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DCG research and articles about: Jill Finger Gibson

Webinar: Getting Ready for Next-Generation Commerce

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Next-generation commerce is more than just the purchase transaction. It delivers a seamless experience across channels, even IoT devices. Most important, it focuses on continuing the customer conversation throughout the end-to-end experience. In this session, Jill Finger Gibson, DCG Principal Analyst, and Nate Barad, Sitecore Senior Director Product Marketing, discuss people, processes, and technologies for next-generation commerce.

Jill and Nate use the manufacturing sector as a specific example. More and more, manufacturers are going directly to end-buyers, be they consumers or businesses, rather than just being wholesalers to retail outlets. How are companies doing this, and what are the key challenges? Other topics include:

  • What is “next-generation” commerce? What makes it different from earlier generations?
  • What are the drivers for B2B versus B2C? Or are they the same?
  • For companies without in-house expertise, what’s required to move to next-generation commerce? What should they look for in a partner?

For additional analysis, download Jill’s popular report, A Brand Manufacturer’s Guide to Direct-to-Consumer e-Commerce. She introduces the paper in this post. See also her advice to digital agencies on adding transaction expertise to their creative services. Contact us if you’d like to connect with Jill to discuss your company’s plans (or lack thereof) for next-generation commerce.

Gilbane Digital Content Conference 2017

The Gilbane Digital Content Conference brings together content strategists and managers, marketers, technologists, IT and business executives, as well as external service providers to learn and share how to put the pieces of the puzzle together. At this year’s conference Digital Clarity Group will be well represented.

Cathy McKnight will facilitate a workshop on November 30th on Mapping Customer Journeys and Managing Content: How to Align Practices for Great Customer Experience. In this workshop participants will learn how to overlay journey maps onto their content management infrastructure and evolve their CMS as a true hub of engagement. The workshop includes a lot of interactivity and exercises (journey mapping, scenario development), and discussion on to leverage current CMS and other marketing technology solutions to support the mapped customer  journey.

Cathy will also moderate three panels:

Mary Laplante will moderate two sessions on Wednesday, November 29, 2017:

Jill Finger Gibson will moderate two panels on Tuesday, November 28, 2017:

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Recommended reading for the Gilbane Boston-bound: content and commerce, AI, DAM, and customer journeys

It might seem like we’re playing SEO bingo with the title of this post. If you are making the annual trek to Boston for the Gilbane Digital Content Conference (November 28 to 30), you’ll recognize these practices and technologies as themes across the program. They are also topics that DCG team will be covering in our… read more >

Sitecore Symposium 2017

Meet Jill Finger Gibson and Scott Liewehr at this year’s Sitecore  Symposium, the company’s annual customer and partner event set for October in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This year’s theme is “Drive Your Digital Destiny.” The main conference program is organized around three tracks — developer, marketing, and strategy. Pre-conference workshops cover a variety of technical topics, including headless CMS systems and Sitecore Commerce. The Partner Theater comprises sessions delivered by Sitecore partners on topics such as best practices for deploying Sitecore on Cloud to harnessing the power of AI. Keynote speakers include actor Mark Hamill; author Jay Baer; and senior editor for data and digital at The Economist Kenneth Cukier.

DCG analysis relevant to topics covered at Symposium includes Jill’s report entitled “Go Live” is Just the Beginning: Digital Transformation Requires a New Approach to Technology Implementation, introduced in this blog post. This report entitled From Projects to Solutions: Accelerating Web Development for Customer Experience, by Tim Walters, will be of interest to tech leads and their digital partners. Five Crucial Lessons Learned in Content Management System Selections by Connie Moore is based on original research conducted specifically for the report.

Contact us to arrange a time to meet with Scott or Jill at Symposium, or if you’d like to set up a call prior to meeting onsite.

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“Go Live” is Just the Beginning

Digital Transformation Requires a New Approach to Technology Implementation In this paper, Jill Finger Gibson explains why it’s essential to rethink  traditional approaches when it comes to customer experience (CX) technology implementations. Organizations must learn to look beyond “go live”  to achieve sustainable digital transformation. This new mindset will also put them in a stronger position… read more >

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Does Amazon Go + GDPR = Amazon No-Go?

Yesterday, my colleague and commerce guru Jill Finger Gibson did a great job explaining Amazon Go, the retail behemoth’s experiment with what might be called “1-Step” grocery shopping: Walk into the store, grab what you want, and walk out. Amazon’s surveillance technologies (cameras, microphones, device identifiers, facial recognition, etc.) will (supposedly) take care of accurately… read more >

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Latest Stats Show Mixed Picture For Retail E-Commerce in U.S.

The latest quarterly statistics on the retail sector, including retail e-commerce, were released from the U.S. Department of Commerce earlier this week. Once you are able to digest the dense government language and poorly-formatted charts and tables, you can see that the overall picture is positive, with growth pointing in all the right directions. Yet the data also… read more >

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Sitecore Symposium 2016

Sept 14-16, 2016. New Orleans, LA USA Analyst speaking: Jill Finger Gibson, Tim Walters, Scott Liewehr Event website: Sitecore Symposium read more>

Digital Clarity Group

Salesforce Pays $2.8 Billion For Demandware, Joins Commerce Arena

Big news in the customer experience management (CEM) world today with the announcement that Salesforce is acquiring Demandware for $2.8 billion. That’s a whopping multiple on Demandware’s revenues of $237 million reported for FY 2015 (of which 84% was from subscriptions)  and considering the company is not profitable. Was this a good move? In some… read more >

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Six Reasons Why Brands Should Consider Direct-to-Consumer E-Commerce

Once upon a time, the lines between manufacturers and retailers were clear. Manufacturers made widgets, retailers bought large amounts of said widgets, and consumers bought widgets at stores. The advent of online shopping in the 1990s gave rise to a host of new pure-play online retailers, but the fundamentally linear model of the brick-and-mortar world –… read more >

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