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Creating Social Business ExperiencesOctober 2011
Customer Experience
Featured Mzinga Webcast:
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Alan F. NugentMzinga CEO
@AlanFNugent [email protected]
Introductions
Eve SangenitoMzinga, VP Marketing
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Session Follow-up
A Few Housekeeping Items…
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Today’s Agenda
Topics
The Changing Business Landscape
The Social Business Model & Key Experiences
Getting Started In Your Organization
Q&A
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The pressure on businesses is higher than ever to…
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According to IDC, the cost of NOT easily finding information = $3,300 per employee each year
(That’s $3.3M in annual lost opportunity cost for a business of 1000 people)
Work smarter & more efficiently.
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30% of consumers rely less on advertising, and much more on recommendations from friends and family for making buying decisions.
Build brand credibility & buyer trust.
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More than 90% of customers' issues haven't been unearthed in most organizations, and in addition, often the organization doesn't have answers for them, according to Forrester Research.
These issues lead to long support calls, poor issue resolution, cost increases and customer dissatisfaction.
Reduce customer response times.
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The primary driver of a consumer's loyalty is their experience with your business, product or service.
Yet, marketers on average only invest
20% of their programs in loyalty and customer experience efforts.
Improve customer loyalty & satisfaction
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Introducing the Social Organization…
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The Elements of a Social Organization
A New Model
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Social Business Ecosystem
Partner Experience
Employee Experience
CustomerExperience
Brand Experience
• Streamlined client acquisition
• Customer engagement
• Loyalty & retention
• On-demand support
• Listening & engagement
• Brand building• Demand
generation• Social
commerce
• Social business outsourcing
• Indirect revenue streams
• Developer networks
• Engagement & collaboration
• Satisfaction & retention
• On-boarding & recruiting
• Social learning
Mzinga Social Business
Ecosystem
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Forces Changing Business Dynamics
Changing workforce &
customer dynamics
Failure of traditional
hierarchicalprocesses alone to meet varied business needs
Increase in social media adoption
Source: Constellation Research
BusinessDrivers for Social Business Experiences
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Employees Are Already Using It
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New Approaches Improve Satisfaction
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Brand & Customer Engagement…
Source: Forrester
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And Overall Customer Experience
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• How can I reduce support costs?• How can I reduce response times in addressing client issues?
• How can I improve customer retention & loyalty?
• How can I innovate my products faster?• How can I stay abreast of market research for R&D?• How can I streamline product development?
• How can I develop long-term relationships with customers?• How can I reduce sales cycle?• How can I accelerate new client opportunities?
• How can I improve brand visibility?• How can I drive enhanced demand generation?• How can I increase website traffic & ad revenue?
Solving Real Business Challenges
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What does it mean to foster a social “customer experience”?
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…to engage the customer in a collaborative conversation in order to provide a mutually beneficial value in a trusted and transparent business environment.
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- Paul Greenberg, Author CRM at the Speed of Light: Social CRM 2.0 Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Engaging Your Customers
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It is not about the technology, it is about the people, process and cultural shifts necessary to support and grow a business with the social customer.
“” - Mitch Lieberman,
Comity Technology Advisors
Ultimately social media is not about the tools, technology and whiz-bang things. It’s about culture and culture change.
“” - Scott Monty, head of social
media Ford Motor Company
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Consistent Customer
Experience
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A consistent, engaged customer experience aligned with a comprehensive customer lifecycle is essential …
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Awareness & information gathering
Purchase experience
Implementation/on-boarding experience
Ongoing product/service experience
Ongoingcommunication & engagement
Continued support
From the Customer’s Perspective
Customer ExperienceSolutions
Acquire
EngageSuppor
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From your Perspective Increase sales team collaboration and enable more direct target buyer interactions- ultimately reducing sales cycles.
Develop more interactive, mutually beneficial relationships with customers that improve satisfaction & retention.
Significantly reduce support costs and improve customer response times by making your team readily accessible to customer needs in real time.
