A Look At Social Business....And the
Miles to Go Before We Sleep….
Richard Binhammer, Director, Social Media & Community
December 9, 2011, LeWeb, Paris, France
Before that
Journey…
Fierce, Right?
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Go for a drive
Key enablers
and strategies
Rethink
Relationships Business and
Technology
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Phone
Business?
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Business Management:
Getting people together
to accomplish desired
goals & objectives using
available resources
efficiently and
effectively.
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Business and
Technology:
aims for efficient
organization of work
through
specialization of
labor
1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
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Internet:
Unlike other
technologies, the Web
was unpredictable;
opened more
opportunities to
change perspectives
anywhere it reached
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So What Is a Social Business
• Wikipedia: The One We Are Talking About:
• the term 'social business' reflects that social media
• Business with a social is not just a marketing discipline, but that it has
multiple touch-points in an organisation such as
objective, which is to help people customer service, sales, human resource
get out of poverty management and R&D. (Wikipedia)
• Social business is where social media has broken
Professor Muhammad Yunus down silos and barriers that enable employees to
have a genuinely more open and collaborative
relationship with the outside world.
• Social Business: “The application of social principles
- transparency, open information
access, collaboration, participation, crowdsourcing,
engagement - and social computing technologies
across all functions of business, including
training, operations, product development, strategy
and decision management. ” (Quora)
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This Is What Business Has Always Been About…Social brings
new dynamics to continuing to grow the intersection
Business Customer
Value Value
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If Markets are Conversations…
• “Networked markets are beginning to self-
organize faster than the companies that have
traditionally served them.
• Thanks to the web, markets are becoming better
informed, smarter, and more demanding of
qualities missing from most business organizations.
Markets are conversations.
• Markets consist of human beings, not demographic
sectors. Conversations among human beings
sound human. They are conducted in a human
voice, Whether delivering
information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting
arguments or humorous asides, the human voice
is typically open, natural, uncontrived.”
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…..But
(Social Media) Conversations are
Not Just Marketing
• In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked
employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new
way.
• These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms
of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge.
• As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more
organized. (not siloed or segmented the way we normally think)
• Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally.
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Five years of experiments and experience
December 2006 October 2007 May 2008 June 2009
February 2006 Ratings and Michael Dell quote in Business Week Dell Outlet achieves Global Twitter
Michael Dell Asks reviews on Jeff Jarvis story quote, “These conversations are $0.5M in sales via Twitter revenues of $6.5 M Dell named #1 most
Why don’t we reach out and help going to occur whether you like it or not. Do you social brand in
bloggers with tech support issues?
Dell.com want to be part of that or not? My argument is you
Community team active on Twitter
ranking of 100 top
absolutely do. You can learn from them. You can Small Business brands
improve your reaction time. And you can be a blog launched
August 2006 better company by listening and being involved in
Blog outreach that conversation.”
expands beyond February 2007 March 2010
tech support China Micro-
IdeaStorm Launched March 2008 June 2009 Blogging
A voting based site allowing Accepted Solutions January 2009 $2M+ Sales
customers and others to submit
ideas for Dell.
launched on Community Dell Organizes in to via Twitter
Dell France begins Online 4 customer focused Social Media Listening
Community Outreach business units
Command Center
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Dell Social Media and
Community University
launched/5,000 team
members trained by
July 2006 end of year
Direct2Dell launched June 2007 April 2008 2009 (Aug.)
Today Direct2Dell exists in Dell joins Twitter Inside IT launched Dell TechCenter Altimeter recognizes Dell
English, Spanish, Norwegian, January Blog focused on business with “Open Leadership Award
Japanese and Chinese.
Dell launches 2008 customers, and Cloud Spring 2009 for Innovation and Execution”
Dell aligns Computing. Some Members of (Oct.)
EmployeeStorm December 2009
Internal Blogs organization Community and
Launched for for success Conversations Huffington Post Blog
Employees. deployed within each
Dell
April 2006 of the new Dell launches
January 2007 June 2008
Business units B2B pages
Tech support StudioDell launched Channel blog
Facebook
outreach to blogs Dell’s video and podcast
February 2008 launched (Jun.)
site, with helpful tips and
tricks. Eventually expanding November 2007 Twitter expanded
this into the YouTube channel DellShares launched
making sharing easier. The first investor relations blog by
a public company.
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Listen, Learn, Engage & Act
Scaling
5 years: 4000 posts per day to
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Conversations
are
conversations
not
Business
segments
Where to find you
Share with others how & why
you have great products/services
…………….and more
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Graphic thanks to @Gapingvoid
A Tool to be Leveraged Across the Fabric of a
Company: different functions, uses and values
Product Development Marketing Online Presence
• Feedback Loop • Demand Forecast • Ratings & Reviews
• Early Warning • Lead Generation • Communities
• New Product • Message Reach • Customer Stories
Ideation
Sales Customer Service Communication
• Leads
• Collaboration • Listening • Rich Media
• Thought Leadership • Support Widgets • Brand Reputation
• Blogs • Outreach • Influence
• ReputationMarketing
Global
Different
Sites for
Different
Engagement
and Results
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Internal Social Networks
• Dell is using Chatter to increase
cross-departmental team
collaboration
• Over 90,000 Dell employees quickly
and easily collaborate around
documents and information like
sales opportunities, team projects
and campaigns
• Fosters relationships
• A hybrid of
Twitter, Facebook, Sina, Ren-
Ren, Orkut
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Yes Virginia, there is ROI Business Value: It is
measurable in many forms, there is not 1 number …
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ROI?
