To mark the publication of a new Digital Clarity Group Insight Paper, “The New Role for Documentation in the Era of Customer Experience Management,” consider this historical tale. Although we now date the early 15th-century as the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe at the time was still more medieval than modern… read more >
Content is an essential element to today’s marketer. A study by the CMO Council on B2B Content Marketing reports that the most important characteristics of valuable content are the breadth and depth of the information (47%), ease of access, understanding and readability (44%) and originality of thinking and ideas (39%). CMI research shows that 86% of B2C… read more >
For some people (including, often, me), the year 2020 still represents a remote, science-fiction future, with flying cars, space colonies, and robotic cops. But of course, 2020 is now barely five years away. It is closer to us today than the introduction of the web-enabled smartphone. Extraordinary – and at one time unimaginable – transformations… read more >
Give up? Yeah, me too. We’ve been known to critique technology rankings such as the Wave and Magic Quadrant here at DCG, since we don’t think they provide much actionable insight, and we usually add a little color commentary to spice things up. However, in the case of Forrester’s new Digital Experience Delivery [DEaD?] Platforms Wave, I… read more >
The Annals of Disruption Denial, Part 1 The uproar has died down. Twitter searches for “Lepore” are again dominated by the antics of the one named Chris, the “Vine celebrity” and recently convicted felon. But the one named Jill (no relation, and she doesn’t even appear to have a Twitter account, so you can forget… read more >
Customer experience management (CEM) is quickly becoming a primary focus for companies looking to garner, gain, and keep market share. What many of these organizations are missing is the value of beginning their CEM strategy at home, with their employees. New research from Aon Hewitt suggests that employee engagement levels and employee perceptions of their… read more >
We are proud to announce that the European edition of Digital Clarity Group’s 2014 European Guide to Service Providers for Web Content and Customer Experience Management is out. Research for the Guide began in September 2013 and included: Identifying and connecting with over 150 service providers: advertising agencies, digital/interactive agencies, marketing communications agencies, and systems integrators… read more >
Our latest Insight Paper, The CEM Imperative: Customer Experience in the Age of the Empowered Consumer, establishes that customer experience management is no longer an option, a nice-to-have, or a remote step in the five year strategic plan. On the contrary, the mobile and social empowerment of consumers makes CEM an inescapable, compulsory, and essential… read more >
Given that it’s the middle of February (can you believe it?), it’s a tad late to be making predictions for 2014, but I figured it would still be okay if I referenced 5, er 6, web content management (WCM) industry predictions I made last month on January’s episode of CMS-Connected. To cut to the chase,… read more >
Happy New Year. Here we are in 2014 and Web Content Management is in a funk. Yep, I said it. The entire sector is in danger of becoming an afterthought. Ask yourself a question: when was the last time a WCM solution provider actually made some really interesting news, or got the market talking about… read more >
