Your Best Bet: Finding the Right Model

What does betting on the ponies have to do with marketing? Back in the late 1970s, Professor of Marketing Ruth Bolton and her husband, Professor Randall Chapman, saw an opportunity to try out a new tool to explore one of the foundational questions in marketing: how do people make decisions about brands? Chapman had studied …

From Data to Profits: Ingredients for Successful Data-Driven Business Development

This webinar was recorded as part of the series by the CSL Community of Practice on Monetizing Data and Analytics. Any profitable digitization strategy starts with a business model.   Business Model Framework Why going digital? What is the business objective? (Objective) Who are the customers? What are their jobs-to-be-done? (Customers) What is the company offering? (Value proposition) …

Aligning Business Model & Culture to Maximize the Analytics Opportunity

In a recent blog post Analytics in Services: Actions versus Talk, we reviewed how companies are applying big data and analytics for both internal and external uses. That review led to a survey and executive panel discussion at the November 2015 Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Annual Compete Through Service Symposium where we further explored adoption rates, challenges, and lessons learned.