Managing Customer Value
Aaron Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world’s first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. In the 1970s he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout Read More …
Matt Dixon, an executive director of strategic research at CEB, has an unrelenting drive to find the answers to questions senior executives often take for granted. Matt’s latest books are The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty and The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation. Related Transcription and Podcasts: Dixon Read More …
Recently, in a sales session, we introduced the idea of having a sales team construct a sales story of their last major sale. We went from how the customer’s organization became aware of the product through how marketing, inside support to include engineering and of course sales participated. Most of us would relate it to Read More …
At Work•Play•Experience Adam St. John (aka Adam Lawrence) turns good services into memorable service experiences that start people talking. Adam says, “Your customers will feel better served, will appreciate the value of your work, and will be more loyal to your company. And they will have great service stories to share with the world.” In Read More …
We swim in an ocean of products. Behind each one, there is someone (hopefully) thinking about the way we experience it. In this episode of Off Book, they explore three aspects of product design: Build quality and engineering fundamentals Humanism and sustainability Speculation on the future of the product experience. In discussion with the 4th Read More …
Joe Pine: “What you’re doing is that you’re shifting from thinking of them as constraints to thinking of them as resources. When you say that time is an element that costs our customers that’s a constrained view, instead of recognizing that customers have time that they want to spend inside of experiences.” – excerpt from Read More …