For decades, businesses used technology to distance themselves from customers. Systems and processes helped companes automate, grow and scale transactions and service. Moving forward, we have to explore technology and service innovation to deliver against the experiences customers value versus building updated solutions on top of existing paradigms. Innovation is all the work you do to conform to expectations and aspirations of people as they evolve instead of making them conform to your legacy perspectives, assumptions, processes and metrics of…
If you had one hour with Mark Zuckerberg, what would you ask? Here’s what I learned about the state and future of Facebook, data, politics and bad actors
onstine In the wake of Cambridge Analytica, data misappropriation, #deletefacebook, calls for regulation and pending testimony to U.S. Congress, Facebook announced a series of initiatives to restrict data access and also a renewed selfie awareness to focus efforts on protecting people on the platform. What’s more notable however is that Mark Zuckerberg also hosted a last-minute, rare town hall with media and analysts to explain these efforts and also take tough questions for the better part of an hour. Let’s…
Moonshot: Brian Solis on the Role of Fear in Digital Transformation
This recent blog post from digital consultancy Moonshot examines the role that fear plays in digital transformation. The post cites The Digital Change Agent’s Manifesto–Brian Solis’ report on the human factors of digital transformation–which underlines how fear can hold back digital change in an organization.
CIO: Brian Solis on Corporate Culture and Digital Transformation
This recent CIO article examines the challenges facing Axis Capital, an insurance firm in the midst of a major technology overhaul. The article cites Digital Culture Challenge–an influential report by Capgemini and analyst Brian Solis–which found that corporate culture is perceived by employees as a major impediment to digital transformation.
The Future of Brand is Experienced and Shared
That one time I was in Genève… What a wonderful way to start any sentence. Shortly after X: The Experience When Business Meets Design launched, I was invited by my good friend Arnaud Grobet to visit Genève. The trip was meant to serve as a mini book tour, with two speaking engagements at LIFT (one of my favorite events), media interviews and also a vist to CREA University to speak to students. Any time I have a chance to speak with…
Wakabayashi Insider: 7 CX blogs worth reading
Digital strategist Dennis Wakabayashi has selected Brian Solis’ blog as one of his “7 CX blogs worth reading.” Wakabayashi describes Solis as “a thought leader in the use of social media in marketing” and “a sought-after speaker in the relationship between technology and people.”
The New Experts: How Robotics, AI and Automation Are Shaping the Future of Your Work
Sophia, the AI-powered robot who was infamously granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia recently beat me out for two keynote speaking opportunities. True story. This is how I opened my presentation at the KQED studios in its inaugural Silicon Valley Conversations program, “The New Experts: How Robotics, AI and Automation Are Shaping the Future of Your Work.” The event focused on the way new technologies are changing how we work, where we work and the skills we need to work. I joined Michael…
L’Agenzia Di Viaggi: Brian Solis on Digital Darwinism in the Hospitality Industry
This recentL’Agenzia Di Viaggi article looks at the new report from Altimeter Group and Sabre on the impact of Digital Darwinism on the hospitality industry. According to Altimeter Group Principal Analyst Brian Solis, hospitality companies must now provide a similarly seamless customer experience to leading digital companies like Uber, Tinder, and Dollar Shave Club.
Here’s to the past, but now it’s time to learn and unlearn toward the future
How we measure future success is based on yesterday’s understanding of what success meant. It was a different time. The experiences that many deliver today are based on standards of the past and what was acceptable to a preceding generation of customers. People have changed and continue to do so. We simply can’t imagine new possibilities if we can’t see, feel, hear, sense, people as they advance. Otherwise, our ideas, no matter how creative, brilliant, bold, will always be rooted…
The Importance of Experience Design and the Future of Brand
Customers today are accidental narcissists. Tomorrow is an entirely new game brands, CX strategists and marketers. Disruption is a gift either given to you or by you. Knowing this, we are still making mistakes in creating meanignful experiences to a new generation of connected, impatient and demanding customers. We get stuck in legacy thinking, playbooks and metrics rather than innovate and disrupt to fully capitalize on new digital opportunities. Following my presentation at Adobe Summit, I had the opportunity to…
