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May
16
2012

"I asked it, as I had a conversation in recent days with a fellow from a large corporate. Customer-centricity was recently adopted as an internal mantra, but the manifestation of that was…wait for it…sentiment analysis.

It’s a start, right? But is it really a difference-maker?

I’ve written recently about jobs-to-be-done. As in, what customers hire your product to do. Those jobs have a tendency to (i) be hidden from you; and (ii) change over time. Knowing, and acting on, jobs-to-be-done (JTBD acronymized) is probably one of the most customer-centric things a company can do. You’re getting deep into what someone is buying your product for."

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  • Customers love talking about their jobs-to-be-done. Seriously.  I usually schedule an inital hour to talk about them, and every single company has wanted to continue to the conversation for another hour
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  • Jobs-to-be-done’s place in a customer-centric organization
May
14
2012

"Organizations have been trying for years to cultivate employee engagement. Like JetBlue, they persist in their efforts for good reason. One of the most powerful factors that spur customers to become advocates for a company is employees’ positive behavior and attitude. Bain consumer surveys show that the overall experience of dealing with a company often matters much more to customers than price or brand or—in industries with a big service component, such as home insurance and retail banking— even product features alone."

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  • One reason for this superior performance is that engaged employees direct their energy toward the right tasks and outcomes
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May
12
2012

"What if the origin of political division in this country could be traced to a simple glitch of the generally accepted accounting practices?
In other words, charging money for baggage essentially transfers this service from the liability column to the asset column of the accounting statement. As a liability, it can only atrophy under the weight of austerity measures."

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  • By charging fees, once neglected baggage service departments have become star revenue performers for airlines. Department managers can now justify new technology and equipment. Where before, baggage service only represented a cost, it now provides millions in revenu
  • The basic problem is that regulators have been working for the last two years to define the difference between hedging and gambling, and can’t.
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May
1
2012

"Today we manage workers by headcount, jobs, roles, processes, and infrastructure. By viewing all work as a service we can define the service needs, match the service talent, and confirm the value exchange. The process empowers the worker to get the work done the way they want to work."

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  • Jobs, headcount, and roles do not reflect the real person, their talent, and the actual work and yet this is way people are managed. The result is a costly ineffective model that will become increasingly suboptimal as work itself evolves into cloud-like services. The root cause is the traditional organization model of authority, roles, and headcount resource/financial management.
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  • All work can be viewed as service
  • All work can be viewed as service
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  • All work can be viewed as service
Apr
6
2012

"What Really Replaces Marketing (Madness)
Here’s my take on What Really Replaces Marketing (Madness). I will do so following the story line of my recent Guest Lecture for the Marketing faculty, headed by Peter Verhoef, of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). The guest lecture was titled: Marketing Leadership in age of Service."

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  • The bottom line in my thinking is that, since Value is dominantly created in-use and is a result of co-creation between company and Customer, marketing strategies should shift their focus from creating momentum for value exchange (the sale) to creating momentum for interactions that support Customers in creating value for themselves.
  • And since value is something that can only be defined by its beneficiary we need to understand what outcomes Customers desire when they hire a company’s resources to get their jobs done.
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Mar
24
2012

"Arnaud Gien-Pawlicki, responsable recrutement France de la DRH de l’Apec, détaille les compétences indispensables à la fonction RH telles qu’elles se dessinent aujourd’hui, et relève les tendances majeures des prochaines années."

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  • Il s’agit par exemple de gérer le décalage entre les directeurs opérationnels, centrés sur la performance à court-terme, et la vision long-terme impliquant l’employabilité des collaborateurs et l’adaptation de leurs savoir-faire
  • L’avènement de l’entreprise 2.0 collaborative se fait encore attendre, mais le DRH peut d’ores et déjà faciliter la coopération.
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Mar
23
2012

"Pour tirer profit du social learning, mettez en place une culture qui rend l’apprentissage amusant, productif et familier, une culture où apprendre fait partie du travail quotidien. Marcia Conner et Steve LeBlanc ont cherché où le social learning s’épanouit le plus. "

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  • L’apprentissage social (social learning) s’épanouit dans une culture du service et de l’émerveillement. Il est inspiré par les leaders, activé par la technologie et déclenché par des opportunités qui ne se sont que récemment produites.
  • Si une culture se concentre sur le service, la question la plus fréquemment posée est : « comment puis-je vous aider ? » Comment puis-je vous aider à réussir ?
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Mar
12
2012

"With more analytics about which organizations need help and which people are available, we could create a true marketplace for people looking to donate their time and skills."

