Organizations need to meet customer, partner and supplier needs across multiple communication and marketing channels – this is far from easy. Many corners of the organization understand and believe in a customer imperative; however, these departments often do not come together to collaborate on customer experience initiatives. In order to facilitate a more collaborative environment, solutions need to have cloud delivery at their core and offer anyplace, anytime access, alongside seamless real-time communication, in-context exchanges of information, and integrated social workflow.
During this webinar, you will learn:
* Streamline programs that result in a quantifiable bottom-line improvement
* Shorten the time to qualified leads though collaboration
* Transform marketing from a reactive service to a proactive partner to the business
2. Business Collaboration Leveraging Your Digital
Infrastructure to Drive Alignment and Growth
8 October 2015
Vanessa Thompson,
Research Vice President, Collaboration & Communities
@vanessathomps
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Some “trends”
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Broad “Platform” changes are very disruptive
Fundamental changes are in play
Tech is not just an equalizer and a way to reduce costs
It’s a strategic advantage
Business model innovation is / can be more disruptive than
product / service innovation
Information is a new currency in this new age
but “big” isn’t the point
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Adapting to Change...
Organizations can adapt to changes in their ecosystem by using mobile technologies
to support and enhance current business models.
Create new
customer
experiences
Generate
new revenue
streams
Rapidly respond
to changing
conditions
Improve
operational
efficiencies
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Focus on
strategic
partnerships to
be best in class
N=510, Source: IDC Workforce Transformation Survey, February 2015
What do you believe will be the most important business priority for
your organization in 12 months from now?
1%
4%
4%
4%
4%
5%
5%
5%
7%
10%
10%
11%
11%
20%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Don't know
Generate leads
Interact with internal business colleagues
Gather feedback or ideas from external audiences
Recruit for jobs and new talent
Gather feedback or ideas from internal sources
Interact with external audiences
Advertise new products or services
Build strong relationships with employees
Generate revenue through direct sales
Offer customer service and support
Gather information about new products and/or services
Promote your company, product and/or brand
Build strong relationships with customers
Building Strong Relationships...
Marketing
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Contribution to
Overall Spend
Impact on Overall Business...
Marketing
9
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Customer care
Customer satisfaction
Overall effectiveness
of business operations
Managing customer
engagement
Collaborating with
other business units
Opportunity
qualification (Sales)
Continuous learning
Managing corporate
communications
Reputation building
(company, brand,
product)
Cost and safety
initiatives
Managing partner
services
Performance in new
channels
Marketing message
engagement
(brand/campaign)
No impact(0%) Minimal Impact (1-10%) Moderate Impact (11-25%) Significant impact >25%
N=510, Source: IDC Workforce Transformation Survey, February 2015
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Mobile focus PHONE
Social Networking
Access/Update
Calendar
Checking Emails
TABLET
Personal Productivity
(Note Taking)
Checking Emails
Participating in Online
Communities
DESK
Creating Documents
Editing Documents
File Sync & Share
What is the primary device you would perform the following activities? Top three activities.
N=510, Source: IDC Workforce Transformation Survey, February 2015
Simple Mobile Tasks...
Customer Support
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Focus on
Customer
Satisfaction
Customer Support
11
3.9%
5.1%
5.4%
5.4%
6.3%
6.6%
6.8%
7.3%
11.7%
11.9%
0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% 12.0% 14.0%
Alignment of processes ensure that all relevant information is
readily available and shared.
Flexibility to manage exceptions, returned goods, and delivery
issues
Dynamic marketing with many offers, interesting content,
discounts, and value add
Seamless collaboration experiences with other employees,
customers, partners and suppliers
Account representatives or relationship managers with strong
knowledge of me as a customer and my company's…
Great in-store / branch / outlet experience
Presence across many channels of communication, including
mobile devices, social networks, chat, etc.