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Let’s look at a few examples…
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Business Goals
Solution Overview
Social Commerce: Integrated ratings & reviews on all online products for sale on an eCommerce website
Results & ROI
• Increase revenue through product ratings & reviews
• User reviews improve buyer trust, and drive customer retention
• 2.9M unique visitors monthly• Increased web traffic • Increased product sales for highly
rated products
Use Case: Customer Acquisition
A specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products ranging from vitamins and minerals to nutritional supplements, with more than 400 locations in 37 states.
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Business Goals
With nearly [60,000] members and several hundred posts, myretirement.org seems to have established a solid footing among plan participants.
Solution Overview
A private, online community where annuity clients can network, interact, and discuss financial and lifestyle topics
Results & ROI
Improve engagement drive loyalty among the organization’s most valuable & influential customers
• Increase revenue• Increase membership• Cultivate business intelligence &
market research
• Significant community adoption • High community retention rates• Increased participation in financial
services programs“ ”
Use Case: Customer Engagement
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Business Goals
Solution Overview
Peer-to-peer support forums embedded within the SyncMyRide product site, including integrated vehicle avatars & pre-moderation
Results & ROI
• Provide more timely, efficient customer support and product research
• Establish a user-generated knowledge base of Sync product information for on-demand reference
• Over 14k active members• More than 5M message views• Reduced customer response times• Decrease in Sync support costs• Direct access to product research
An American multinational automaker, the second largest in the U.S. and the fifth-largest in the world based on annual vehicle sales in 2010 at $40 trillion.
Use Case: Customer Support
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What does it mean to foster a social “employee experience”?
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Today's workplace is diverse, distributed and full of context shifts. Investing in collaborative business practices is essential to productivity and competitive advantage.
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More techniques and technologies will emerge that incorporate social software, and the lines between learning, talent management and human capital management systems will continue to blur.
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Source: Gartner
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Collaborative Employee Experience
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A collaborative, interactive employee experience aligned with key business processes is key to building an effective workforce…
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Recruiting & On-boarding
Communication & Collaboration
Learning & Development
Innovation
Performance & Career Development
Satisfaction & Retention
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Let’s look at a few examples…
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Business Goals
Solution Overview
An interactive forum where job seekers can find information and resources to further their career goals
Results & ROI
Connect job seekers directly with Monster.com experts, hiring companies and their peers to plan the next steps in their career path to improve user engagement, and offer users added value to build loyalty
• Improved user engagement• Streamline recruiting for organizations
and job seekersWe wanted to create an interactive forum where job seekers could find information and resources to further their career goals. The Advice Forums allow our members to connect directly with both our experts and their peers to plan the next steps in their career path.“
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Use Case: Social Recruiting
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Business Goals
Solution Overview
Deliver an enterprise-wide ecosystem to manage knowledge sharing for 28,000 geographically dispersed employees.
Results & ROI
Reduce training overhead by while continuing to address the same level of employee competency
• 60% reductions in training admin staff needs
• 90% reductions in training vendor needs
• Saved $10M with eLearning adoption
The world’s premier measurement company—advancing electronics, communications, life sciences and chemical analysis, with customers in 100 countries, 28,000 employees and $5.1 billion in revenues.
Use Case: Learning & Development
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Getting Started In Your Organization….
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Components of an Effective Strategy
1. Build a Business Case2. Identify SMEs & Others to Champion & Get Buy-
in3. Develop a Strategy- Focus First on Key Pain
Points4. Identify Your Audience & Focus on Their Needs5. Develop Content & Programming Plans6. Select a Solution That Will Meet Your Needs7. Listen & Be Responsive8. Measure, Measure, Measure!
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Key Strategy Considerations
Audience• Who is my initial launch audience?• What information do you want to
capture about them?• What do you want them to share and
how can they network with one another?
