Book description
While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:
Control the flow and use of personal data
Build their own loyalty programs
Dictate their own terms of service
Tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost
And they will do all of this outside of any one vendor’s silo.
This new landscape we’re entering is what Doc Searls calls The Intention Economyone in which demand will drive supply far more directly, efficiently, and compellingly than ever before. In this book he describes an economy driven by consumer intent, where vendors must respond to the actual intentions of customers instead of vying for the attention of many.
New customer tools will provide the engine, with VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) providing the consumer counterpart to vendors’ CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems. For example, imagine being able to change your address once for every company you deal with, or combining services from multiple companies in real time, in your own waysall while keeping an auditable accounting of every one of your interactions in the marketplace. These tantalizing possibilities and many others are introduced in this book.
As customers become more independent and powerful, and the Intention Economy emerges, only vendors and organizations that are ready for the change will survive, and thrive. Where do you stand?
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue: Paying Attention to Intention
- Introduction Free Markets Require Free Customers
- 1 The Promised Market
- Part I Customer Captivity
- Part II The Networked Marketplace
- Part III The Liberated Customer
- Part IV The Liberated Vendor
- Epilogue Almost There
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: The Intention Economy
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422184028
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