Excellent and extensive self-service capabilities on web or
mobile apps
Personnel that are motivated, capable, and friendly
Consistent experience across different channels of interaction
A Consistent Experience...
N=419. Source: US Experiences Survey, IDC, February, 2015
In your opinion, what are the 3 most important factors in achieving a superior
Customer Experience?
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N=419. Source: US Experiences Survey, IDC, February, 2015
In your opinion, what are the 3 most important factors in achieving a
superior Employee Experience? Please select up to three choices
Self Service on Mobile...
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70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Alignment of
processes
Self-service
capabilities on
web or mobile
Seamless
collaboration
with other
employees
System that makes
suggestions/
recommendations
Presence across
communications
channels
PercentageofRespondents
40% select both 1
and 3
36% select both 1
and 2
16% select both 4
and 5
Growth though
technology
experiences
Sales
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N=419. Source: US Experiences Survey, IDC, February, 2015
Factors for Experience cross tabbed with top communication channels
Connecting on Social Networks...
13
Dynamic
Marketing
Consistent
experience
across
channels
Capable,
motivated
personnel
Collaboratio
n among
employees,
customers,
partners,
suppliers
Account reps
with strong
knowledge of
customer
Excellent
self-service
capabilities
on web or
mobile apps
In-store/
branch
experience
Flexibility to
manage
expectations
Presence
across
communication
channels,
including
mobile devices,
social network,
chat,…
Alignment of
processes
ensure that
relevant
information is
available and
shared
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
PercentageofRespondents
Top
“Communication
Channels”
Among
Respondents
Selecting Each
Driving Factor
1. Social
Networks
1. Social
Networks
1. Social
Networks
1. Website/
portals/
1. Social
Networks
1. Company
website
1. In-store
experience
1. Social
Networks
1. Company
website
1. Company
website
Customer Care
starts in Sales
Sales
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Human Resources
Finding Experts is a Major Challenge
14
Locating Talent in
the Business
14
How much time do you waste not being able to access the right information, data or people you
need to get your job done? This is only when you are at your main work location, not remote.
Please try to estimate this work by hours per week in terms of looking for information, data
and/or people.
7.36
7.38
8.14 Information
Data (search/access)
People
N=510, Source: IDC Workforce Transformation Survey, February 2015
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2%
3%
4%
4%
4%
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
6%
6%
7%
7%
7%
8%
8%
10%
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12%
Don't Know
Desktop or notebook refresh
New mobile application deployment strategy
C-level directive
Driving cultural change
Application deployment
finding experts
Mobile deployment strategy
Enhanced Mobile access
OS upgrade
Migration to public cloud
Activity based working strategy
securing mobile devices/applications
Access to information
regulation/compliance/policy/governance
Application modernization
Application consolidation
Cost reduction Human Resources
15
Integrated Talent
Practices
Getting Content Where it Needs to Be...
N=510, Source: IDC Workforce Transformation Survey, February 2015
Top driver for the next major change to Content Collaboration
Welcome – Introduction. Based on the peninsula here. My twitter handle is above so feel free to ask questions that way.
We have about 35min together and there will be time for questions afterwards so it would be great to get some questions going at the end of the session. There is A LOT of detail so we can take those questions offline to my colleagues who specialize in specific application areas.
Our relationship with technology has changed profoundly in a short time. Many of us pick up our phones and check our email instead of hit our alarm clock
The same technological advances that nearly drown us in information have also contributed to increasing complexity by speeding adaptation and increasing connectedness.
What does this mean for the environment around us?
Personal preference over how and where work gets done. We cant be prescriptive about the change anymore. A shop doesn’t tell you how to interact with it anymore, it finds you where you want to transact. Users will choose the space and place they will work. How are applications changing and transforming to meet these needs?
Office-based mobile workers (mobile professionals – knowledge workers) 325 84.20%
Non-office-based mobile workers (like sales or field service) 217 56.22%
Home-based mobile workers (telecommuters) 179 46.37%
Don't know 4 1.04%
How can the marketing team impact the way users consume information?
