexity: Integrated Cloud Services Pose an Attractive Alternative for Some

The marketer’s job has never been harder. The proliferation of consumer touchpoints and the adoption of disruptive technologies such as smart mobile devices have vastly increased and complicated the marketer’s workload. In response, today’s marketers can draw upon an ever-growing arsenal of software solutions, but the very real danger is that marketers and their IT… read more >

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How Customer Experience Management Changes the “Suite vs. Separate” Debate

The debate over suite versus best-of-breed solutions has raged since the introduction of enterprise resource planning (ERP) suites in the early 1990s, pitting integration and consistency against functionality and innovation – at least according to the classical terms of the dispute. Highlights: Suite versus best of breed: A timeless debate revisited Understanding and meeting the… read more >

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Addressing the Midmarket’s Requirements for Customer Experience Management

Thanks to the forces of digital disruption – such as mobility, social networking, and ubiquitous connectivity – consumers have rapidly developed an appetite for engaging, differentiated, and consistent interactions with companies and brands. Firms of all sizes suddenly need to adopt or develop the tools, skill sets, and strategies that will allow them to create,… read more >

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It’s Time to Rethink “Enterprise” Software. Look for the Answer in the Business Process, not the Application

Everyone talks about “enterprise” software solutions, but what does it really mean? The established definitions are either too broad (“Software used by companies.”) or too narrow (ERP suites). Most people would agree that “enterprise” indicates that the software has certain characteristics or capabilities, such as scalability, extensibility, portability, etc. However, since there are no agreed-upon… read more >

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The Rich Media Revolution. Why the Path to Engagement Begins and Ends with Online Video.

In this paper Allen Bonde examines the essence of “new” engagement, especially when targeting increasingly distracted business-to-business (B2B) buyers and influencers. Allen looks at the power of digital storytelling and the new formula for engaging in the rich media world, and then lays out the business case for investing in video marketing. The paper reviews… read more >

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Content, Context, and Chaos: How Marketing Must Change to Deliver Customer-Centric Systems of Engagement

As we enter into a new era of the importance of continual customer engagement, the CMO must begin to add systems that not only manage this engagement but also embrace the rapidly shifting and expanding environments in which consumers want to interact. In this paper Robert Rose puts forward three ideas that can lay a… read more >

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