Il futuro del retail all’epoca di Amazon

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, IoT, Data, Analytics, Marketing, Loyalty
[Illustration: Zohar Lazar]
AICEX: Anziché provare ad essere come Amazon si dovrebbe provare ad essere ciò che Amazon non può essere. Questo anche perché inseguire Amazon significa fallimento quasi certo.
As Jeff Bezos’s juggernaut continues to grow, forward-thinking competitors are finding creative ways to succeed—and be what Amazon can never be.

The Mall of America’s terrazzo floors, glazed white like doughnut frosting, ribbon out in every direction, creating a vast mirror maze of consumerism with 520 glassy storefronts. Shoppers, who have escaped an endlessly gray Bloomington, Minnesota, sky on a Monday morning in October, drift through the largest mall in the United States like tourists at an Atlantic City buffet. A couple holding hands strolls into a Zales while buttery perfumes emanate from an Auntie Anne’s next door. Kids and some willing parents fling around on the SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge roller coaster, one of 27 rides at the Nickelodeon-branded amusement park on-site. Distant echoes of saxophone Muzak clash with both elevator whirs and bubbly pop songs. Somewhere in this otherworldly commercial expanse are five Lids stores and four Sunglass Huts.

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La centralità del cliente vince sull’innovazione

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin AI, VR, AR, Customer Experience, Digital, Design, UX
 

AICEX: la centralità delle persone si sposa più con il design, l’usabilità, gli spazi fisici e il buon senso piuttosto che con algoritmi e robot. Ecco perchè l’intelligenza artificiale sarà vincente solo se utilizzata a servizio delle persone.

Innovation might be the buzzword on everyone’s lips but customer and design centricity is what will win the day with customers according to Gartner.

This is despite innovation diving in hard, with chatbots and artificial intelligence joining the fray.

Part of it is getting more return on investment (ROI) from their research and development dollars claimed Brian Prentice, vice president, research, Gartner.

“Organisations that are more design centric appear to be more innovative than the R&D dollars they spend. Apple for example, spends a fraction of R&D compared to Samsung, but their market capitalisation is higher and they seem to have a higher degree of customer satisfaction and loyalty than Samsung does,” said Prentice. Continua a leggere “La centralità del cliente vince sull’innovazione” →

McKinsey: Attribuire il giusto prezzo alle interazioni con i clienti

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, Customer Experience, Customer Journey, Digital, Design, UX

AICEX: Questo post mostra in maniera chiara come ogni Touch Point abbia un suo prezzo, o genericamente valore. Fermo restando il principio generale le risultanze possono naturalmente essere diverse se si valutano contesti diversi.

Consumers are willing to pay more for choice in their interactions, yet most companies remain perplexed about which ones their customers really want—and how much to charge for them.

How can companies best engage with their customers to offer them new experiences, along with add-ons to existing products or services they have already paid for? Continua a leggere “McKinsey: Attribuire il giusto prezzo alle interazioni con i clienti” →

Forbes: Vincono i Brand che creano esperienze semplici.

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin Customer Journey, Customer Neuroscience, Marketing, Loyalty
 AICEX: La vera complessità è rendere le cose semplici. Questa è la frase attribuita ad Albert Einstein che ci è tornata in mente leggendo questo post.

A hot topic over the past few years has been marketers’ attempt to build better customer experiences. But what does that mean? Does that mean to develop experiences that increase consumer-brand engagement, increasing the amount of time the consumer spends with the brand? Or from a consumer perspective, does it mean making the consumer-brand experience simpler so that the consumer can spend less time engaging with the brand and more time experiencing life?

According to a new global study, marketers need to rethink what a great customer experience is. Many customers desire more seamless, simpler, faster brand engagement. Time is the rarest of commodities brands that give consumers the benefit of more time are being valued. Global brand strategy and experience firm, Siegel+Gale, just completed their seventh annual Global Brand Simplicity Index study, designed to better understand: 1) the impact of simplicity on consumer behavior and firm performance, 2) the brands and industries that create the simplest experiences, and 3) the top brands that use simplicity to drive disruption. The 2017 study, based on an online survey of more than 14,000 respondents across nine countries, ranks 857 brands on their perceived simplicity. Below are some key findings from the study and insight from Margaret Molloy, global CMO and head of business Development for Siegel+Gale.

Key Findings

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