Business Value
across the full
customer
lifecycle
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Social media
improves Dell’s reach
and share of voice
Social media
keeps
customers Established
AWARENESS causality
engaged, provid
es solutions and between social
improves loyalty media activity
and purchase
RESEARCH
LOYALTY AND AND
ADVOCACY CONSIDERAT
ION
Social media based Social Media
support improves provides high
sentiment and CUSTOMER DEMAND AND business value and
correlates with SERVICE/ contributes to
LEAD demand gen
higher revenue GEN/SALES
SUPPORT vehicle
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Starting Down a
New Road, in a
Vehicle, yet to be
proven
Even today, the
Infrastructure is
evolving
Experiment and
Fail Fast…LEARN
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Fundamental Changes to Organizations and Operations
• Mass Media • Individualized Information
• Control and Push Messaged • Conversation, Collaborate, Connect
• Institutions to distribute and • People and Relationships to
connect connect and build
• Issue Management • Rapid Response/Agility
• Deadlines • Real Time
• Just the Facts • Facts and Feelings
• Powerful Media • Powerful Networks
• Target Audiences • Communities
• Announce/All answers • Listen and Collaborate
• Top Down • Leadership and Bottoms Up too
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Improve Data
Quality
Usability &
Application
From Incident to
Aggregation and Meaning
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Global
Are Businesses
Less Machine
and more
Networked
Organism?
Human
Organizations
Wholistic &
networked
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Sizzle? or The Hard Work of Getting it Done for
Better Business
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Entering another period of rapid innovation and change in the role technology plays in how we run our business; the products and services we offer and how we communicate, collaborate and respond to our customers – in a b2c or b2b contextRecent report released by Dell and Intel – entitled the Evolving Workforce we have explored some of the ways technology is changing the workplace again. And some of the social, technological and economic factors that are influencing that – gen Y entering our workforces (the first fully Internet generation); consumerisation of business technology; expectations of corporate transparency in the social era etc.Focus here on how we have changed as a business with the emergence of the social web – or social media. But this is just one of the ways our relationships and dialogue with customers of all types have changedCustomers are using the social web throughout their personal and business life. They increasingly expect their financial service provider to engage directly with them or provide services and information there too. Clearly in retail banking but increasingly in the b2b world too.Transparency/access and online reputaiton is a dominant factor in who we choose to buy from or work with.We also expect to be asked for feedback and to see the company respond with improvements or new products and services.We turn to the social web to assess the quality not just of the company’s products and services; but to see what customers think of them – and to ask for advice.We have too much choice so we turn to trusted intermediaries to help us navigate – and we don’t need deep relationships with these ‘advisors’ to trust what they say.Your brand exists not on your website or in your advertising alone – it is not only defined (and certainly not controlled) by you…it is defined by what comes up on a search engine or is said in Twitter. It is not within your 100% control…but this is not always a bad thing.As well as helping your run your businesses more efficiently – the change technology is bringing and developments like social media have the ability to turn that heavy investment to your commercial advantage.Even in regulated sectors like finance the same opportunities and threats hold true. A bad rating for service on an influential blog or a recommendation for a product on an online financial community can make the difference between success or failure.Companies or brands that ‘get it’ or embrace social web will succeed. Those that don’t – won’t.
The shape of the online universe. This image shows the hierarchical structure of the Internet, based on the connections between individual nodes (such as service providers). Three distinct regions are apparent: an inner core of highly connected nodes, an outer periphery of isolated networks, and a mantle-like mass of peer-connected nodes. The bigger the node, the more connections it has. Those nodes that are closest to the center are connected to more well-connected nodes than are those on the periphery. The core: At the center of the Internet are about 80 core nodes through which most traffic flows. Remove the core, and 70 percent of the other nodes are still able to function through peer-to-peer connections.
we have established new policies and governance so that our social media efforts are methodical, logical and coherent and resonate across our business in a meaningful manner….When we convened the Facebook Reinvention project in October 2009, there were more than 100 Dell brand pages and scores of Dell groups. The majority of these were abandoned, redundant, off brand and/or mis-managed. We defined Dell’s Facebook strategy, guidelines, best practices and processes, bringing the total pages down to 37 organized, structured and managed communities. The core team then expanded into all social media properties, like Twitter, leveraging our social media strategy, processes and guidelines to ensure adherence to FTC and other local policies, alignment to the brand, tracking, analytics, operating efficiencies and more. The dozen people on the original global, cross-segment core team now has 39 representatives from the company all contributing to Dell’s continued effective use of social.
Our current daily listening reports are circulated widely across the company; We also have incident-specific reports that are generated at the BU level or through our central ground control.Driven deeper understanding of customers, brand, industry and technology trends through social, research, and analytics• Strengthen listening and the use/action related to Data (ENGAGEMENT), through:o Improved data quality (through natural language processing)o Consolidated and improved set of reports – optimize for insights and leadership vs. volume of reportso Content and audience strategy o Solved dis-connects with other key data sources (brand, NPS, etc) to tell a consolidated story
Fundamentally we see ourselves as doing the hard work of building on momentum of past 18 months to make social media a key driver of business results and customer-centricity across Dell. We also are focused on driving deeper understanding of customers, brand, industry and technology trends through social, research, and analytics