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May
21
2012

"SAP hasn't necessarily set up its StreamWork product as a competitor to Jive's social collaboration software. SAP is actually a customer of Jive, albeit for the software that powers the SAP community website rather than for internal collaboration. However, in terms of getting work done inside an organization, SAP says it is playing a whole different game."

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  • Six years after the rise of the Enterprise 2.0 concept, organizations are still struggling to achieve the kind of "natural adoption" that social business advocates keep telling us is right around the corner,
  • Although applications for CRM or supply chain and procurement are widely employed, they don't necessarily cover the entire process they aim to facilitate.
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May
11
2012

"Aujourd’hui les clients ont plus de pouvoir et sont plus connectés que jamais. Cela appelle une réponse des marques
Le CRM traditionnel concerne la récupération et la gestion des données clients. Le Social CRM est une stratégie d’engagement des clients
Les ventes dirige le CRM traditionnel. Les conversations dirigent le Social CRM et les ventes ne sont qu’un sous-produit."

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Mar
2
2012

"gone are the days where Customer Support is done just via phone calls, email and discussion forums. Today people expect real-time, engaging experiences with brands on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. When they post they want answers, and if they don't get them they may lose interest in the brand. "

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  • The responses used today on phone calls and emails will have to be updated to work with channels like Facebook and Twitter, and staff will need training in social media etiquette.
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  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Social Media Monitoring Maturity Model
Feb
20
2012

"We live in a world of mounting performance pressure. Our Shift Index reveals that return on assets for all public companies in the US has eroded by 75% since 1965. Companies clearly are failing to respond effectively to these mounting pressures. If we hope to turn this around, we need to step back and take a systematic look at the performance levers that drive these results and question the approaches of the past. "

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  • Most businesses can be understood as bundle of three core operating processes, each driven by a unique performance lever. These three operating processes are: customer relationship management, product innovation and commercialization and infrastructure operation
  • In most industries, customer loyalty is eroding, leading to a significant reduction of the average life of a customer. To make matters worse, margins are eroding as well, diminishing the profit generated per year of a customer relationship. In many industries, the cost of customer acquisition is also rising
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"Si la banque a intégré tôt les réseaux sociaux dans sa stratégie de relation client, le mouvement n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts dans beaucoup de groupes. « Les entreprises ont pris conscience des besoins, mais beaucoup n'en sont encore qu'à la phase d'écoute sur ce que l'on dit d'elles. En revanche, elles ont compris qu'il s'agissait d'un vrai changement de culture"

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  • La bonne utilisation de ces derniers réclame en effet de faire évoluer son organisation. Ne serait-ce que pour s'adapter à l'instantanéité des flux
  • L'autre enjeu, de taille, consiste à impliquer l'entreprise dans son ensemble. « De plus en plus de personnes y sont exposées à la relation client »<!----><!--I-->, remarque Laurent Dupuytout. Ce qui nécessite d'améliorer la coordination.
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Dec
27
2011

"Also, truthfully, I’m kind of uncomfortable with this post too. While I’m pretty sure my conclusion is right, I’m not entirely at ease with what it took to get there. I’ll leave it at that. So I reserve the right to treat this as a work in progress.

Also, Part II of this post is on PGreenblog here. The actual “predictions” are there. This part is the explanatory justification for what I see as the shifting of the dynamics in the (social) business world."

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  • First, It doesn’t mean the era of customer intimacy though that is an optimally desired “condition” for a company’s view and relationship to its customers
  • It also doesn’t mean customer loyalty.
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Dec
6
2011

"Paul carefully dissects the positioning of Radian6 as a Marketing Cloud, delivering astute cautionary points on the pitfalls of pitching it this way. Good advice that I hope Salesforce will sit up and take note of. As someone more interested in enterprise customer success than the buzz that fills the pipeline, Paul’s post highlights a bigger issue for Salesforce. They don’t get what they’ve got. Or if they do, they aren’t quite showing it in a way that will accelerate enterprise acceptance yet."

