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Trust—New Challenges For Design & Customer Experience
A DMI Summit Exploring Innovative Approaches to Managing Design & Measuring Results for Brand Loyalty

 

November 18-20, 2002

New York, NY, USA

 

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Design is Everything

Tom Peters, Provocateur, The Tom Peters Company

I am a design fanatic. Personally. I'm not artistic at all. But, I love cool stuff. I love what I love. I hate what I hate. But, it goes much farther than that, far beyond the personal. Design has become a professional obsession. I simply believe design is the principal reason for emotional attachment (or detachment!) relative to a product or service or experience or brand proposition. Design, as I see it, is arguably the #1 determinant of whether a product-service-experience-brand proposition stands out or doesn't. Has integrity or doesn't. Connects or doesn't. So…why do so few pay (obsessive) attention to it?

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Tapping the Unmet Need: Creating Trust and Loyalty through Meaningful Brand Experiences

David W. Norton, Vice President, Research and Experience Strategy, Yamamoto Moss

Consumers now place a premium on experiences that allow them to actively engage with family, friends, social causes, and principles they believe in. Organizations that fulfill this as yet unmet need have a powerful means of attracting and retaining constituents and also have the opportunity to affect future cultural norms and consumption behavior. By describing trends in consumer behavior and social change, Norton will demonstrate why creating trust and loyalty requires the creation of both economic and cultural capital that matters to individuals and communities. His presentation will address trends in experiential marketing and delivery, models for understanding behavior and environments, and recommendations for engineering change in consumer behavior.

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Trust: A Necessity to Have, A Challenge to Maintain, and a Difficulty if Lost—A Leadership Perspective

Carl James Yankowski, Former President of Sony Electronics and
CEO of Palm

Trust is the glue that holds people, marriages, deals, and organizations together. More powerful than contracts or authority, trust enables people and organizations to achieve results that exceed the sum of the parts. Would you sign off on an otherwise good acquisition if you didn't trust the lawyers? Can you lead an organization if groups don't trust one another—or you? This presentation will explore the different aspects of trust from a leadership perspective.

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Customer Experience Management

Bernd Schmitt, Professor of Business, Columbia University

Following up on his bestselling book Experiential Marketing, Bernd Schmitt presents the concepts of his new book Customer Experience Management (CEM). CEM is a comprehensive management tool for designing the brand experience, structuring the customer interface and for engaging in innovation. In all of this, design is key. Schmitt will show why CEM is the first approach that really takes the customer seriously—finally.

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The Changing Nature of Trust: Using Design Research to Understand Trust and Support Brand Innovation

Darrel K. Rhea, Chief Strategic Officer, Cheskin

Trust is essential to the development of successful brands. However, the nature of trust is changing—the complexity of our current world makes trust a more deliberate and less intuitive concept. Customers are becoming more savvy, and winning their trust requires a more rigorous effort than in the past. Darrel Rhea will discuss the components of brand trust and how these are shifting. He will present the challenges design management faces in understanding this shift and the research methods and strategies that design can use to create and maintain brand trust, as well as inspire new brand innovation.

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Experiential Integrity: The Relationship of Experience to Trust

Lewis P. Carbone, President and Chief Experience Officer, ExperienceEngineering, Inc.

Today it is essential that organizations effect greater trust with customers, employees and shareholders. But how can businesses act on that challenge? What practical strategies and disciplines are available to authenticate the complexities of trust in experiences?

 

Lewis Carbone is recognized for developing a formalized methodology for experience design and management. He will share methods for ensuring that a company's experience delivery is truly reflective of a customer perspective, along with tactics for establishing and reinforcing trust experientially. Through client examples he will illustrate how the systematic design and delivery of experiences directly relates to customer value and results in sustainable customer and brand loyalty.

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The Measure and Mismeasure of Brand

Lynne O'Connor, Partner, Lippincott & Margulies, Inc.

As companies today struggle to maintain and build customer trust, there is heightened interest in measuring and growing the brand. Many companies begin this process by measuring their brand in financial terms. But assigning a dollar figure to your brand's worth today won't help you make it worth more tomorrow, nor will it provide the insight necessary to build customer loyalty. Lynne O'Connor introduces a strategic process called Strategic Brand AssessmentSM that goes beyond conventional brand measurement tools to provide a roadmap for increasing brand value and driving customer behavior. Further, this comprehensive approach to brand measurement can be used to monitor your brand's health over time, closing the circle on effective brand management.

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Enhancing Customer Loyalty through Retail Design

Mark Perry, Director, Brand Management and Research, Nissan North America, Inc.

How can retail design drive customer loyalty? Mark Perry demonstrates how Nissan's retail environment revitalization signals the automaker's new brand direction and improves the customer's perception of the facility and products—driving repeat business. Rolling out in 1100-plus locations over the next five years, the Nissan dealership redesign utilizes environmental elements to align the brand image with the quality of the new products while instilling in the customer a feeling of control.

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Top 10 List for Brand Stewards: Guiding Principles for Organizations to Develop, Capture & Maintain Brand Trust

David Reyes-Guerra, Director, Brand Strategy and Management, Ernst & Young

The crisis of trust is all around us. Beginning with a global recession, compounded by the horrific events of September 11, and exacerbated by corporate scandals, the very pillars of our existence—economic freedom, personal safety and confidence in the capital markets—have been thrown into question. What can be done? How do we regain the widespread trust that has been lost? David Reyes-Guerra offers a unique perspective on what it takes to earn trust. Using a Brand Continuum, he will explore 10 things organizations can do to ensure that they have an infrastructure in place to generate, implement and sustain trust-building programs and initiatives.

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