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Leverage Customer Data 25#

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.


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Examples: Iconic Cases

How they do it: Paypal’s customer data provides the company a broad overview of individual financial reliability. This allows the company to provide its customers a seller guarantee which allows customers to claim back their payment made via the Paypal service.
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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: AWS collects data to support their customers in optimizing their IT architecture. In addition it may suggest additional AWS services and features which could be beneficial to the customer’s business.
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How they do it: Payback utilizes its cross-store customer purchasing data to target its coupon and advertising offerings to the individual customer. In addition it can use the data for large scale data analysis, providing its business customers with insights into their target groups and their purchasing behaviour.
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How they do it: By running a platform offering vouchers and coupons to products and services from 3rd party businesses, Groupon controls the marketing channel to the customer. It collects customer data and utilizes it to advertise new deals to customers. The value to its 3rd party businesses is a large existing base of customers interested in coupons, to which their service or product can be advertised.
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Apply this pattern to your own business and create your next innovative business model!