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  • SFDC doesn’t seem to have the right type of enterprise suite strategists guiding a team of kickass engineering tacticians, as voices at levels in the organization’s hierarchy to drive development of clear, relatable, doable use cases
  • Several other respected analyst/strategists like Esteban Kolsky are also questioning the logic behind positioning E20 suites using ‘social voices’ instead of, or in tandem with enterprise platform professionals delivering proven, vetted value.
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Nov
29
2011

"These days, customer service seems to be a contradiction of words and intentions. Year after year, customers are appealing for attention, efficiency and a communicated sense of being appreciated. After all, what is the value of customer acquisition if retention itself isn’t valued? Now with social networks becoming the preferred channel of communication among connected consumers, businesses are losing ground and faith. The reality is that customers will share their experiences whether positive or negative and they will influence the decisions of others. The question is, how are you changing your service model to shape and steer experiences that deliver value to customers and also back to your business?"

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  • On either end, social media and customer service are either established or developing within the organization. While each exist, they do not naturally co-exist in regards to process, systems, vision, or collaborative workstreams.
  • Social media essentially exists within its own silo and is largely disconnected from other divisions.
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Oct
12
2011

"I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. They began with a wiki base and have added capability over time to build a comprehensive platform. A couple of years ago they added Socialtext Signals, one of the first enterprise micro-blogging tools. A wrote about them a year ago on this blog (see Socialtext Adds Micro-messaging and Goes Mobile). Recently, I spoke with their CEO, Eugene Lee, on their latest offerings."

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  • The platforms that Socialtext can easily integrate with include SharePoint and Salesforce.com. These are good choices. In my view SharePoint, and other document management systems, should be treated like other enterprise applications of record in the same way as an ERP or CRM system is being treated. Socialtext can then help increase engagement with these systems
  • Now you can bring issues form the CRM tool into Socialtext to generate more engagement and more focus
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Oct
6
2011

  • les utilisateurs publient moins et se contentent de partager. De ce fait, les interactions sociales se concentrent sur les contenus les plus intéressants
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  • De l’urgence d’intégrer la sphère sociale dans votre relation clients
  • MediasSociaux.fr > De l’urgence d’intégrer la sphère sociale dans votre relation clients
Oct
3
2011

"Few organizations providing enterprise social software have a process and integration DNA, as does TIBCO Software. The last of the independents in the enterprise integration game, TIBCO supports some of the most gnarly systems integration efforts at some of the best known organizations in the world. For these reasons, I went to TUCON 2011, TIBCO’s Annual Customer Conference to see what customers have to say about Tibbr, TIBCOs enterprise social software offering."

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  • I’ve been writing about this since 2009 and increasingly, scores of examples exist that show tepid or even failed social/collaboration uptake at large organizations due to the fact that context around collaboration was just not apparent.
  • Tibbr has drawn on its integration heritage to ensure that meaningful events can be drawn in from an organizations BI, CRM and other Business Applications that provide the needed context that often invokes collaboration in the first place
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Sep
19
2011

"In looking at different definitions with different perspectives and a business lens, the one above made the most sense to me. After 16 months, it was time to revisit a diagram created for “A Guide to Understanding Social CRM”. I will not go so far as to call my earlier work wrong, naïve is a better descriptor. The evolution diagram contained my thought process at that time. Without over using the concept, my own thinking has evolved."

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  • For starters, the term ‘Social’ has become a blocker of progress. The attempted isolation of the social components from CRM do both concepts a disservice. The Social CRM discussion has pushed CRM into a bit of corner. How can a relationship exist without social elements?
    • We do not need to evolve to SCRM, we simply need to evolve CRM
    • To say that Social CRM means everyone is a bit over simplistic
    • While we would like to believe it is all about customer defined processes, it is not that simple
    • To believe that customers can set their own hours is great in theory, but let’s be real.
    • It is not simply about the number of channels, rather when and how people use the channels
    • The transaction will never go away, it needs to become a stop along the journey, somewhere near the middle.
    • CRM does need to become outside in, but it does not need to become Social CRM in order to get there.
Sep
3
2011

"Salesforce’s Marc Benioff continued his now-epic stream of social business thought leadership at this week’s Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco. The messaging was certainly world class and the slew of announcements this week will address many of the shortcomings or feature gaps in its social software product line. But is a company whose roots are in sales automation and cloud-based SaaS the right firm to take organizations fully into the social world of the 21st century?"

