E-Commerce, Online

  • What Differentiates the Search Experience?

    Philosophy and Search Management Make the Difference at Online Department Stores

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    Does site search differentiate the online customer experience? Evaluation of search at four department stores suggests that it does.
    Jul. 27, 2006
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  • Search Experience Metrics

    Key Indicators You Should Be Tracking for Customer Search Experience

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    A great search experience is the starting point for an acceptable customer experience. There are 2 metrics that will tell you how well your company performs against customer expectations.
    Jul. 6, 2006
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  • Muji

    Engaging Customers to Help with Product Design

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    Muji—a well-known retail brand in Japan—has integrated customer input and suggestions into its core business operations. Muji encourages customers to submit product design ideas and to comment and vote on each others' ideas.
    Jun. 15, 2006
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  • Staples

    Customers Help Bring a Customer Experience Promise to Life

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    Staples, the office supplies retailer, has outpaced its competition by deeply understanding what its target customers—small business office supplies buyers—really care about.
    Jun. 8, 2006
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  • Seeker Experience Survey

    Is Search Getting Better?

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    Our survey of seeker experience and projects to improve findability indicate much is spent, but much is left to be done.
    Jun. 1, 2006
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  • What's on the Minds of Lead Customer-Centric Executives in 2006?

    Patty’s Visionaries Share Their Visions, Their Realities, and What’s Working for Them

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    Patty Seybold’s visionary customer-centric executives are engaging with customers in new ways to co-design better offerings and experiences.
    May. 25, 2006
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  • Customer Portals Evaluation Framework, Version 2

    How to Select the Best Portal Technology Platform for Your Customers

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    In this report, we describe version 2 of our framework for evaluating portal platforms for customer portals and explain how and why we’ve refined it.
    May. 18, 2006
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  • Customer Portals Research Findings

    Refining Our Evaluation Framework

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    To match customer requirements, reflect product capabilities, and improve product comparisons, we have refined the evaluation criteria of our framework for customer portals. The refinements are presented in this report.
    May. 4, 2006
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  • Bloomingdales.com

    Merchandising and Customer Experience

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    Bloomingdales.com achieves a high score when measured against Patricia Seybold Group’s E-Merchandising Framework.
    Apr. 27, 2006
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  • Mozilla Firefox

    Supporting Innovation and Choice by Moving Software to Open Source

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    For anyone interested in understanding how to engage customers in co-designing a new product of any kind, the story of Mozilla Firefox provides some great best practices.
    Apr. 20, 2006
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  • Macys.com

    Merchandising and Customer Experience

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    Macys.com achieves a high score when measured against Patricia Seybold Group’s e-merchandising framework.
    Apr. 13, 2006
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  • National Instruments

    A 30-Year History of Enabling Customer Innovation

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    National Instruments fosters customer-driven innovation in many ways.
    Apr. 6, 2006
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  • Introduction to Outside Innovation

    The Outside Innovation Imperative

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    The outside innovation process involves engaging with lead users and lead customers in a variety of roles to create new products, processes, and business models. There are 7 ways in which outside innovation differs from traditional innovation processes.
    Mar. 30, 2006
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  • Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange

    Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”

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    Here’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios.
    Feb. 23, 2006
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  • E-Merchandising Framework

    Applying the 4 Es for Customer Ease

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    Emerchandising should be a basic skill set in every ecommerce organization. We offer a framework for organizing your emerchandising efforts.
    Jan. 19, 2006
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  • Concerns of Customer Visionaries in Q4 2005

    Visionary Customer-Centric Executives Are Tackling Next-Generation E-Business Challenges

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    Learn what’s top-of-mind for customer-centric e-business executives as they head into 2006. What lessons have they learned? What issues are they facing? What initiatives lie ahead?
    Dec. 15, 2005
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  • Concerns of Customers.com Visionaries in Q2 2005

    Issues, Initiatives, and Requirements from Customer-Centric Executives in Q2 2005

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    Our hand-picked group of visionaries are committed to making it easy for their customers to do business with them. Here are the top-of-mind issues facing customer-centric visionary leaders in the first half of 2005.
    Jul. 7, 2005
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  • Apple’s Lessons for the Rest of Us

    Customer-Led Innovation

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    Apple’s iPod strategy is paying off brilliantly. The popular iPod, with its iTunes legal music library, has created a halo effect for the rest of Apple’s computer business.
    Jan. 27, 2005
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  • How the Blogging Community Accelerated Tsunami Relief

    Blogs and Wikis Are Providing Instant Visibility, Information-Sharing, and Coordination

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    Disaster relief in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the shores of Southeast Asia and Africa has been accelerated by the rapid response of the blogging community.
    Jan. 6, 2005
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  • Looking for Business Architects?

    Check Out Your Ebusiness Leader

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    Ebusiness visionaries are the true business architects of the 21st century. They invest now in the core services that will be required to both deliver immediate value to customers and partners and support the way the business will operate in the future.
    Nov. 23, 2004
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