"The speed of social" is a phrase we often hear when talking about how organizations use social media to engage and respond to customers.
But there’s a dual meaning there: How social data itself has evolved—giving rise to the age of social analytics and social business intelligence.
In this one-hour webinar, Brandwatch VP of Client Services Adam Bambrough and guest Susan Etlinger of Altimeter Group will discuss:
- How (and why) social data has evolved in recent years
- Why it’s so critical to scale social data across the enterprise
- The benefits and use cases of a social media command center
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Source: Altimeter Group
It has a large and diffuse ecosystem
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Publishers
(Social Networks, Community, Enterprise Collaboration)
Social Data Platforms
Social Applications
Listening/Monitorin
g
Engagement
SMMS)
Publishing Analytics
Enterprise Applications
CRM BI Market Research Email Marketing
Fraud
Detection/Risk Mgt
Supply Chain
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Case Study: MasterCard “Conversation Suite”
Strategy
• Focus on conversation
monitoring, informing content
strategy
• Use Cases: customer care,
marketing, risk management,
HR/recruiting, others
Structure
• 43 markets, 26 languages,
insights from traditional & social
media
• 24/7 monitoring powered by
PRIME Research
• Reports to Worldwide
Communications
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Case Study: MasterCard “Conversation Suite”
Benefits
• Education and organizational
alignment
• Technology cost savings
• Improved content performance
• Decision making fueled by data
What’s Next
• Connect social data with
business data
• Expand access to conversation
suite data
11. Case Study: Wells Fargo
Strategy
• Early alert system for emerging
issues
• Routing and triage to
stakeholders
• Data analysis: trend data on a
range of topics
Structure
• 60 active users (dashboards
and data)
• Runs on Brandwatch
• Completion of physical build-out
anticipated by mid-2014
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Case Study: Wells Fargo
Benefits
• Insight for senior leaders
• Speed to market of products
and services
• Improved customer service
What’s Next
• Train team members to become
brand advocates in compliance
with regulatory requirements
• Continue building a real-time,
relevant data source that
enables employees to anticipate
& address issues
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“Build your command center
like a business.”
Renee Brown
Senior Vice President & Director of Social Media
Wells Fargo
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Recommendations
∙ Focus: Have clarity of purpose, set expectations, guard against scope creep
∙ Sponsorship: Establish sponsorship and stakeholders
∙ Access: Provide broad access of command center data
∙ Priorities: Prioritize insights; focus on data that can inform strategy
∙ Think Visual: Don’t underestimate the power of visuals
∙ Be agile: Think big, and move fast
Even with such a small sample, we found clear evidence of expansion beyond managing one-to-one interactions to insight and action and triage within multiple groups within the business. This is consistent with Altimeter Group’s finding in a recent survey that at least 13 groups within enterprise-class companies are actively engaged in social media.8
This suggests that the command center, as it is implemented among some businesses, can become more deeply integrated into the fabric of the organization. But there was also a fair amount of variation among eBay, Wells Fargo, and MasterCard with regard to the priorities of these use cases. There was a clear message that the best practice is to optimize for just a few of them.
For example, MasterCard recently detected a cluster of issues related to the complexity of one of its mobile payments products for some small businesses and was able to route that information to the product team, which used the feedback to simplify the process.
For example, the Worldwide Communications team is currently working with customer support to roll out a social support program, a considerable challenge for the company given the complexity of the credit card business.
For example, MasterCard recently detected a cluster of issues related to the complexity of one of its mobile payments products for some small businesses and was able to route that information to the product team, which used the feedback to simplify the process.
For example, the Worldwide Communications team is currently working with customer support to roll out a social support program, a considerable challenge for the company given the complexity of the credit card business.
Have clarity of purpose. It’s critical to have a clear remit for a social command center, to set expectations, and guard against scope creep. Says John Bodine of eBay, “Understand your KPIs and present them clearly so anyone at a glance can understand them.” In some cases, KPIs may focus on service issues; others may focus on trying to generate awareness or consideration. Others still look for insights that inform business strategy. All should be clear, measurable, and, most importantly, actionable.
• Establish sponsorship and stakeholders. Says Renee Brown, Wells Fargo Bank, “We have set up a best practice of establishing a steering committee with high-level executives who have power to make real decisions. This group meets regularly; that is very important.” She continues, “A successful command center needs to include a diverse group of people across departments with the right mix of background, skills, and point of view.”
Provide broad access. Brown also argues that it’s critical to provide broad access of command center data to employees. “I would not recommend limiting the number of seats, because it’s valuable to so many different people for different reasons,” she says.
• Prioritize insights. Make analytics core to digital initiatives so that insights derived from social and other digital data can contribute to shaping future campaigns and business strategy.
• Don’t underestimate the power of visuals. More tactical but no less important is the role of visuals in any content strategy, particularly for global organizations. Marcy Cohen reports that (1) putting visuals front and center; (2) making content shortand “snackable”; and (3) driving back to core content consistently improves performance.
• Think big and move fast. For any type of command center to be successful, it must provide value across the enterprise. “Treat it as an enterprise effort,” advises Marcy Cohen of MasterCard, “not a business silo.” John Bodine additionally believes that it’s important to move fast, since social data is so volatile. “You can’t iterate fast enough,” he says.
As consumers and devices become increasingly interconnected, the command center will likely evolve to ingest and analyze many disparate types of data, from sensor data originating in electronic products, to enterprise data, to other real-time data types, such as images and video. Organizations that plan ahead for this eventuality and include this expectation in their roadmaps will be far ahead of the game as other data types — some anticipated and some not — become strategic.
Vendor perspective – diversity in need sets & wants from analytics & command center
Credit Susan
Move from external focus
through some internal elements
some social acknowledgement & internal elements – display & knowledge centers
3 – fully integrated (Business intelligence) – seeing loop backs to
For context - some examples of use cases
Product Development
* 75% of US CPG product launches fail - only 3% go on to become blockbusters
CPGs spend 1 - 2% of revenues on consumer insights, costs can be reduced through social
* Review data: not only do reviews help drive transactions, product reviews help drive immediate product feedback
Dandelion – social at a massive scaleown view…
Distributed – Brand teams
a challenge for CPG’s is that they’re separated from consumers by their retail distribution channel
* this CPG puts the voice of the customer on the desk of large volumes of staff, reducing the distance between brand managers and consumers.
they deliver a co-ordinated real-time view of the earned media (campaigns, issues, topics)
they not only listen to their own conversations but look to understand their customers as well (the retailers)
by using a cross-functional team structure they enable a consistent, global view of the VOC by closely collaborating with Research and Crisis Management
from initial data sets they have seem corollaries between social data and sales data
social data can help reduce Bns spent on consumer insights, product development and launches
Exec Visibility
Execution – cohesive messaging – one ‘truth’
Real-time
PR – reactions to press release. Messaging
UX Issues – site frustrations, emotive – add on site data
Competitive – I love that competitor X app does Y
ATM
PR – reactions to press release. Messaging
Feedback topics to multiple teams, ilke product
One source of truth
Triage & route >
Deep dive >
Feed back to measure impact
Triage & workflow
Centralized: Enterprise wide
1 true source – insight from recent client meeting.
Business units served by a central hub
How & who
Visualization -
Routing & triage – which content goes to which business units.
Listen & engage – CS issues, product or service - ATMs
High level trends – inform across enterprise
C-suite – Stakeholder.
Strategy – this WILL change with business units, product lines,
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