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LEVERAGING YOUR CUSTOMER:
THE MULTIPLE WAYS YOUR CUSTOMERS CAN HELP YOUR
BUSINESS

PROF. DR. IR. MARION DEBRUYNE

#EXPERIENCEVLERICK
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
We need to become
                             more customer
                                 centric!




© Vlerick Business School
MARKET
                                          PERFORMANCE
                            ORIENTATION




© Vlerick Business School
VALUE CO-CREATION IS THE NEW PARADIGM


                                                 Commoditization
                                                     risk?
                                                   More products and
                                                      innovations
                                                  How to be different?


    More Information,                             MARKET                                   Value co-creation
      more choices                            Forum of conversations
                                                                                          Customers are part of value
                                                                                                    chain
    More informed, network                     between customers,                           From product-centric to
        and empowered                       companies & communities                          personalize customer
            customer                                                                             experiences



                                                  Word of mouth
                                                  Peer influence
                                             Customers are the best or
                                              the worst marketing tool


Sources: Adapted from Prahalad, C.K, Ramaswamy (2004). The future of Competition: Co-creating Valur with Customers. Harvard
   Business Review
         © Vlerick Business School
THE CONTRIBUTION REVOLUTION




  © Vlerick Business School
FROM WEB1.0 TO WEB 2.0




  © Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
The winners are those
that are able to connect
Suz01                                “I work at home as a remote employee. There have
                            Location
                                           been many times that I have wanted to treat a co-
                            Unknown        worker to a Starbucks for helping me out on a
                            Member since
                                           project, or just to brighten their day. Wouldn't it
                            March 2008     be neat if you could purchase a drink for someone
                                           via the Starbucks web site? The recipient gets an
                                           email stating, for example, "Suzanne bought you a
    4275                                  drink!" The recipient prints the email (with a
                                           barcode) and takes it to their nearest Starbucks to
                                           redeem. “




© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
HOW CAN YOU LEVERAGE YOUR
CUSTOMER BASE?




   © Vlerick Business School
PROMOTERS




                            Recommend
© Vlerick Business School
NET PROMOTOR SCORE




                                       The one key question to ask
        How likely is it that you would recommend our
              company to a friend or colleague?




           © Vlerick Business School
Source: Satmetrix.com
NET PROMOTER SCORE




 Not at all                                              Neutral                   Extremely
  likely                                                                             likely


       0              1                 2      3     4      5      6   7   8   9       10

                                                                               Promoto
                                            Detractors
                                                                                  rs



NPS = % Promotors - % Detracto
            © Vlerick Business School
 Source: Satmetrix.com
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
CONSULTANTS




                            Give advice and feedback
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
LEAD USERS




                            Fabricate solutions to problems they face
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
GUIDES




                            Help others and provide support
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
CONTRIBUTORS




                            Provide information and knowledge
© Vlerick Business School
GRANVILLE




  © Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
CROWDSOURCING


 © Vlerick Business School
THE
FOUNDATION
FOR THE
BUSINESS
MODEL



                            Community-based business models create and
© Vlerick Business School
                            leverage the platform to connect
PATIENTS LIKE ME




  © Vlerick Business School
ZAGAT




                               Founded by Tim & Nina Zagat
                                in 1979
                               User-generated content when
                                the word was not even
                                invented
                               Consumer-provided restaurant
                                reviews
                               Acquired by Google in
                                September 2011
  © Vlerick Business School
IDEA
GENERATORS




                            Deliver ideas and participate in co-creation
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
THIS




  © Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
© Vlerick Business School
HOW CAN YOU LEVERAGE YOUR CUSTOMER
BASE?




  © Vlerick Business School
THANK YOU!

Prof. dr. ir. Marion Debruyne
Associate Professor & Partner
Vlerick Business School




Contact me:
Marion.Debruyne@vlerick.com


Follow me:

   MarionDebruyne

  © Vlerick Business School
FEEL LIKE SOME MORE?




Introduction to Marketing Management (25 April
2013)
Product Management (7 May 2013)




47   © Vlerick Business School      #experiencevlerick
THANK YOU!

