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Community Service: Social Interactions and Service in the 21 Century. Prof. Barak Libai Arison School of Business, IDC, Israel Institute of Service Excellence (ISES) Singapore Management University July 2014. A moment of history.
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Community Service:Social Interactions and Service in the 21 Century Prof. Barak Libai Arison School of Business, IDC, Israel Institute of Service Excellence (ISES) Singapore Management University July 2014 Prof. Barak Libai
A moment of history • In the 1990’s we learned about customer relationship management and customer centricity • And began to manage by individual customer value, looking at retention and satisfaction, and building loyalty programs Prof. Barak Libai
We increasingly understand now that we need to manage “communities” of connected customers, not only individuals Prof. Barak Libai
Communities created by someone’s close social network Prof. Barak Libai
Communities created by social media recommendation sites Prof. Barak Libai
Communities that exist at large video and sharing sites Prof. Barak Libai
Managing in a world of connected customers • Hard to predict • Hard to control • Non-linear Prof. Barak Libai
The “future of service” is social We must talk the “social language” ! Prof. Barak Libai
The “black box” of customer social interactions begins to open Prof. Barak Libai
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Duncan J. Watts, a Columbia University sociologist now on leave and heading a research unit at Yahoo!, marvels at the change. "When I started network research 12 years ago, we had virtually no data," he says. Now he and his team can study the network behavior of 295 million e-mailers and legions of the 200 million Facebook users. For social scientists, Watts says, this flood of data could be as transformative as Galileo's telescope was for the physical sciences: "It gives us a new understanding of our world and ourselves." BusinessWeek May 09 סדנא ברשתות חברתיות
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Understanding community based customer relationships will be an essential part of service management in the coming years • The “books” are still being written • They demand understating of social interactions in general • They change with technology • And the advice cannot typically be unequivocal Prof. Barak Libai
Some things that we learned in recent years on social interaction, consumers and profitability • Relevant to services, hospitality, and markets in general Prof. Barak Libai
1) Social effects from others have an essential effect on everything we do סדנא ברשתות חברתיות Prof. Barak Libai 19
Clearly on consumers decision making Prof. Barak Libai Nielsen Global 2011
And stronger for services than for goods • Probably related to the risk and uncertainty associated with services Prof. Barak Libai
2) Social media increasingly becomes the place where customer service interactions happen Eileen Brown ZDNet 2014 Survey "Customer Engagement and Today’s Consumer" Prof. Barak Libai
3) Online review are of noticeable effect on customers Prof. Barak Libai
Yet the answer of how they affect is still unclear, and possibly depends on the category The impact of Volume and Valance of online reviews on hotel RevPar Prof. Barak Libai Blal and Struman 2014
4) Social media is the battleground of a new power struggle Customers enjoy to see the power goes back to them Prof. Barak Libai
In this new environment individuals realize their disproportional power Prof. Barak Libai
Some individuals are more powerful than others Forrester Research, Empowered Prof. Barak Libai
We may need to update customer relationship management systems Customer lifetime value Customer social value Prof. Barak Libai
5) Some optimism about negativity Prof. Barak Libai
Most of the word of mouth, offline and online, is positive, not negative. • This is strongly consistent across studies, by academics and practitioners !!! Prof. Barak Libai
Our job is to create positive word of mouth, more than to mitigate the negative ! Prof. Barak Libai
6) The “community” of social media can complement and replace existing business functions CRM- Prof. Barak Libai From Groundswell
The rules of “community service” are still being written We should study them carefully ! Prof. Barak Libai
Thank you !!! Prof. Barak Libai