The document discusses recent acquisitions in the UK contact center industry. It notes that the acquisitions show a trend of lower price/earnings ratios. It questions what a contact center business process outsourcing company would be worth now given this trend of lower multiples in acquisitions.
VodafoneanaaronVodafone is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company, offering services to over 260 million customers in 26 countries. It was formed in 1984 as a subsidiary of Racal Electronics and became fully independent in 1991. Vodafone has expanded rapidly through mergers and acquisitions, including acquiring Mannesmann AG in 2000 in one of the largest corporate mergers ever worth £112 billion. Vodafone's vision is to be the world's mobile communications leader and enrich customers' lives by connecting more individuals globally through mobile services.
Strat com portfolioAttila LendvaiPlanet Today Inc. facilitates social, environmental, and economic progress worldwide by connecting consumers to relevant knowledge through an online platform and local networks, empowering people to make commercial choices daily that benefit themselves, others, and the planet through acquisition, partnerships, and strategic alliances establishing the first managed knowledge platform for social, environmental, and economic progress.
nodalities_issue7.pdfHiroshi OnoThe document discusses trends and challenges facing information technology, including building a civic semantic web and waiving rights over linked data. It also discusses whether semantic technologies could permit meaningful brand relationships. The document contains a chart showing government department spending in the UK, with the Department of Health spending £105.7 billion, followed by local and regional government spending £34.3 billion, and the NHS spending £90.7 billion.
nodalities_issue7.pdfHiroshi OnoThe document discusses trends and challenges facing information technology, including building a civic semantic web and waiving rights over linked data. It also discusses whether semantic technologies could permit meaningful brand relationships. The document contains a chart showing government department spending in the UK, with the Department of Health spending £105.7 billion, followed by local and regional government spending £34.3 billion, and the NHS spending £90.7 billion.
nodalities_issue7.pdfHiroshi OnoThe document discusses trends and challenges facing information technology, including building a civic semantic web and waiving rights over linked data. It also discusses whether semantic technologies could permit meaningful brand relationships. The document contains a chart showing government department spending in the UK, with the Department of Health spending £105.7 billion, followed by local and regional government spending £34.3 billion, and the NHS spending £90.7 billion.
nodalities_issue7.pdfHiroshi OnoThe article discusses the Guardian's Datastore project, which makes data of public interest freely available online for reuse. Some key points:
- The Datastore contains datasets on topics like MPs' expenses, carbon emissions, and public opinion polls. This data was previously hard to access but the web now allows easy access to billions of statistics.
- Making this data open and machine-readable supports the Guardian's tradition of fact-checking and transparency. It also encourages others to analyze and build upon the data in new ways.
- An early example involved crowdsourcing the review of 500,000 pages of MPs' expenses, revealing new insights. Other Guardian datasets like music recommendations and university rankings are now available for others
Henrik Berglund - Customer Development for startupsHenrik BerglundCustomer Development in start-ups, with Boo.com as an example of what may go wrong, Palm Pilot as an example of a demo prototype (early MVP), and Groupon and YouTube as examples of pivots.
This presentation is based on the Customer Development theory developed by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf (http://www.steveblank.com), and is based on slides developed by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf (http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/).
Life Science Venture Capital 2012 UpdateBurak AlparA review of active investors in US and European life science/biotechnology companies, and current venture capital market dynamics.
Jason Juma-Ross - AccentureGavin StewartThe document discusses how digital marketing is becoming an increasingly important part of media spending. It notes that return on investment can vary greatly for digital campaigns, from a median click-through rate of 0.0005% to some campaigns achieving over 1%. The document advocates for an approach called "fast transients" to deliver personalized and relevant experiences at scale through integrated data, intelligent conversion paths, and automated decision-making. This approach aims to consistently improve marketing performance in the less predictable digital domain.
