Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

As another calendar year drew to a close, while our cable TV company was buoyed by better sales numbers as a result of new service activations and stepped up marketing, we were still struggling to reverse a downward overall trend. Our competitors offered more channels at a very competitive price, and were able to mass market.

Leadership 150

Leadership Metrics Price Mass Marketing 150

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Through motivation profiling and Models of Excellence tools, the motivation patterns of high performers within a call center were identified. And much more.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results. Their insights and experience suggest five marketing capabilities that in their most refined form border on superpowers. Extraordinary marketers are amazing listeners. Retailers have stores, call centers, and e-commerce.

Marketing 15

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. Captive R&D Centers. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China.

Engineering 10

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

Insurance 15

Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

Loyalty 15

Loyalty Marketing Maslow Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Independent of any altruistic motives, engaging with the BOP can help designers and innovators gain insight into the following three key issues: 1. In the U.S.,

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Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Building communities for the purpose of marketing to them is a hot subject, but inherently dubious. Rethink your innovation competencies.

Company 15

Company Software Call Center Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Zappos generates so much buzz with its fantastic service experience that the company can spend significantly less on marketing than its rivals. In other words, social media improves service by making the market for peer-to-peer opinion more efficient. What are innovative ways you've seen social media used in organizations?

Media 17

Media Self-aware Call Center Tools 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

This distortion is due to a concept called cumulative error. Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. The game here is called “silos,” and it too results in cumulative error. And so on through legal and compliance, training, and marketing. Innovation' Business case developed?

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Innovation Storytelling Document Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

The only real way to grow sales and profits is to create innovative offerings with some "must haves" that define new categories or subcategories for which competitors are not relevant. Ongoing innovation. experience, its culture celebrating weirdness, and its 24/7 call center that will even find an open pizza shop presents a high bar.

Aaker 15

Aaker Henderson Brand Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. With Getaroom, I understood the lodging market is massive and knew a niche player could capture a large amount of revenue, but my initial projections were modest and I watched expenses closely. Find your niche in a sizable market.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

To develop a new customer experience, companies need a real-time engagement process that encourages customers and employees to devise new interactions between them and facilitates the emergence of innovative customer experiences. There are also practical challenges tied to the massive nature of the required market research.

B2B 15

B2B Consensus Products Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation. Consider Porter's value chain.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

Understanding customers has never been more important as empowered, fickle consumers take less notice of your marketing campaigns, listening instead to the experience of other customers, online and offline, and doing their own research. We're guessing not as well as you would like to. and not as well as you'll need to in the future.

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Brand Survey Call Center Sample 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Dench's character lands her first job, drawing on her experience and accumulated know-how to train young Indian call center workers in the subtleties of cross-cultural communications. There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S. They find new life instead of old age.

Outsourcing 17

Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But for company's where the website is a straightforward marketing tool, it may be better to classify it in Messages, which we'll see below.) The web team needs to be in sync with product development, which needs to coordinate with marketing and sales, who need to align messages with the third-party call-center.

Insurance 15

Insurance Retail Brand Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Geofilters become available when a user is in a specific location — think Athens, Greece, or Morristown, New Jersey.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve This call center employed all the best practices of the day: A psychologist created scripts of talking points.

Organization 15

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007.

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Metrics Parcell Call Center Products 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We call these people Cost Center Consumers, and they come in two flavors. They tie up your call centers, incur costly returns, and generate other costs that occur below the gross margin line, which is harder to see. Redbox, the innovator whose DVD dispenser machine rents DVDs for $1 per day, had also grown quite rapidly.

P&L 15

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 There’s no one-size-fits-all AI solution.

Survey 15

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Most of us are familiar with them as marketing gimmicks: "robot barf" in the corners of ads. This will prove far more useful than today''s CRM techniques, which are conversational only in the scripted and controlling manner of call centers. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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CRM CIO Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 10

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

Any company in a truly competitive market suffers an inevitable decline if it ignores this basic discipline for too long. By doing so, an elite group of companies has enabled their employees to more rapidly address customer problems, anticipate unarticulated needs and drive customer-facing innovation. Brands to the Mayo Clinic and U.S.

Mayo 12

Mayo How To Banking Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. The ones who are really innovating aim bigger. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

Technology 8

Technology Audience Call Center Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Chris Plescia, Marketing, Collaboration and Corporate Internet Solutions BSA Leader, told me that they are moving from an information "push" environment — sending out lots of messages on things workers need to know — to a "pull" environment, where workers search for information they need, get answers to questions, or access services.

Process 10

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. This clean-sheet customer experience prioritization over more traditional call center KPIs had a huge effect.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Many mobile marketing services offer to qualify the lead for you, using a call center service to follow up with the customer using the number they provided on the (very short) form. Use the magical call feature. people still use their phones to make actual phone calls. Overwhelmed with too many calls?

Advertising 8

Advertising Call Center Brand Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary.

Organization 9

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Today, the mainstream appeal of Silicon Valley is turning young Filipino workers who might have been satisfied with a call center job a decade ago into a creative and entrepreneurial class seeking a deeper connection with innovation-driven and mission-focused companies.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8