Brand Management

  • What Business Models Work in an Open Source World?

    Cohesive Financial Technologies: How a Software Start-Up Thinks through Its Options

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    How does open source work as part of a business model? A start-up company explains how to think through the different dimensions of open source.
    Jun. 29, 2006
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  • Muji

    Engaging Customers to Help with Product Design

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    Muji—a well-known retail brand in Japan—has integrated customer input and suggestions into its core business operations. Muji encourages customers to submit product design ideas and to comment and vote on each others' ideas.
    Jun. 15, 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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  • Koko Fitness

    Discovering Baby Boomers’ Health and Fitness Issues

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    Koko Fitness is a new start-up company that was designed from the outside in—starting with customers’ desired outcomes.
    Apr. 13, 2006
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  • Introduction to Outside Innovation

    The Outside Innovation Imperative

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    The outside innovation process involves engaging with lead users and lead customers in a variety of roles to create new products, processes, and business models. There are 7 ways in which outside innovation differs from traditional innovation processes.
    Mar. 30, 2006
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  • Lego Mindstorms NXT

    Powered by Customers’ Inventiveness

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    LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ has been Lego’s highest revenue producing product. It was developed (and enhanced) by Lego’s customers.
    Mar. 16, 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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  • Own the Customer’s Total Experience

    Taking Responsibility Leads to Customer Loyalty

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    The second critical success factor originally introduced in Customers.com is “Own the Customer’s Total Experience.”
    Dec. 22, 2005
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  • Meeting the Customer Experience Challenge

    What’s Your Current Situation? What’s Your Vision?

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    How does a company that delivers a great customer experience look, feel and behave? Here’s the vision that our clients have of what they’re attempting to achieve as they strive to improve the Quality of the Customer ExperienceSM they deliver.
    Nov. 3, 2005
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  • In Google We Trust?

    What’s Google’s Impact on Your Strategy?

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    What’s your Google strategy? Google has become much more than a search engine. It’s now a major market force and a shaper of customer behavior. In fact, Google’s strategy may impact your company’s future, whether you pay attention or not!
    Jul. 7, 2005
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  • A Call for Accounting Transparency: The Value of Customers and Brands

    New Rules for Disclosing Intangible Assets Will Require Reporting on Customer and Brand Assets

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    Accounting rules are about to change. Soon, your company will be required to break out the value of certain intangible assets on your balance sheet. Will you be ready?
    Jun. 2, 2005
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  • Apple’s Lessons for the Rest of Us

    Customer-Led Innovation

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    Apple’s iPod strategy is paying off brilliantly. The popular iPod, with its iTunes legal music library, has created a halo effect for the rest of Apple’s computer business.
    Jan. 27, 2005
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  • E.piphany Advisor

    Products That Can Improve Your Customer Experience

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    Epiphany Advisor is a suite of three products, specialized implementations of those products for retail financial services and communications companies, and tightly packaged integrations of the products with PeopleSoft and Siebel CRM applications. You ca
    Nov. 18, 2004
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  • Comergent E-Business System 6.4

    Marketing and Selling Complex Products Directly to Customers and Indirectly through Partners

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    The Comergent E-Business System can help you deliver a customer experience across all the phases of the customer lifecycle and across Web and contact center touchpoints, either directly to end customers or indirectly through a multitier partner channel.
    Sep. 30, 2004
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  • Banks Measure What Matters to Customers—and Improve Service

    Leading Practitioners Now Measure the Quality of Customer Experience

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    Banks and other financial services firms are focusing on the Quality of Customer Experience for critical customer scenarios. Here are a couple of examples of how banks are measuring and improving what matters to their prospects and customers.
    Sep. 23, 2004
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  • Best Practices in Dealing with Consumers’ Cross-Channel Retail Behavior

    Meeting Consumers' 'Moments of Truth' as They Shop across Channels

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    Many of today’s consumers prefer to shop across channels—for example, researching online, buying in the store, and getting support by phone. Cross-channel retail poses significant challenges for retailers and for suppliers of consumer products. We offer
    Jan. 29, 2004
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  • Who Needs a Premium Product Search Engine?

    When Basic Search Will Satisfy Findability, and When You Need a Premium Search Engine

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    We offer a quick self assessment for marketing executives to determine whether a premium product search engine will boost findability.
    Jan. 8, 2004
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  • Chordiant 5

    How Chordiant’s CRM Suite Stacks Up Against Our Framework for Evaluating Multi-Channel CRM Solutions

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    This report assesses the functionality, administration, and Architecture of Chordiant 5 against our evaluation and comparison framework for the multi-channel CRM.
    Apr. 3, 2003
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  • The Future of Marketing and Branding

    What Can We Learn from Watching 8- to 14-Year-Olds Interact with Markets and Brands around the World?

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    Introducing a seminal global study on 8- to 14-year-old consumers. You’ll learn how today’s tween-agers will set the pace for tomorrow’s marketing and brand strategies.
    Mar. 27, 2003
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  • Epiphany E.6

    How E.piphany’s CRM Suite Stacks Up against Our Framework for Evaluating Multi-Channel CRM Solutions

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    This report assesses the functionality, administration, and Architecture of E.piphany E.6 against our evaluation and comparison framework for multi-channel CRM.
    Mar. 20, 2003
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