Big Data is all the rage, yet many organizations are struggling to move beyond the hype and apply big data analytics in practical, measured steps. First, most big data investments to-date ($10 billion and counting according to IDC) have focused on “upstream” systems and tools for technical folks vs. apps and tools for people who… read more >
In 1925, as his psychoanalytic methods began to find wider reception after decades of neglect, Sigmund Freud wrote, “Finally, I am no longer alone.” A similar sense of relief (if not vindication) must be felt by many web content management professionals today. Finally, those of us (whether analysts, consultants, vendors, or practitioners) who have long… read more >
If you follow the issues of the day in the customer experience management (CEM) arena, you are undoubtedly familiar with the theme of the CMO-CIO relationship, or the lack thereof. Those who hold those titles, depending on what you read, are; putting the customer at the center of everything, or dead, or gaining in budget influence, or disconnected from each… read more >
Digital Clarity Group hosted the first-ever Digital Pulse Summit in Boston on October 16 – 17. Business leaders, digital marketers, customer experience champions, content marketing strategists, IT professionals, and marketing technologists came together for two days of workshops, inspirational keynotes, focused sessions and networking. Conference attendees sought a greater knowledge and understanding of the digital… read more >
At this past week’s TechEd 2013 event in Las Vegas, SAP signaled loud and clear that it’s betting big on big data and positioning its HANA technology as a platform for growing the company’s ecosystem of app providers and developers. In addition to the announcement of new design services, cloud offerings, and enhanced access to… read more >
By now, there has been enough evangelization of “engagement” to posit two things: Engagement with a brand is essential to achieving customer loyalty, and Consumers will only engage if they find the experience(s) to be relevant. Therefore, all roads to customer loyalty (the holy grail among customer experience advocates) must pass through relevancy. But what… read more >
I’m fresh from Content Marketing World where I taught a workshop to 200 or so agencies who came to learn about the methodologies of delivering content marketing planning services to their end clients. I can tell you that the primary thing on their mind was how rapidly the changes flowing through digital content experiences, social,… read more >
You can take the best DM/CEM tools in the world and destroy their business value with a poor implementation process. So, what steps can you take to ensure that your implementation project will succeed? In an earlier post, I described a new maturity model for technology implementation. This model is based on the concept of… read more >
I’ve been writing and speaking a lot about small data as an approach for bringing the power of big data to the masses (the subject of our current multi-client study which will hit the street in mid-October). But what’s interesting is that the small data philosophy also applies to design and advertising and how we… read more >
I’m a big Coen brothers fan, so I was pleased to see an interview with the filmmakers in a recent New York Times article. I love that these very un-Hollywoody guys from Minnesota have figured out how to make successful Hollywood films about unique characters that are so well-scripted and filmed. I also love that… read more >
