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Understanding the Magic Quadrant’s New Name
Posted by Fred Zimny

Gartner, Inc., recently released its 2013 Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center* report naming Salesforce.com a leader, something we are very proud of and is a testament to the hard work and innovation that has gone into building…
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Gartner’s 11 technology predictions for 2013: Do you see relevance, or just business as usual?
Posted by Fred Zimny

I recently attended a breakfast where analyst firm Gartner shared their 11 top technology predictions for 2013, grouped in four areas of economics, risk, opportunity,…
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Michelle, Maxima or Blue Monday: my most received decks from January 2013
Posted by Fred Zimny
Fieldstudio social design metho…
McKinsey The consumer decision j…
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My point of view: my readers prefer change as symbolized by Michelle Obama or Princess Maxima. They do not like Blue Mondays. Yes, these decks and papers are symbols of a way forward in 2013.
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This week’s top posts from designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations
Posted by Fred Zimny
Designing Extreme Customer Service – Design Thinking Network
Service Design meets Futures Thinking #
6 Net Promoter Score Mistakes that Derail Customer Management Process
How Might We Design for Behavior Change? | Design Thinking
The Importance of Undisciplined Thinking – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
BIS Publishers: Convivial Toolbox Generative Research for the Front End of Design
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Winning the consumer decision journey | Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum | McKinsey
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The Opportunity in Big Data Analytics and Social Business
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My point of view: some classics and – a new experience – with my Dutch backgrounds 2 Dutch documents are included.

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Posted by Fred Zimny
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I Want it NOW! You deserve better
Posted by Fred Zimny
Found at I Want it NOW.
Let us define the starting era of CRM as of the mid nineties, after sales force automation and database marketing became mainstream.
Nowadays CRM is big business. Gartner projected circa 13 billion dollar sales for CRM in 2012. In 2017, the market will be about 22 billion dollar, according to the research firm Trefis.
Customer Relationship Management should be about managing the relationship an organization has with its customers. A relationship that might be an encounter with an chance of a successor or indeed a lifelong relationship. Relationship are maintained from a participants perspective because a relationship creates functional and emotional value for all parties involved.
Continue reading →I Want it NOW.
My point of view. This was my guest post for the startup walkme.

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