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While a firmly established pillar of modern commerce, how many organizations can truly claim to be consumer-first? Discover the new rules of engagement between consumer and brand to unlock growth and raise the standard for experiences.
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Can you act quick, think long-term?
In this moment of flux, brands must take greater responsibility for the world they’re helping to shape. This means not only adopting a radically consumer-first mindset, but also reinventing the very core of the business for the eco-digital economy. All this must be underpinned by an exploration of the latest technology available.
77%
of organizations
believe that we’re transitioning towards a more digital and sustainable world
Source: ‘The Eco-Digital EraTM,’ Capgemini Research Institute, 2024
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“Let's think about how we meet our consumer needs more holistically.”
Bhavesh Unadkat
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“We find less frequently brands are able to articulate their future consumer.”
Kerry Lee
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“Loyalty has a really interesting part to play in the future.”
Christopher Baird
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Lead with experience
Brands must get to know their customers before they can deliver on experiences that meet their expectations. Many organizations have AI-powered tech and data infrastructure in place but are still serving irrelevant or repetitive content. It’s time to fix the basics, use data better and respect the value of audience attention.
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Client Story
We worked together to create the People Data Centre (PDC). Thanks to its state-of-the-art analytics, the PDC puts consumer needs and behaviors at the heart of everything Unilever does.
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Build on purpose
For today's consumers, competitive advantage comes from convenience—but tension arises when sustainable behaviors aren’t built in as standard.
Going forward, brands must balance commercial KPIs with architecting purpose across products, services and operations. This can look like moving from promoting more offers and products to promoting only relevant and appropriate offers, to helping people consume less.
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Designed to fill a gap in the innovation process, between labs and full store tests, CornerShop enables retailers and brands to ideate and test the future of retail.
Elevate your loyalty story
We need to think about the consumer-brand relationship differently: encouraging and rewarding sustainable new behaviors—and in doing so extending the customer lifetime value.
How willing an organization is to evolve alongside technology can deeply influence a customer’s preferences over the long run. How will you protect your brand from losing that human connection necessary for lasting relationships?
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We worked together to develop a proposition, shape core operational components and deliver the global strategy—resulting in a customer club that is central to IKEA’s engagement plan.
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Responsible consumption takes an awareness of the interconnectedness of systems. Similarly, to achieve a truly consumer-first approach, it’s key that the different aspects of the business find innovative ways to communicate fluently between each other and move into future-ready manifestations.
Maximizing customer lifetime value in this era of responsibility will take innovative outreach imbued with deeper meaning. Brands must develop the ability to better support consumers and provide more incentive than ever to stick around.
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