Gadget, the magazine of personal technology in South Africa, quoted Brian Solis as part of its coverage of Salesforce’s “State of Service” report. As inflation takes hold and rate hikes dominate headlines, customer service teams are focusing on technologies that promote productivity and efficiency. This is a key finding of the fifth edition of the State of Service report by Salesforce, a global leader in Customer Relations Management (CRM). The report shares insights from over 8,000 professionals across 36 counties…
Dreamforce 22: The Digital-First Novel Economy – Blurring the line between physical and digital experiences
Vonage’s Breanna Kuhl and Salesforce’s Brian Solis will share how to close the gaps in your customer experience for a digital-first Novel Economy at Dreamforce 22. The Digital-First Novel Economy: Blurring the line between physical and digital experiences We’re in a novel economy, a time without a playbook. Organizations and customers are accelerating digital transformations. With change comes new behaviors, expectations, and standards for engagement. In the last two years, approximately 90% of consumers have switched brands and plan to incorporate…
Enterprise Times: 15 key statistics from Salesforce’s State of Connected Customer Report
via Roy Edwards, Enterprise Times Salesforce’s State of Connected Customer Report provides insights from 17,000 consumers and business buyers on the new customer engagement landscape. The Trust-based economy moves to the forefront 88% of customers believe trust becomes more important in times of change. Research from Edelman points to business as a “stabilising force,” while institutions like government and media are eyed with increasing suspicion. Given their inherent opt-in nature, transactions are at risk without a baseline of confidence that…
Why Web 3.0 Will Rewrite the Business Playbook: An Interview withBrad Howarth, CMO Australia
Original article written by Brad Howarth, CMO What an extreme honor it was to visit Melbourne and Sydney after all this time. Following my presentation at the Salesforce Retail and Consumer Goods Industries Summit, I met with my new friend Brad Howarth of CMO Magazine. Over the course of one hour, we explored everything from the future of brands, the new role of marketing in 2030 organizations, and of course, the rising world of Web3 (Web 3.0), the next iteration…
De Tijd: ‘Decentraler internet komt er, maar moet eerst door fase van desillusie’
I had the opportunity to meet De Tijd’s Roland Legrand while in Brussels, Belgium. It was an incredible conversation that I’m sure could have led to a series of articles. Thank you for the honor, Roland. Source: De Tijd De antropoloog en futurist van de digitale wereld Brian Solis is optimistisch over de pogingen het web te hervormen, decentraler te maken en de gebruikers meer macht te geven. Hij waarschuwt wel dat dat zogeheten web3 eerst door een ‘vallei van…
Designing the Customer’s Experience – Live at The CMO Club Summit
By Jessica Denny, The CMO Club Brian Solis, Digital Anthropologist and Global Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce believes the pandemic fundamentally changed us all, calling it an epochal moment. During the 2021 CMO Club Innovation and Inspiration Summit, Brian shared how people are spending more time in the digital world than ever, but at the same time, they have stronger preferences about what they want from brands. Customers want more than a transactional experience: they want to feel like brands are aligned with their…
How do we make customer-centricity more than a tagline?
Business as a construct needs a reset! And our current disruption is that moment. In this special Salesforce Executive Conversation, VP and global innovation evangelist Brian Solis and Leandro Perez, Vice President of Marketing for Salesforce Asia Pacific, explain the new mindset required for true customer-centricity, and how humanizing technology can put the magic back into customer service. Everything is different from the way we used to work yesterday. When we innovate by creating new value, using service to get…
What’s Standing Between Your Business Transformation Strategy and the Experiences Customers are Seeking
Originally published on the Salesforce “360 blog“ Customers care about end-to-end experiences, not how your company is organized. Business leaders are quick to say that a connected customer experience is a major business priority. But the truth is that they are struggling to do it well. New data captures the gap between business and digital transformation and the integrated experiences customers desire. Countless growing departments, new services abound, and the truth remains: Customers have to see you as one company….
Special Report: A Blueprint for Becoming a Customer-Unified Company; Making the Customer’s Experience the Heart of the Enterprise
Customer experience is the number one priority as ranked by executives around the world. Even though most may say they’re already “customer-centric,” the reality is that only 15% say they have both a single (360-degree) view of customer data and the organizational structure to make use of those insights. At Salesforce, I recently had the opportunity to work with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBRAS) on a survey of 1,100 executives around the world exploring how to meet the future…
Shifting Strategy from Customer Experience to the Customer’s Experience
Originally published at CMO Perspectives by Jessica Denny The pandemic transformed us into a digital-first society, and now digital-first customers are driving total market transformation. World-renowned digital anthropologist and futurist Brian Solis is Salesforce’s Global Innovation Evangelist. Recently, he led a CMO Club virtual roundtable about how the pandemic’s hyper-acceleration to digital substantially changed the opportunity to improve customer relationships. It starts by recalibrating our perspective and seeing the world through their experiences. In a digital-first world we meet our…
