Empowering Brands with Customer Integration

Empowering Brands with Customer Integration
Author: Jörg Sesselmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658116390

Jörg Sesselmann presents the first comprehensive guide to customer integration from a branding perspective. The author establishes a classification of the vast landscape of co-creation, co-design, co-production, interactive value creation and mass customization and evaluates benefits and success factors for brands. He provides insight into leading case studies from the fast food, apparel and toy industry as well as practical implementation checklists and guidelines. The book provides thought-provoking impulse for marketing, brand management and strategy professionals as well as for researchers, lecturers and students.

Chinese Local New Luxury Brands in a Digitally Empowered Era

Chinese Local New Luxury Brands in a Digitally Empowered Era
Author: Hongbo Lai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811621454

This book focuses on the development and trends of Chinese local luxury industry in the digital era, which brings a new round of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, as well as development opportunities. It reveals the connotation and mechanism of the new local luxury brands in China step by step by answering the questions of "what, why and how". Through the analysis of 200 + questionnaires by SPSS statistical tools and case study, the book concludes the internal mechanism and theoretical support for China to cultivate new local luxury brands. It presents an overview on the current China's local luxury industry.

The Most Powerful Brand on Earth

The Most Powerful Brand on Earth
Author: Chris Boudreaux
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133115399

Pioneering businesses have shown that a more social workforce can dramatically improve brand awareness and customer service, increase revenue, and drive greater value and performance from marketing and sales. For this to work, employees must engage in real-time conversations, even if they aren't professional communicators. This requires new skills, governance, and infrastructure, as well as new ways of managing risk. Social business pioneers Chris Boudreaux and Susan Emerick present frameworks, guidelines, and new case studies for managing these changes within your business.

Empowering the Connected Physician in the E-Patient Era

Empowering the Connected Physician in the E-Patient Era
Author: Letizia Affinito
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351018884

The constantly evolving digital world must be used in the practice of medicine to improve the care of patients. However, the only way to do so effectively is via evidence-based, meaningful and strategic use. Empowering the Connected Physician in the E-Patient Era provides practical guidance in this mission and is thus essential reading for all health stakeholders looking into approaching this. Drawing on the author’s research and consulting practice, as well as on the practical experience of managers in medium-large organizations worldwide, the book will provide a proven framework to improve the development and implementation of physicians’ empowering digital programs in these organizations, a step-by-step guide for how companies can develop and implement programs aiming at empowering physicians while empowering patients. It is an engaging how-to/how-not-to book which will include tips, advice and critical reviews that every stakeholder must have in order to participate in the evolving healthcare system and be more active in making strategic patient-centered choices. This book will help healthcare organizations chart a course within this new territory and thereby improve their ability to engage with empowered patients.

Exponential: Transform Your Brand by Empowering Instead of Interrupting

Exponential: Transform Your Brand by Empowering Instead of Interrupting
Author: Jeff Rosenblum
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1264268157

One of the world’s top advertising executives shows how iconic brands win new customers and build armies of evangelists. Great brands stand for more than just cool products and clever advertisements. They inspire audiences. They enrich communities. They energize people. They move people’s lives forward. Most importantly, great brands don’t just interrupt: they empower. And that empowerment leads to exponential growth. Over the past 20 years, Jeff Rosenblum and his team at Questus have created content and campaigns for Apple, Capital One, Disney, The NFL, Samsung, Starbucks, Universal, Wyndham, Verizon and many more of the world’s most iconic brands. In Exponential, he turns that wealth of experience into a comprehensive program for modern advertising and business strategy. The book makes a passionate case that business leaders need to shift away from interruptions and superficial messages to focus on empowerment, culture, values, leadership, and transparency. With engaging stories and revealing brand examples, Exponential shows how brands can: Produce exponential growth by shifting from interruptions to empowerment Create brand evangelists with content that informs and inspires Embrace transparency and culture to tell authentic brand stories Generate massive ROI throughout the purchase journey Exponential is about storytelling done right, and the book practices what it preaches. It’s packed with colorful anecdotes from Rosenblum’s own career and clear examples of brands that grew exponentially. With a light touch, it unpacks heavy insights from neuroscience, market research, and big data, outlining what it takes for brands to truly be great and not merely say they are great.

