Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2006

It may seem that I’m obsessed with smartphones, but I’m truly not. I was about to drop the topic when my wife came home yesterday from meeting a new client who turned out to be—you guessed it—developing smartphone content. So now I’m thinking about it again. Just what makes me feel smartphones are so important? In part, it’s the “third screen” notion I wrote about yesterday: the idea that the smartphone really has the potential to be as important a device as a TV or personal computer.

Work Management 120

Work Management Privacy SMS Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Yesterday I wrote about the opportunities presented by smartphones for radically new business intelligence applications. The December 11 issue of eWeek had a special advertising section sponsored by VeriSign Inc. that frames the topic more elegantly with a notion of “three screens”: television, computer and smartphone. (“New Opportunities for Three Screens & Beyond”, eWeek , December 11, 2006.

Television marketing 120

Television marketing Mobile Advertising Social Networks Paper 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2006

I’m a bit behind on my reading so I just spotted a piece in the December 11, 2006 issue of InformationWeek about accessing business intelligence software on a mobile phone. (See “Power Of A Data Warehouse In The Palm Of Your Hand” available here.) The author is highly skeptical of the notion: “It remains to be seen how many mobile professionals actually need to slice and dice data from handheld devices.

Business 120

Business Mobile Marketing Analysis Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Onyx Software ( www.onyx.com ) is a veteran player in mid-market CRM. It’s been years since I looked at their software. When they were purchased earlier this year by M2M Holdings, which already owned mid-market ERP vendor Made2Manage Systems, it seemed like still further evidence that traditional on-premise CRM software is a dying breed. But my never-ending quest for white papers did turn up a piece from Onyx entitled “Customer Process Management: The Real-time Enterprise depends on the merging

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Process 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Sunday’s The New York Times had a long article on buzz measurement vendor Nielsen BuzzMetrics ( www.nielsenbuzzmetrics.com ) (“Brands For the Chattering Masses”, Sunday Business , December 17, 2006, page 1). Naturally this caught my eye since I had been pondering how to measure buzz for Customer Experience Management (see entry for December 8). I haven’t decided whether to do a detailed examination of this particular topic, but did take a quick pass through the Web sites of the major vendors.

Buzz 120

Buzz Marketing Management Planning Eye-Tracking 120