For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 1 Chapter 9: Information.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES (1) : Describe how businesses are using data to gain competitive advantages. Show the flow of data in a marketing information system. List the sources of information for a business. Explain how a business uses information to discover new knowledge.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES (2) : Describe the role that databases play in organizational knowledge. Explain how a business can incorporate organizational knowledge into its decision-making process. Discuss why privacy on the Internet is an issue and what e-businesses can do to ensure privacy.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 4 Vignette: What's Old Is New Again (1) Thinking Strategically –Determine the importance that the knowledge of customer data plays in increasing the profitability of banks. –How can a bank justify charging its own customers to use “live” tellers. –Consider if a bank should provide free customer service as a community service.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 5 Vignette: What's Old Is New Again (2) Thinking Strategically –How would customers would feel if they knew that their bank tracked individual behaviors. –Determine how the customer could benefit by the bank’s knowledge of their behavior. Capital One (www.capitalone.com), The Bank of America’s (www.bankofamerica.com),www.capitalone.comwww.bankofamerica.com The Bank of Montreal (www.bmo.com),First Union Corp. (www.firstunion.com).www.bmo.comwww.firstunion.com

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 6 Data to Information Data (raw facts) is collected from numerous sources such as daily transactions, Web site usage, and third party databases. This data is stored in databases that are mined to turn data into information for improving managerial decisions. –Information is constructed from facts, gives meaning to phenomena and allows managers to make decisions.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 7 Marketing Information System A Marketing Information System (MIS) is a formal information gathering system designed to collect data and provide meaningful information. There are three major categories of data that marketers collect. –data related to marketing mix elements (the effect of product, price, promotion, and place decisions) –the behavior of individual buyers and prospects –data from environmental scanning.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 8 Database Marketing Database marketing is still in the early stages of its life cycle. Data mining allows new insights to be gained and can develop tighter relationships with customers. –Data mining is the process of using software to “drill” into a database to obtain meaningful information.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 9 Database A database is a structured storage of data consisting of fields and records. A field is a column of data related to a single attribute or variable. A record is a collection of fields that represent a single case, such as the profile of an individual.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 10 Figure 9.1: Marketing Information System Flows THE DATA BASE Marketing Decision Support System THE DATA BASE Marketing Decision Support System Data Warehouse USE OF INFORMATION SOURCES OF DATA KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Information for Managerial Decisions KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Information for Managerial Decisions THE MARKET Marketing Research & Data Capture THE MARKET Marketing Research & Data Capture THIRD PARTY DATA Secondary Data THIRD PARTY DATA Secondary Data COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE Environmental Scanning and Data Collection COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE Environmental Scanning and Data Collection KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT BUSINESS SYSTEM CONTROL

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 11 Data From the Market (1) Behavior tracking records transaction data taken from employees, data captured from point of sales scanners, and/or electronic recording devices such as Web tracking software. –The data captured can be transaction based, customer profile data, or more complex behavioral data can be recorded. Web analytics are the measures used to understand Web site visitor patterns. –These measures include clickstream analysis, transaction recording, and relationship tracking. –Clickstream analysis allows Web sites to monitor individual site use, such as referral location (where the individual linked from), surfing paths, and time spent at a site.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 12 Data From the Market (2) Customer's complaints or questions can be used to spot product defects or improve communication. –This type of information can be recorded from Web communications or logged in from telephone service operators. Marketing research collects primary data directly from the market. –Internet based online research offers many advantages over traditional methods; data can be collected in a much shorter time and at a lower cost.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 13 Behavior Tracking Scanner data helps determine shopper's profiles allowing for a market-of-one strategy. Service employees can help develop databases of customer's desires. Web analytics monitors site use such as referral location (where the individuals linked from), surfing paths, and duration within a site. –This data can be made even more valuable when behavior is matched to visitor registration data.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 14 Case 9.1: Playing for Keeps Thinking Strategically –Describe how casinos track customers. –What types of data would casinos want to collect to identify high-value customers? –Speculate on the use of those data. –Should casinos use gaming information to entice customers to return? –Evaluate the competitive advantages that a casino would gain by having access to these behavioral data.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 15 Infomediary An infomediary is a firm that specialized in the capture, collection, or analysis of data. –This service can be marketed to other businesses and can protect individual privacy. Engage Technologies (www.engage.com)www.engage.com

