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Make an App for That:
       Mobile Strategies for Retailers
       Developing a mobile strategy to address
       the smartphone- and tablet-toting shopper	
  
       February 7, 2012




                                                      By Chris Silva              	
  
                            with Alan Webber and Jessica Groopman

                          Includes input from 26 ecosystem contributors




	
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Executive Summary
2011 was the year of the mobile consumer. Smartphone and tablet penetration grew at a
rapid pace and has fundamentally changed the way people live their daily lives and seek
information. One of the largest areas of disruptions is in retail; shoppers are packing
smartphones and tablets with retailer apps and using them to hunt for bargains, product
information, and to find almost everything on their shopping list. The 2011 holiday shopping
season witnessed the most aggressive use of mobile technologies by consumers and retailers
to date. The problem was that not all retailers had a strategy in place to take advantage of this
foreseeable trend.

Most retailers are not stepping up to the plate when it comes to adopting an effective
mobile strategy. Remnants of prior “rush-to-mobile” efforts have left brands and retailers with
fragmented under-functioning apps that, at worst, frustrate and alienate the user. The problem
with the previous efforts was that many retail organizations focused on the means — mobile —
and not the ends — transactions or customer engagement. Retailers need to determine
whether their business goal is engaging customers or driving transactions as a critical first
step. For companies just getting started in developing their mobile strategy or “on the ground,”
this is job 1. For companies struggling with an existing mobile strategy or “hitting turbulence,”
their process may need to start with reassessing business impact but should then focus on
whether the application fits to one of four common models of mobile retail interaction outlined
in this report. Even firms with a successful mobile strategy that have reached “flying high” will
benefit from continually revisiting the application, expanding its feature set and platform scope,
and considering broadening the swath of products or brands it serves. The key to success is
understanding where a firm’s maturity lies and taking a discrete set of actions based on that
maturity profile.

Retailers must understand their engagement path, whether just starting out on its mobile
journey, struggling with getting lift for its current mobile strategy, or well on its way to success,
to reach the peak of maturity in a mobile strategy — flying high — retailers must know which
engagement path they plan to embark upon, drive transactions or customer relationships, and
build their applications accordingly. 2011 was the year of the mobile shopper, but it’s not too
late to adapt and improve strategies to target them in 2012 and beyond; the number of mobile
shoppers will only continue to grow.

Methodology
For this report, we conducted both quantitative and qualitative research using a combination of
online survey, qualitative interviews, and interactive discussion in live format. Specifically, we
conducted:

       •   An online questionnaire administered to five top application strategists, chosen from
           among the top 10 performing applications (determined by download statistics)
       •   Fourteen (14) interviews with mobile strategists at major brands; executives in the
           agency space helping to develop mobile strategy; industry observers; and mobile
           commerce software, service and solutions providers




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       •   Live participation with 26 attendees of Altimeter Group’s Mobile Strategy roundtable
           event in which participants were asked to provide insights on top-performing
           applications and strategies within their organizations or organizations they had been
           contracted to develop applications and strategies for.

Ecosystem Input
As more shoppers become users of smartphones and tablets — as does a greater portion of
the overall population — retailers are seeking to serve these customers on a new platform but
doing so at a pace that may alienate customers by racing to the mobile platform while lacking
a strategy to solve actual customer problems. While some brands have succeeded in serving
this new type of customer, many are struggling to catch up.

This report would not have been possible without insights into application and mobile
strategies shared by major retailers, insight into client demands from agency and solution
provider contacts, and insights into the best — and worst — mobile strategies from industry
observers. Please keep in mind that input into this document does not represent a complete
endorsement of the report by the individuals or companies listed below.

Industry Groups            Brands/Retailers             Agencies                    Technology Providers

National Retail            Best Buy                     Crisp Media                 ALUC-it!
Federation                 Coca-Cola                    Defero                      Appconomy
Shop.org (NRF)             The Golf Warehouse           iCrossing                   Digital Folio
IHL                        Hilton                                                   DemandWare
Retail Connections         Shop.org                                                 Mobilosoft
Big|Insight                Starbucks                                                Retrevo
                           Tasti D-Lite
                           Walgreens
                           Walmart
                           Wine.com
                           Zappos

Altimeter Group also received feedback, direction or information from the following industry
experts: Artemis Berry, Greg Buzek, Lora Cecere, Susan Etlinger, Jeremiah Owyang, Alan
Webber, Gary Lombardo, Marc Millstein, Phil Rist and Brian Solis.




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The Mobile Consumer Is Here
The year 2011 has borne witness to the growing power of the masses of smartphone and
tablet users in the United States. This growing group of users with smart mobile devices has
shifted its behavior from static information-gathering sessions that take place pre-purchase to
active, in-store searches that take into account nearby retail outlets and pricing differences and
even identify previously unknown items. Now, more then ever, consumers rely on their mobile
devices as demonstrated by the record number of shoppers who took to the stores with mobile
retail apps firmly in hand (see Figure 1).

       •   2011 saw a surge in mobile users, but 2012 is the year when smartphone owners
           become the majority of users, currently hovering just below 50% of U.S. mobile phone
           users. Tablets, too, take center stage with a near 24% CAGR in adoption.1

       •   Overall use of mobile devices is on the rise, with users spending nearly an hour per day,
           on average, actively interacting with them. One of the top use-cases for smartphones
           today is while shopping.2




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Figure 1. Mobile Devices Are Ubiquitous, Especially in Stores




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Why Mobile Shoppers Mean Business Now
There are three factors actively changing the game for retailers hoping to capitalize on mobile
shoppers:

       •   Mobile smart devices are ubiquitous. In 2011, we saw for the first time the effects of
           low-cost, high-speed networks paired with capable, desktop-class computing power in
           nearly every mobile device on the market. Add to that lower and lower acquisition
           costs, and it becomes the primary device for the masses. This means that shoppers
           with smartphones or tablets will quickly assimilate to using apps to inform their
           information gathering, especially in stores.

       •   Shopping is high on the mobile “to-do” list. The average smartphone user spends
           over one hour per day interacting with his or her device, and one of the top three
           activities the user is doing on that device is shopping3. Smartphone users expect to be
           able to turn to their devices for every informational need and have it met immediately.
           When shopping, this means finding the quickest route to products and prices, whether
           or not the mobile tool comes from the retailer whose store they’re in or from a
           competitor. As an information-driven activity, shopping is an area where mobile queries
           are becoming the norm.

       •   Retailers have an ineffective mobile strategy. Most of the retailers we interviewed
           were on a second or third iteration of their mobile strategy with a second or third team
           lead. The reason? They’re trying to recover from previous mistakes made in a rush to
           get on mobile devices with little thought given to the desired outcome or the type of
           app and interaction best suited to their product or service. In some cases, poor
           performance is a result of focus on the features possible with mobile technology, not
           customer pain or other business problems that mobile can help solve. For example, one
           online retailer said that tablets were “not what [we consider] a mobile device,” when a
           quick scan of where users were shopping from would have pointed out that many users
           consider tablets — and likely smartphones — the primary place they interact with the
           brand.

