
Technology has transformed your consumer, who can now connect with thousands of peers through social, mobile, video, and Web channels. It's no longer possible to serve this consumer with a top-down organization. Instead, you must empower your own staff to use these same technologies to create innovative new customer connections. In this talk — based on Josh Bernoff's newest Forrester book, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010) — we'll describe the framework your organization can use to reach out to these customers. The four steps in this "IDEA" framework are: identify mass influencers, deliver groundswell customer service, empower with mobile, and amplify fan activity. We'll show how empowering your staff to use these technologies will transform your business. This talk answers the questions: * How are today's consumers connecting in new ways? * How are customer service, sales, marketing, and eBusiness groups changing to meet their needs? * How do you manage an organization that includes hundreds of customer-focused innovators?
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