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 16 Customer Inquiries Many businesses use software to track consumer's complaints. Telephone service personnel can type consumer's concerns into computers where software then looks for patterns in the text.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 17 Marketing Research Marketing research is the systematic and objective process of generating data for aiding in making marketing decisions. Online Research Advantages: –Data can be collected in a much shorter time and at a lower cost. –Errors from data collection can also be minimized. Online Research Problems: –users do not represent a random sample of the overall population.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 20 Online Research Design (1) Software Based Surveys: –Data returned to the server can have statistical analysis is automatically performed, reports generated, and charts are developed. Panels: A panel allows researchers to pull respondents from a known pool. IntelliQuest (www.intelliquest.com)www.intelliquest.com

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 21 Online Research Design (2) Online Focus Groups: Traditional focus groups are a means of collecting a rich set of responses from a target audience. –Ongoing groups use forums or message boards to discuss the research topic. –Real-time chat groups allow several focus group members to interact online at the same time and have real-time discussions.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 22 Competitive intelligence (CI) Competitive intelligence (CI) is a continuous process involving the legal and ethical collection of information and monitoring of the competitive environment giving managers the ability to make strategic decisions. –Competitive intelligence allows managers to make informed decisions about marketing, R&D, and long- term business strategies. The Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (www.scip.org)www.scip.org Fuld’s Internet intelligence index (http://www.fuld.com/i3/index.html)http://www.fuld.com/i3/index.html

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 23 Guide To Ethical Snooping Observe legal restrictions Avoid misrepresentations Do not release misinformation Never ask for or exchange price information with competitors Don't steal trade secrets Do not offer bribes Do not hack other sites Protect information sources

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 24 Third Party Data Sources Companies specializing in compiling data for mailing or email lists. –Credit rating, geodemographic information, etc. Original source of the data collection. –Retailers, hospitals, and other businesses sell data on their customers to interested parties. Infomediaries use their expertise in data collection, data warehousing, and database mining to provide services to their clients. –Catalina Marketing Corporation (www.catmktg.com)www.catmktg.com –Source Informatics (www.simatics.com )www.simatics.com

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 25 KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Data Base Techniques –OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) allows queries, or searches, of known variables such as asking how much of product A is sold in district 1. –Data Mining Techniques allows for queries that will surface unknown relationships such as: determine the indicators that are likely to lead our customers to purchase product A.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 26 Database Knowledge Discovery OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) allows queries, or searches, of known variables. –How much of product A is sold in district 1. Data mining allows for queries that will surface unknown relationships. –What are indicators that are likely to lead our customers to purchase product A? Used in combination these tow techniques can surface patterns, suggest models, and then help to confirm relationships

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 27 Strategic Value of Customers Determining the strategic value of each customer can: –increase the overall profits for a company by indicating which customers should receive specialized services and which customers should be dropped or prodded to increase their purchasing. – limit non-productive reach by limiting efforts to those individuals who are not likely to react to a marketing strategy. The lifetime value (LTV) of a customer can be determined by using future-value formulas such as: LTV = initial value (revenue-costs) + net present value (future revenue costs) + net present value of influence (value of influence of customer on new customers)

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 30 Figure 9.2: Database Behavioral Model Past Behavior Inquiries, purchases, etc. Past Behavior Inquiries, purchases, etc. Profile Characteristics Demographics, psychographics, geographic data, etc. Future purchases

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 31 Table 9.4: Data Mining Applications Undertaken by Fortune 1000 Companies (1)

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 32 Table 9.4: Data Mining Applications Undertaken by Fortune 1000 Companies (2)

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 33 Figure 9.3: The Database Marketing Process 1. Customer interaction 2. Transactions Information 3. Data is merged, scrubbed, and stored in the data warehouse. 4. Data mining 5. A profile of an ideal customer 6. Information is used to determine specific marketing strategies 9. Data is shared with local marketers 8. Customer interaction

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 34 Data Mining Data mining software can be used to turn the raw data into information for managerial decisions. Data mining reaches into data warehouses and extracts relationships using sophisticated statistical techniques. Neural-network software builds models by finding patters of customer behavior.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 35 Data Mining Should not be used as a substitute for managerial decisions –Managerial expertise should be used to assess the information gleaned from databases. Just because patterns emerge from data does not mean that those generalizations hold for a larger population.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 36 Data Mining Pitfalls Using ad hoc theories: Developing a theory to fit the data Not taking no for an answer: Allowing the computer search until it confirms preconceptions Story-telling: Developing a story to fit the data Using too many variables: The more variables, the more likely the computer is to find relationships regardless of what "true" relationships exist.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 37 Figure 9.4: Database Business System Control Business Process Sales Force Automation Customer Relationship Management Customer profile displayed Customer Service call Sales force automation software Sales- person Accounting Extranet Links to suppliers Extranet Links to suppliers Database ManagementFactoryWarehouse Database

