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When you design your project from the outside in—from your customers' point of view—you get things right the first time.


Latest Customers.com® Strategies Research

The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
By Patricia B. Seybold, CEO and Senior Consultant, January 12, 2012

Customer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done--both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful cus-tomer ecosystems.


Latest Customers.com® Technologies Research

RightNow Social Experience
Monitoring, Analyzing, and Interacting in the Social Cloud
By Mitch Kramer, Senior Consultant, Patricia Seybold Group, December 15, 2011

RightNow Social Experience is the social-service component of the RightNow CX suite. It delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and integrates seamlessly with the CX’s case, knowledge, and account management capabilities.


About the Patricia Seybold Group:

Patricia B. Seybold is the author of three best-selling books: Customers.com, Outside Innovation, and The Customer Revolution. Her team of experts publishes new customer-centric research each week and works hands on with customer-centric executives and their customers and partners to co-design innovative, customer-adaptive solutions and businesses.

Patricia Seybold Group's seasoned consultants help business and technology executives:

  • Understand your target customers’ context and goals so that you can better meet their needs, increase sales, and boost customer loyalty.
  • Redesign your business processes to provide a better end-to-end customer experience, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and lower costs-to-serve.
  • Take advantage of customer-critical technologies to make it easy for customers to serve themselves and to help and refer others, satisfying customers while reducing your costs to serve and to acquire new customers.
  • Align your demand and supply chains around customer-critical success metrics to ensure that your ecosystem is focused on what customers care about so you can quickly spot new needs and reduce quote-to-cash cycle time.
  • Deploy intelligent solutions that adapt to customers’ needs in order to increase their loyalty and walletshare.
  • Design customizable products that customers can tailor, to increase repeat purchases and referrals.
  • Grow a vibrant customer community around your products and services to lower your costs to acquire and to serve customers. Use a private customer community to co-design new offerings with your lead customers.

Contact us with details of your next customer-impacting project. We’ll be glad to support you!

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