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Looking Forward To 2014

  • Posted on January 6, 2014April 24, 2016
  • by Alan Berkson

A heartfelt “thank you” to all of you for your friendship, collaboration and patronage. 2013 was an exciting year for Intelligist Group and I owe a great deal of it to the incredible people with whom I connect on a…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

The Institutional Technology Gap

  • Posted on October 24, 2013October 25, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

I was watching Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone do an interview on a morning talk show recently. Just before the break they asked him about what he thought about the much maligned healthcare.gov debut. The response from Biz: “I think they should…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

Where Oh Where Is My Cloud Middleware?

  • Posted on September 28, 2013January 4, 2017
  • by Alan Berkson

As I wrote in Who’s Dictating Cloud App’s in the Enterprise?, the “there’s an app for that” culture has trained us to find our own technology solutions to our problems. While it gives consumers a wonderful variety of solutions, this culture creates…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

It’s Time For An Internal Garage Sale…For Your Data

  • Posted on September 6, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

We’ve all been there. The closets are full. The basement is full. The garage is full. It’s time for a garage sale. What are you selling? This is all stuff that at some point had value to you but now…

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  • Customer Service

Apple’s Advantage Is Not Technology Or Design

  • Posted on September 3, 2013September 3, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

Apple’s got a lead. It’s not technology. It’s not design. It’s customer service and customer experience. The battle for dominance in the smartphone market and the consumer “computing” device — including laptops, tablets and everything in between — is being fought…

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  • Customer Service

Good Customer Service Has No Price. It’s Priceless.

  • Posted on August 27, 2013August 28, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

A tale of two restaurants. I was chatting with my brother recently and he related two customer service stories that made me think about the relationship between price and value. And that low cost doesn’t mean low value or poor…

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  • Business Strategy

I Make Pancakes. What Do You Do?

  • Posted on August 8, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

It’s tough to get people excited about too many things at once. What I have found, though, is people remember the things that make ME the most excited.
Sound familiar? So I try to keep it simple. When it comes to food, I make breakfast. And for breakfast, I make pancakes.

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  • IBM Midsize Business

The Anatomy of Anonymity

  • Posted on April 23, 2013March 1, 2015
  • by Alan Berkson

Anonymize. That’s a word I hear often these days in terms of how businesses are managing the challenge of balancing the value proposition of Big Data against concerns of privacy. Therein lies a dichotomy of a customized experience vs. the…

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  • Corporate Narrative

#Narrative: Throwing Bourbon On The Fire

  • Posted on March 8, 2013April 12, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

From a minor tweet about the length of time it takes to char a barrel for making bourbon to a congratulatory tweet from KFC… How Maker’s Mark missed the mark with their brand strategy. (Note: Date sequences have been adjusted to highlight flows of conversations and threaded discussions)

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  • Corporate Story Worlds

The New FUD: Full Unwanted Disclosure

  • Posted on January 31, 2013July 2, 2014
  • by Alan Berkson

Here’s a lesson in managing corporate narrative in the age of pervasive communications.

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