Agile, intelligent marketingJason Juma-RossA marketing revolution is underway driven by changing consumer behaviour, big data, new channels and technologies. These trends allow organisations to deliver high levels of relevance at scale and speed, while also allowing greenfield competitors to launch disruptive plays.
SSgA's presentation on "Changing the face of retirement" at the PensionSource...PensionSourceSSgA's presentation on "Changing the face of retirement" at the PensionSource Fund Manager Conference 2012
Overview ofmags industry07jonesjrahThe UK magazine publishing industry is a £26.7 billion sector comprised of approximately 1,100 publishers. It includes consumer magazines, business magazines, and customer titles. While print remains important, publishers are increasingly leveraging online and face-to-face events to engage readers across multiple platforms. Over the past 15 years, the number of business magazine titles has grown by 63.5% as publishers explore new revenue streams in digital publishing, events, and related brand extensions to complement traditional print.
Business Angels in SwitzerlandClaude FlorinThis is a presentation based on 5 years activities of a Business Angel Club founded by alumni of the Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology, EPFL. Presented at a panel with INSEAD alumni sharing experiences with successful entrepreneurs Kelly Richdale IDQ, Martin Velasco Anecova , Pedro Bados Nexthink, Marco Boella - Lemotpics with assistance of Colin Turner Greentek ventures
07 carey- Early careers winter school, 9-12th January 2012, University of Cam...UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research CentreThe document summarizes SSE's strategy and activities related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Key points include:
- SSE is piloting post-combustion carbon capture technology at its Ferrybridge Power Station through its CCPilot100+ project. This aims to validate the performance of DPS absorption technology and build UK capacity.
- SSE sees CCS as enabling the increased deployment of intermittent renewable technologies like wind by providing flexible fossil-based generation. CCS could also help the UK meet its 2030 carbon reduction targets in a cost effective way.
- SSE selected the depleted Goldeneye gas field offshore Scotland for storage in its proposed Peterhead CCS demonstration project retrofitting a CCGT
Social Media and Customer ServicePaul ScottThis document discusses social media and its applications for customer service. It begins by defining social media and exploring its various uses, including informing customers, seeking help, inviting participation, celebrating customers, researching insights, and monitoring intelligence. It then examines ways social media can be used, such as sharing information, blogging, complaining, getting help, connecting to communities, and advertising. Finally, it proposes a social media maturity model to help organizations benchmark their social media capabilities and determine areas for improvement. The model evaluates factors such as employee competence, content management, cultural integration, community management, policies/procedures, metrics, technology architecture, tools, connectivity, vision/strategy, leadership, and governance.
Amex Customer Service Baromoeter 2012Paul ScottThis document summarizes the findings of a 2012 global customer service survey conducted across 11 countries. Some key findings:
- About one third or fewer consumers in most countries felt businesses increased their focus on customer service, though more felt this way in India, Mexico, and Japan. More consumers in Australia, Italy, US and Canada felt businesses pay less attention to customer service.
- Over half of consumers in most countries felt businesses meet but do not exceed their expectations for customer service. Few felt expectations are exceeded, and around a third felt expectations are missed, higher in France.
- Two in five or more consumers in most countries felt businesses are helpful but don't go extra to keep business. More felt this way
Egypt GCCB Report Event Invite1Paul Scotta 2 hour workshop and presentation of this years Middle east Contact Centre Benchmarking Survey, as part of the Global survey done each year by Merchants and Dimension Data
Middle East Contact Centre BenchmarkingPrelim Results V1.1Paul ScottA preliminary set of results from our annual survey, specifically focused on the Middle East and Africa Region
Customer Exprience ManagementPaul ScottA presentation I gave at a conference in the Middle East this year. It\'s a framework for delivering outstanding customer experiences
Jason Juma-Ross - AccentureGavin StewartThe document discusses how digital marketing is becoming an increasingly important part of media spending. It notes that return on investment can vary greatly for digital campaigns, from a median click-through rate of 0.0005% to some campaigns achieving over 1%. The document advocates for an approach called "fast transients" to deliver personalized and relevant experiences at scale through integrated data, intelligent conversion paths, and automated decision-making. This approach aims to consistently improve marketing performance in the less predictable digital domain.
