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Why We Need Duct Tape To Run Our Systems
In: b2c|business strategy|change management|cloud computing|customer service|design|e-service|in-store|integration|retail|user experience|ux
7 Mar 2010We all see software system work arounds in our daily life. It will take strong cross department communication in the future to make sure systems do all they can do.
The Death of Branding and The Rise of Design and Reputation
In: b2b|b2c|business strategy|change management|design|e-service|integration|research|social media|social trends|user experience
12 Feb 2010So take a moment and think of the best work your company does. When your company does its best work who does it? How do they do it? Now hold a picture of that group of people and the work they do, and ask “what qualities or values do they bring to the table that [...]
My Favorite Television Commercial
In: b2c|business strategy|media|social media|social trends|user experience
10 Feb 2010All this talk about the Super Bowl television commercials has gotten me thinking about the role of television in the new social landscape. I confess to being an NFL junkie this year, as a result of the Minnesota Vikings run at the title and my shiny new widescreen HDTV. Our 9 year-old daughter is absorbed [...]
The lesson of clamshell packaging and real company values
In: b2c|business strategy|customer service|design|retail|user experience
15 Jan 2010Image via Wikipedia Tara Hunt, author of “The Whuffie Factor” spoke this week at a Social Media Club workshop held at Best Buy Headquarters in Minneapolis. As she spoke about her prescriptions for companies opening up to the new social Internet, she offered this discussion point: “Identify the values that are part of communities that [...]
Intercomm: how internal + external communications integration will become the new frontier
In: business strategy|change management|customer service|high technology|integration|marketingasservice|social media|social trends|user experience|ux
4 Jan 2010Intercomm is the idea that internal, partner and marketing communications will need to be planned and executed in a totally integrated process. This post defines the idea and presents the reason why it will be the big interactive trend in 2011.
Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce Strongly Effects Future Loyalty
In: b2c|business strategy|customer service|e-commerce|e-service|integration|retail|user experience
31 Dec 2009Image via Wikipedia ForeSee Results has just released a research study on customer satisfaction with the top 40 Internet e-commerce Website and for mainstream retailers like Target and Best Buy it’s not great news. The two retailing giants scored just below the average for the 40 sites, and showed little improvement in their customer satisfaction [...]
I’ve Got a New Job–and So Do You
In: Uncategorized|b2c|business strategy|crowds|customer service|social media|social trends|testing|user experience|ux
9 Dec 2009Social media is leading to a seismic change in communications which I call strategic communications planning, which will replace strategic consulting by firms like McKinsey and Bain. It will also take the place of a lot of marketing and advertising budgets as well
I just got my very first iPhone. And despite falling in love with it, I’ve run into five problems with the iPhone right away. These are obvious clear faults with the customer experience that should be easy, easy to Apple to fix. We’ll see if they do:
Image by Hobo! via Flickr I read a great article by Pete Caputa on HubSpot, “ When Two Worlds Collide: Social Media Marketing & SEO which explains the evolution of social media as an influence on organic search engine results. This creates a somewhat virtuous circle of social media feeding better search engine results, resulting [...]
The central purposes of customer research are to discover understandings about the customer to drive business strategy, and working iteratively with that, sketch, inspire, test, discard, create, question, edit and deliver brilliant creative thinking.
About this blog
I'm Rohn Jay Miller. I'm a principal in a start-up called AlphaBeta. We work with clients to evolve their business + communications strategies so they become more open, interactive and valuable in the marketplace. This means looking at how marketing, sales and customer service holistically engage customers. I write here about our challenges and opportunities.
I used to be Senior Vice President - Product + Technology, Knight Ridder Newspapers You can reach me at rmiller@alphabetadesign.com
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- Why We Need Duct Tape To Run Our Systems
- The Death of Branding and The Rise of Design and Reputation
- My Favorite Television Commercial
- The lesson of clamshell packaging and real company values
- Intercomm: how internal + external communications integration will become the new frontier
- Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce Strongly Effects Future Loyalty
- Lessons From Crossing the Chasm of Social Media at Lego
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- I’ve Got a New Job–and So Do You
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