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The Empowered Consumer Era
Steve Laughlin
A new set of digital transformation drivers is
impacting all levels of society
Mobile
revolution
Social media
explosion
Hyper-
digitization
Power of
analytics
Individuals
Enterprises
Industries
Services
Products
These technologies are impacting how customers
shop and how companies must respond
Companies are improving… …in an effort to combat Amazon
CEO’s realize that these technologies will force a
real change in their go-to-market approach
External forces that will impact the organization
68%
69%
71%
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Technology factorsTechnology factors
People skills
Market factors
Macro-economic factors
Regulatory concerns
Globalization
Socio-economic factors
Environmental issues
Geopolitical factors
Source: Q1 “What are the most important external forces that will impact your organization over the next 3 to 5 years?”
Customer’s expectations have been raised
Instrumented Interconnected
Intelligent
Know Me
Offer to Me
Support Me
Interact with Me
These new expectations are not just
impacting B2C…B2B is affected as well
A large distributor of process logic controllers used technology and an improved supply chain to
improve how quickly their engineers could get the parts they needed
So, where do you need to focus…
1Listen and Learn
Listening with social
analytics
Learn from consumer
controlled content
Identify factors of influence
and motivation
1Enable and Execute
Single View of Consumer
across channels
Design the experience
Actionable analytics
1
Empower the
Consumer
Consumer selects
interaction channel
Personalized across
channels
Consumers as advisors
and advocates
…This is not optional!
At An
Inflection
Point
Adapting
To Change
Waited
Too
Long
“The world has changed. Our customers
have changed. We have to change too."
- Jim Cantalupo, former chairman and
CEO of McDonald's in 2003
"I will buy it in your store...use it while I
order another one for 75% less on
Amazon and then return it, It's shoppers
like me that are multiplying…”
- Best Buy shopper
“It's not like they didn't see it coming.
Kodak hesitated because they didn't
want to eviscerate their business.”
- Rupert Goodwins, editor of ZDNet
Thank you

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SugarCon2013: The Empowered Consumer Era

  • 1. The Empowered Consumer Era Steve Laughlin
  • 2. A new set of digital transformation drivers is impacting all levels of society Mobile revolution Social media explosion Hyper- digitization Power of analytics Individuals Enterprises Industries Services Products
  • 3. These technologies are impacting how customers shop and how companies must respond Companies are improving… …in an effort to combat Amazon
  • 4. CEO’s realize that these technologies will force a real change in their go-to-market approach External forces that will impact the organization 68% 69% 71% 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 Technology factorsTechnology factors People skills Market factors Macro-economic factors Regulatory concerns Globalization Socio-economic factors Environmental issues Geopolitical factors Source: Q1 “What are the most important external forces that will impact your organization over the next 3 to 5 years?”
  • 5. Customer’s expectations have been raised Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent Know Me Offer to Me Support Me Interact with Me
  • 6. These new expectations are not just impacting B2C…B2B is affected as well A large distributor of process logic controllers used technology and an improved supply chain to improve how quickly their engineers could get the parts they needed
  • 7. So, where do you need to focus… 1Listen and Learn Listening with social analytics Learn from consumer controlled content Identify factors of influence and motivation 1Enable and Execute Single View of Consumer across channels Design the experience Actionable analytics 1 Empower the Consumer Consumer selects interaction channel Personalized across channels Consumers as advisors and advocates
  • 8. …This is not optional! At An Inflection Point Adapting To Change Waited Too Long “The world has changed. Our customers have changed. We have to change too." - Jim Cantalupo, former chairman and CEO of McDonald's in 2003 "I will buy it in your store...use it while I order another one for 75% less on Amazon and then return it, It's shoppers like me that are multiplying…” - Best Buy shopper “It's not like they didn't see it coming. Kodak hesitated because they didn't want to eviscerate their business.” - Rupert Goodwins, editor of ZDNet