Agile, intelligent marketingJason Juma-RossA marketing revolution is underway driven by changing consumer behaviour, big data, new channels and technologies. These trends allow organisations to deliver high levels of relevance at scale and speed, while also allowing greenfield competitors to launch disruptive plays.
SSgA's presentation on "Changing the face of retirement" at the PensionSource...PensionSourceSSgA's presentation on "Changing the face of retirement" at the PensionSource Fund Manager Conference 2012
Overview ofmags industry07jonesjrahThe UK magazine publishing industry is a £26.7 billion sector comprised of approximately 1,100 publishers. It includes consumer magazines, business magazines, and customer titles. While print remains important, publishers are increasingly leveraging online and face-to-face events to engage readers across multiple platforms. Over the past 15 years, the number of business magazine titles has grown by 63.5% as publishers explore new revenue streams in digital publishing, events, and related brand extensions to complement traditional print.
Business Angels in SwitzerlandClaude FlorinThis is a presentation based on 5 years activities of a Business Angel Club founded by alumni of the Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology, EPFL. Presented at a panel with INSEAD alumni sharing experiences with successful entrepreneurs Kelly Richdale IDQ, Martin Velasco Anecova , Pedro Bados Nexthink, Marco Boella - Lemotpics with assistance of Colin Turner Greentek ventures
07 carey- Early careers winter school, 9-12th January 2012, University of Cam...UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research CentreThe document summarizes SSE's strategy and activities related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Key points include:
- SSE is piloting post-combustion carbon capture technology at its Ferrybridge Power Station through its CCPilot100+ project. This aims to validate the performance of DPS absorption technology and build UK capacity.
- SSE sees CCS as enabling the increased deployment of intermittent renewable technologies like wind by providing flexible fossil-based generation. CCS could also help the UK meet its 2030 carbon reduction targets in a cost effective way.
- SSE selected the depleted Goldeneye gas field offshore Scotland for storage in its proposed Peterhead CCS demonstration project retrofitting a CCGT
Social Media and Customer ServicePaul ScottThis document discusses social media and its applications for customer service. It begins by defining social media and exploring its various uses, including informing customers, seeking help, inviting participation, celebrating customers, researching insights, and monitoring intelligence. It then examines ways social media can be used, such as sharing information, blogging, complaining, getting help, connecting to communities, and advertising. Finally, it proposes a social media maturity model to help organizations benchmark their social media capabilities and determine areas for improvement. The model evaluates factors such as employee competence, content management, cultural integration, community management, policies/procedures, metrics, technology architecture, tools, connectivity, vision/strategy, leadership, and governance.
Amex Customer Service Baromoeter 2012Paul ScottThis document summarizes the findings of a 2012 global customer service survey conducted across 11 countries. Some key findings:
- About one third or fewer consumers in most countries felt businesses increased their focus on customer service, though more felt this way in India, Mexico, and Japan. More consumers in Australia, Italy, US and Canada felt businesses pay less attention to customer service.
- Over half of consumers in most countries felt businesses meet but do not exceed their expectations for customer service. Few felt expectations are exceeded, and around a third felt expectations are missed, higher in France.
- Two in five or more consumers in most countries felt businesses are helpful but don't go extra to keep business. More felt this way
Egypt GCCB Report Event Invite1Paul Scotta 2 hour workshop and presentation of this years Middle east Contact Centre Benchmarking Survey, as part of the Global survey done each year by Merchants and Dimension Data
Middle East Contact Centre BenchmarkingPrelim Results V1.1Paul ScottA preliminary set of results from our annual survey, specifically focused on the Middle East and Africa Region
Customer Exprience ManagementPaul ScottA presentation I gave at a conference in the Middle East this year. It\'s a framework for delivering outstanding customer experiences