Online, Mobile, & IT

  • Designing/Refining Your Mobile Strategy

    Fourteen Approaches to Consider as You Reach Out to Customers Using Mobile Devices

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    Mobile phones will soon surpass computers as the most prevalent way to do business online. Your business needs a mobile strategy. Here’s how to think about it.
    Dec. 23, 2010
    Strategies
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  • The Not So Friendly Route to Flying the Skies

    Lessons Learned from Customers’ Moments of Truth in Multi-Leg Travel Planning

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    There are lessons to be learned from the complex customer scenario of planning a multi-leg trip. These lessons can help you make complex transactions less daunting for customers.
    Apr. 1, 2010
    Strategies
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  • Nature Reinvents Textbooks

    Scitable: A NextGen Ecosystem for Learning & Teaching Science

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    Nature Education has an innovative replacement for college textbooks. It’s an online resource and classroom with a network of subject matter experts. And it’s free to students and faculty.
    Oct. 1, 2009
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  • How Customer-Centric Visionaries Make Information Valuable

    Make Information Actionable and Connect People to People

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    Visionaries—ebusiness leaders—take content very seriously. They don't just post it; they make it multi-dimensional and actionable.
    Jun. 2, 2009
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  • How Keds Uses Zazzle's Customization

    Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008

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    Keds is giving customers the ability to put their own designs on their sneakers by taking advantage of Zazzle.com. Zazzle is a customer-centric ecosystem that lets customers create their own designs to products and then buy or resell their creations.
    Jan. 8, 2009
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  • End-to-End Search Marketing and Customer Experience

    Summary of Survey Results

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    Making the most of your search opportunity isn’t simple, but there are steps you can take to optimize your customers’ search experience and reap increased and more profitable revenue as a result.
    Jun. 26, 2008
    Strategies
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  • CohesiveFT Makes It Easy to “Roll Your Own” Virtual Servers

    Customer-Led Innovation in Virtualization, Service-Oriented Infrastructure and Cloud Computing

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    Cohesive Flexible Technologies is a software start-up whose story to-date provides six best practices in customer-led innovation.
    Mar. 20, 2008
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  • B2B Firms Are Adopting Web 2.0

    How to Engage and Empower Business Customers Online

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    Our B2B use of Web 2.0 chalk talk provides “slideware” with commentary so that you can re-use the graphics, concepts, and overall presentation to educate others.
    Jan. 31, 2008
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  • How Should You Manage Customer and Partner Portals?

    Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    This PSG Classic report presents the do’s and don’t’s of managing customer and partner portals. Although written several years ago, the rules of thumb presented still hold true and are perhaps even more applicable to today’s portal environments.
    Dec. 6, 2007
    Strategies
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  • Avoiding Search Pitfalls

    How to Sidestep and Recover from the Worst Problems

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    There are six big pitfalls that are peculiar to search projects. We have some advice on how to avoid them, or escape them if you’re already in the hole.
    Nov. 8, 2007
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  • Partner Portals Should Be Combined with Customer Portals

    Why Not Design Your Partner Portals to Surround and Complement Your Customer Portals?

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    Partner portals and customer portals should be designed and managed together. The information and resources that partners need overlap with the information and resources customers want and need.
    Oct. 4, 2007
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  • IBM.com’s New Look: More Than a Face Lift

    Using Service-Oriented Architecture to Provide an Adaptive Web Experience

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    In June 2007, IBM launched its next-generation Web site and the framework IBM will use to provide a unified online experience across all IBM’s Web properties. This new site architecture and approach embodies a number of best practices.
    Jun. 28, 2007
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  • What Customer-Centric Visionary Execs Are Doing in 2007

    Customer-Outcome-Driven Businesses, Disappearing Home Pages, and Other Trends

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    Want to know what’s on customer-centric execs’ minds? Here’s an overview of some of the topics discussed at Patty Seybold’s Spring 2007 Visionaries’ Meeting.
    May. 17, 2007
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  • Move Over Portals; Prepare for Scenario Nets!

    The Next E-Business Model: Task-Specific Cross-Company Workflows

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    We’ve invented a new e-business model. We call it Scenario Nets—interlinked Web sites that help you complete a complex task.
    Oct. 20, 2006
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  • Staples

    Customers Help Bring a Customer Experience Promise to Life

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    Staples, the office supplies retailer, has outpaced its competition by deeply understanding what its target customers—small business office supplies buyers—really care about.
    Jun. 8, 2006
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  • Seeker Experience Survey

    Is Search Getting Better?

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    Our survey of seeker experience and projects to improve findability indicate much is spent, but much is left to be done.
    Jun. 1, 2006
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  • What's on the Minds of Lead Customer-Centric Executives in 2006?

    Patty’s Visionaries Share Their Visions, Their Realities, and What’s Working for Them

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    Patty Seybold’s visionary customer-centric executives are engaging with customers in new ways to co-design better offerings and experiences.
    May. 25, 2006
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  • Observations from the Field: SOA

    Conversations with Architects and Technologists on the Hard Part, the Hype, and Zero Code

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    Each week, we interact with individuals from both enterprises and technology providers, on a broad range of topics. These interactions surface recurring themes and interesting insights. This report shares insights gleaned on SOA.
    May. 4, 2006
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  • Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange

    Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”

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    Here’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios.
    Feb. 23, 2006
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  • E-Merchandising Framework

    Applying the 4 Es for Customer Ease

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    Emerchandising should be a basic skill set in every ecommerce organization. We offer a framework for organizing your emerchandising efforts.
    Jan. 19, 2006
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