The Connected Company - Vision or Reality? @ Marketing Week live, London 2013

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Is the connected company just a far vision or existing reality? Why is it relevant for Marketing? What challenges are waiting on the way to become a connected company? These questions aren't quite new, neither are the answers. But nowadays the customers act and communicate in different ways than in the past. They want you to solve their problems on every channel you can imagine. You have to shine on every touchpoint and integrate their ideas. To manage and handle all these information it's necessary to be well connected within your company. But not all companies are on the same level yet. There are many ways to become a "Connected Company" but you have to overcome hurdles and master challenges. In the session we had a short view on how a connected company can look like and some factors to succeed.

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Speaker: Ulf Sthamer, London, 27th June 2013

The connected company – Vision or Reality?Marketing Week Live 2013

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Who was and is the first mover in your company?

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Social Media responsibility lies mostly with Marketing and communication departments.

69%Public Relations

49%Corporate

Communication

17%IT

14%Legal

26%Advertising

70%Marketing

19%Customer

Service

!15%

Others

Source: http://www.ragan.com/Main/structuringasocialmediateam.aspx

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The original objectives of Social Media communication were supporting Marketing and Sales.

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However, It is hard to engage people and establish a meaningful relationship with customers

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Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaflex/4628277817/

Because these days customers have a different expectation – They want you to to solve their problems engage using a multitude of channels

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The “new” social Customer is...

impatient.

powerful.

questioning.

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Still necessary For MarKeting…

Awareness

Attitude Change

Conversion

Loyalty

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…But the way to achieve that has changed

pushing your story out

vs.

becoming relevant in customer conversations

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New challenges and roles for Marketing, customer service and other departments.

Innovation & Product Development

Sales

Customer Experience

Engage customers

Finding Experts

Marketeer

Listening & Analytics

Design Channels, Content and Touchpoints

Distribute product information &Increase brand value

Crisis management

Employer branding

Service & Support

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More and more tasks for marketing

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How could You handle that?

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Imagine…

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14 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfj/422646240/

Organisations have to be responsive to new trends:e.g. Clothes that change their colour

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No Problem for MarketingThe Command center has seen it coming.

16 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/6550941841/

Via social intranet a match is found:R&d already has a project in the same area

17 I GB Communication Services I 27th June 2013http://www.flickr.com/photos/klearchos/4541072707/

Marketing searches for the target group:Finds it using social media monitoring

18 http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerbooktrance/267059283/

Let the beta testing begin:Champions of the brand community are being involved

19 http://www.flickr.com/photos/85677269@N00/5539193968/

Massive testing takes place:with instant feedback in internal sessions and social media

20 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanh/4878043598/

But some are not happy:The automation has a few bugs

21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/village9991/7519496646/

searching the intranet an expert was found quickly:Someone already knew how to solve the problem

22 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rezsox/5094947135/

Happy end - the bug was fixed:The product ready to be sold

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Even in this short story A lot of tools were used to help becoming more customer centric…

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Big Picture:The connected company

Company

powered by Enterprise2.0

the social webpowered by people

partners

interact

new business models, services & products

interact

refine web ideas, add own innovation

adapt ideas

listen, feedback,

ideas

communicate,support, sell

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But thats not yet always reality

46% of companies globally planned to increase their investment in social media in 2012.

But only

22% of middle managers felt prepared to properly incorporate social media into their work.

IBM 2012 Social Business Study.

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The connected companyDifferent maturity Levels

Opera

tive

Tact

ical

Str

ate

gic CONNECTED COMPANY

Learning Organisation, Social Business Integration, Sustainable, holistic Social Business Strategy

COORPORATIVE NETWORK

Brand CommunitiesSustainable Social Media

StrategyPROACTIVE USE

Campaigning, value adding by social media, Social Media Policy

COORDINATED ACTIVITIES

Established as organisational unit/roleSingle point of contact for customer

ISLANDS & EXPLORERSUncoordinated Social Media Acitvity of

individuals or departments

BROADCASTOne way communication without considering

customer information needs

NO SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITIES

SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE MGT.Digital Workplace, Enterprise 2.0Sustainable Social Intranet StrategySOCIAL COLLABORATIONSingle Point of accessOpen Culture

AD-HOC COLLABORATIONReusability restricted to individual networksNo Social IT Strategy

ISLANDS & SILOSAccess of information is limitedReusability almost impossible

EDITORIAL INTRANETPush CommunicationOne Way communication top down

NO INTRANET

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The way to a Connected CompanyAre all three parts in your company connected?

Technology

OrganisationPeople

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Technology

OrganisationPeople

… and now think about your own company:

Are you social on every level of your company?

Don‘t hesitate to get in touch!

To help you improve one of the three parts:

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SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS:

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ACTIVE PARTNERSHIPS:

AND MANY MORE …

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OUR AWARDS:

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Thank you!Let‘s start the conversation

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Books:

linkedin.com/in/ulfsthamer

t-systems.co.uk/dbssocialsoftwarematrix.org

besser20.de/englishsocialmediaevolution.de

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