Customers increasingly look at value/attributes when purchasing products. Attributes can be features and specification or service models enhancing the value of the individual products. This talk examines methods to determine the impact of key offerings which enhance uptake of products in favour of competing products and technologies, while also examining the different types of customers that exist, and how their needs vary in response to different levels of benefits associated with how such products are offered.
Cambridge Consultants Innovation Day 2012: Touch point enhancement maximising product uptake
1. 'Touch Point' enhancement: maximising
product uptake
Innovation Day 2012
Tim Clay
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2. Rate of product uptake will depend on the relative segment in which the
customers exist - target messaging should apply only to receptive customers
Customer types Behaviours
Innovators – Well Less likely to be influenced
informed risk takers willing by peer recommendations
to try unproven products
Use only after peer
Early Adopters – Ride recommendation
on innovators coat-tails
Use only after peer
Early Majority – Careful recommendation & waiting
consumers avoiding risk for product to be proven
Late Majority – Sceptical
Need to be led by the
consumers who acquire
hand
products once established
Laggards – Avoidance of Not influential
change
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3. Offerings and messages will vary according to the position of the product within
the product life-cycle – as customers will have different needs
Introduction Growth Maturity
Introduction Phase Product Establish branding & Quality Enhanced features
quality maintained, for differentiation
Building product additional
awareness & market features &
development services added
Pricing Low to take market Maintained with Potential price
Growth Phase share, high for high - increasing decline with
Build Brand preference end utility or recovery demand competition
& increase market of development costs
share Distribution Selective to key New channels More intensive
customers until with increasing with incentives
Maturity Phase routine adoption demand
Defend market share,
Promotion Aimed at Innovators Broader Emphasises
maximise profit & Early Adopters audience product
differentiation
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4. Vendors need to deliver product messages to different customer segments at
different phases of the life-cycle
Q: How do we define our A: To continuously understand
customers and understand the the behaviour of each customer
compelling messages to be segment and continuously define
delivered at any point in the and refine the ‘Touch Points’ that
product life- cycle? will enhance customer adoption
and retention
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5. Understanding customer characteristics and reinforcement of key messages
with ‘Touch Points’ by segment leads to greater perception of ‘Brand Benefit’
“Repeated interactions that
Touch points
strengthen the emotional,
psychological or physical
investment a customer has in a
Brand”
Brand Benefit
Ron Shevlin
Segmentation
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6. Understanding customer characteristics and reinforcement of key messages
with ‘Touch Points’ by segment leads to greater perception of ‘Brand Benefit’
Touch Points
Goal is to leverage customer experience as a competitive advantage to create
positive and consistent experience at all ‘Touch Points’
‘Touch points’ are physical, communications and human interactions that
customers experience during their relationship lifecycle with your company allowing
compelling messaging to create a ‘Brand Benefit’
‘Touch Points’ need to be mapped across the Customer Relationship Lifecycle
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7. The Customer Relationship Lifecycle (CRL) is a continuum of activities
designed to take the customer from a pre-purchase to advocacy relationship
“Customer satisfaction is
worthless, customer loyalty is
priceless” Jeffrey Gitomer
Awareness Consideration
Satisfaction Advocacy
Knowledge Selection/ Loyalty
Trial
Pre-Purchase Post-Purchase
Purchase
Increasing repeat sales – customer will be willing to pay price premium
Increased Brand awareness – customer will champion your product
Improving customer retention – customer will form partnership with you
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8. ‘Touch Points’ can be optimised for the customer type according to the
product life-cycle phase and through the customer relationship life-cycle
Awareness Consideration
Satisfaction Advocacy
Knowledge Selection/ Loyalty
Trial
Pre-Purchase Post-Purchase
Purchase
• Customer needs vary throughout the CRL
• Optimise and deploy ‘Touch Points’ which will move prospects and customers through the
CRL
• What ‘Touch Points’ are valued highly by one customer or segment may not be by
another
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9. ‘Touch Point’ mapping is an essential tool to quantify and refine activities on a
continuous basis through the product lifecycle
Interviews with internal stakeholders and
customers
List ‘Touch Points’ and determine customer needs
and levers in each CRL stage
Internal stakeholder and customer ratings of the
efficacy and value of ‘Touch Points’ are recorded
Map data along the stages of the CRL
Analysis yields intelligence that forms the
customer ‘Touch Point’ management plan (CTM) to
be measured and monitored over time
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10. Compelling reasons why it is recognised that touchpoint mapping works – saving
money in the sales process, increasing sales and allowing profitable growth
Saves Money:
An increase of customer loyalty
of 1% is equivalent to 10% cost
reduction (Source: Bain & Co.)
Touchpoint Management – is
effective communications, Increases Sales:
paired with compelling Probability of selling to a new
arguments, to drive repeat prospect is only 5 – 20%; the
sales to customer increasingly probability of selling to an
engaged with a product or existing customer is 65%.
service (Source: Marketing Metrics)
Grows Profitably:
Customer Loyalty accounts for
38% of margin, 40% of revenue
growth, and 38% of shareholder
value (Source: Accenture Research)
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11. Through key targeting and messaging, Intuitive Surgical provides enhanced
patient, surgeon and hospital value
Growth of Intuitive Surgical
2,500,000
2,000,000 Revenue ($m)
Intuitive Surgical, one of Gross Profit ($m)
Revenue ($m)
the fastest growing 1,500,000
companies, currently in
1,000,000
a growth phase
500,000
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Year
Provide patients with procedures options that are both highly
effective and less invasive than other surgical options
Provide surgeons with reliable and easy to use products
Da Vinci surgical robot Increase surgical revenue and reducing costs through lower
complication rates and reduced length of patient stay
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12. Direct hospital, surgeon and patient advertising leads to increasing patient
numbers and recruitment of sugeons wishing to make Da Vinci a career
Hospital
Surgeon
Patient
Introduction of Da Vinci
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13. Reinforcement of ‘Touch Points’ can be seen across every aspect of Intuitive’s
services
Training – 25 training centres throughout US, Europe, Asia and Latin America
and on-line communities
Hospital Management – Design and management of Da Vinci suites
Although the operating room is
responsible for 20% - 40% of a hospital’s
costs, 68% of the hospital’s annual
revenues were related to surgery
Education – Clinical robotics fellowship, clinical robotics research grants,
technology research grants
Reimbursement Management – Advising institutions and surgeons
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14. A serendipitous collision of events can drive successful sales of product – the
secret is to build good collateral from such events……….
Results of Madit II
Publicity that Dick
trial showing a 63%
Cheney had one
fall in heart failure
implanted
risk
In 2002, Medtronic Inc and St Jude Medical saw
ICD sales rise by 54% and 57% respectively to a
combined market size greater than $460m
Implantable Cardioverter
Defibrillator
In 2003, Medicare and
Medicaid approved
reimbursement for
ICDs
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15. However, be careful what you wish for…......’Touch Points’ you do not want
Boston Scientific/Guidant recalled
approximately 73,000 Guidant Implantable
Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs) in 2005
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16. Reinforcement of ‘Brand Benefit’ by deployment of ‘Touch Points’ across
different customer ‘Segments’ will enhance customer retention
• Understand key customer segments by behavioural type and target them
appropriately to improve their experience
• Following segmentation, ‘Touch Points’ can be used to enhance customer
acquisition and retention over the product life-cycle
• Evaluating ‘Touch Points’ by segment leads to greater perception of ‘Brand
Benefit’
• ‘Touch Points’ can be optimised through customer relationship life-cycle
• ‘Touch Point’ mapping is an essential process to qualify, quantify and refine results
oriented sales activities throughout the lifetime of a product
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