Retailers: Step up Mobile Plans to Meet Eager Buyers
Almost 46% of U.S. adults planned to purchase gifts online during the 2011 holiday season,
more than have ever done so before.4 According to data gathered by IBM Coremetrics, 16.4%
of all sessions on retailers’ sites in 2011 were initiated from mobile, more than double the
previous year.5 It’s time for retailers and brands to step up and create tools and experiences for
shoppers that cater to their mobile information needs on the go and in the store. A recent
Shop.org6 survey noted that mobile strategies aimed at thwarting lost sales were near the
bottom of the list of retailers’ priorities coming into the 2011 holiday.7




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To step up, retailers need to give shoppers the right tools, on the right platform, at the right
time while avoiding the two most common mistakes. Those common mistakes are:

       •   Common Mistake #1: Mobile for Mobile’s Sake. Major retail brands such as
           Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and Longhorn Steakhouse are prime examples of brands
           rushing to mobile with a focus on the medium and not the end goal of impacting the
           business (see Figure 2). These two brands offer mobile applications that are heavy on
           design (in the case of A&F’s app) and mobile tricks (see the 3D graphical and motion-
           based effects of Longhorn’s app), but short on utility and shopping-centric tools. For
           example, A&F’s mobile app shows almost none of its apparel, which is what a shopper
           would want, and instead opts for steamy photography of its models. Longhorn’s app
           allows users to cook a steak but provides no directions to get them to a restaurant.
           Both apps fail to fulfill the primary need of their target audience.

Figure 2. Abercrombie & Fitch and Longhorn Steakhouse Miss an Opportunity




       •   Common Mistake #2: Missing the Chance to Target Mobile Users. Another
           common mistake is not targeting mobile users. For example, Amazon launched a
           campaign on December 10, 2011, to have users scan products in-store using its Price
           Check app (see Figure 3). This was an effort to gather pricing and shopping data from
           brick-and-mortar customers. Amazon offered $5 discounts on products scanned in-
           store and subsequently purchased from the online retailer rather than in the store the
           customer was in while using the app.




	
  



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Figure 3. Amazon Ups the Ante for Retailers




A mobile strategy should not focus on demonstrating the means — mobile platforms — but on
meeting the end needs of customers. Focus on what pains currently exist in the mobile
shopping experience for the customer and how powerful, ubiquitous, sensor-laden devices can
help relieve those pains.

How the Mobile Leaders Are Winning
The determination of what path a brand wants a user to experience and accomplish should
frame all of the decisions surrounding the strategy of the application. Convergence among
various parts of the business is critical, especially for transaction-focused strategies. What can
retailers learn from other successful mobile retail efforts?

       •   Align mobile with other key teams. Winning mobile teams are tightly aligned with
           marketing loyalty programs (if applicable) and e-commerce teams. For example,
           Starbucks built its wildly successful application not around revenue or loyalty card
           adhesion, but instead around ease of purchase.8 The coffee retailer set out to solve a
           growing user problem — wait times in stores — and ended up with an enriched
           application that has materially affected the company positively. The app was so
           successful that it will soon be rolled out to stores in Canada and the UK.
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  


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            “How can we make [buying] easier, faster? ... We also want to manage feature creep,
            maintaining the need to keep it simple. Finally, we’re keeping a close eye on social
            channels to hear what’s being said about the brand and stay keyed into the next
            things customers want.”
                                             –Adam Brotman, SVP & GM Digital Ventures, Starbucks

       •   Focus on what the user needs. Mobile strategies should be holistic and remain
           focused on what users are seeking. Informational apps may seem simple in design, but
           a solid strategy seeks to solve the “information” problem, not just the “mobile” problem.
           For example, in addition to building an application that regularly resides in the top 10
           most downloaded retail apps across major platforms — like Apple’s iOS and Google’s
           Android — Best Buy saw the potential disruption coming from third-party apps to
           disseminate product and price information and got ahead of the curve. Best Buy
           developed a series of information-sharing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
           and uses those APIs to feed information about price and local availability — a distinct
           advantage for its stores over online retailers — to other popular shopping apps,
           increasing store traffic.

           “We know not everyone is coming to our product information via the stores; shoppers
           use other channels, searches, and other commerce applications. We had built out our
           API platform early on to try and capitalize on that ‘beyond the reach of the store’
           phenomenon. Mobile, to us, is an extension of that; we look at mobile as the
           accelerator for our [product information] APIs.”
                                             –Steve Bendt, Director of Emerging Platforms, Best Buy


       •   Allocate the resources necessary to make mobile successful. Allocation of the
           necessary resources at U.S. pharmacy and convenience retailer Walgreens is at the
           forefront of everything the company does in mobile — and it shows. The Walgreens
           app, a regular in the top-tier of Lifestyle applications (retail is a subset of Lifestyle in
           most platforms’ app stores) based partly on the novelty of using a mobile device’s
           camera to scan a prescription barcode to initiate a refill, is an example of “multichannel
           lite” activity. The first among its peers to accomplish this, Walgreen’s ability to conquer
           a tricky technology problem others had faced has everything to do with its willingness
           to devote resources — entire design through development and testing teams for each
           major mobile platform — to solving users’ problems in a novel way.

            “I’d been part of a team before that said, ‘Creating an app that scans a curved
            barcode is prohibitively expensive,’ and we did it at Walgreens and were first to
            market. [We have] an entire QA and testing team for [each platform]. When we commit
            to something, we give it everything it needs to succeed.”
                                                          –Adam Kmiec, Head of Social Media, Walgreens




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       •   Mobile means multiple platforms. One of the few retailers profiled that has built a
           tablet and smartphone version of its app along with a fully featured mobile website,
           Zappos, worked many processes in parallel to get its application off the ground. In
           addition to working to ensure a feature on the iTunes store — to aid in discovery — the
           firm also polished its mobile web presence and an API framework for product
           information. To date, the application enjoys a near 5-star rating on the iOS App Store
           with over 14,000 reviews from users.

            “Zappos had never designed for anything like this before. It was an iterative process
            where a new build went out every week. The team put in a lot of hours and everybody
            worked seven days a week for 12 weeks.”
                                                               –Alex Kirmse, Head of Mobile, Zappos



Understanding the Maturity of Your Mobile Strategy
So how do you get to be a mobile leader? Determine your maturity and then begin working
your way up the maturity continuum. Evaluating the elements of a mobile strategy that are
currently in place will determine the current level of maturity of your existing mobile strategy.
Altimeter has identified three distinct maturity levels of mobile strategy among retailers. The
three categories of maturity are:

Figure 4. Retailers’ Strategies Fall Into One Of Three Maturity Levels




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       •   On the Ground. Retailers in this phase of maturity are just beginning their journey into
           mobile. They’re on the runway, ready for takeoff, but still laying out the groundwork for
           their mobile strategy in its first iteration. There is much ground to cover, and the
           potential to fall behind or lose ground to competitors is high.




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       •   Hitting Turbulence. Retailers at this maturity phase have jumped into mobile with
           some of the best intentions but have not realized the revenue or customer interaction
           gains they hoped to achieve. What is most likely holding them back are that the efforts
           in these organizations are not clearly focused on serving business needs or actual
           customer pains.

       •   Flying High. The news is not all bad; we interviewed many successful mobile teams
           that have attained success with their mobile strategy. Their apps currently provide a
           positive impact to the business and make interaction and purchasing easier for
           customers, addressing an actual customer pain.

Altimeter has created a matrix to score organizations’ mobile maturity based on current
features of the mobile application, planned updates, and impact on the overall business.9 (See
Figure 5.)

Figure 5. Altimeter App Maturity Matrix


       Category            Sub Elements                 Potential Score                      Legend

Application           Platform and device                  30 points           Flying High:                  24-30
Features              support, localization,
                      inbound media,                                           Hitting Turbulence: 13-23
                      multimedia, social                                       On the Ground:                 6-12

Application           Future feature support,              25 points           Flying High:                  20-25
Strategy              future platform
                      support, application                                     Hitting Turbulence:            11-19
                      development iteration                                    On the Ground:                  5-10

Application           Registered new users,                15 points           Flying High:                  12-15
Impact                net new revenue, cost
                      of development                                           Hitting Turbulence:              7-11

                                                                               On the Ground:                    3-6

                                                                                           Source: Altimeter Group


Filing a Flight Plan for Mobile Success
Depending on the maturity of the strategy, the steps to take for attaining a successful mobile
experience for customers will take different paths. For example, in organizations that find
themselves in the “on the ground” category and have not yet begun to work on mobile, the first
question that must be answered is what the impact on the business will be and what type of
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up in the “hitting turbulence” maturity category can benefit from revisiting mobile strategy
impact and potentially changing course. However, more often than not, companies in this
category must refine the application strategy to provide value relevant to the pain points of its
customers. Even those retailers at “flying high” have some work to do and should focus on
refining the application continually, as today’s innovative feature is tomorrow’s baseline
functionality.

