Did you miss today's webinar with Charlene Li and Chris Silva talking about the proper foundation for mobile business? If so, please see a full replay of today's content, available on Vimeo. Please watch and share the video, as it's freely available as open research. We're interested in hearing your organization's experiences with taking various roles in your organization mobile. Have an experience to share? Please submit it to us here, we'll be featuring compelling insights about … [Read more...]
Charlene Li/Chris Silva Webinar: A Foundation For Mobile Business
March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Altimeter Group's next reports are in the works, and among them, publishing in the next month, a report that explores how managers on the business – not the IT – side of the organization are increasingly leading the charge to bring mobility to their workforce. We’re going to be looking at what the most common use cases are for mobility, the challenges organizations have encountered in bringing mobile tools on board and explore what the best tools are – and the partners that provide them … [Read more...]
Upcoming Altimeter Research Report: Integration of Paid, Owned, and Earned
March 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Altimeter’s Rebecca Lieb, Industry Analyst and Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst. If consumers don't differentiate between "Paid, Owned, and Earned" so why are marketers segmented by different departments and have separate agencies that do each? Does a 'social media agency of record' actually slow progress? Can a marketing effort be more effective if all of these methods are used together? These are exactly the questions we want to answer. I’m very pleased to announce a new … [Read more...]
Altimeter’s Research Themes And Upcoming Research Calendar
March 9, 2012 By 3 Comments
As an analyst and research firm focused on disruptive technologies, our clients and others frequently ask us what we are paying attention to and what we are researching. There are a multitude of areas we would like to be paying attention to and probably just as many that we would like to research, but we can’t. So instead, we are focusing on just a few key disruptive themes that have the potential to significantly impact organizations and consumers from tomorrow through three years from now - … [Read more...]
Report: Making The Business Case For Enterprise Social Networks
February 22, 2012 By 66 Comments
In 2011, the US hit a milestone — more than half of all adults visit social networking sites at least once a month. But when it comes to using social-networking technologies inside organizations, many business leaders are at a loss to understand what value can be created from Facebook-like status updates within the enterprise. Some organizations have deployed social-networking features with an initial enthusiastic reception, only to see these early efforts wither to just a few stalwart … [Read more...]
Content Marketing. Content Strategy. What’s the Difference?
February 17, 2012 By 21 Comments
So content is the new black (and some 270,000 exact-match results for that phrase on Google suggest it's at least a deep, deep indigo). Inevitably, that's meant an escalated level of chatter, talk, and pontificating about content's role in the digital mix. As more and more marketers consider how content can work for them in the digital mix, a certain degree of confusion is beginning to obfuscate discussions and debates. Two very distinct disciplines, content strategy and content marketing, … [Read more...]
Rebalancing for Content – The New Marketing Equation
February 16, 2012 By 9 Comments
There's been a rash of news stories recently with headlines so misleading it's hard to believe they passed editorial muster. Yet a quick search of Google News reveals no less than five articles with ledes very much like this one: P&G to cut 1600 staff after CEO discovers digital media is free. Any serious marketer knows "free" is nonsense. As with SEO, content marketing shakes marketers loose from the expense of the media buy. But budgets, staffing, skill sets, education, agency … [Read more...]
Latest Research: Make An App For That, Mobile Strategies For Retail
February 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
2011 was the year of the mobile shopper, so why aren't retailers doing more to serve them? Today Altimeter Research has published its latest report, Make An App For That: Mobile Strategies For Retail. The report, published today, reveals how major brands are capitalizing on the massive growth in shoppers' use of mobile technology. It also explores the perils many major retailers have encountered in their quest to tap this market. Are retailers doing enough to serve their mobile … [Read more...]
Buyers Guide: A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation (Altimeter Report)
January 6, 2012 By 12 Comments
Get account control now --or risk a career of continual social media sanitation. To match the growing consumer adoption of social media, many companies have launched social media efforts with little planning. As social media spreads beyond corporate communications and marketing, business groups are deploying social media without a standardized process. In fact, enterprise class corporations (those with over 1,000 employees) have an average of 178 social media accounts and this number will only … [Read more...]
