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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. His struggle to transform the Johnsonville Sausage Company into a beacon of enlightened business was chronicled widely and became a best-selling case study. I enjoyed teaching that case for many years. But it is only half of his or her performance.

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Convincing Skeptical Employees to Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business Review

“If your goal is a high adoption rate within the organization, make sure you’re choosing the most approachable, most intuitive system possible,” says Mankins. The goal, says Mankins, is to “implicitly raise the cost of not using the new technology.” Case Study #1: Focus on communication and training.