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Thursday, March 18
1:00PM Eastern, 10:00 Pacific
Tom Hoffman
Executive Business Editor
Topic of discussion:
o Define customer intimacy
o Explain how customer intimacy encompasses enterprise feedback
management (EFM), (CEM), (VOC) and other elements of a customer
relationship strategy
o Discuss what data you need and how you can use it to build customer intimacy
o Examine the benefits of building customer intimacy
o Reveal how you can use customer data and related information to increase
customer satisfaction – and ultimately, boost revenue
Align resources:
• Identify low-value customers and reduce
or rationalize services
• Eliminate unnecessary communications
or unvalued services
• Leverage VMI and other approaches to
create supplier-customer transparency
Product Operational
Leadership Excellence
Foresee the future:
• Identify latent needs to seed new product ideas
• Spot trends and reallocate development resources Source: Treacy, Michael, Fred Wiersema. The Discipline of
• Use near-real-time input to redesign offerings Market Leaders. NY, NY: Addison-Wesley Publishing, ©1995.
Roadmap to customer intimacy
source: webMethods
How to measure customer
intimacy (via sentiment analysis)
o Blog posts
o Blog comments
o Discussion forums
o Call center feedback
o Search traffic generated by a branded search term
source: Econsultancy
A different dimension of competition
“Customer Intimacy” is a
customer-centric form of
competition
Customers Reached
A different dimension of competition
Customer
Needs
Satisfied
Product-Centric Competition
Market share
Customers Reached
A different dimension of competition
Customer
Needs
Satisfied
Customer-Centric Competition
Share of
customer
Product-Centric Competition
Market share
Customers Reached
A different dimension of competition
Customer
Needs
Satisfied
Customer-Centric Competition
Share of
customer
Customers Reached
Many strategies fold into one
“A systematic approach for incorporating the needs of Voice of the
customers into the design of customer experiences.” Customer
- Gartner
Capture
“An enterprise-wide, multichannel surveying capability,
designed to drive a better understanding of customers,
Enterprise
products, and processes.”
Feedback
- Gartner
Management
Predict
“The discipline of increasing loyalty by exceeding Customer
customers’ needs and expectations.” Experience
- Forrester Management
Act
“The optimization & standardization of enterprise-wide
business processes to exceed customer expectations at Customer
the point of impact.” Intimacy
- IBM SPSS
Expanding your differentiation strategy
VOC
EFM
CEM
Customer
Intimacy
Product Operational
Leadership Excellence
Classic framework
for customer relationships
Customer Insight
Classic framework
for customer relationships
Actual Value
“The net present value of the future financial
contributions attributable to a customer, behaving as
we expect him to behave -- knowing what we know
now, and with no different actions on our part.”
Potential Value
“The net present value of the future financial
contributions that could be attributed to a customer, if
through conscious action we succeed in changing the
customer’s behavior.”
Client Y: customer valuation scattergram
Unrealized
2000000.00 Potential Value
1750000.00
1500000.00
1250000.00
1000000.00
750000.00
500000.00
Actual
250000.00
Value
0.00
-40000.00 10000.00 60000.00 110000.00 160000.00 210000.00 260000.00 310000.00 360000.00
An organization-wide effort
Goal
Grow Business Responsibly
Result
Increased Revenues
Reduce Operating Costs
Executives
Streamline Business Processes
Goal
Goal Personalized Messages
Customer to Appropriate Channel
Personalized Interactions Marketing
Service Result
Result
Customer Feels Respected Customer Reduced Marketing Spend
Increased Open/Click Rates
Intimacy
Goal
Goal
Customer Requirements
Indentify Ideal Prospect
Incorporated in Product Design R&D Sales Pinpoint Past Buying Trends
Result
Result
Products Better Fitted to
Increased Sales
Customers & Market
Reduced Sales Cycle
CRM benefits each of these strategies
Customer
Intimacy
Customer
Service
Sales
Marketing
Executives
Marketing
Product Operational
Leadership Customer Excellence
Service
R&D
Customer experience crosses channels
Customer Experience
Consider:
Customer-Centric Competition
Share of
customer
Product-Centric Competition
Market share
Customers Reached
Customer intimacy means
“optimizing by customer”
Customer Maximize the value each
Needs
Satisfied customer creates
Customer-Centric Competition
Share of
customer
Product-Centric Competition
Market share
Customers Reached
Customers create value in two ways…
Source: Accenture
Significant improvements throughout
A holistic approach
Attract
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Customer lifecycle stages
Attract Grow
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Customer lifecycle stages
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Increasing profit with customer intimacy
More Efficient More Frequent Longer Lasting
Acquisition Up/Cross Sell Relationship
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Increasing profit with customer intimacy
More Efficient More Frequent Longer Lasting
Acquisition Up/Cross Sell Relationship
More
Profit
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Increasing profit with customer intimacy
More Efficient More Frequent Longer Lasting
Acquisition Up/Cross Sell Relationship
Even More
Profit
Revenue Profit
Less Loss
Time
Loss
Enterprise-wide
organizational improvements
o Customer Acquisition
o A leading telemarketing firm increased sales per hour by over 30% while giving the
company a significant competitive performance advantage
o Customer Retention
o A large Swiss cable network operator reduced customer churn from 19% to 2%
o Operational Excellence
o A global financial services company increased the efficiency of their marketing
campaigns by tailoring programs to segmented customers
The economics of loyalty
Impact of improving acquisition cost, margins,
and retention on customer value
Customer % increase in Customer Value for a 10%
Value ($b) improvement in:
Base Case Acquisition Margin Retention
Cost
Amazon 2.54 0.51% 10.51% 28.34%
Ameritrade 1.45 1.19% 11.19% 30.18%
eBay 2.11 1.42% 11.42% 30.80%
E*TRADE 1.89 1.11% 11.11% 29.96%
Value Value
Destroyer Destroyer
Value
Harvester
Value
Creator
What one value
creator telecom firm did
During the period, customer churn was cut by half, from 2.6%
to 1.3% of retail contract customers defecting each month
In a word: ANALYTICS
The firm modeled both the likely churners AND the likely
“takers” of these offers, and then only marketed to the takers
Tom Hoffman
Tom.hoffman@1to1.com