Map Mobile Strategy to One of Two End Goals
In the world of retail, organizations are seeking to either build brand affinity or drive
transactions. Current business goals such as customer retention versus customer acquisition
may dictate which path an organization takes. Either way, these two outcomes can both have
dramatic impacts on a retailer’s bottom line. Strategists must determine which of the two end-
game scenarios, enrich or engage, makes sense for the business and product set being sold;
this is step one to achieving mobile success. The selected path will determine the appropriate
end goal, and strategists need to decide which of two results an app will have (see Figure 6):

       •   Enrich: These strategies are focused on driving transactions and measured in total
           purchases, purchase size or frequency, and purchase-per-store metrics. The ROI
           model is simple — engage mobile buyers and grow the business.

       •   Engage: Engage strategies are not as transaction-centric as enrich strategies and are
           aimed at improving user interaction and brand affinity. Engage strategies can provide
           product information, post-purchase support, or help to provide a presence for retailers
           and brands with a fully online presence. The focus is on bringing shoppers closer to the
           brand to drive interaction, not just spend.

Enrich and engage also take place at different parts of the customer buying process, with
enrich — heavily transaction-focused activities — taking place almost exclusively at the
moment of purchase, while engage — centered on building a bond with new and existing
customers — seeking to bring the buyer to that purchase decision or keep the lines of
communication open afterward.




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Figure 6. Choose a Mobile Strategy Path Based on Product




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Choose an Application Type to Drive Enrich or Engage
Mobile applications have similarly few types of user interaction. Looking at a number of
applications aimed at customers, Altimeter has determined the four most successful types of
applications that allow brands to enrich their relationships with users or engage with new and
existing users. Once the endgame for a mobile strategy has been chosen, understanding which
application type best empowers the desired user behaviors is the next step in building the
plan.

Across industries, brands and mobile platforms, the categories of tool are consistent — we
found that applications generally fall into the following categories (see Figure 7).




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Figure 7. Types of Mobile Retail Interaction10




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       •   Informational: These applications are primarily designed to enrich the experience by
           providing information on retail outlets, high-level and non product-specific information.
           Alternatively, specs on high-complexity products, like automobiles, fall into this
           category as well.

       •   Buy/Ship: These applications allow for buyers to complete a product lookup and
           purchase for later offline home delivery. By far, this is the most common type of
           application; in many cases, these applications are built as a device-native framework
           that populates properly formatted information residing elsewhere as HTML-based
           content.

       •   Multichannel Lite: Applications in this category allow shoppers to interact with retailers
           in-store for enhanced shopping experiences. Applications in this category allow users
           to initiate but not complete a purchase.

       •   Multichannel Heavy: Applications in this category are some of the most complex,
           allowing shoppers and buyers to interact with retailers in-store for an enhanced
           shopping experience, with purchasing possible using the app or tools provided natively
           in the app itself.

As a rule of thumb, informational applications and Buy/Ship applications are most often
designed to build interaction with users and engage new buyers. In some of the strategies
among brands that have been successful, the winning ingredient in the application is the
information source the user turns to, which builds trust and engagement with that user to
develop a “go-to” relationship. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, augmenting and,
perhaps, fundamentally changing and improving the user’s buying experience can reap vast
rewards for the company while solving a real user pain. Regardless of the application choice,
the need for a novel tool that solves an actual user’s problem is key to driving customer use.




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Prepare for Takeoff: Next Actions
Undertaking a mobile strategy starts with understanding the impact the application must have
on the business and the type of application that will get you there. But the initial step is
evaluating maturity and taking actions appropriate to the firm’s current maturity level (see
Figure 8).

Figure 8. Focus Areas for Strategy Based on Maturity

                      Plot       Choose        Choose/
                                                                    Refine/          Extend
                     Impact      Business       Revisit                                               Globalize
                                                                     Add            Platform
                    Path of       Impact      Application                                               App
                                                                   Features         Support
                    Strategy       Path          Type

       Maturity
        Level

       On the
       Ground
                                    

  Hitting
Turbulence
                                                                    

        Flying
         High
                                                                                                      

                           In Process                 Accomplished                   Next Step
                                                                                          Source: Altimeter Group

We’ve seen the start of the “new normal” during the 2011 holiday season. As devices increase
in capability so too will competitors’ mobile strategies expand to address more of them, and
the tools within each mature to do more. Once you determine your maturity score, you should
proceed according to the next steps, according to which level your score places you in:

On the Ground: Companies in this category score the lowest on the maturity model, not
because of poor applications but because they have not yet determined the direction of their
strategy; they’re at the starting line. These companies should:

        •   Consider the impact mobile should have on the business. Determine if your mobile
            strategy is to drive transactions or interact with customers. These two directions,
            enriching the bottom line or engaging with users, should be mutually exclusive for
            companies in this phase.

        •   Pick an application type. Retailers should pick an application type that encourages the
            end behavior the retailer is looking to incent. For example, is the aim to have an
            engagement app aimed at gathering information or an enrichment app to make online
            purchases? A great source of some of the most successful app insight into client needs
            is listening to social channels through a social media listening program.11


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Hitting Turbulence: Companies finding that their strategy ranks them in the “hitting
turbulence” category should not shy away from weighing the option of starting anew on their
strategy and beginning the ideation process again with a review of the desired business impact
and best application type to serve it. In many ways, this group has a lot in common with the
companies on the ground and may need to start from the same initial steps. Companies whose
strategy is hitting turbulence must:

       •   Revisit the business impact. Is the impact clear and in harmony with the metrics set
           out for measuring the app’s success initially? In many efforts that have lost altitude,
           there is a mix of goals in the strategy, some aimed at enriching the brand and some
           aimed at engaging with customers. The resulting app results in a cluttered, confusing
           experience for the user, so choosing one of the two paths is critical. In terms of
           application design, choosing a single type of the four outlined in this report is a must.

       •   Unclutter the application type. Similar to the mix of business goals, we have seen a
           lot of applications that try to be too many things from a function standpoint. Gather
           intelligence from users about specific pains; use this direction as a blueprint for the key
           feature users want. The application should be designed to serve this feature as its
           primary mission. Previous feature-sets that don’t address this specific pain should be
           used in future upgraded applications. The key to having the app get discovered and
           continually used is by focusing on the feature set that speaks to a user’s biggest pain
           and solving that pain in a simple, straightforward way.

Flying High: While companies that have attained the highest level on our maturity model are
flying high with their mobile strategy, they are not yet done with their work. Continual
improvement and maintenance of their success depends on constant iteration. Those looking
to maintain success are expanding their strategy to serve more platforms, product categories
or business units. Companies in this group should focus on:

       •   Adding features and expanding reach. Bringing on new, novel features will keep the
           app fresh, both in terms of addressable mobile platforms and product categories. A
           long-term plan to integrate with other channels, like social media, will increase app
           stickiness. The focus for these firms is on the long-term growth of the app to do more
           and solve more complex user problems. Starbucks — shared as an example of one of
           these firms — has continually added features to its application and also consolidated
           features from applications that were previously separate.

