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.
Examples: Iconic Cases
How they do it: Airbnb collects their customers data and utilizes them to drive both the amount of transactions (e.g. reminding customers to finish a search after some time) as well as allowing hosts to use the data collected by Airbnb to improve their offer e.g. through intelligent pricing.
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How they do it: SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. It is now an part of LinkedIn’s suite of services, linking data from former SlideShare users with LinkedIn’s database.
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How they do it: Google’s search engine is free to use for all customers. However Google monetizes its user’s data and search queries through providing companies the possibility for targeted advertising which allows them to target exactly the customers that are looking for a certain product or service and also enables the customers to better find what they are looking for.
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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: Facebook uses customer data to allow businesses to better identify target groups for their advertisements.
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Below, the top industries for the pattern "Leverage Customer Data" are displayed, in order to get insights into how this pattern is applied across different industries. We've collected data from 5 firms using this pattern.
Top Industries
35% of firms using pattern
34% of firms using pattern
24% of firms using pattern
All Industries
Below, the pattern "Leverage Customer Data" is analyzed based on co-occurrence, in order to get insights into how this business model pattern is applied in combination with other patterns within the firms we studied.
Top Co-Occurrences
15 pattern co-occurrences
11 pattern co-occurrences
10 pattern co-occurrences
