by Michael Maoz | October 27, 2010 | 20 Comments
Over the past ten years the level of customer satisfaction has edged up only slightly – for most industries in the vicinity of 3-5 percent. Considering that over US $ 75 billion was spent on CRM-related business applications in that time period, and triple that sum on process improvement, and hundreds of books written, you [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
Which demographics care about privacy? Which cultures? How do we differentiate amongst all of the shades of grey in between? Do we, as businesses, have the responsibility to protect our clients and their privacy – each of us who goes after data? No one is telling you or your customers or your partners to expose data [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
Listening to CIOs this week, it is clearer than ever that introducing a new model for employee and customer interaction poses profound challenges. When my 14 year old daughter swiped my iPad, and synched it with her iPod Touch and then synchronized all of her posts from Twitter and facebook and her favorite fan pages [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
I don’t get enough opportunity to meet with CIOs. A part of that is because I am working closely on issues focused on generating revenue and creating loyal customers while spending less doing it. These are the basics of a great customer experience. Companies on the order of Amazon.com have IT asking the questions of [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Symposium 2010 is in full swing here in Orlando, Florida. Social Media and processes are front and center on the agenda. The meaning of the connections is coming up in a lot of conversations. Has anyone else gotten tired of the use of “Friends” in relation to social networks? From the mid-1990’s, and stretching for [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
New on Gartner.com this morning is The Concise Social CRM Vendor Guide (if you are a client, you can download it: http://my.gartner.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=256&mode=2&PageID=2350940&ref=GartnerRecommends&resId=1452313 ) For me one of the best outcomes was to get the entire team here covering “Social” for the disciplines of marketing, sales, eCommerce and Customer Service to hone the initial definition that we [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments
This is my 18th year working in the Customer Experience process area. When I started there were no mobile devices smaller than a hair dryer, Al Gore had not yet invented the Internet, and we used to worry that the FAX machine would jam over the weekend. Anyone who says customer processes are not improving [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
A few posts back I talked about the shakeout in the Social CRM Software space, and the direction it might take. But there is a bigger challenge that we face in the enterprise of placing multiple bets, simultaneously, on our web and mobile business strategies. There is no single solution to being ‘best’ at social [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
It is quaint to see your company and its research focus discussed in magazines, particularly by journalists who truly grasp none but the most tenuous understanding of the Gartner model and lack access to the research that we write. What a lot of folks forget is that we write for clients who subscribe to our [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Tweet is bound to come any day now: the revolution is here. Most people reading this were not born when I first heard Pete Townsend’s lyrics on the album Who’s Next almost 40 years ago. They are a good summary of the Social hype today: I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take [...]
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