Originally Published on Dec 11, 2014
The 360 degree view of customer has been around for several years and has become a bit of cliché. The world has changed a lot in the past decade. We have seen a shift of power to the consumer. Consumers today are highly connected and demanding. Rather than seeking information from the companies they do business with, they come armed with information and mobile devices that allow them to research any topic in an instant. And of course the amount of data available is increasing at an incredible rate. This rate of increase is mirrored inside organizations, many of whom are struggling to leverage new kinds of data and turn them into specific useful information about their customers.
By bringing together technologies like Hadoop and incorporating unstructured data into that traditional single view, and with technologies like Watson explorer we can bring that enhanced 360 in front of the seller, marketer or customer service rep to make the customer’s experience more personalized. This causes them to buy more quicker and be less likely to switch.