Social business model is supports how real people relate and do real business. The slide show is a primer on social business considerations.

1. Simplifying Social Business (and the Promise of Social CRM) www.kathyherrmann.com ©2010 Kathy Herrmann

2. The Social Business model focuses on engagement and collaboration with customers, partners, and employees. Paul Greenberg - The intent is to create mutual value in a transparent business environment. It’s very much a customer-centric model.

3. Social Business is a return to a village mentality . So interactions within social channels is part of the model. Modern spin - A company’s village outposts can occur anywhere in the world, thanks to electronic & mobile connectivity.

4. Managing social business initiatives requires you to… It puts more power into the hands of socially demanding customers. Social Business a paradigm shift.

5. Social business benefits - The only two that really matter are higher revenue generation and profitability (a.k.a., higher cost savings).

8. The social business model recognizes the need to engage in different types of conversations between customers and partners with your company.

9. Many to many conversations

10. Unstructured convos but a rich source of intel about your products and services, as well as your competitors. Technology helps you monitor, collect, and analyze these conversations. Many to many conversations

11. One to one conversations

12. One to one conversations Traditional 1-to-1 convos are still important interactions but now occur across diverse communication media. Challenge - To gather customer-specific communiqués across multiple channels and store them by contact in your CRM system so your employees can view activity history.

13. Let’s talk about the way real people work … …or the problem with CRM systems

14. People use complex and often fuzzy thought , impacted by group input, to navigate through the world, make decisions, and do work. CRM systems are so doggone transactional and linear and require people to force-fit themselves to the system rather than working naturally.

15. CRM SCRM

16. Or said another way…

17. Making sense of social interactions

18. Social data is a series of overlain patterns that need unraveling to make sense of. It’s a pattern recognition challenge.

19. Reminds me of geology … … yes, really.

20. Look at a cross-section of the earth … … and you see a variety of geologic events overlain one on top of the other, mushing together in ways that sometimes (oftentimes) hide the discrete events.

21. Geologist’s challenge is to unravel the mush and piece together the history of individual events. Each geologic event had an impact on the critters in the region. Understand the geologic history and you also gain insight into why some critters thrived while others extinctified. And it’s not just about rocks.

22. Uh huh. And how is geology like social business ?

23. Unravel the patterns in the network so you can apply them to the benefit of your company. Go back to the social network diagram. All those interlocking connections mean something insightful and valuable to your business.

24. How to start applying SCRM

25. Start with people. Become a corporate geologist and unravel your corporate culture and processes. Determine where your company already has social-centricity and what’s getting in your way.

26. Prepare your strategic plan . These will center on culture, processes and technology , in that order. Stimulate and embrace the changes needed to make the adoption of social business a success.

27. Expect to re-engineer some processes. Implement social technology to complement or replace your existing technology platforms.

28. Remember to show your execs the money . That’s where economic valuation (ROI) comes into play.

30. Yes. Valuation means doing economic math but there’s good news. Higher the NPV and ROI = accelerated adoption of your initiative.

31. Do social business the smart way . Think it through. Then go forth and do it in the way that makes the most sense for your company.

33. Thanks!