Monthly Archives: August 2011
Top 5 popular slidedecks on serve4impact’s slideshare
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Avoid The 70% Failure Rate Of Change Management Initiatives | Forrester Blogs
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Avoid The 70% Failure Rate Of Change Management Initiatives | Forrester Blogs.

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Why You Should Use Co-Creation To Build A Better Product In 2011 | Forrester Blogs
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Not that recent. But it is my firm belief that many of us still deny the benefits. Let’s day that co-creation will be used to design better services in 2012.
Found at Why You Should Use Co-Creation To Build A Better Product In 2011 | Forrester Blogs.
I’ve written a lot about co-creation over the past 9 months, demonstrating how it helps consumer product strategy (CPS) professionals develop better products. A majorityof companies are not yet using social technologies to involve consumers in the product development process, but that will soon change. We expect an increasing number of companies to move from the education phase into the experimental phase in 2011 and 2012 — or risk being left behind while their competitors move forward. Why do we expect co-creation to take off over the next two years? The research provides a compelling case:
Why You Should Use Co-Creation To Build A Better Product In 2011 | Forrester Blog
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Recommended: Getting rid of unproductive shadow organizations
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Should be a resolution or even better a management imperative for this decade.
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Planning a Customer Self-Service Community Using Distributed Leadership « The Community Manager
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5 Years, or maybe a decade but – see Giff Gaff – this will be mine favorite source of customer service (except the girl with the beautiful brown eyes)
Found at Planning a Customer Self-Service Community Using Distributed Leadership « The Community Manager.
I think many Community Managers would agree that a good early step is to define business goals and objectives for the community. What are some typical goals of customer self-service?
So you’ve made the decision to adopt a new customer self-service community. Perhaps it is brand new, or perhaps you are moving platforms to a new one (hopefully Vanilla!). In either case, you will want to take some steps in planning how you will manage and measure the success of your community. So where to start?
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Planning a Customer Self-Service Community Using Distributed Leadership « The Community Manager.
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Tags: Business, Business Services, Customer, Customer Management, Customer service, Education and Training, Self Service, Twitter
Recommended: It’s not abundance but excellence
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Recommended: Picture of the week #48 : It’ not abundance but excellence… http://ow.ly/1esl9o
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The Future of The Internet is Converged Services
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Let us not forget that services are also part of the real world. Which makes the outlined trend even more challenging (from an organizational perspective) and more inspiring from a customer service? What do u think
‘Found at The Future of The Internet is Converged Services.






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