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Leveraging your customer: the multiple ways your customers can help your business

  • 1. LEVERAGING YOUR CUSTOMER: THE MULTIPLE WAYS YOUR CUSTOMERS CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS PROF. DR. IR. MARION DEBRUYNE #EXPERIENCEVLERICK
  • 5. We need to become more customer centric! © Vlerick Business School
  • 6. MARKET PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION © Vlerick Business School
  • 7. VALUE CO-CREATION IS THE NEW PARADIGM Commoditization risk? More products and innovations How to be different? More Information, MARKET Value co-creation more choices Forum of conversations Customers are part of value chain More informed, network between customers, From product-centric to and empowered companies & communities personalize customer customer experiences Word of mouth Peer influence Customers are the best or the worst marketing tool Sources: Adapted from Prahalad, C.K, Ramaswamy (2004). The future of Competition: Co-creating Valur with Customers. Harvard Business Review © Vlerick Business School
  • 8. THE CONTRIBUTION REVOLUTION © Vlerick Business School
  • 9. FROM WEB1.0 TO WEB 2.0 © Vlerick Business School
  • 11. The winners are those that are able to connect
  • 12.
  • 13. Suz01 “I work at home as a remote employee. There have Location been many times that I have wanted to treat a co- Unknown worker to a Starbucks for helping me out on a Member since project, or just to brighten their day. Wouldn't it March 2008 be neat if you could purchase a drink for someone via the Starbucks web site? The recipient gets an email stating, for example, "Suzanne bought you a 4275  drink!" The recipient prints the email (with a barcode) and takes it to their nearest Starbucks to redeem. “ © Vlerick Business School
  • 15. HOW CAN YOU LEVERAGE YOUR CUSTOMER BASE? © Vlerick Business School
  • 16. PROMOTERS Recommend © Vlerick Business School
  • 17. NET PROMOTOR SCORE The one key question to ask How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague? © Vlerick Business School Source: Satmetrix.com
  • 18. NET PROMOTER SCORE Not at all Neutral Extremely likely likely 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Promoto Detractors rs NPS = % Promotors - % Detracto © Vlerick Business School Source: Satmetrix.com
  • 21. CONSULTANTS Give advice and feedback © Vlerick Business School
  • 23. LEAD USERS Fabricate solutions to problems they face © Vlerick Business School
  • 25. GUIDES Help others and provide support © Vlerick Business School
  • 27. CONTRIBUTORS Provide information and knowledge © Vlerick Business School
  • 28. GRANVILLE © Vlerick Business School
  • 30. CROWDSOURCING © Vlerick Business School
  • 31. THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BUSINESS MODEL Community-based business models create and © Vlerick Business School leverage the platform to connect
  • 32. PATIENTS LIKE ME © Vlerick Business School
  • 33. ZAGAT  Founded by Tim & Nina Zagat in 1979  User-generated content when the word was not even invented  Consumer-provided restaurant reviews  Acquired by Google in September 2011 © Vlerick Business School
  • 34. IDEA GENERATORS Deliver ideas and participate in co-creation © Vlerick Business School
  • 37. THIS © Vlerick Business School
  • 41. HOW CAN YOU LEVERAGE YOUR CUSTOMER BASE? © Vlerick Business School
  • 42. THANK YOU! Prof. dr. ir. Marion Debruyne Associate Professor & Partner Vlerick Business School Contact me: Marion.Debruyne@vlerick.com Follow me: MarionDebruyne © Vlerick Business School
  • 43. FEEL LIKE SOME MORE? Introduction to Marketing Management (25 April 2013) Product Management (7 May 2013) 47 © Vlerick Business School #experiencevlerick
  • 44.