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  • Data has the same potential for service. Data can help unveil social issues in a more immediate and accurate way. It can also connect people with ways they can do something, by surfacing opportunities they didn’t even know existed.
  • During the Haiti earthquake, this tool analyzed text messages in real time to direct aid workers to where help was needed. The platform aggregates critical and timely information (or data), and makes it available on a platform that allows people to take action. The availability of this specific data, offered by people like you, literally saved lives.
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Feb
13
2012

  • Since the 1950s, technologists have adopted new approaches that allow them to better address complexity and ongoing change. One, called agile development, is a different way of doing work. The other, called service orientation, is more focused on how bits of work are connected to other bits. Both of these approaches emphasize continuous learning, adaptation, and distributed control, rather than planning, prediction and central control. They are specifically designed for managing work in fast-changing, complex, uncertain environments.
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  • Whole Foods: A service-oriented company

"Great service is always a differentiator, even more so when people are hurting. The service companies that thrived coming out of the Great Depression — think Macy's and Disney — figured out how to take care of their customers in a climate of fear and uncertainty. The fog of recession may be starting to lift, but most households and businesses are still feeling vulnerable today. History makes a compelling case that serving customers with integrity — delivering steadfast, predictable service quality — can translate into outsized loyalty and market share when the economy commits to a comeback. "

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  • Underperform. It turns out winning service companies aren't great at everything. They're bad at some things, often very bad, but the pattern isn't random. It's tightly mapped to the priorities of their customers. Service leaders tend to over-deliver on the features their customers value most and under-deliver on the features their customers value least.
  • Streamline the back office. One way Zappos funds its legendary service is by relying on a very lean operation. Back-end cost savings get invested in front-end excellence, which means that shipping's free and a kind, competent Zappos employee has the cultural freedom to stay on the phone with you as long as you want
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Jan
10
2012

" Aujourd'hui, un de ces "marronniers" de la vie politique est la "relocalisation" de l'industrie française, source de mesures supposées la favoriser, au premier rang desquelles la fameuse TVA sociale éreintée ici même il y a peu. Mais certains candidats imaginent un retour à un protectionnisme bien plus contraignant, qu'il soit européen, voire, pire encore, national. Dans la période économique difficile que nous connaissons, de telles politiques protectionnistes, qu'elles soient revendiquées ou masquées, seraient absolument suicidaires. Voyons pourquoi. "

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  • la capacité d'un produit à se faire connaître, à séduire, à s'adapter au plus près des besoins du consommateur, à lui être livré, avec un service après vente et des prestations annexes de qualité, comptent autant que la fabrication du produit lui même, voire, de plus en plus souvent, beaucoup plus. 
  • En termes de comptabilité nationale, nous avons donc bien importé un iPhone « made in China » pour une valeur de $178,96 mais ce que cet exemple démontre, c’est que ce qui est effectivement « made in China », ce sont les $6,5 d’assemblage – soit 3,6% du prix d’importation.
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Nov
22
2011

"L’idée de cette étude est simplissime : les 5 attentes majeures exprimées systématiquement par les consommateurs (Facilitation, Transparence, Confiance, Humilité et l’émergente Prévenance) sont-elles parfaitement, partiellement ou faiblement intégrées par les experts de la relation client ?"

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  • les 5 attentes majeures exprimées systématiquement par les consommateurs (Facilitation, Transparence, Confiance, Humilité et l’émergente Prévenance) sont-elles parfaitement, partiellement ou faiblement intégrées par les experts de la relation client ?
    • 33% des experts y font référence, et cela donne lieu à un discours bien alimenté autour des thématiques suivantes:
       
      • La capacité de l’entreprise à s’affranchir des procédures, à se rendre flexible. 
      • La nécessité de personnaliser au maximum la relation. 
      • La prise de conscience du besoin d’hyper réactivité du consommateur, et la façon d’y répondre. 
      • La capacité à se démener, à se ‘plier en quatre’ pour satisfaire la demande client.
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Apr
20
2011

Il convient de relever les nouveaux défis de la complexité de cette entreprise nouvelle et d'assembler les premières pierres de l'édifice qui reste à ériger. Celui du modèle de création de valeur et du fonctionnement de l'entreprise nouvelle dans un monde ou l'énergie et la matière, les ressources et les ingrédients de base de l'ère industrielle que nous laissons peu à peu derrière nous, laissent place à l'information - la nouvelle énergie - et à la matière grise que chacun active.

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  • les technologies 2.0 et du social media, qui nous invitent à penser autrement aussi bien le travail, le management, l'innovation, la production, les processus et l'organisation que les nouveaux modèles de création de valeur.
  • L'entreprise 2 .0, avec ses indispensables processus d'innovation et de collaboration revisités, est cette entité vivante et particulière dans laquelle chacun des collaborateurs (re)devient l'artisan de toute solution. A l'heure où les métiers deviennent de plus en plus tacites, l'enjeu pour chacun n'est-il pas de mettre dans son propre contexte, les informations nécessaires pour résoudre les problèmes qui se posent ?
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Dec
20
2010

"My issue with the many views, explicit or implicit, on Customer Centricity, is that they always seem to tell you what you need to stop and start thinking of or doing, but they hardly discuss or let you know where the boundaries are. Or at least discuss the notion of boundaries and their importance.

As a result many organizations get stuck in Voice of the Customer programs because they do not know how to handle the abundance and variance of feedback they collect, exhausting their resources with too many things to focus on and too little meaningful results, for Customer and company."

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  • And as a result Customer Experience programs turn into action plans or campaigns trying to create a Disney-like WOW-experience on every touch-point or even create completely new ones where “old” ones continue “as is”.
  • And as a result Customer Experience programs turn into action plans or campaigns trying to create a Disney-like WOW-experience on every touch-point or even create completely new ones where “old” ones continue “as is”.
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