       •   To stay on top, don’t under-resource development. Think about the resources
           required for each additional platform or geography that must be supported. No
           platform, feature, product or region addition should be given lower priority; the variance
           in design and functionality will be apparent to users. Think about novel features, as
           today’s “whiz-bang” functionality is tomorrow’s table-stakes feature.




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Appendix A: Mobile Maturity Scorecard
       Criteria                Sub Criteria                               Scoring Criteria
                          Where is the application    1: The application is available via URL-based download;
                                        available?    3: The application is only available on the platform
                                                      official marketplace; 5: The application is available in the
                                                      official platform marketplace or as a full-function web
                                                      version.
                            What mobile platforms     1 point given for each: Android, BlackBerry, iOS,
                              does the application    Windows Phone 7, Full-function web (HTML or HTML5)
                                 currently support    version
                          (excluding alpha or beta
                                        versions)?
                          How many languages is       1: English only; 3: English plus 2 languages; 5: 3+
                          the application currently   languages and 1 non-English character set
                                      localized to?
                            What types of devices     1: Smartphone only; 3: Smartphones and most tablets;
                             does the application     5: The application is optimized to perform identically on
       Application Type




                                        support?      all device types.
                            What types of physical    1 point given for each: Location information (from
                          interaction does the app    device GPS), standard (line-based) barcode, 2-
                             currently support (QR    dimensional barcodes or Quick Response (QR) codes,
                               Codes, NFC, Image      Near Field Communication (NFC) reader information,
                                 processing, etc.)?   NFC reader information
                                    What types of     1 point given for each: Text only, Text and images, Text
                              multimedia content      and static multimedia (native inside the application),
                           does the app currently     Text and dynamic multimedia from dynamic sources
                          support (images, video,     (example, local embedding of YouTube content), Text,
                                           etc.)?     images and interactive content (Examples: in-app game,
                                                      puzzle, etc.)
                             What types of social     1 point given for each: Twitter integration (read or
                           media interaction does     originate tweets within application), Facebook
                                the app currently     integration (access or add to Facebook feed from within
                                 support (Twitter,    application), Instant messaging (access native instant
                           Facebook, SMS, etc.)?      messaging in-app or via API to other messaging
                                                      application, excluding SMS), SMS (integration with
                                                      phone-native SMS to originate SMS exchange), Photo
                                                      sharing network (Photobucket, Instragram, etc.)
	
  
	
  
	
  




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       Criteria                     Sub Criteria                                  Scoring Criteria
                                  Which of the following     1 point for each not yet supported with confirmed
                                    platforms does your      release date for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows
                                  application have a firm    Phone, Web version
                                       delivery date for?
                                How many languages will      1: One additional language; 3: English plus 2
                              the application be localized   languages; 5: English plus 3 or more languages and
                                       to by 12/31/2011?     one non-English character set. 0: No further
                                                             localization is planned.
       Application Strategy




                               What types of devices will    1: Expand smartphone support; 3: Smartphones and
                               the application support by    most tablets; 5: The application is optimized to perform
                                             12/31/2011?     identically on all device types; 0: No further form-factor
                                                             development is planned.
                              What mobile platforms will     1 point each for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows
                                 the application support     Phone 7, Full-function web (HTML or HTML5) version
                                (excluding alpha or beta
                               versions) by 12/31/2011?
                                  When was the last time     1: The application has not been upgraded in the past
                                    your application was     calendar quarter; 3: The application is updated 1–2
                                      upgraded, or how       times per calendar quarter; 5: The application is
                               frequently is it upgraded?    updated monthly or semimonthly; 0: We have stopped
                                                             development on the application.
                                        Please select the    1: We have not seen any change in the number of
                                     statement that best     users attributable to the app; 3: The application has led
                              describes the application’s    to an increase of up to 25% in users; 5: The application
                                impact on the number of      has led to an increase of more than 25% in users.
                               registered users affiliated
                                         with your brand.
       Application Impact




                                         Please select the   1: We have not seen any change in revenue
                                      statement that best    attributable to the app; 3: The application has led to an
                              describes the application's    increase of up to 25% in revenue since launch; 5: The
                                     impact on company       application has led to an increase of more than 25% in
                                                 revenue.    revenue since launch.
                                      What has been the      1: Application development costs equal $200,000 or
                                     approximate cost of     higher; 3: Application development costs equal
                                        developing your      $75,000 to $199,999; 5: Application development costs
                                     application to date?    have been less than $75,000 to date.
                              How many downloads has         1: Less than 50,000 downloads; 3: 50,000 to 149,999
                                your application had to      downloads; 5: 150,000 downloads or more
                                                  date?




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Endnotes
1
 CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate; source: Nielsen “App Consumer Behaviour Patterns”
Presentation. Oct. 20, 2011.
http://dk.nielsen.com/site/documents/appconsumerbehaviourpatterns.pdf

2
  Source, NielsenWire blog, Aug. 18, 2011. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=28628 and
thinkmobile/Google “The Mobile Movement” presentation. Apr. 2011.
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/insights/library/studies/the-mobile-movement

3
 According to Google’s “The Mobile Movement” study, 2011, 70% of mobile users use their
device while shopping. http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/insights/library/studies/the-mobile-
movement
4
 Source, National Retail Federation, Oct. 2011.
http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewlive&sp_id=1277

5
  2011 found 16.4% of all online sessions up from 7.8% of sessions in 2010, an increase of
109.3%, source: IBM “Coremetrics Retail Study.” Dec. 27, 2011. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/
IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Online-Sales-Jump-for-Christmas-Mega-Monday-265209

6
       Shop.org is an industry trade group within the National Retailers Federation.

7
  According to Shop.org data, only 16% of surveyed retailers found “[discouraging] the use of
price comparison by offering another mobile option” a “very valuable” opportunity of a mobile
strategy. Forty-three percent of the same audience said such a strategy was “not valuable.”
Source: Stores Magazine, National Retailers Foundation, November 2011.
(http://www.stores.org/STORES%20Magazine%20November%202011/upwardly-mobile)
which contains RS data gathered for Stores, the NRF pub.
http://www.stores.org/assets/issues/artilcecharts/mobileresearchTopThreeChart.jpg	
  

8
 Starbucks has seen over 20 million transactions since the application’s launch, with $110
million loaded onto Starbucks cards via the app. Dec. 7, 2011.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222481/Starbucks_mobile_payments_perk_past_26
M_transactions

9
  The scores above can be generated by taking the questionnaire located in Appendix A of this
report.

10
  Application examples, from left to right, Century21, Hilton, Toyota, Amazon, Wine.com,
Zappos, Amazon A9 Flow, Best Buy, Walgreens, Apple, Starbucks, Walmart.
11
   For more information on building a listening program as part of a social media measurement
framework, see Altimeter report “A Framework For Social Analytics.”
http://www.altimetergroup.com/2011/08/research-report-a-framework-for-social-analytics.html 	
  




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About Chris Silva, Mobile Analyst
                 Chris Silva is an Industry Analyst focusing on Mobile, where he helps end-
                 user organizations understand how to effectively manage mobile strategies
                 in their organizations for increased brand impact, worker efficiency and
                 revenue. A 10+ year veteran of the research industry, Chris has led research,
                 events and consulting operations for IANS Research, Forrester Research,
                 IDC, and two other small boutique research firms. Chris is a graduate of the
                 Isenberg School of Management at The University of Massachusetts at
                 Amherst. Chris blogs at makemobilework.wordpress.com.

Alan Webber, Principal Analyst & Partner
                 Alan Webber is an Industry Analyst and currently the Managing Partner
                 Altimeter Group. Alan’s research and client efforts focus on the
                 understanding and thriving through disruptions at intersection of
                 organization, culture, and technology. Alan publishes some his findings on
                 his professional blog roninresearch.org. Prior to Altimeter, he was a Principal
                 Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the B2B online user
                 experience, digital engagement, and disruptive technologies in government.
                 Alan holds a B.A, M.A., and M.S. from Colorado State University and
                 completed his Ph.D. courses in technology policy and methods from The
                 George Washington University.