Editor's Notes

  1. The topic of this talk is whether companies should listen to their customers when it comes to innovation Let me turn the question on you
  2. To begin answering this question, let me look back to the infamous Segway It would be premature to call the most talked about scooter in the history of humankind a huge bust. But the Segway has always been ahead of its time. For a decade, Dean Kamen fiddled and tested and tinkered with his invention, finally stage-managing its public unveiling in December 2001. He figured 2002 would be the year that the Segway Human Transporter launched a transportation revolution.
  3. In B2B, for example BASF buys compressors, the salesperson at Atlas Copco needs to consider: The buyer: maybe even centrally located, in Germany The influencer: safety engineer The gatekeeper: production engineer Decider: plant manager In B2C, for example family deciding which movie to go to
  4. ANGELA
  5. It’s called the contribution revolution Web 2.0 enables all of us to actively engage
  6. The customers are on the verge of defecting: the idea is that you remind them of your existence. Of course, you better have something good to say
  7. But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html#ixzz131G7pVBC Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html#ixzz131G2nlTN
  8. Or to reach new customer segments
  9. Or you can create a forum, an outlet where customers can voice their suggestions and ideas Launched in March 2008
  10. March 2008 Starbucks launched My Starbucks Idea
  11. Launched October 18 2010
  12. The value of satisfied company for the growth of the company comes from them: Are more loyal Buying more over time becoming less price sensitive Lower cost to serve (lower complaint numbers) Giving you good WOM  WOM is mostly going to come from Promotors
  13. The value of satisfied company for the growth of the company comes from them: Are more loyal Buying more over time becoming less price sensitive Lower cost to serve (lower complaint numbers) Giving you good WOM  WOM is mostly going to come from Promotors
  14. How do they do that? Not necessarily directly to you  they do it on twitter and facebook
  15. FRED G. MARTIN Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Computer Science In 1989, I was a co-founder of the undergraduate MIT robot design contest, known often by its course number, 6.270. This project, which was the first large-scale autonomous robotics design contest at MIT, inspired many others and helped ignite the current boom in robotics design contests. As part of the 6.270 work, I co-designed a robotics hardware platform and software environment which were open-sourced and are now in use in high schools, colleges, and universities around the country and the rest of the world. (See the Handy Board and Interactive C). In 2001, Prentice-Hall published my textbook Robotic Explorations: A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering. This text synthesizes the practical knowledge needed to run a design-oriented robotics class at the university level, and is being adopted by many faculty who are using mobile robotics as an entry-point to engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence classes—including our own Prof. Holly Yanco, who introduced it to the UML 91.450 Robotics I class. Beginning in 1987 with my Master's work with Seymour Papert, I developed a series of robotics design environments for kids. Staying at the MIT Media Laboratory after my doctorate, I continued this work as a researcher with Mitchel Resnick's Life-Long Kindergarten group. This work was partly sponsored by the LEGO Group A/S and became the foundation for the successful LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System, which was launched in 1999.  
  16. Vb Crackberry.com
  17. The first role as resource relates to the customer as source of innovation. The second role as co-creator relates to the customer participation in product development and testing.
  18. Granville bikes – a Belgian company using the configurations their customers make online as one of the inputs into NPD, and as a way of spotting trends in the market.
  19. The competition began on October 2, 2006. By October 8, a team called WXYZConsulting had already beaten Cinematch's results. [7] By October 15, there were three teams who had beaten Cinematch, one of them by 1.06%, enough to qualify for the annual progress prize. [8] By June 2007 over 20,000 teams had registered for the competition from over 150 countries. 2,000 teams had submitted over 13,000 prediction sets. [2] Online DVD rental pioneer Netflix Inc. wants recommendations on how to improve its movie recommendation system, and is dangling a $1 million reward as an incentive. The prize , offered in a contest beginning Monday, is part of Netflix 's effort to sharpen its competitive edge as it continues a bitter duel with Blockbuster Inc. and prepares for an anticipated onslaught of services that make it easier to download movies onto computer hard drives. By spurring engineers to develop a better way to decipher consumer tastes, Netflix is betting its market-leading DVD service will become more useful to its 5.2 million subscribers and attract new customers. To win the prize , a software program must improve the accuracy of Netflix 's current movie recommendation system by at least 10 percent. The differences will be tracked by a program that quantifies how well the recommendation systems predict which movies will be liked or disliked by a profiled consumer. "Right now, we're driving the Model T version of what is possible," said Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. "We want to build a Ferrari and establishing the Netflix Prize is a first step." Recommendation software is expected to play an increasingly important role in electronic commerce as Internet companies expand their databases of past consumer behavior.
  20. Community based business models: Aggregate Provide access Connect peer-to-peer
  21. The first role as resource relates to the customer as source of innovation. The second role as co-creator relates to the customer participation in product development and testing.
  22. More and more, companies are also using virtual customer environments to get innovation ideas from customers. This is Dell’s ideastorm.
  23. This is SWIFT’s Innotribe.