New value is created by collecting customer data and preparing it in beneficial ways for internal usage or interested third-parties. Revenues are generated by either selling this data directly to others or leveraging it for own purposes, i.e., to increase the effectiveness of advertising.
How they do it: Hotmail’s customer’s data was used by Hotmail to make a demografic profile of its users. This could be monetized by letting advertisers target their ads to specific demografic user groups and hence reach a higher conversion rate for their ads.
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How they do it: Airbnb collects their customers data and utilizes them to drive both the amount of transactions (e.g. reminding customers to finish a search after some time) as well as allowing hosts to use the data collected by Airbnb to improve their offer e.g. through intelligent pricing.
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How they do it: Facebook uses customer data to allow businesses to better identify target groups for their advertisements.
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How they do it: The Cisco Customer Journey Platform provides sales and service contact centers the ability to improve their customer experience by leveraging the data in multiple contact center systems and applying predictive analytics, the Cisco Customer Journey Platform dynamically predicts each customer’s needs and matches the customer with the best agent to handle that need, improving performance, sales, and the customer experience.
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How they do it: Customer data in Spotify is used to give the listeners individualized recommendations of what other music might be interesting to them as well as recommendations for live performances of their favorite artists.
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Below, the top industries for the pattern "Leverage Customer Data" are displayed, in order to get insights into how this pattern is applied across different industries. We've collected data from 5 firms using this pattern.
Below, the pattern "Leverage Customer Data" is analyzed based on co-occurrence, in order to get insights into how this business model pattern is applied in combination with other patterns within the firms we studied.