Lora Cecere, Principal Analyst & Partner
                   Lora Cecere (@lcecere) is a Partner with Altimeter Group. She focuses on
                   the evolution of disruptive technologies for consumer value chains.
                   Previously, Lora was a Vice President of Value Chain Strategies at AMR
                   Research (now Gartner Group) and has over 25 years of experience in
                   building software and leading groups within consumer products
                   manufacturers. She writes the Supply Chain Shaman blog at
                   supplychainshaman.com and is a frequent columnist for Consumer Goods
                   Technology and Supply Chain Management Review.

About Jessica Groopman, Researcher
                 Jessica Groopman (@jessgroopman) is a Researcher with Altimeter Group
                 where she researches and analyzes shifts in consumer behavior and the
                 evolving challenges and opportunities of disruptive technologies on
                 businesses. She has experience in business, technological and
                 anthropological research.




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[Report] Make An App For That: Mobile Strategies For Retail, by Chris Silva

  • 1. Make an App for That: Mobile Strategies for Retailers Developing a mobile strategy to address the smartphone- and tablet-toting shopper   February 7, 2012 By Chris Silva   with Alan Webber and Jessica Groopman Includes input from 26 ecosystem contributors   © 2012 Altimeter Group 1 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States    
  • 2.   Table of Contents © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 2    
  • 3.   Executive Summary 2011 was the year of the mobile consumer. Smartphone and tablet penetration grew at a rapid pace and has fundamentally changed the way people live their daily lives and seek information. One of the largest areas of disruptions is in retail; shoppers are packing smartphones and tablets with retailer apps and using them to hunt for bargains, product information, and to find almost everything on their shopping list. The 2011 holiday shopping season witnessed the most aggressive use of mobile technologies by consumers and retailers to date. The problem was that not all retailers had a strategy in place to take advantage of this foreseeable trend. Most retailers are not stepping up to the plate when it comes to adopting an effective mobile strategy. Remnants of prior “rush-to-mobile” efforts have left brands and retailers with fragmented under-functioning apps that, at worst, frustrate and alienate the user. The problem with the previous efforts was that many retail organizations focused on the means — mobile — and not the ends — transactions or customer engagement. Retailers need to determine whether their business goal is engaging customers or driving transactions as a critical first step. For companies just getting started in developing their mobile strategy or “on the ground,” this is job 1. For companies struggling with an existing mobile strategy or “hitting turbulence,” their process may need to start with reassessing business impact but should then focus on whether the application fits to one of four common models of mobile retail interaction outlined in this report. Even firms with a successful mobile strategy that have reached “flying high” will benefit from continually revisiting the application, expanding its feature set and platform scope, and considering broadening the swath of products or brands it serves. The key to success is understanding where a firm’s maturity lies and taking a discrete set of actions based on that maturity profile. Retailers must understand their engagement path, whether just starting out on its mobile journey, struggling with getting lift for its current mobile strategy, or well on its way to success, to reach the peak of maturity in a mobile strategy — flying high — retailers must know which engagement path they plan to embark upon, drive transactions or customer relationships, and build their applications accordingly. 2011 was the year of the mobile shopper, but it’s not too late to adapt and improve strategies to target them in 2012 and beyond; the number of mobile shoppers will only continue to grow. Methodology For this report, we conducted both quantitative and qualitative research using a combination of online survey, qualitative interviews, and interactive discussion in live format. Specifically, we conducted: • An online questionnaire administered to five top application strategists, chosen from among the top 10 performing applications (determined by download statistics) • Fourteen (14) interviews with mobile strategists at major brands; executives in the agency space helping to develop mobile strategy; industry observers; and mobile commerce software, service and solutions providers © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 3    
  • 4.   • Live participation with 26 attendees of Altimeter Group’s Mobile Strategy roundtable event in which participants were asked to provide insights on top-performing applications and strategies within their organizations or organizations they had been contracted to develop applications and strategies for. Ecosystem Input As more shoppers become users of smartphones and tablets — as does a greater portion of the overall population — retailers are seeking to serve these customers on a new platform but doing so at a pace that may alienate customers by racing to the mobile platform while lacking a strategy to solve actual customer problems. While some brands have succeeded in serving this new type of customer, many are struggling to catch up. This report would not have been possible without insights into application and mobile strategies shared by major retailers, insight into client demands from agency and solution provider contacts, and insights into the best — and worst — mobile strategies from industry observers. Please keep in mind that input into this document does not represent a complete endorsement of the report by the individuals or companies listed below. Industry Groups Brands/Retailers Agencies Technology Providers National Retail Best Buy Crisp Media ALUC-it! Federation Coca-Cola Defero Appconomy Shop.org (NRF) The Golf Warehouse iCrossing Digital Folio IHL Hilton DemandWare Retail Connections Shop.org Mobilosoft Big|Insight Starbucks Retrevo Tasti D-Lite Walgreens Walmart Wine.com Zappos Altimeter Group also received feedback, direction or information from the following industry experts: Artemis Berry, Greg Buzek, Lora Cecere, Susan Etlinger, Jeremiah Owyang, Alan Webber, Gary Lombardo, Marc Millstein, Phil Rist and Brian Solis. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 4    
  • 5.   The Mobile Consumer Is Here The year 2011 has borne witness to the growing power of the masses of smartphone and tablet users in the United States. This growing group of users with smart mobile devices has shifted its behavior from static information-gathering sessions that take place pre-purchase to active, in-store searches that take into account nearby retail outlets and pricing differences and even identify previously unknown items. Now, more then ever, consumers rely on their mobile devices as demonstrated by the record number of shoppers who took to the stores with mobile retail apps firmly in hand (see Figure 1). • 2011 saw a surge in mobile users, but 2012 is the year when smartphone owners become the majority of users, currently hovering just below 50% of U.S. mobile phone users. Tablets, too, take center stage with a near 24% CAGR in adoption.1 • Overall use of mobile devices is on the rise, with users spending nearly an hour per day, on average, actively interacting with them. One of the top use-cases for smartphones today is while shopping.2 © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 5    
  • 6.   Figure 1. Mobile Devices Are Ubiquitous, Especially in Stores Source: Altimeter Group © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 6    
  • 7.   Why Mobile Shoppers Mean Business Now There are three factors actively changing the game for retailers hoping to capitalize on mobile shoppers: • Mobile smart devices are ubiquitous. In 2011, we saw for the first time the effects of low-cost, high-speed networks paired with capable, desktop-class computing power in nearly every mobile device on the market. Add to that lower and lower acquisition costs, and it becomes the primary device for the masses. This means that shoppers with smartphones or tablets will quickly assimilate to using apps to inform their information gathering, especially in stores. • Shopping is high on the mobile “to-do” list. The average smartphone user spends over one hour per day interacting with his or her device, and one of the top three activities the user is doing on that device is shopping3. Smartphone users expect to be able to turn to their devices for every informational need and have it met immediately. When shopping, this means finding the quickest route to products and prices, whether or not the mobile tool comes from the retailer whose store they’re in or from a competitor. As an information-driven activity, shopping is an area where mobile queries are becoming the norm. • Retailers have an ineffective mobile strategy. Most of the retailers we interviewed were on a second or third iteration of their mobile strategy with a second or third team lead. The reason? They’re trying to recover from previous mistakes made in a rush to get on mobile devices with little thought given to the desired outcome or the type of app and interaction best suited to their product or service. In some cases, poor performance is a result of focus on the features possible with mobile technology, not customer pain or other business problems that mobile can help solve. For example, one online retailer said that tablets were “not what [we consider] a mobile device,” when a quick scan of where users were shopping from would have pointed out that many users consider tablets — and likely smartphones — the primary place they interact with the brand. Retailers: Step up Mobile Plans to Meet Eager Buyers Almost 46% of U.S. adults planned to purchase gifts online during the 2011 holiday season, more than have ever done so before.4 According to data gathered by IBM Coremetrics, 16.4% of all sessions on retailers’ sites in 2011 were initiated from mobile, more than double the previous year.5 It’s time for retailers and brands to step up and create tools and experiences for shoppers that cater to their mobile information needs on the go and in the store. A recent Shop.org6 survey noted that mobile strategies aimed at thwarting lost sales were near the bottom of the list of retailers’ priorities coming into the 2011 holiday.7 © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 7    
