Monday, September 26, 2011
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Design customer experience
Strategically based design is how you bake in experiences people really care about. A well-designed customer experience is the main event in defining how worthy your proposition is of the love (devotion) customers bestow on your brand. Think of it this way, if your brand were no longer in existence, would it matter to anyone?
It is no longer enough to “exceed customer expectations” with product / service, quality and price. In the idea economy, those attributes are now the ante. To thrive in this new epoch we find ourselves in, enlightened marketers are shifting their focus from counting transactions to creating scintillating, dramatic, novel, relevant, transformative customer experiences.
More than facts, process management and functional product or service attributes, value creation is a designed based discipline of creating an episode, an encounter, an adventure, a perception, and a sense that there is greater use value in the experience than in the goods themselves. In leading companies, design is a strategic business imperative, not a decorative act. More than designing artifacts, innovation-driven companies use design as an integrated discipline for creating experiences people love. Experiences are somewhat metaphysical. Enlightened marketers know this, and design the experience to be emotionally rich. Harley Davidson does not sell motorcycles, Starbucks does not sell coffee, and Herman Miller does not sell office chairs.
Remarkable brands have a metaphysical presence and deep emotional connection with their customers. They really matter! Strategically based design is the why behind the what.
And let’s remember that small companies can be remarkable companies too. Value creation is an idea that transcends size and scale. Starbucks is a perfect example how their bigness almost killed their greatness. How remarkable the experiences customers have engaging with your brand, determines how much you matter. Right now, not many people care that much about Chrysler. Do people care about Honda? Probably.
We’re at the dawn of a new economic age, one driven by ideas, not rigid process. The shake-out in our current economy is proof enough that “creative destruction” is a firestorm clearing the way for more innovation in serving people and being of great value to them in their daily lives. If your value proposition is not of great value to people, it will not be rewarded with a future. This is as it should be.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Trove of Dinosaur Feathers Found in Canadian Amber
An extraordinary collection of ancient feather fragments preserved in amber has opened a window into a lost world, one that now appears populated by dinosaurs covered in plumage as rich and varied as that of modern birds.
The feathers date to the end of the Cretaceous, about 85 to 70 million years ago. At that time, the forerunners of birds were well on their way to taking wing; dinosaurs like Epidexipteryx and Limosaurus, discovered in China in the last decade and dating to approximately 160 million years ago, possess relatively bird-like bone structures and hints of what might have been feathers.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
rag & bone ss12
Yesterday’s Rag & Bone collection – a somehow rumpled but still clean collection melding all that is good about the beach with streetwear. And I’m never going to be against open knits, crochet bikinis, and blazers. Love
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
I LOVE YOU SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS!!!
Say something nice!!! What would you have said?! I love this so much, it makes me the happiest and smile:)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The Meaning of Life (in Under 300 Words)
Perhaps you think I've set myself an impossible challenge here?
Not so. The meaning of life is pretty straightforward to state. Your life has whatever meaning you give to it. So the question becomes: what do people say gives their lives meaning? That's easy enough to measure and psychologists have done exactly that.
Baumeister and Vohs (2002) have synthesised four factors. When people are asked, the more they report each of these four factors being fulfilled, the more meaningful their lives feel:
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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