The document discusses the StoryVesting framework for achieving business transformation. It describes how digital disruption has shortened the time between strategic inflection points, making transformation more crucial. The framework guides transformation with data insights and encourages "vested" employees with growth mindsets. It also considers the customer experience framework and how aligning the business and customer experiences can lead to benefits like strong brand association and loyalty. The document argues that without a guiding framework, transformation attempts are like guessing and less likely to succeed.

1. Leveraging the StoryVesting Framework:
How to Achieve Breakthrough Business Transformation

2. The need to pivot and grow is nothing
new, but it is newly relevant.
Businesses have always needed to
transform to survive over time. But
Business Transformation without a
guiding framework is equivalent to
guessing, and just as likely to lead to
success.
The Need For a Business
Transformation Strategy. Business Experience
Framework
Customer Experience
Framework

3. Business Transformation
on the S-Curve. The S Curve of Business Growth
Digital Disruption has made intelligent
transformation more crucial than ever.
In the past, companies would experience
approximately one inflection point every
10 years. Nowadays, the S-Curve of
Business is becoming more condensed
and businesses are experiencing
strategic inflection points every two
years.
Strategic
Inflection
Point
Inflection Points
Vary
If You’re Growing
You’re Shifting
Sustain Forward
Momentum
Scale
Growth
Start

4. Each Inflection Point is a turning point
for your business but the turn could be
for the better or for the worse.
To make the best choices at these critical
times, all business transformation should
be guided by data extrapolated and
interpreted, but you can’t stop there.
Transforming Successfully
with Data. A Closer Look at Inflection Points
Matrix

5. The extrapolated data needs to be run
through a framework, and heavy
predictive analysis.
This kind of healthy transformation is the
cornerstone of progress within any
business. It isn’t a disorienting major shift
or abrupt redefinition; instead it’s about
honoring and answering a natural
progression toward growth
Transforming Successfully
with a Framework. Using a Guiding Framework
StoryVesting
Framework

6. A good framework covers multiple layers
and nuances. Like a pocket watch, it has
a very understandable surface layer, but
requires multiple intricate parts below
the surface that overlap and work in
perfect unison to work.
We at RocketSource built our framework
based on a long enlightening journey of
data collection...
An Intelligent Business
Framework. Key Components to StoryVesting
Product/
Market Fit
Internal
Buy-In
Brand
Alignment
Amazing
Buyer’s
Journey

7. Without the proper framework, your
business could end up failing like 70% of
business transformation projects.
As an example, Blackberry tried to keep
pace with the iPhone by adopting a new
design, but they repeatedly missed the
mark. Their attempts at iterating on their
phones were headed in the wrong
direction because they didn’t take a user
centric view guided by a framework.
Transformation Without a
Framework.

8. I always had an insatiable curiosity,
especially about what made people
successful.
In the process of pursuing the secret to
success there were many times I had to
readjust what the word meant to me,
and several times I found myself nose to
nose with CEOs of SME 500 companies,
asking the same three questions.
Questions On Success:
Hunting the Secret to
Success.

9. In the course of collecting 1,969 responses
to my questions on success I was able to
pull out some interesting realizations.
The most valued traits for hiring wasn’t
an ivy league education lie I’d thought,
and when I asked who exemplified traits
of success, people often named people
who worked in departments below their
own.
Demographic Data:
Total Responses: 1969
Organizational Traits That
Drive Transformation.
Marketing
Total Responses: 1969
JOBTITLE
Matrix
Finance &
Accounting
Other
C-Suite
IT
Customer
Support
Operations
Sales
HR
Technology

10. Of everyone I interviewed, 63% of people
pointed to the business’s vision as a key
driver for organizational transformation.
I also noticed 3 other common responses
that each pointed to one thing. It was the
people within that organization—the
ones carrying out the vision—that led the
company to success.
Success Didn’t Look Like
What I’d Envisioned. StoryVesting Research Methodology:
Most Important Business Drivers Most Important /Valuable Drivers
Dependable
Passionate
Collaborator
Strong Work
Ethic
Positive
Environment
Motivated

11. Carol Dweck’s theory on growth and
fixed mindsets played a major role in
realizing the importance of people in
business transformation.
Fixed Mindsets: are set in the idea that
they only have so much potential and
ability to learn.
Growth Mindsets: believe that they have
limitless potential to learn and grow as a
person.
Having Growth vs Fixed Mindsets.
Credits: The Stanford Daily

12. Your people are the driving force to any
transformation. With growth-minded,
vested employees companies can make
mediocre ideas into first class
innovations.
Good transformation teams are also
V-shaped, with members skill sets
spanning several areas and overlapping
with their team members.
Well Rounded Employees.
V-Shaped Teams