Change Management• Balance the content, configuration, and
workload with what you have to share• Recognition of user• Changes to business critical
applications & environment
Content• What content will provide value to
your users?• How will you drive programming for
that content?• What content expectations do you
have of your users?
Technology• What capabilities are included in the
initial launch? Future phases?• Branding decisions• Permissions• Workflow• Integration with key business apps
Measurement
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Key Cultural Considerations
Gain Executive
buy-in
Implement reward
models to inspire
behavior change
Use community and social elements
seen as key to the
transition
Start with a initiative-
level project as proof-of-concept for
broader adoption
Identify roles &
responsibilities
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Key Measurement Considerations
What will be measured? Who will consume the metrics? What is the workflow?
What value will metrics be given to impact decisions?
How often should metrics be updated? What is a metric's priority?
How will social activity measurement be funded?
What are the models for ROI, total value and KPIs?
Planning QuestionsDuring the planning process of a social learning initiative, seek answers to the following questions:
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ROI Should Tie to Your Business Goals
The ROI Pyramid: All Roles, Metrics, and Data Types
Clearly Defined Business Objectives
Measurement aligned with strategy,
roles and target outcomes
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Forrester., “The ROI Of Social Media Marketing”
4 Perspectives Of A Social Business Balanced Scorecard
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Sample Social Business Goals & Objectives
1. Financial
• Has revenue or profit increased or costs decreased?
2. Digital
• Has your company enhanced its owned and earned digital assets?
3. Brand Satisfaction
• Have consumer attitudes about the brand improved?
4. Risk Management
• Is your organization better prepared to note and respond to attacks or problems that affect reputation?
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Measurement Best Practices
Listen and calculate
engagement, influence,
sentiment and overall adoption
& retention.
Establish a continuous
improvement culture, along with an ROI
model.
Maintain a benchmark to
compare against future
snapshots.
Build dashboards with relevant social
metrics and learn the
procedures of test and
measure.
Publish updates that includes
metrics to inform others of
the presence and value of the
initiative, and recruit others to
participate.
Seek patterns among the
social business activity to build a metric model
repository
Add social dimensions into the employee
record or customer
relationship management data model
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Figure 9: Match Your Spending Priorities to Your Social Business Maturity
Source: Altimeter Group
Social Business Maturity
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Let’s Take a Practical Example
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Getting Started: Business CaseTask
1. Clearly articulate your social business vision
2. Create a thorough business case & detailed business goals
3. Define your target audience
4. Define the culture that this approach creates across the organization
Example
Implement a solution to enable continuous collaborative sales effectiveness & knowledge sharing
• Improve productivity• Reduce sales cycles• Increase sales team retention
Globally dispersed sales force who sells various financial services products & solutions
• A collaborative sales organization that is more readily knowledgeable to educate prospects
• Has resources and SMEs accessible on-demand in the field
• Is generally more empowered to focus on their core competency of selling
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Getting Started: Business CaseTask
4. Support your social business case with data and use cases (that align with your business goals)
5. Identify expected risks and mitigations
6. What technology solutions do you need to support your goals?
Example
• Increase sales readiness to deliver impacts from the field
• More knowledgeable, collaborate salespeople win 65% more business*
• Improved access to information can reduce costs by $3,300 per employee each year**
• Resistance to change (Champions needed)• Inappropriate UGC (monitoring & moderation)• Must provide proof of value (clear measurement)
• Solution that will grow with adoption over time• Social networking (connect with others in real time)• Content sharing capabilities (blogs, discussions, etc)• Collaboration capabilities (files, ideation, etc)
*Source: Forrester Research**Source: IDC
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1. Build a Business Case2. Identify SMEs & Others to Champion & Get Buy-in3. Develop a Strategy- Focus First on Key Pain Points4. Identify Your Audience & Focus on Their Needs5. Develop Content & Programming Plans6. Select a Solution That Will Meet Your Needs7. Listen & Be Responsive8. Measure, Measure, Measure!
In Summary
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Questions