evolution of a knowledge broker. how to deliver to a mobile audience (mob12)
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Technical Documentation can increase profitability no matter what strategy the company decides on, with the proper workflow and the mindset of a Knowledge Broker. = What is the Mindset of a Knowledge Broker? = Align procedures with business strategies = The Consumer Decision Making Process = Example of a Revenue Strategy = Delivering Content to Mobile Devices Stuttgart, Nov 13th 2014: tekom14, tcworld14TRANSCRIPT
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PDF WebHelp Reverb HTML5 File Sync and Share with Collaboration Evolution of a Knowledge Broker:
How to deliver to a mobile audience
Christopher Ward, Webworks
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Content Creation becomes the most
pivotal department for a company’s
continued success.
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So, why listen to this guy?
Christopher Ward
– Director of Sales, Webworks
Webworks – A company dedicated to helping our clients maximize the potential of documentation through custom outputs which help content to foster customer loyalty and promote product value.
German Partner – SQUIDDS
– 4 years of military service in Army Intelligence
Taught to separate procedure from strategy and to look at both differently
– 3 Years with Dell Computers service in Business Intelligence
Applied analysis experience to business world
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4 Technical Communicators must become Knowledge Brokers
According to Professor Clay Spinuzzi:
– “Knowledge is now, and will be the basic economic resource”
– “Value is created via productivity and innovation”
– “Leading social groups will be knowledge workers who know how to allocate knowledge to productive use”
Spinuzzi is a professor at University of Texas at Austin and an authority on rhetoric, technology, research, and where we’re headed next. . http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/search?q=knowledge+workers
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What are we going to cover
What is the Mindset of a Knowledge Broker?
The Consumer Decision Making Process
Align procedures with business strategies
Example of a Revenue Strategy
Delivering Content to Mobile Devices
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What is the mindset of a Knowledge Broker?
Realize now that poor documentation effects revenue, and not just productivity.
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What is the Mindset
Consider this…
“According to The Gartner Group, poor data quality negatively impacts a company’s bottom line by an average of $8.2 million annually in operational inefficiencies, lost sales and unrealized new opportunities.
In addition, a Forrester research study reveals that only 12 percent of companies actually use customer intelligence to drive key business functions and corporate strategy. That means that 88 percent are putting up with the waste, inefficiencies and lost opportunities that dirty data creates. Companies that commit to data quality use their knowledge of customers and prospects to maximize top-line and bottom-line results.”
The integrity of the content you provide as well as the accessibility and searchability of that content sits at the core value of your business model. These three factors positively impact a company’s profitability.
– White paper "Gaining the Data Edge: How ongoing data maintenance spurs growth" August 2012
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Align procedures with business strategies
As you design your information solutions, ensure you align documentation procedures with current business strategy.
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Align procedures with business strategies
Why procedures must align with strategy
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Align procedures with business strategies
Why procedures must align with strategy
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Michael Porter’s general business strategies
#BusinessStrategy: Gives a competitive advantage in the chosen market
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Documentation can increase profitability
no matter what strategy a company decides on!
Align procedures with business strategies
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The Consumer Decision Making Process
Understand how documentation and other output will effect the Consumer Decision-Making process.
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The Consumer Decision Making Process
Everyone goes through 5 stages
This standard process involves:
1. Needs recognition
2. Information search – The Informed Consumer
3. Product evaluation, choice, and purchase
4. Purchase – buying decision
5. Post purchase evaluation
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Information Search
The Informed Consumer Professor Eric K. Clemons How Information Changes Consumer Behavior and How Consumer Behavior Determines Corporate Strategy
The Consumer Decision Making Process
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Post purchase evaluation
Marketing – Addresses a specific audience, but not a specific
problem. Just flashy enough to get someone’s attention and get out in front of someone. Total Customer Experience.
Sales – Drill down to needs specific to the customer’s environment and provide a solution to those needs.
Usage – 90% of the customer’s experience and responsible for promoting product value and customer loyalty to increase repeat business. Documentation is the most profitable way a business will have to influence the customer and try to increase loyalty, product value and cut down on Customer Defection.
The Consumer Decision Making Process
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Write to a loyal customer Develop a workflow to generate revenue through customer retention.
Example of a revenue strategy
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What kind of problem is customer defection?
The Harvard Business Review stated that the average
business loses 50% of their customers every five years.
61% of consumers take their business to a competitor when they end a business relationship.
RightNow Technologies says 73% of customers leave because they are dissatisfied with customer service, but the company losing the customer thinks only 21% leave because of customer service.
Example of a revenue strategy
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Example of a revenue strategy
Your customers
What kind of problem is customer defection? Your competitors’
customers
Other businesses 50% loss every 5 years
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Your customers
What kind of problem is customer defection? Your competitors’
customers
Other businesses 50% loss every 5 years
Example of a revenue strategy
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COST TO ACQUIRE NEW CUSTOMERS: 5X MORE
Your customers Your competitors’ customers
Other businesses 5% less defection
= 25-125% more profit
Example of a revenue strategy
What are the benefits of retaining customers?
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Cost to retain current
customers
Cost to acquire new customers: 5x more
What are the benefits of retaining customers?
