The 24-Hour Customer

In The 24-Hour Customer, Adrian C. Ottthe CEO and founder of a top Silicon Valleybased consulting firmchallenges businesses to re-conceive their approaches to time and technology in order to win an unprecedented share of their customers attention and loyalty. Filled with powerful and provocative ideas, The 24-Hour Customer is an indispensible handbook for any company competing for business in todays around-the-clock economy.

Time is not money.

Time is more important than money.

Today's customers are overwhelmed, overworked, and overstressed, and it seems that everyone?from CEOs to soccer moms?is short on time and inundated with information. As a result, despite the availability of 24/7 commerce and countless ways of engaging people in our multiscreen (mobile, TV, and PC) economy, companies find it more difficult than ever to claim even a fraction of the 1,440 minutes in their customers' precious 24 hours.

In The 24-Hour Customer, Adrian C. Ott, CEO of a successful Silicon Valley consultancy, argues that companies need to strategically harness the ebbs and flows of customer time and attention in order to win in today's competitive landscape. She explores the economics of time and attention, including why customers will devote hours addicted to social networks, yet will say "I have no time!" to other offerings. Based on extensive research and real-world results with market-leading companies, this book provides tools, such as Time-Value Tradeoffs and Time-ographics, that pinpoint opportunities to increase revenue and gain market traction.

Filled with fascinating case studies from companies like Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, and iPhone app start-ups, The 24-Hour Customer offers fresh ideas for capitalizing on the elements of time, attention, and value to innovate never-before-considered products, services, and programs for today's über-connected, multitasking customer. Readers will discover how:

• Zipcar utilized time-slicing to redefine automobile ownership and grew by 70 percent, while the auto industry struggled in 2009;

• Netflix, Hulu, and others time-shifted to movies on-demand, ultimately restructuring the entertainment industry;

• P&G leveraged inattention by enabling habit-formation for some of its most successful brands.

This book shares the latest strategic weapons for achieving market leadership and will change the way executives think about their businesses and their customers.

Autorentext

Adrian C. Ott, CEO and founder of Exponential Edge, Inc., was called "one of Silicon Valley's most respected (if not the most respected) strategist" by Consulting magazine. She has worked with some of the most innovative Fortune 500 and start-up companies in the world to gain a market edge in today's exponential economy. Prior to founding Exponential Edge, she was an HP executive who was recognized in an annual report for "infusing HP with new revenue streams and new technologies and new business models." She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS from UC Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Klappentext

In The 24-Hour Customer, Adrian C. Ott—the CEO and founder of a top Silicon Valley-based consulting firm—challenges businesses to re-conceive their approaches to time and technology in order to win an unprecedented share of their customers' attention and loyalty. Filled with powerful and provocative ideas, The 24-Hour Customer is an indispensible handbook for any company competing for business in today's around-the-clock economy.