  • 8.   To step up, retailers need to give shoppers the right tools, on the right platform, at the right time while avoiding the two most common mistakes. Those common mistakes are: • Common Mistake #1: Mobile for Mobile’s Sake. Major retail brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and Longhorn Steakhouse are prime examples of brands rushing to mobile with a focus on the medium and not the end goal of impacting the business (see Figure 2). These two brands offer mobile applications that are heavy on design (in the case of A&F’s app) and mobile tricks (see the 3D graphical and motion- based effects of Longhorn’s app), but short on utility and shopping-centric tools. For example, A&F’s mobile app shows almost none of its apparel, which is what a shopper would want, and instead opts for steamy photography of its models. Longhorn’s app allows users to cook a steak but provides no directions to get them to a restaurant. Both apps fail to fulfill the primary need of their target audience. Figure 2. Abercrombie & Fitch and Longhorn Steakhouse Miss an Opportunity • Common Mistake #2: Missing the Chance to Target Mobile Users. Another common mistake is not targeting mobile users. For example, Amazon launched a campaign on December 10, 2011, to have users scan products in-store using its Price Check app (see Figure 3). This was an effort to gather pricing and shopping data from brick-and-mortar customers. Amazon offered $5 discounts on products scanned in- store and subsequently purchased from the online retailer rather than in the store the customer was in while using the app.   © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 8    
  • 9.   Figure 3. Amazon Ups the Ante for Retailers A mobile strategy should not focus on demonstrating the means — mobile platforms — but on meeting the end needs of customers. Focus on what pains currently exist in the mobile shopping experience for the customer and how powerful, ubiquitous, sensor-laden devices can help relieve those pains. How the Mobile Leaders Are Winning The determination of what path a brand wants a user to experience and accomplish should frame all of the decisions surrounding the strategy of the application. Convergence among various parts of the business is critical, especially for transaction-focused strategies. What can retailers learn from other successful mobile retail efforts? • Align mobile with other key teams. Winning mobile teams are tightly aligned with marketing loyalty programs (if applicable) and e-commerce teams. For example, Starbucks built its wildly successful application not around revenue or loyalty card adhesion, but instead around ease of purchase.8 The coffee retailer set out to solve a growing user problem — wait times in stores — and ended up with an enriched application that has materially affected the company positively. The app was so successful that it will soon be rolled out to stores in Canada and the UK.         © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 9    
  • 10.   “How can we make [buying] easier, faster? ... We also want to manage feature creep, maintaining the need to keep it simple. Finally, we’re keeping a close eye on social channels to hear what’s being said about the brand and stay keyed into the next things customers want.” –Adam Brotman, SVP & GM Digital Ventures, Starbucks • Focus on what the user needs. Mobile strategies should be holistic and remain focused on what users are seeking. Informational apps may seem simple in design, but a solid strategy seeks to solve the “information” problem, not just the “mobile” problem. For example, in addition to building an application that regularly resides in the top 10 most downloaded retail apps across major platforms — like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android — Best Buy saw the potential disruption coming from third-party apps to disseminate product and price information and got ahead of the curve. Best Buy developed a series of information-sharing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and uses those APIs to feed information about price and local availability — a distinct advantage for its stores over online retailers — to other popular shopping apps, increasing store traffic. “We know not everyone is coming to our product information via the stores; shoppers use other channels, searches, and other commerce applications. We had built out our API platform early on to try and capitalize on that ‘beyond the reach of the store’ phenomenon. Mobile, to us, is an extension of that; we look at mobile as the accelerator for our [product information] APIs.” –Steve Bendt, Director of Emerging Platforms, Best Buy • Allocate the resources necessary to make mobile successful. Allocation of the necessary resources at U.S. pharmacy and convenience retailer Walgreens is at the forefront of everything the company does in mobile — and it shows. The Walgreens app, a regular in the top-tier of Lifestyle applications (retail is a subset of Lifestyle in most platforms’ app stores) based partly on the novelty of using a mobile device’s camera to scan a prescription barcode to initiate a refill, is an example of “multichannel lite” activity. The first among its peers to accomplish this, Walgreen’s ability to conquer a tricky technology problem others had faced has everything to do with its willingness to devote resources — entire design through development and testing teams for each major mobile platform — to solving users’ problems in a novel way. “I’d been part of a team before that said, ‘Creating an app that scans a curved barcode is prohibitively expensive,’ and we did it at Walgreens and were first to market. [We have] an entire QA and testing team for [each platform]. When we commit to something, we give it everything it needs to succeed.” –Adam Kmiec, Head of Social Media, Walgreens © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 10    
  • 11.   • Mobile means multiple platforms. One of the few retailers profiled that has built a tablet and smartphone version of its app along with a fully featured mobile website, Zappos, worked many processes in parallel to get its application off the ground. In addition to working to ensure a feature on the iTunes store — to aid in discovery — the firm also polished its mobile web presence and an API framework for product information. To date, the application enjoys a near 5-star rating on the iOS App Store with over 14,000 reviews from users. “Zappos had never designed for anything like this before. It was an iterative process where a new build went out every week. The team put in a lot of hours and everybody worked seven days a week for 12 weeks.” –Alex Kirmse, Head of Mobile, Zappos Understanding the Maturity of Your Mobile Strategy So how do you get to be a mobile leader? Determine your maturity and then begin working your way up the maturity continuum. Evaluating the elements of a mobile strategy that are currently in place will determine the current level of maturity of your existing mobile strategy. Altimeter has identified three distinct maturity levels of mobile strategy among retailers. The three categories of maturity are: Figure 4. Retailers’ Strategies Fall Into One Of Three Maturity Levels Source: Altimeter Group • On the Ground. Retailers in this phase of maturity are just beginning their journey into mobile. They’re on the runway, ready for takeoff, but still laying out the groundwork for their mobile strategy in its first iteration. There is much ground to cover, and the potential to fall behind or lose ground to competitors is high. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 11    
  • 12.   • Hitting Turbulence. Retailers at this maturity phase have jumped into mobile with some of the best intentions but have not realized the revenue or customer interaction gains they hoped to achieve. What is most likely holding them back are that the efforts in these organizations are not clearly focused on serving business needs or actual customer pains. • Flying High. The news is not all bad; we interviewed many successful mobile teams that have attained success with their mobile strategy. Their apps currently provide a positive impact to the business and make interaction and purchasing easier for customers, addressing an actual customer pain. Altimeter has created a matrix to score organizations’ mobile maturity based on current features of the mobile application, planned updates, and impact on the overall business.9 (See Figure 5.) Figure 5. Altimeter App Maturity Matrix Category Sub Elements Potential Score Legend Application Platform and device 30 points Flying High: 24-30 Features support, localization, inbound media, Hitting Turbulence: 13-23 multimedia, social On the Ground: 6-12 Application Future feature support, 25 points Flying High: 20-25 Strategy future platform support, application Hitting Turbulence: 11-19 development iteration On the Ground: 5-10 Application Registered new users, 15 points Flying High: 12-15 Impact net new revenue, cost of development Hitting Turbulence: 7-11 On the Ground: 3-6 Source: Altimeter Group Filing a Flight Plan for Mobile Success Depending on the maturity of the strategy, the steps to take for attaining a successful mobile experience for customers will take different paths. For example, in organizations that find themselves in the “on the ground” category and have not yet begun to work on mobile, the first question that must be answered is what the impact on the business will be and what type of application will best serve it. Retailers that have tried to develop a mobile strategy only to end © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 12    