13. Throughout my research, I continually
came back to one core theme—the
importance of having vested people on
board who were passionate about the
company’s story
The realization of what it meant for
employees to be Vested, and the
importance of having Vested employees
on your team informed how the
Business centric side of StoryVesting
came to be.
The Vested Employee.
Business Experience Framework

14. The Customer Centric side of the
StoryVesting framework was built out
based on a number of influences:
● Reactions in the Brain
○ The Limbic System
○ The Neocortex System
● Consumer Behavior.
● Cognitive Association.
● Cognitive Dissonance
A Customer Centric
Framework. Customer Experience Framework

15. Brands in every industry are exploring
new ways to reach out to consumers.
Years ago, online marketing often boiled
down to search engine tricks. Today, it’s
all about creating articles, ebooks,
reports, podcasts, videos, and other tools
to educate and earn buyers’ attention.
The Incredible Brain: The
Limbic System. The Brain’s Emotional Response
Center

16. Brands in every industry are exploring
new ways to reach out to consumers.
Years ago, online marketing often boiled
down to search engine tricks. Today, it’s
all about creating articles, ebooks,
reports, podcasts, videos, and other tools
to educate and earn buyers’ attention.
The Incredible Brain: The
Neocortex. The Brain’s Logical Response
Center
The Brain’s Logical Response
Center

17. Brands in every industry are exploring
new ways to reach out to consumers.
Years ago, online marketing often boiled
down to search engine tricks. Today, it’s
all about creating articles, ebooks,
reports, podcasts, videos, and other tools
to educate and earn buyers’ attention.
How the Limbic System and
Neocortex Work Together.

24. The complex reactions this customer
went through in the course of making a
car purchase is best categorized by the
rhetorical triangle.
The rhetorical triangle categorizes
persuasive strategies into three main
categories: Ethos (credibility appeal),
Pathos (emotional appeal), and Logos
(logical appeal).
Consumer Behavior and the
Rhetorical Triangle.
The Rhetorical Triangle

25. Keeping the ethos and pathos reactions
of your customers in mind is more
important than ever. A study by
CustomerThermometer found that
consumers are 65% more likely to buy
from a brand if they feel like the
company cares about people like them.
It is important to make sure you’re
utilizing that connection to understand
your brand’s cognitive association.
Customer Behavior and
Loyalty. 10 Factors to Consumer Loyalty

26. Cognitive Associations that consumers
have with your brand play a big role in
the complex process of the buyer’s
journey.
In 2013, Dove was seeing a huge boom in
sales due to its Real Beauty Campaign
ads, and how those ads capitalized on a
confidence building brand association.
Do You Know the Cognitive
Association of Your Brand? Dove Soap Sales
You can find their ad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litXW91UauE

27. On the other hand, if your business
decisions contradict your brand
associations it can cause dissonance for
your customers.
For example, in 2017 Dove released an ad
that consumers considered racially
insensitive, and the dissonance it caused
had a drastic effect on their brand
sentiment. To avoid working against your
brand association, it’s important to utilize
a solid transformation framework.
The Power of Dissonance.
Dissociative Ad
Released
OnlineScores
July - December 2017
Dissociative Ad
Released
Dove Online Trends

28. The Customer
Experience
analyzes the
specifics of what
customers go
through in their
journey with your
brand. Using the
sides together,
you can measure
alignment.
These Customer Insights Completed StoryVesting.
The Business
Experience side of
StoryVesting guides
decisions for better
transformation with
data insights. It also
structures your
business to build
and encourage
vested employees.
Customer Experience
Framework
Business Experience
Framework

29. As powerful as the circles can be
separately, together they lead to further
insights.
When you can achieve business
alignment between your business why
and your customer’s why you capitalize
on all the benefits of alignment such as
strong brand association and brand
recall, as well as strong customer loyalty
and return buyers.
Customer Centric
Framework: Alignment.
No Man’s Land Excellent Brand Euphoria

30. There's a slew of remarcable brands out
there who take care to align with their
customers, and they all reap significant
benefits.
These brands shown also represent a
good use of the Business Experience
Framework’s individual elements.
Using StoryVesting.

31. Like all good frameworks, though,
StoryVesting can do more than help
things on the front end.
Our versatile framework also helps with
the nuances of running your business
intelligently. With StoryVesting you
business will be able to put data to better
use and run data looping processes more
efficiently.
An Intelligent Framework.
Data Looping Process

32. Data aside, running an intelligent
operation can be nearly impossible to
accomplish without a framework.
In modern organizations, there’s a
multitude of different departments that
all need to be aligned and in
communication. An Intelligent
framework is the best way to hold them
all together.
Running an Agile
Operation.
Modern Organizational Structure

33. By breaking out a framework like
StoryVesting you can get a better 360°
View of your organization.
With a tool like this, you can compare
departments across the front and back
end of your organization and better
manage all of those various departments
to reduce silos.
Using StoryVesting.
Business Experience
Framework
Customer Experience
Framework

34. Insulate your business
from disruption.
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