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What Constitutes a Customer Community?
Hint: It Isn’t a Bunch of Facebook “Likes”
by Ronni MarshakWhat constitutes a “true” customer community? A shared sense of purpose and ownership and a distinctive, often well-guarded culture. -
VOC: Using Customers’ Interviews to Inform Decision-Making
How the Residents of a Small Community Are Shaping the Future of Healthcare
by Patricia SeyboldWe used interviews of residents on the Boothbay peninsula to help keep cherished St. Andrews Hospital, which Maine Health wants to turn into a walk-in clinic. I interviewed 48 patients and published verbatims. The result: a stay of execution. -
Profile of Lead Users in Systems Architecture
What Can We Learn from Patty’s Pioneers that Will Help Us Identify Lead Users
by Patricia SeyboldLead users are the people who want to design their own products and services because yours don’t fit the bill. To identify true lead users, you need to know what to look for. Use this example from info tech when you’re recruiting lead users in any domain -
Creating Customer Advisory Boards that Your Customers Will Love!
How to Design a Successful “Outside In” CAB Program for Your Customers and Top Executives
by Patricia SeyboldThe most successful CABs follow a customer-empowered model in which customers’ issues and priorities are the focal point for the meeting. Don’t show off your ideas; let customers strut their stuff and see how well it meshes with your roadmap. -
BuzzCar—Peer-to-Peer Car Rental
Building a Platform for Participation for a “Peers Inc.” Business Model
by Patricia SeyboldBuzzcar is a peer-to-peer car rental company that started in France. Instead of leaving your car in driveway, rent it to a neighbor! Founded by Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar uses what Robin calls a “Peers Inc.” business model. -
Innovative Approaches to Big Issues
Patterns and Take-Aways from BIF-8 (Business Innovation Factory’s Annual Confab)
by Patricia SeyboldBIF-8 was the 8th annual conference held in Providence, RI by the Business Innovation Factory. The format is story-telling punctuated with long networking breaks where random encounters are encouraged. Key themes: transform cities, healthcare, & society. -
Getting at Customers’ Moments of Truth
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 6: Identifying and Measuring Moments of Truth
by Ronni MarshakUnderstanding your customers’ scenarios and the potential showstoppers to customer success should be part of your customer experience strategy. Learn how we identify these “Moments of Truth” as a part of Customer Co-Design. -
The Mobile E-Wallet Customer Ecosystem
What Types of Players Need to Partner and What Do They Need to Do to Gain Customers’ Trust?
by Patricia SeyboldThe mobile e-wallet landscape is a 6-layered ecosystem of players, with e-wallet providers at the top and payment and financial institutions at the bottom. If all players aligned around customer-critical issues, mobile e-wallet adoption would accelerate. -
Alaska Airlines’ Evolves Its Mobile Strategy
Catering to Frequent Flyers Pays Off
by Patricia SeyboldAlaska Airlines has been delivering mobile apps since 2010. They chose to focus first on the functions needed for “day of travel” rather than online booking. -
Setting Expectations for Customer Co-Design and Other Customer-Facing Engagements
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 4: Setting Expectations
by Ronni MarshakNo matter how well prepared you are for your customer-facing events, you won’t be completely successful if the expectations of participants haven’t been clearly set. Here are tips for setting the expectations of customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. -
Managing Customer Innovation at Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines Combines Customer Innovation with E-Commerce & Mobile
by Patricia SeyboldAs Managing Director, AlaskaAir.com and Customer Innovation, Curtis Kopf combines ecommerce, mobile, and customer innovation in a single role focusing on giving information and control to customers in the areas of their lives they care about the most. -
When and How to Embed Customer Co-Design into Your Projects
What Customer Co-Design Options Fit Your Purview?
by Patricia SeyboldWe have found at least six opportunities to embed customer co-design into the projects you’re already doing. Our recommendation? Use customer co-design early and often. -
Getting the Most Out of Customer Visits
How to Observe and Capture How Key Business Personas Make Decisions
by Ronni MarshakThere are valuable insights to gain when visiting customers and observing how people do their jobs. Here are some tips and techniques on how best to approach and maximize the value of visiting and studying customers. -
Local Motors: Open Source Car Design and Local Manufacturing
Forging a Customer Ecosystem to Transform the Automobile Industry
by Patricia SeyboldCan you transform an industry from the outside? That’s what Local Motors is doing with the automobile industry with its customer ecosystem to design and produce great cars. -
The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done—both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful customer ecosystems. -
Turning Protests Into Realizable Visions
URDT Institute Is Transforming Unemployed Youth Into Job Creators in Uganda
by Patricia SeyboldWhat if young people in poor villages could create prosperous businesses and careers in their home towns instead of flocking to cities to contribute to the overcrowding and unemployment? That’s the solution promulgated by the URDT Institute in Uganda. -
How to Be a Great Customer
Good Customers Have the Best Experiences
by Ronni MarshakRelationships between company representatives and customers go both ways. In order to receive the very best customer experience, you should be the very best customer you can be. Here, we offer some guidelines for how to be a good customer. -
Key Role: SVP of Cross-Channel Customer Experience (or Equivalent)
Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization
by Patricia SeyboldWhat’s the one role that makes the most difference in a company’s ability to “make it easy for your customers to do business with you”? An SVP of customer experience (or equivalent). -
How to Think About Your Customer Experience and User Experience Design Strategy
Make CX and UX Design “The Unique Way We Design Products and Experiences for Customers”
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakCustomer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) design are strategic differentiators. We advocate creating a unified CX/UX strategy and elevating it to one of your three top initiatives. Here are some guidelines. -
A Best Practice Example of Applying UX Principles to Product Design and Development
Koko Fitness Demonstrated How to Do It Right Back in 2005!
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakKoko Fitness, a small company that designs and sells interactive workout systems, has been a shining example of best practices in incorporating customer experience and user experience methods into their product design and development lifecycle.
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