  • 13.   up in the “hitting turbulence” maturity category can benefit from revisiting mobile strategy impact and potentially changing course. However, more often than not, companies in this category must refine the application strategy to provide value relevant to the pain points of its customers. Even those retailers at “flying high” have some work to do and should focus on refining the application continually, as today’s innovative feature is tomorrow’s baseline functionality. Map Mobile Strategy to One of Two End Goals In the world of retail, organizations are seeking to either build brand affinity or drive transactions. Current business goals such as customer retention versus customer acquisition may dictate which path an organization takes. Either way, these two outcomes can both have dramatic impacts on a retailer’s bottom line. Strategists must determine which of the two end- game scenarios, enrich or engage, makes sense for the business and product set being sold; this is step one to achieving mobile success. The selected path will determine the appropriate end goal, and strategists need to decide which of two results an app will have (see Figure 6): • Enrich: These strategies are focused on driving transactions and measured in total purchases, purchase size or frequency, and purchase-per-store metrics. The ROI model is simple — engage mobile buyers and grow the business. • Engage: Engage strategies are not as transaction-centric as enrich strategies and are aimed at improving user interaction and brand affinity. Engage strategies can provide product information, post-purchase support, or help to provide a presence for retailers and brands with a fully online presence. The focus is on bringing shoppers closer to the brand to drive interaction, not just spend. Enrich and engage also take place at different parts of the customer buying process, with enrich — heavily transaction-focused activities — taking place almost exclusively at the moment of purchase, while engage — centered on building a bond with new and existing customers — seeking to bring the buyer to that purchase decision or keep the lines of communication open afterward. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 13    
  • 14.   Figure 6. Choose a Mobile Strategy Path Based on Product Source: Altimeter Group Choose an Application Type to Drive Enrich or Engage Mobile applications have similarly few types of user interaction. Looking at a number of applications aimed at customers, Altimeter has determined the four most successful types of applications that allow brands to enrich their relationships with users or engage with new and existing users. Once the endgame for a mobile strategy has been chosen, understanding which application type best empowers the desired user behaviors is the next step in building the plan. Across industries, brands and mobile platforms, the categories of tool are consistent — we found that applications generally fall into the following categories (see Figure 7). © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 14    
  • 15.   Figure 7. Types of Mobile Retail Interaction10 Source: Altimeter Group • Informational: These applications are primarily designed to enrich the experience by providing information on retail outlets, high-level and non product-specific information. Alternatively, specs on high-complexity products, like automobiles, fall into this category as well. • Buy/Ship: These applications allow for buyers to complete a product lookup and purchase for later offline home delivery. By far, this is the most common type of application; in many cases, these applications are built as a device-native framework that populates properly formatted information residing elsewhere as HTML-based content. • Multichannel Lite: Applications in this category allow shoppers to interact with retailers in-store for enhanced shopping experiences. Applications in this category allow users to initiate but not complete a purchase. • Multichannel Heavy: Applications in this category are some of the most complex, allowing shoppers and buyers to interact with retailers in-store for an enhanced shopping experience, with purchasing possible using the app or tools provided natively in the app itself. As a rule of thumb, informational applications and Buy/Ship applications are most often designed to build interaction with users and engage new buyers. In some of the strategies among brands that have been successful, the winning ingredient in the application is the information source the user turns to, which builds trust and engagement with that user to develop a “go-to” relationship. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, augmenting and, perhaps, fundamentally changing and improving the user’s buying experience can reap vast rewards for the company while solving a real user pain. Regardless of the application choice, the need for a novel tool that solves an actual user’s problem is key to driving customer use. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 15    
  • 16.   Prepare for Takeoff: Next Actions Undertaking a mobile strategy starts with understanding the impact the application must have on the business and the type of application that will get you there. But the initial step is evaluating maturity and taking actions appropriate to the firm’s current maturity level (see Figure 8). Figure 8. Focus Areas for Strategy Based on Maturity Plot Choose Choose/ Refine/ Extend Impact Business Revisit Globalize Add Platform Path of Impact Application App Features Support Strategy Path Type Maturity Level On the Ground   Hitting Turbulence     Flying High        In Process  Accomplished  Next Step Source: Altimeter Group We’ve seen the start of the “new normal” during the 2011 holiday season. As devices increase in capability so too will competitors’ mobile strategies expand to address more of them, and the tools within each mature to do more. Once you determine your maturity score, you should proceed according to the next steps, according to which level your score places you in: On the Ground: Companies in this category score the lowest on the maturity model, not because of poor applications but because they have not yet determined the direction of their strategy; they’re at the starting line. These companies should: • Consider the impact mobile should have on the business. Determine if your mobile strategy is to drive transactions or interact with customers. These two directions, enriching the bottom line or engaging with users, should be mutually exclusive for companies in this phase. • Pick an application type. Retailers should pick an application type that encourages the end behavior the retailer is looking to incent. For example, is the aim to have an engagement app aimed at gathering information or an enrichment app to make online purchases? A great source of some of the most successful app insight into client needs is listening to social channels through a social media listening program.11 © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 16    
  • 17.   Hitting Turbulence: Companies finding that their strategy ranks them in the “hitting turbulence” category should not shy away from weighing the option of starting anew on their strategy and beginning the ideation process again with a review of the desired business impact and best application type to serve it. In many ways, this group has a lot in common with the companies on the ground and may need to start from the same initial steps. Companies whose strategy is hitting turbulence must: • Revisit the business impact. Is the impact clear and in harmony with the metrics set out for measuring the app’s success initially? In many efforts that have lost altitude, there is a mix of goals in the strategy, some aimed at enriching the brand and some aimed at engaging with customers. The resulting app results in a cluttered, confusing experience for the user, so choosing one of the two paths is critical. In terms of application design, choosing a single type of the four outlined in this report is a must. • Unclutter the application type. Similar to the mix of business goals, we have seen a lot of applications that try to be too many things from a function standpoint. Gather intelligence from users about specific pains; use this direction as a blueprint for the key feature users want. The application should be designed to serve this feature as its primary mission. Previous feature-sets that don’t address this specific pain should be used in future upgraded applications. The key to having the app get discovered and continually used is by focusing on the feature set that speaks to a user’s biggest pain and solving that pain in a simple, straightforward way. Flying High: While companies that have attained the highest level on our maturity model are flying high with their mobile strategy, they are not yet done with their work. Continual improvement and maintenance of their success depends on constant iteration. Those looking to maintain success are expanding their strategy to serve more platforms, product categories or business units. Companies in this group should focus on: • Adding features and expanding reach. Bringing on new, novel features will keep the app fresh, both in terms of addressable mobile platforms and product categories. A long-term plan to integrate with other channels, like social media, will increase app stickiness. The focus for these firms is on the long-term growth of the app to do more and solve more complex user problems. Starbucks — shared as an example of one of these firms — has continually added features to its application and also consolidated features from applications that were previously separate. • To stay on top, don’t under-resource development. Think about the resources required for each additional platform or geography that must be supported. No platform, feature, product or region addition should be given lower priority; the variance in design and functionality will be apparent to users. Think about novel features, as today’s “whiz-bang” functionality is tomorrow’s table-stakes feature. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 17    