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 39 Sales Force Automation Sales force automation (SFA) software is designed to support the sales process by: –be information support tools providing a salesperson information on business contacts such as corporate relationships, notes, tasks, who are the sales influencers, order fulfillment status, attachments, and sales opportunities. –Structured selling methods can be retrieved to design sales approaches. –Act as a gateway to the business’ database providing sales presentation information, contract fulfillment data, links to communication with service, and shipping.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 40 Business Process Database integration is cutting costs and time needed to complete tasks by allowing information to flow from functional areas and divisions. A business' database system is becoming the hub for controlling the reengineering process for organizations. Enterprise software systems (ERP) enterprise resource planning software controls the process. PeopleSoft www.peoplesoft.comwww.peoplesoft.com Germany's SAP www.sap.comwww.sap.com

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 41 Enterprise Software and Database Business System Control Sales Places Customer Order Inventory is checked notifying sales of current inventory. Schedules manufacturing to build products. Notifies accounting to prepare bill. Instructs purchasing to buy or places the order directly. Manpower assessment. Customers log on to track order fulfillment. Forecasting models provide information to management. Notifies the warehouse to schedule shipping. Enterprise Software

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 42 Knowledge Management (1) Knowledge management: –Is the process of collecting corporate knowledge and developing a system to disseminate that knowledge throughout an organization. –Allows businesses to undertake day-to-day operations as well as become more innovative. Knowledge can reside: –In databases, on paper, and in workers heads. This knowledge should be available to workers when they need it.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 43 Knowledge Management (2) Developing a knowledge management system can: –Reducing the cost of information gathering, –Improve customer support –Identifying new market opportunities –Reducing cycle times –Retain knowledge of workers who leave the organization.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 44 Privacy In the U.S. 78 percent of individuals would use the Web more if their privacy was protected and close to 50 percent indicate that the government should pass laws protecting privacy. U.S. consumers are willing to provide data for customizable services and for other uses where they see benefits. European Union regulations stipulate that data on EU citizen's cannot be sent to countries that do not provide the same level of protection as EU member countries.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 45 Developing Privacy Policies For Children Sites Information directed toward parents should disclose: –Who is collecting the data –What information is to be collected –How will this data be disclosed to any third parties (for children sites the parent's permission must be obtained). –How can the user control the use of that information. Do not link to other Web sites that do not comply with FTC or CARU's guidelines. http://home.snap.com/main/register/problems/0,135,home-0,00.html?st.sn.ft.0.prv

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 47 Employee Privacy (1) The privacy rights that an individual may enjoy in the public domain do not necessarily apply when that individual is employed at a job. –The Electronic Communications Privacy Act gave U.S. employers the right to monitor and control what employees do with private property such as computers and telephones. –An employee's Web surfing and email can be monitored by a business. Businesses should post a policy warning to avoid possible liability.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 48 Employee Privacy (2) Companies have options other than just posting notices of proper surfing. –Monitoring and filtering software can be used to track and block Web users in a business. A business must balance out its desire to conserve resources with its need to treat employees as adults and with its needs to have employees learn to use the Internet as an information gathering tool.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 49 Exercise 9.1: Developing a Virtual Library Summary of Competitive Intelligence: –Write here a brief summary of the information you find from these sites that could impact your business or industry.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 50 ALE 9.2: Database Field Exercises Pick an industry and list the fields that will help a business identify current customer behavior, project future customer behavior, or determine the value of your customers. Once those fields have been identified, determine the sources that would be used to gather that information.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 51 Exercise 9.3: Determining Your Strategic Value Rating yourself on recency, frequency, and monetary value. Use the five point scale and compare yourself to other customers of the store. Determine what types of incentives would be necessary to give you to turn you into high value customers. Indicate the business strategy that should be undertaken, for example should you be dropped as a customer or given those incentives identified.

For use with Strategic Electronic Marketing: Managing E-Business 2 e Copyright 2003 South-Western College Publishing Chapter 9 Slide: 52 Exercise 9.4: Privacy Policies Visit a Web site with a privacy statement. Identify if the policy complies with the suggestions outlined in table below taken from Table 9.6.

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