Marketing teams often act as a conduit between other business units and need to centralize all information and basic workflow in a central repository. This enables them to manage and track information and content like assets where they need to build and share projects and timelines as well as information with users.
They are able to enhance the ability to measure effectiveness and maintain relationships with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers across these new channels and will become critical to the success of any organization.
Every organization is different and they adapt to change differently. But they can leverage mobile to enhance their current environment.
There are new customer experiences, Operational efficiencies, New revenue streams and they can rapidly respond to changing market conditions using mobile devices as an enabler.
When thinking about business units there are some specific drivers. Based on conversations I have had with companies in the market, there are a selection of priorities in the slides to follow.
Relationships are more important than ever but they are also more fragile as it is much easier to switch companies as more of what we do is digital in nature. Building a relationship with customers means meeting those customers where ever they are. It might be you need to offer additional channels for them to contact you but it also might mean that you need to extend existing business processes to become more mobile so you are able to respond and be more proactive.
Action for listener: Think about how your company is reaching customers today? DO you think they are happy could there be an alternative for them?
Please estimate how much of an impact using content collaboration tools (enabling access to documents/files/workspaces) in your daily work could have on your performance on the following list of initiatives. Please consider "impact" in terms of time savings, quality of execution and perceived effort.
Speak more broadly on the shift in the nature of activities that users target on their device types.
Action for listener: Look at what your user base are doing with their phones. If they are field sales folks they may need access to some business CRM applications but they will likely be targeting responsive activities. Focus on making experiences streamlined on a mobile device.
The Experiences survey, n=419. We looked at experiences across customers, partners, employees and suppliers but his is just from the customer facing one. The most important factors in customer experience are the experiences themselves alongside the people.
Action for listener: Self service and a consistent experience have become important factors in a customer experience so look to all the channels on mobile that those customers might engage with you and think about how connected the experience is.
In order to build strong relationships outside the business we must also have strong relationships inside the business.
Employee experience highlights the shift away from targeting employee ‘engagement’ were those employees become part of a broader customer experience. To target this organizations need to align processes. Process alignment can come in number of ways, through connecting experts or people that have a specific piece of IP, through coordinating workflow and information part of a shared process and ensuring all current business data sources are relevant and able to be analyzed to capture value.
In order to build strong relationships outside the business we must also have strong relationships inside the business.
In order to build strong relationships outside the business we must also have strong relationships inside the business.
Employee experience highlights the shift away from targeting employee ‘engagement’ were those employees become part of a broader customer experience. To target this organizations need to align processes. Process alignment can come in number of ways, through connecting experts or people that have a specific piece of IP, through coordinating workflow and information part of a shared process and ensuring all current business data sources are relevant and able to be analyzed to capture value.
Many HR organizations are moving to integrated hiring practices to help consolidate the data they have between internal candidates and third party recruiting sources.
In order to build strong relationships outside the business we must also have strong relationships inside the business.
Employee experience highlights the shift away from targeting employee ‘engagement’ were those employees become part of a broader customer experience. To target this organizations need to align processes. Process alignment can come in number of ways, through connecting experts or people that have a specific piece of IP, through coordinating workflow and information part of a shared process and ensuring all current business data sources are relevant and able to be analyzed to capture value.
Many HR organizations are moving to integrated hiring practices to help consolidate the data they have between internal candidates and third party recruiting sources.
Connected worker – enabling users beyond previous barriers to collaboration
Beyond the knowledge worker – looking for interactions beyond where technology/apps are present today
Create new customer experiences -> Building Strong Relationships + Contribution to Overall Spend
Generate new revenue streams -> A Consistent Experience + Focus on Customer Satisfaction
Rapidly respond to changing conditions -> Self Service on Mobile, customer care starts in sales
Improve operational efficiencies -> Targeting Simple Mobile Experiences, locating talent and integrated hiring efficiencies.