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  • However, I’m not quite sure that Salesforce has fully connected their products to it. At least not yet, not in their present form. But they are heading in the right direction faster and more thoroughly than just about anyone else except IBM or perhaps Jive.
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  • The Salesforce Social Ecosystem and Stack

"For me and the decision makers I talk to, SCRM is simply taking traditional CRM and adding multichannel social technologies, social analytics and social engagement strategy to help Sales, Marketing and Customer Service be more productive."

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  • Social CRM is a business philosophy that expands the borders of traditional customer relationship management beyond information, process and technology to people, conversations, and relationships. The focus of sCRM is on people (i.e. customers, partner, suppliers), their relationships with other people, and the ongoing conversations that are occurring about the Company and its products. Finally, sCRM is also about engaging with customers and prospects, not controlling them, and establishing bonds of trust (hopefully love) between the Customers and the Company
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Jul
17
2011

"To find out, the folks over at ClickFox, a company specializing in customer experience analytics, conducted a survey to assess the potential cost savings from addressing customer service issues via social media, the impact of word of mouth influence in the social sphere, and the degree to which customers understand the tools currently available to them."

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  • They found 40.2% of customers who weren't able to get their issues resolved in a timely manner via social media then resorted to calling the company's toll-free number. ClickFox estimates each phone call to customer service can cost companies $15 or more--avoidable costs that can directly impact a company's bottom line.
  • "They need to be able to capture what happens during every interaction--to create a link between an anonymous Twitter user and their CRM system" Dekel added.
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Apr
15
2011

"Some days ago Bob Thompson interviewed Graham Hill about his take on Social CRM. The interview covered a lot of topics, most notably the future of Social CRM about which Graham has a particular view and led Bob to ask the question whether it is necessary to have a CRM system to have Social CRM."

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  • CRM is a business strategy; so is Social CRM. In an earlier blog titled CRM vs. Social CRM – what is the difference? I discussed differences as I do saw them at that time. My view has slightly evolved since, but this is another side track.
  • Wikipedia defines CRM as “a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects
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Mar
28
2011

" With the worldwide explosion of social media usage, businesses are feeling extreme pressure to be where their customers are. Today, that street corner is increasingly virtual, located inside a social media or social networking site. But in an environment defined by customer control and two-way dialog, are customers anxious to engage with businesses? "

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  • Businesses are rapidly embracing social media not only to build virtual communities, but also to create innovative social commerce programs, improve customer care and streamline customer research.
  • Businesses need to realize that most consumers do not engage with companies via social media to feel connected. It turns out, customers are far more pragmatic.
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Mar
8
2011

"The activity streams standard is an open source project created by Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate at Google. His vision was to create a standard for a cross-site social networking news feed. "

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  • , explained how IBM has expanded the vision of activity streams from social networking activity to include all sorts of information flows that occur inside a company. IBM is working to create an activity stream application that could gather information not just from other social networks but from other sources of information such as internal applications for CRM, ERP, HR, and Supply Chain, external applications from partners, and external data sources.
  • With a huge flow of information from many sources, some sort of activity stream filter is needed so that the amount of information flowing through a news feed does not become overwhelming and unmanageable. The activity stream filter must be smart.
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Mar
7
2011

"Avec des annonces marketing de plus en plus confuses ou les môts Social et 2.0 sont mis à toutes les sauces, il est certainement temps de clarifier le vocabulaire et le positionnement du Social CRM :

* par rapport au CRM
* par rapport aux réseaux sociaux d'entreprise"

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  • Non, le Réseau Social CRM ne peut pas être le Réseau Social de l'Entreprise. Où alors on a affaire a une entreprise purement commerciale. 
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