20. “Humans generated more data in 2009 than in the previous 5,000 years combined.” Dave Evans – Chief Futurist for Cisco Systems Facebook’s best year: 130% increase in registered users Twitter traffic up 1,282% between February 2008 and 2009 LinkedIn traffic jumped tenfold in the first six months of 2011
38. Decision making process: Office Awareness External and internal Initial discussion Build consensus / create business case Internal discussion Authorize budget / make the decision Sharing of information Executive committee meets Information Online / develop vendor shortlist Review proposal Managing directors meet Analyze vendors and features External Internal Create business use case; build consensus Between IT and division Heads to finalize proposal with brand, ROI, and business value Managing directors present proposal to executive committee Executive committee meets to make decision
39. Why we get excited Marketing + Math. Data quality, quantity, and accessibility have brought math to marketing. New digital tools, predictive models, and behavioral targeting will turn insight into foresight. Source: Booz Allen Hamilton: HD Marketing 2010:Sharpening the Conversation
40. Hierarchy of communications Communication Message Based on behavior & license agreement Predict & recommend other products TransactionalRelationship Utilize and engage with product Promotion of benefits Customer owns Office in 3-year Enterprise Agreement Core communications
47. Based on the marketer’s goal, not the customer’s need39
48. What we did 1 2 FILTER IDENTIFY Developer : Azure EI Data Set IT Pro/TDM: Private Cloud IT Pro: Systems Center 3 4 DELIVER TRIGGERED COMMUNICATIONS MEASURE, REFINE, ANALYZE A/B Testing Open > Click > Redemption Control Groups 40
Then: One message to many recipients/audiencesNow: Many messages to many audiences
It’s about tailoring your product to your customer vs. your customer to your product.
We like to call that the primal data point.
Amazon figured this out with their referral engine. My sister ordered a book from Amazon for her son’s social history class to help him write a paper – if they knew my sister’s son was in the 7th grade and that every other month, according to the school curriculum, it was a new history lesson from the Civil war to the great world wars, you can imagine the impact they could have on my sister, her son and their business if you multiply that insight by every 7th grader in the United States.
In the paradigm as described by Google in the ebookZero Moment of Truth, this would be a “first moment of truth.”
It’s foresight that allows us to be more relevant, more timely, more effective in delivering experiences that ultimately drive acquisitions.