Example of a revenue strategy
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Delivering content to mobile devices
What is the preferred method of my audience?
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Delivering content to mobile devices
I am a Knowledge Broker and I want to increase revenue by delivering content to the customer in a way to increase customer experience and product value.
Why is it important to deliver to mobile devices
What is the proper way to deliver to mobile devices
What is the proper workflow to deliver to mobile devices and increase revenue
Delivering content to mobile devices
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Why is mobile delivery important: phones
Top Mobile Markets (total/3G or 4G)
– 1. China with 1,246.3 / 448.3 million
– 3. United States 345.2 / 287.4 million
– 11. Germany 113.6 / 46 million
* Global mobile statistics 2014 Part A: Mobile subscribers; handset market share; mobile operators - http://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/global-mobile-statistics-2014-part-a-mobile-subscribers-handset-market-share-mobile-operators#topmobilemarkets
Delivering content to mobile devices
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Why is mobile delivery important: tablets
By the end of 2013, global smartphone penetration will have exploded from 5% of the global population in 2009, to 22%. That's an increase of nearly 1.3 billion smartphones in four years.
Tablets are showing faster adoption rates than smartphones. It took smartphones nearly four years to reach 6% penetration from when the devices first started to register on a global level. Tablets accomplished this in just two years.
PCs have only gained 6 percentage points in per-capita penetration the last 6 years.
* One In Every 5 People In The World Own A Smartphone, One In Every 17 Own A Tablet - http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-and-tablet-penetration-2013-10
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Mobile delivery three methods. 1. Two sites, one for mobile and one for desktop
1. Doubles your management efforts. 2. Doubles your content work 3. Lowers SEO results 4. Causes a bad customer experience.
2. Mobile first 1. Wasted screen real estate on larger displays 2. Does not handle graphics and tables well
3. HTML5 with Responsive Design 1. Best solution 2. Output manages different layouts 3. Supports future devices 4. One file set for easy maintenance
What is the proper mobile technology
Delivering content to mobile devices
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Know where you are today.
Device Category Visits 2011 Visits 2012
Visits 2013
Visits 2014
Desktop 98.78% 96.99% 95.61% 93.58%
Mobile 1.22% 2.01% 2.82% 4.30%
Tablet 0.0% 1.00% 1.57% 2.12%
Google Analytics Break Down: Mobile>Overview
Google Glass 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.00%
Delivering content to mobile devices
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How to look in to the crystal Google ball.
Device Category Visits % New Visits Bounce Rate Pages/Visit
Desktop 94.14% 80.56% 34.24% 2.25
Mobile 4.30% 83.10% 74.19% 1.52
Tablet 1.56% 86.31% 43.95% 2.24
Google Analytics Break Down: Mobile>Overview
Delivering content to mobile devices
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How to look in to the crystal Google ball.
Device Category Visits % New Visits Bounce Rate Pages/Visit
Apple iPhone 28.69% 87.72% 77.84% 1.43
Apple iPad 21.22% 85.83% 42.91% 2.26
(not set) 10.31% 94.17% 60.83% 1.78
HTC M7 One 4.73% 14.55% 89.09% 1.13
Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S III
3.26% 68.42% 76.32% 1.58
Google Nexus 7 0.69% 100.00% 25.00% 2.75
Google Analytics Break Down: Mobile>Devices
Delivering content to mobile devices
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Delivering content to mobile devices
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Case Study - Bihler
About Bihler
Bihler – the world’s leading company
for stamping and forming machines with the most advanced software.
Founded 1953 from Otto Bihler
2014: Over 900 employee Headquarter in Halblech (Germany) Bihler of America, Inc.,
Phillipsburg, NJ Bihler of China, Dongguan City,
China More information: www.bihler.de
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The Problem
Technicians were having difficulty with the documentation • Machines had several
parts • Same screen to calibrate
the the parts was used to deliver documentation
• As parts were exchanged, manuals had to be updated
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The Solution
Workflow Solution: TechComm Responsive Publishing Suite - 2014 STEP 1: CREATE your content with RichMedia integration STEP 2: MANAGE your source for review STEP 3: GENERATE HTML5 responsive and MANAGE your content, create a QR code, STEP 4: TechCommToGo: Get your private and public TechComm on your MOBILE DEVICE to go!
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Review
What is the Mindset of a Knowledge Broker?
The Consumer Decision Making Process
Align procedures with business strategies
Example of a Revenue Strategy
Delivering Content to Mobile Devices
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In Closing
Content Creation becomes the most pivotal department for a company’s continued success
Technical Documentation can increase profitability no matter what strategy the company decides on, with the proper workflow and the mindset of a Knowledge Broker.
Align your procedures with your business strategy.
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Follow Me
Christopher Ward
– Email address: [email protected]
– Twitter: @WebWorksChris
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WebWorksChris
– Company Facebook: www.facebook.com/WebWorksePublisher
– My Blog: http://blogs.webworks.com/christopher/
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References
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http://www.pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data-%28Adults%29/Online-Activites-Total.aspx
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2012/05/02/the-latest-infographics-mobile-business-statistics-for- 2012/2/
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