I had very interesting conversations and strategy sessions with my clients lately, and noticed peculiar things in the market as well — all of them around the same issue: Platforms.
No, I am not talking about the shoes of the 1970s we loved so much, I am talking about the intermediate layer of the cloud model [...]
I write two posts a month exclusively on TheSocialCustomer.com, which I do think is a very interesting community to share all things related to Social Businesses and Social CRM.
When I told you what I was going to focus on for this year I said I wanted to look at the evolving business functions in a [...]
On Tuesday January 12th we had discussion on the convergence between SCRM and Enterprise 2.0.
My introduction to the topic summarized what I see as the main issue: SCRM and Enterprise 2.0 are heading in the same direction (customer-centricity), talking about the same issues (engagement), using the same technologies (collaboration), and solving similar problems (culture, politics, [...]
I am a glutton for punishment, apparently. Not only I have not learned from diving into Social CRM early on, but I am trying the same fate now with Enterprise 2.0.
Why? Convergence.
If you remember, this is one of my key topics for 2010. No, we will not witness convergence between Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 [...]
It seems that 2010 is the year where Social Media really takes off; everybody is writing about how in 2010:
You will definitely be able to get an ROI from your Social Media investment
Social Media is going to take off
You can craft your Social Media strategy and make it stick
Your Senior Management will finally recognize the [...]
I was thinking of doing a predictions post, really, but then Paul Greenberg came along and wrote up all my predictions and added some better ones. So, instead of filling up the streams with more of the same, I thought of a twist to predictions: I won’t tell you what I think it will happen, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I spent the past four months talking to as many people as I could about Social CRM. I talked to thought leaders, analysts, vendors, consultants, C-level executives, corporate managers and directors — anyone who wanted to talk about it.
We discussed definitions, and models, and strategies and plans. What they are doing, what they want to [...]
At the end of the year I work on my wrap-up for the year, and prepare for the year ahead.
I go through my notes from conversations, oft-forgotten “blogs that I must read”, books, and everything else that has a tangential effect into my research for next year. I end up with my “predictions” for next [...]
There is a lot of noise on whether or not Twitter should be used for Business.
On one hand we have examples like ComcastCares, DellOutlet, JetBlue and many others that have been used as case studies.
On the other hand, there is me. I wrote about not using it, about treating it as an IVR, and even [...]
Well, as usual I am late to break the news.
Salesforce introduced Chatter with great fanfare — and most everyone covered it in detail and analyzed it (Dion Hinchcliffe, Sameer Patel, and Michael Krigsman provided some of my favorite coverage).
I am going to tell you what I think most people are missing and the reason it [...]
