Customer Ecosystems
- « previous
- Page 3 of 6.
- next »
-
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
Customer Ecosystems: Meal Ordering Services
Creating Customer Ecosystems Around a Specific Service
by Ronni MarshakIf there’s “a job” that customers need to get done, it’s relatively easy to foster an ecosystem of business partners to fulfill customers’ goals. What take-aways for your business will you get from our comparison of three competing meal ordering services? -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
Groupon's New Consumer Programs
How Do They Benefit Consumers? And What Do They Offer Merchants?
by Ronni MarshakGroupon is trying new programs to win the loyalty and wallets of existing and new customers. But do the programs offer enough to attract customers to join? And what’s in it for the merchants? -
Local Motors: Open Source Car Design and Local Manufacturing
Forging a Customer Ecosystem to Transform the Automobile Industry
by Patricia SeyboldCan you transform an industry from the outside? That’s what Local Motors is doing with the automobile industry with its customer ecosystem to design and produce great cars. -
The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done—both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful customer ecosystems. -
Turning Protests Into Realizable Visions
URDT Institute Is Transforming Unemployed Youth Into Job Creators in Uganda
by Patricia SeyboldWhat if young people in poor villages could create prosperous businesses and careers in their home towns instead of flocking to cities to contribute to the overcrowding and unemployment? That’s the solution promulgated by the URDT Institute in Uganda. -
Build Community Around "My Stuff"
How Will Online Communities and Social Networks Evolve?
by Patricia SeyboldOnline customer support communities and social networks need to be integrated into the tools that customers use to manage their stuff. -
Manage My Stuff and Coordinate Around Our Stuff
What Tools and Information Do Customers Need and Value for Personal and Professional Use?
by Patricia SeyboldCustomers want help keeping track of things. If you can help them manage and improve their use of your products and services to get things done, it’s a win/win. And they’ll keep doing business with you. -
Apple Sacrifices Customer Experience for Revenue
Lowering Customer Satisfaction by Adding Friction to a Seamless Experience
by Ronni MarshakApple is exacting a higher commission on digital media purchased from within publishers’ own iPhone apps, forcing them to modify the seamless customer experience. The result is angry customers and a potential hit to the Apple brand. -
How Well Does Staples Help a Small Company "Manage My Stuff?"
Customer Experience Audit of Staple’s Capabilities to Let Small B2B Customers Manage Their Relationship
by Ronni MarshakStaples has done a great job of making it easy for customers. But how does it do in a scenario in supporting a small business customer’s account management needs as he tries to “manage his stuff?” -
How Well Does Amazon.com Let Me "Manage My Stuff?"
Customer Experience Audit of Amazon.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Manage Their Relationship
by Ronni MarshakAmazon.com is the role model for creating a great online customer experience. But how well does it do in helping loyal customers “manage their stuff.” In this customer experience audit, we see how Amazon does in a true-to-life customer scenario. -
Why Apple's iCloud Service Will Be Successful
iCloud Service Provides Much-Needed Seamless Synchronization of Digital Media and Applications
by Patricia SeyboldApple’s iCloud offering is misunderstood. It’s not a streaming audio/video service. It’s a “keep my life in synch across my devices” service. -
A Best Practice Example of Applying UX Principles to Product Design and Development
Koko Fitness Demonstrated How to Do It Right Back in 2005!
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakKoko Fitness, a small company that designs and sells interactive workout systems, has been a shining example of best practices in incorporating customer experience and user experience methods into their product design and development lifecycle. -
Is User-Centered Design the Missing Link?
Bridging the Gaps Between Customer Experience and Product Development
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakEmpower UX professionals and embed them within your business units to help product managers and developers identify customer needs and develop products that are easy to use and to adopt, easy to support, and on target to meet a critical end-user need. -
How to Transform the Quality of Life in African Rural Communities
Educate Young People to Be Entrepreneurs and Leaders
by Patricia SeyboldIn western Uganda, URDT’s Vocational Institute addresses unemployment by training young people to be job creators—not job seekers—in their local communities. -
Why the Huffington Post Is Successful
Engaging Your Audience as Active Contributors and Promoters Was Baked into Its DNA
by Patricia SeyboldThe Huffington Post became a successful, profitable online media property for seven good reasons. Most of these best practices are applicable for anyone providing online content. -
Why Quora Is Useful (and Addictive)
Crowdsourced Q&A Community Builds a Knowledge Repository
by Patricia SeyboldWhy is Quora a useful Q&A site for businesspeople and professionals and how should you use it? -
Turning Innovation into Reality
From Ideation to Implementation—Lessons Learned from Our Visionaries
by Ronni MarshakHow can you take all the great ideas that come from customers, partners, and employees and make them actually happen? Let’s look at the different aspects of outside innovation generation and what you need to do to actually turn ideation into innovation. -
Confessions of a Groupon Addict
Great for Customers, but Merchants Beware!
by Ronni MarshakGroupon, the fastest growing company ever, offers a great experience on daily discount deals to customers. However, merchants who don’t think through their Groupon marketing strategy carefully can have disastrous results.
- « previous
- Page 3 of 6.
- next »
