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by Michael Maoz | January 31, 2012 | 6 Comments
Peer-to-peer support communities where customers solve their own support issues have been around for over 20 years, but it has only been recently that Cloud-based packaged business applications have been available, scalable, and feature rich. After a year of diving into four separate support communities made up of contributors from around the world, we’re more [...]
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by Michael Maoz | January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
One of the many pleasures of the role of driver in a carpool that transports high school students to-and-from school is the glaring clarity of their insight. Today’s gang-of-four conversation started with: a) “I know, right? Who needs all of that @#%$ from Facebook. They’re only doing it to make money.” b) “Yeah, they’re like [...]
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by Michael Maoz | January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
During a briefing last Friday afternoon a software provider in the Social CRM space (is anyone NOT in the “Social” space?) put up a slide about their ‘social analytics’ capability. It said: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we [...]
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by Michael Maoz | January 18, 2012 | Comments Off
The 18 presentations that need to be brought to editing for our upcoming conference, Gartner Customer 360 Summit (http://bit.ly/wBQyzi) are now safely behind me, as are the case studies. More immediately ahead is today’s Gartner Webcast ( http://bit.ly/zjtcIY ) that looks at “Using Insight to Create Customer Centricity.” If you have time at noon EST, listen in. [...]
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by Michael Maoz | January 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
Two weeks away from work. That is an anachronism that made me think of my parents. In their prime they worked a combined 100-110 hours a week, and that did not include commuting. When they did arrive home, work was gone. Work was just that – it was hard, and there may have been nobility in [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Yes, I’d like world peace, an end to disease, hunger, oppression and ignorance even more than I’d like IT and the business (marketing, sales, service, logistics!) to work with shared goals and objectives. The good news is that the world is more peaceful than at any time in the past 100 years, we are becoming [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 7, 2011 | 3 Comments
We’ve published the updated “Concise Social CRM Vendor Guide, 2012,” and if you are a client you can find it here: http://www.gartner.com/resId=1867115 . If you are not a client, here is the scoop: we are tracking over 100 vendors in the space. The loudest hype around social CRM is over, and now organizations are rolling up [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
Shakespeare’s character in Henry the Sixth says something to the effect of “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Transform kill to ‘remove’ and that might be the remedy for the snail’s pace of innovation in most corporations – remove the current generation of CIO. Not that it is entirely their fault. They [...]
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by Michael Maoz | November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
On Sunday the most influential newspaper on the East Coast of the United States ran an article about Mobile eCommerce. It quoted compelling statistics from the largest computer company in the world. The quote was to the effect that in October 2011, 10% of eCommerce was transacted on mobile devices, and that this would have enormous impact [...]
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by Michael Maoz | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
Name a three letter business acronym with more negative associations than CRM. Only ERP rivals CRM for the concept of failure, frustration, cost and unfulfilled promise. ERP is the discipline of managing your stuff, while CRM is about managing relationships with customers. Why is there so much rancor about CRM? We have been hearing the [...]
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