Monthly Archives: June 2011
Why CRM Fails — and How to Fix It – The Magazine – MIT Sloan Management Review
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I agree with the first part. But fixing managed relations in a social business world with more and more encounters and commodity services. I do not know. What do u think?
Found Why CRM Fails — and How to Fix It – The Magazine – MIT Sloan Management Review.
DURING THIS MILLENNIUM, many marketers seem to have bet the family silver on customer relationship management investments with little to show for it, and those marketers are now attempting to justify further investment in order to achieve their original goals
Read all at Why CRM Fails — and How to Fix It – The Magazine – MIT Sloan Management Review.
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Posted in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Information Technology,, Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends
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Tags: Business, Customer, Customer relationship management, Customer service, Marketing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Social Business, social crm
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation — HBS Working Knowledge
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Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation — HBS Working Knowledge.
Questions to be Answered
- What’s the best bonus program to boost sales productivity?
- Can companies inspire heroism in employees?
- Can employers promote moral behavior?
- Does money lead to creativity?
Read all at Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation — HBS Working Knowledge.
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Posted in Because i like to share again and again, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends
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Tags: Creativity, designthinking, Employment, Innovation, Knowledge management, Psychology, Service design, Social Sciences
Recommended: Amazon.com Leads, RadioShack Lags Retail Customer Experience
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Recommended: #CRM #C Amazon.com Leads, RadioShack Lags Retail Customer Experience http://ow.ly/1dnExO
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Posted in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Information Technology,, Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management
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Tags: Business, Consulting, Customer, Customer experience, Customer relationship management, Customer service, Open Innovation, RadioShack
TEDxESADE – Henry Chesbrough – Open Services Innovation
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- Open Services Innovation
- Rethinking your business as a service company
- Co-create with customers
- The value of openness
- New business platforms and business models
About Henry Chesbrough:
Henry Chesbrough is a Professor at ESADE and father of the term ‘open innovation’, one of the concepts behind the creation of ESADE Creapolis. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.His research topics include: innovation in organisations; the structuring and management of research and its development; management of intellectual property; technology based on benefits of venture capital companies; the comparative evolution of high-tech industries in the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
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Posted in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Information Technology,, Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management, Recovery and the way out of the crisis, recession and depression, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends
Tags: Business, Glyn Moody, Haas School of Business, Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation, United States, University of California, Western Europe
By 2019, 50% of all high school classes will be delivered on line
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Great statement from Clayton Christensen. Having worked in health care I’m acquainted with his The Innovator’s prescription. Think I will add Disrupting class to my summer reading list.
Blended learning is a disruptive innovation in education that can take many forms. Here, they look at what blended learning is, why it’s spreading, and how it works in real and virtual classrooms. Join the conversation on blended learning below. Read more at http://www.knewton.com/blended-learning/#twitter

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Posted in Recovery and the way out of the crisis, recession and depression, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends
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Tags: Blended learning, Classroom, Clayton Christensen, Distance education, Distance Learning, Education, Online Communities, Online Teaching and Learning, Social Networking
Will be playing with Postana
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Chad Norman’s Making the Web Presence Social: 10 Ideas for Nonprofits (and not limited to)
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In line with recommendations as done in Social Media Judo.
Non-profits have to accept that the enivironment is open, the crowd and stakeholders are social. And so check out the influencers.
As stated before as front office manager, think about how to manage the access and the connections.
And as a social adapt I recommend as next steps thinking bout customization, collaboration and co-creation.
It ain’t easy. And sure, it is exciting
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