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  • Building Professional Peer Communities

    An Interview with Vanessa DiMauro, Principal, Leader Networks

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    Professional Peer Communities are built around a specific topic, industry, or discipline. To explore these communities, we spoke with Vanessa DiMauro, principal of Leader Networks, who has been a virtual community builder for more than 15 years.
    Jan. 11, 2007
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  • A Coordinated Game Plan for Business and IT Execs to Spur Outside Innovation

    Five Initiatives to Support Customer Innovation

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    To make rapid progress in enabling and empowering your customers to lead you toward new innovations, you need to coordinate your business strategy and your IT efforts.
    Jan. 11, 2007
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  • Scenario on 34th Street

    Recognizing the Value of Making It Easy for Customers Since 1947

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    A holiday classic, “Miracle on 34th Street” surprisingly includes emphatic support of making it easy for customers to achieve their desired outcomes.
    Jan. 4, 2007
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Fourth Step

    Empower Customers to Strut Their Stuff

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    This guide provides a self assessment to see how far along your company is in empowering your customers to strut their stuff.
    Dec. 21, 2006
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  • Pan American Health Organization

    Using Online Meeting Software to Collaborate on Addressing Health Issues throughout the Americas

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    Our interview with Bob Rodrigues of the Pan American Health Organization spotlights how the multinational group uses the Elluminate Live! online conferencing tool to increase the number of people able to attend important meetings.
    Dec. 14, 2006
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  • Integrating Community into Customer Support

    What’s the Ideal Relationship between Customer Support and Your Online Customer Community?

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    This report discusses the primary challenges involved and ways to address he task of integrating an online customer community into your existing mix of service offerings within your organization.
    Dec. 14, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Third Step

    Nurturing Customer Communities: The Key Third Step to Outside Innovation

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    Customer communities are key to fostering outside innovation. This guide provides a self-assessment to help you determine what your next steps in nurturing your customer communities should be.
    Nov. 22, 2006
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  • Building Interactive Feedback into Your Products and Surrounding Services

    How Koko Fitness Enables Four Kinds of Interactive Feedback

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    How could your company benefit from building data gathering and interactive feedback into the products and services you offer? Learn how from Koko Fitness.
    Nov. 16, 2006
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  • A Social Networking Primer

    Understanding the Basics: Connecting, Sharing, Finding, and Tagging

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    This report covers the basics of online social networking, presenting background and context, and describing some of the most popular and successful social networking sites.
    Nov. 9, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Second Step

    Provide Customers with Tools to Use to Reach Their Outcomes

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    This guide provides a self-assessment to see how far along your company is in making these tools available to your lead customers.
    Nov. 9, 2006
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  • Site Search Self-Assessment

    How Does Your Company’s Search Capability Stack Up?

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    If your organization can’t agree on whether your site search is adequate, use our self-assessment to shift from anecdote to analysis.
    Nov. 2, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Sovereign Bank

    Limited Supported for Key Activities and an Implementation that Needs Significant Improvement

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    In this customer self-service test-drive report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at Sovereignbank.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios.
    Nov. 2, 2006
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  • Outside Innovation (hardcover)

    How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future

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    Outside Innovation provides businesses large and small with the strategies they need to let customers co-design their futures and lead them to success.
    Oct. 30, 2006
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  • Move Over Portals; Prepare for Scenario Nets!

    The Next E-Business Model: Task-Specific Cross-Company Workflows

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    We’ve invented a new e-business model. We call it Scenario Nets—interlinked Web sites that help you complete a complex task.
    Oct. 20, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Identify and Study Lead Customers

    Have You Taken the First Step towards Customer-Led Innovation?

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    This guide provides a self-assessment to see how far along your company is in the important first step towards customer-led innovation by identifying, interviewing, and engaging with your lead customers.
    Oct. 19, 2006
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  • OnStar

    Providing a Decade of Personalized Service for Safety and Convenience

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    OnStar, a leader in offering a personalized customer experience with its in-car safety and navigation systems, continues to enhance its offerings.
    Oct. 19, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Five Roles Your Customers Should Be Playing

    How Engaged Are Your Customers in Shaping the Future of Your Business?

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    This guide explores the five different roles that customers can play and companies can leverage to become an outside innovation organization.
    Oct. 11, 2006
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  • Outside Innovation at the BBC

    Q&A with Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC New Media

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    As the BBC attempts to reinvent itself as a digital media company, the company developed an externally-facing, open innovation strategy.
    Oct. 5, 2006
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  • A Customer Experience Journey

    Signing Up for CitiCards Rewards Proves Daunting

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    Citibank changed the rewards on my preferred credit card, offering a bonus for paying household utilities with the credit card. But signing up the various utilities to take advantage of this offer proved to be somewhat of an exercise in f(utility).
    Oct. 5, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Apple

    Help Yourself to Perform a Wide Range of Customer Service Activities through a Great UI

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    In this customer-self-service test-drive report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at Apple.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios and evaluating that experience against our framework.
    Sep. 28, 2006
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