Rideau, a leading recognition company based in Montreal, has broken new ground in understanding the potential for the recognition field in the consumer marketing space. The old idea of separating consumer loyalty from employee recognition is so pre-enterprise engagement. Check out this recording on Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio program on a ground-breaking case study of [...]
The Sunday, Dec.18 column by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times eloquently called out the need for a new type of leadership that “inspires commitment and innovation and hope in people.”
As you can see by visiting http://www.enterpriseengagement.org, he all but called out for Enterprise Engagement.
The media is part of the problem.
Is it not now [...]
All about price?
I heard WCBS Newsradio and Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Connolly say the other day that price has become everything…
Not so. Look at the performance of Whole Foods over the last year, whose stock has provided a handsome return for investors. People will pay more for a pleasant, quality experience. Shopping for Christmas [...]
The recent rapid capitulation of Verizon Wireless to the social networking community that rose up in opposition to a new fee for online payments explains why organizations will have no choice to embrace enterprise engagement. The customer now is truly king and can now use social media tools to rapidly transmit both their pleasure and [...]
Now that 2011 is officially in the books I thought I’d bring everyone up to speed on the work that was done last year and hint at some of the great stuff planned for 2012.
As you know, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance has a clear, ambitious mission: to help support a new formal business practice required [...]
The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has created a simple tool that any company can use for free to almost instantly benchmark its engagement efforts against best practices and an aggregate of other organizations using the tool.
You can test it at http://www.eewidget.com/eebenchmark
Simply fill out the questionnaire, click on submit, and the results come up instantly. Complete confidentially [...]
You might have seen the moving ad from manufacturing giant GE demonstrating the emotional connection between its employees and customers. (Embeded video at right – Subscribers may need to click through to see video.)
The spot shows an employee at work building devices for cancer treatment wondering about the people who benefit from his work, and [...]
If you still doubt how the emerging field of engagement is affecting traditional marketing, listen to this.
One of the companies involved with the Enterprise Engagement Alliance is a long-standing integrated marketing agency that moved away from focusing solely on meetings and incentives several years ago to provide a more broad-based, solutions-oriented performance improvement services. As [...]
I had a recent experience with the new service 800 Got Junk that demonstrates how organizations are going to have to take an entirely new look at the definition of their brands. If you don’t know the service, it’s at face value, a great way to get rid of unwanted anything in a hurry. Just [...]
While no one is absolutely certain about the agenda of the Occupy Wall Street movement, one message is clear: there is a growing outcry for a more humane form of capitalism, as well as a sense that Wall Street is part of the problem.
Ironically, this movement could have a profound effect on the way businesses [...]