Integrated Communications in the Postmodern Era

Integrated Communications in the Postmodern Era
Author: Philip J. Kitchen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137388552

This book is readers who wish to develop their knowledge, insight, skills, and facility into integrated communications within the post-modern era, a topic of relevance everywhere, but particular apposite as the original conference was hosted in Turkey, a rapidly developing nation, and one enjoying significant growth in the global.

The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support

The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support
Author: Ross Smith
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0138286655

In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, customer service and support professionals find themselves in a prime position to take advantage of this innovative technology to drive customer success. The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support is a practical guide for professionals who want to harness the power of generative AI within their organizations to create more powerful customer and employee experiences. This book is designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence to embrace the AI revolution and integrate the technology, such as large language models (LLMs), machine learning, predictive analytics, and gamified learning, into the customer experience. Start your journey toward leveraging this technology effectively to optimize organizational productivity. A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit Future World Alliance, dedicated to K-12 AI ethics education. IN THIS BOOK YOU’LL LEARN About AI, machine learning, and data science How to develop an AI vision for your organization How and where to incorporate AI technology in your customer experience fl ow About new roles and responsibilities for your organization How to improve customer experience while optimizing productivity How to implement responsible AI practices How to strengthen your culture across all generations in the workplace How to address concerns and build strategies for reskilling and upskilling your people How to incorporate games, play, and other techniques to engage your agents with AI Explore thought experiments for the future of support in your organization “Insightful & comprehensive—if you run a service & support operation, put this book on your essential reading list right now!” —PHIL WOLFENDEN, Cisco, VP, Customer Experience “This book is both timely and relevant as we enter an unprecedented period in our industry and the broader world driven by Generative AI. The magnitude and speed of change we’re experiencing is astounding and this book does an outstanding job balancing technical knowledge with the people and ethical considerations we must also keep front of mind.” —BRYAN BELMONT, Microsoft, Corporate VP, Customer Service & Support “The authors of this book are undoubtedly on the front lines of operationalizing Gen AI implementations in customer support environments... and they know undoubtedly that at its core, support is about people and genuine human connections. This book walks you through their journey to keep people at the center of this technical tsunami.” —PHAEDRA BOINODIRIS, Author, AI for the Rest of Us

Value Creation of Firm-Established Brand Communities

Value Creation of Firm-Established Brand Communities
Author: Philipp Wiegandt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834984604

Philipp Wiegandt empirically analyzes the effects the creation of a firm-established brand community has on the brand loyalty and word-of-mouth communication of its members over time. He finds that establishing a firm-established brand community creates value for both – the company and their customers.

Strategy and Communication for Innovation

Strategy and Communication for Innovation
Author: Nicole Pfeffermann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642414796

The innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovation capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level. Communication has become a critical factor underpinning successful innovation. As a new communication field, innovation communication facilitates the successful launches of new products and services, the establishment of stakeholder relationships, and the strengthening of corporate reputation in the long-run. Consequently, firms today need to develop a strong portfolio of communication tools as an integral part of their strategic innovation management activities. This new edition mainly concentrates on emerging approaches and methods for integrating communication as part of strategic innovation management. A key theme is the provision of an integrated perspective to bridge the gap between innovation management and communication management at both strategic and operational levels. This book makes an important contribution to this evolving academic domain by providing multiple perspectives on the latest research on innovation communication and strategic open innovation. It also provides guidance for managers seeking to understand the diverse ways by which they can leverage communication to support successful innovation.

E-Business. Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future

E-Business. Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future
Author: Yiliu Tu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2023-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031323025

The two-volume set LNBIP 480 and 481 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Wuhan International Conference, WHICEB 2023, held in Wuhan, China, in May 2023. The 61 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 350 submissions. They focus on innovative research findings, solutions, and approaches to make the Internet a productive and efficient vehicle for global commerce. This year’s topic is “Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future“.