  • 18.   Appendix A: Mobile Maturity Scorecard Criteria Sub Criteria Scoring Criteria Where is the application 1: The application is available via URL-based download; available? 3: The application is only available on the platform official marketplace; 5: The application is available in the official platform marketplace or as a full-function web version. What mobile platforms 1 point given for each: Android, BlackBerry, iOS, does the application Windows Phone 7, Full-function web (HTML or HTML5) currently support version (excluding alpha or beta versions)? How many languages is 1: English only; 3: English plus 2 languages; 5: 3+ the application currently languages and 1 non-English character set localized to? What types of devices 1: Smartphone only; 3: Smartphones and most tablets; does the application 5: The application is optimized to perform identically on Application Type support? all device types. What types of physical 1 point given for each: Location information (from interaction does the app device GPS), standard (line-based) barcode, 2- currently support (QR dimensional barcodes or Quick Response (QR) codes, Codes, NFC, Image Near Field Communication (NFC) reader information, processing, etc.)? NFC reader information What types of 1 point given for each: Text only, Text and images, Text multimedia content and static multimedia (native inside the application), does the app currently Text and dynamic multimedia from dynamic sources support (images, video, (example, local embedding of YouTube content), Text, etc.)? images and interactive content (Examples: in-app game, puzzle, etc.) What types of social 1 point given for each: Twitter integration (read or media interaction does originate tweets within application), Facebook the app currently integration (access or add to Facebook feed from within support (Twitter, application), Instant messaging (access native instant Facebook, SMS, etc.)? messaging in-app or via API to other messaging application, excluding SMS), SMS (integration with phone-native SMS to originate SMS exchange), Photo sharing network (Photobucket, Instragram, etc.)       © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 18    
  • 19.       Criteria Sub Criteria Scoring Criteria Which of the following 1 point for each not yet supported with confirmed platforms does your release date for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows application have a firm Phone, Web version delivery date for? How many languages will 1: One additional language; 3: English plus 2 the application be localized languages; 5: English plus 3 or more languages and to by 12/31/2011? one non-English character set. 0: No further localization is planned. Application Strategy What types of devices will 1: Expand smartphone support; 3: Smartphones and the application support by most tablets; 5: The application is optimized to perform 12/31/2011? identically on all device types; 0: No further form-factor development is planned. What mobile platforms will 1 point each for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows the application support Phone 7, Full-function web (HTML or HTML5) version (excluding alpha or beta versions) by 12/31/2011? When was the last time 1: The application has not been upgraded in the past your application was calendar quarter; 3: The application is updated 1–2 upgraded, or how times per calendar quarter; 5: The application is frequently is it upgraded? updated monthly or semimonthly; 0: We have stopped development on the application. Please select the 1: We have not seen any change in the number of statement that best users attributable to the app; 3: The application has led describes the application’s to an increase of up to 25% in users; 5: The application impact on the number of has led to an increase of more than 25% in users. registered users affiliated with your brand. Application Impact Please select the 1: We have not seen any change in revenue statement that best attributable to the app; 3: The application has led to an describes the application's increase of up to 25% in revenue since launch; 5: The impact on company application has led to an increase of more than 25% in revenue. revenue since launch. What has been the 1: Application development costs equal $200,000 or approximate cost of higher; 3: Application development costs equal developing your $75,000 to $199,999; 5: Application development costs application to date? have been less than $75,000 to date. How many downloads has 1: Less than 50,000 downloads; 3: 50,000 to 149,999 your application had to downloads; 5: 150,000 downloads or more date? © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 19    
  • 20.     Endnotes 1 CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate; source: Nielsen “App Consumer Behaviour Patterns” Presentation. Oct. 20, 2011. http://dk.nielsen.com/site/documents/appconsumerbehaviourpatterns.pdf 2 Source, NielsenWire blog, Aug. 18, 2011. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=28628 and thinkmobile/Google “The Mobile Movement” presentation. Apr. 2011. http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/insights/library/studies/the-mobile-movement 3 According to Google’s “The Mobile Movement” study, 2011, 70% of mobile users use their device while shopping. http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/insights/library/studies/the-mobile- movement 4 Source, National Retail Federation, Oct. 2011. http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewlive&sp_id=1277 5 2011 found 16.4% of all online sessions up from 7.8% of sessions in 2010, an increase of 109.3%, source: IBM “Coremetrics Retail Study.” Dec. 27, 2011. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/ IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Online-Sales-Jump-for-Christmas-Mega-Monday-265209 6 Shop.org is an industry trade group within the National Retailers Federation. 7 According to Shop.org data, only 16% of surveyed retailers found “[discouraging] the use of price comparison by offering another mobile option” a “very valuable” opportunity of a mobile strategy. Forty-three percent of the same audience said such a strategy was “not valuable.” Source: Stores Magazine, National Retailers Foundation, November 2011. (http://www.stores.org/STORES%20Magazine%20November%202011/upwardly-mobile) which contains RS data gathered for Stores, the NRF pub. http://www.stores.org/assets/issues/artilcecharts/mobileresearchTopThreeChart.jpg   8 Starbucks has seen over 20 million transactions since the application’s launch, with $110 million loaded onto Starbucks cards via the app. Dec. 7, 2011. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222481/Starbucks_mobile_payments_perk_past_26 M_transactions 9 The scores above can be generated by taking the questionnaire located in Appendix A of this report. 10 Application examples, from left to right, Century21, Hilton, Toyota, Amazon, Wine.com, Zappos, Amazon A9 Flow, Best Buy, Walgreens, Apple, Starbucks, Walmart. 11 For more information on building a listening program as part of a social media measurement framework, see Altimeter report “A Framework For Social Analytics.” http://www.altimetergroup.com/2011/08/research-report-a-framework-for-social-analytics.html   © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 20    
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  • 22.   About Us Altimeter Group is a research-based advisory firm that helps companies and industries leverage disruption to their advantage. About Chris Silva, Mobile Analyst Chris Silva is an Industry Analyst focusing on Mobile, where he helps end- user organizations understand how to effectively manage mobile strategies in their organizations for increased brand impact, worker efficiency and revenue. A 10+ year veteran of the research industry, Chris has led research, events and consulting operations for IANS Research, Forrester Research, IDC, and two other small boutique research firms. Chris is a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Chris blogs at makemobilework.wordpress.com. Alan Webber, Principal Analyst & Partner Alan Webber is an Industry Analyst and currently the Managing Partner Altimeter Group. Alan’s research and client efforts focus on the understanding and thriving through disruptions at intersection of organization, culture, and technology. Alan publishes some his findings on his professional blog roninresearch.org. Prior to Altimeter, he was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the B2B online user experience, digital engagement, and disruptive technologies in government. Alan holds a B.A, M.A., and M.S. from Colorado State University and completed his Ph.D. courses in technology policy and methods from The George Washington University. Lora Cecere, Principal Analyst & Partner Lora Cecere (@lcecere) is a Partner with Altimeter Group. She focuses on the evolution of disruptive technologies for consumer value chains. Previously, Lora was a Vice President of Value Chain Strategies at AMR Research (now Gartner Group) and has over 25 years of experience in building software and leading groups within consumer products manufacturers. She writes the Supply Chain Shaman blog at supplychainshaman.com and is a frequent columnist for Consumer Goods Technology and Supply Chain Management Review. About Jessica Groopman, Researcher Jessica Groopman (@jessgroopman) is a Researcher with Altimeter Group where she researches and analyzes shifts in consumer behavior and the evolving challenges and opportunities of disruptive technologies on businesses. She has experience in business, technological and anthropological research. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 22    
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