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Influence
Philip Sheldrakewww.philipsheldrake.com
@sheldrake
Author
The Business of Influence: Reframing Marketing and PR for the Digital Age
www.influenceprofessional.com
Influence Crowd
Meanwhile
Intellect
6UK
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The business of influence is broken
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You have been influenced when
you think in a way you wouldn’t
otherwise have thought, or do something you
wouldn’t otherwise have done
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If you’re in business, indeed any type of organization, then you’re in the business of
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… marketing, advertising, public relations, internal communications, public affairs, customer service, customer
relationship management, social media, copywriting and content, SEO, branding, branded apps and widgets, brand
journalism …
… web design, graphic design, direct marketing, packaging, merchandising, promotion, publicity, events, sponsorship, sales and sales promotion, marketing and market research, product
and service design and development …
… human resources, training and development, channel management, procurement and supplier management, facilities
management …
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3 things
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//The rise of social media
//The info tech explosion
//The way we contemplate, design,
communicate and execute strategy
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//The rise of social mediaONE
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The authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto asserted back in 1999 that the Internet allows markets to revert to the days when a market was defined by people gathering and talking among themselves about buyer and seller reputation, product quality and prices.
This was lost for a while as the scale of organizations and markets outstripped the facility for consumers to coalesce.
//The rise of social media
The Cluetrain Manifesto – http://www.cluetrain.com
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But I get social, I get influence…
//The rise of social media
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But I get social, I get influence… err?!
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social / digital is not:– a new team or department– something to procure, design or manage separately
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social / digital does:– require new skills– bring new opportunities, and threats
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If you could go back to the mid-90s and offer a marketer a little box that could sit on her desk and let her listen in on thousands of customer conversations and participate in those discussions regardless of geography or time zone, it would appear so far-fetched that she’d probably call security
//The rise of social media
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Social analytics
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May have been a relevant axiom for 20th Century marketing and PR practice, but now…
//The rise of social media
Influence Strategy and Execution, Philip Sheldrake, Marketing Magnified eJournal, June 2011, CMO Council http://www.marketingmagnified.com/2011/june
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Perception is reality
Real-time social marketing and PR must, by nature, be authentic. Real-time PR marks the
death of ‘spin’. You can’t fake it.
Reality is perception
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Everything an organization does occurs in the context of a changing world, in a dynamic interplay with every entity
around it
//The rise of social media
Align Your Stakeholder-Facing Functions with an Influence Strategy, Philip Sheldrake, Balanced Scorecard Report, July-August 2011, Vol 13 No 4, Harvard Business Publishing
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No organization is an island
Organizations must cultivate a sensitivity to the new dynamic (one that’s superior to competitors’) and sharpen their ability to interpret and respond
to the myriad communication flows issuing from all sides
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//The info tech explosionTWO
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An illustrated history
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Phones are the most personal of consumer
electronic devices. They rank with keys and money
when going out. They become an extension of
their owner and their loss is mourned, literally
It keeps you connected with those far away, and
disengaged from strangers nearby
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- address book- diary
- digital messenger- web browser
- games machine- music player- video player
- navigator- video & stills
camera
... and, of course,a phone
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The Internet of ThingsA public and private nervous system for the planet
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Internetome Conference, London, 2010
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Electronic devices (washing machines, air conditioning units and cars)Electrical devices (lighting, electric heaters, and power distribution)Non-electrical objects (food and drink packages, clothes, and animals)Environmental sensors(measuring such variables as temperature, noise, moisture)
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Data paucity was a problem of the 20th Century.Big data is the problem and opportunity of the 21st.
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I believe that a future where so much data is collected about me and owned by others is nothing short of dystopian.
We need a new privacy framework.And we need streams banks.
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Web 3.0 – the Semantic Web – is about the Web itself understanding the meaning of all the content and participation
//The info tech explosion
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Indeed, the Web becomes a universal medium for the exchange of data, information and knowledge
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//The way we contemplate, design, communicate and execute strategy
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20th Century business was built around tangible assets (land, plant &
machinery)
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The 21st Century business is more reliant on intangibles (intellectual property, brand, reputation, social
dialogue) for which traditional accounting analyses are poorly
designed
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So that's one reason why Kaplan and Norton developed the strategy map tool for the alignment of operations with strategy, and the popular* Balanced Scorecard framework to augment the lagging (financial) indicators of business success with non-financial drivers of future financial performance.
//The way we contemplate, design, communicate and execute strategy
Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, ISBN: 9780875846514
* http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/management-tools-2011-balanced-scorecard.aspx
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Return on investment
//The way we contemplate, design, communicate and execute strategy
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When the boss rules‘Look, I’m told we’re investing in this. Now we just need to work up the numbers to get it through finance.’When efficiency rules‘This investment will speed the process up.’ ‘Er, but it’s not actually a bottleneck.’When the guru rules‘Well the book’s at number 1.’When last year rules‘Well we did it this way last year ...’ When the competition rules‘They’ve gone for it, so ...’
When vanity rules‘We can afford it and it’ll be a testament to our time.’When experience rules‘Do you think the CMO’s background in advertising sways the budgeting process?’When rules rule‘Let’s treat it as three separate projects so each comes under the limit demanding cost justification.’When paralysis rules‘I just don’t know.’And when all else fails – when cost rules‘Just make a decision on a least-cost basis because this sort of thing never has a tangible ROI.’
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Return on investment
//The way we contemplate, design, communicate and execute strategy
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, ISBN: 978-1591391340
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I prefer it when strategy rules...
“The strategy map identifies the specific capabilities in the organization’s intangible assets – human capital, information capital, and organization capital – that are required for delivering exceptional performance in the critical internal processes.”
And this applies to influence activities too.
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//The Business of InfluenceThe Six Influence Flows, Influence Scorecard and CInflO
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You have been influenced when
you think in a way you wouldn’t
otherwise have thought, or do something you
wouldn’t otherwise have done
//The Business of Influence
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Socializing the enterprise demands more than just procuring some social tools. It
demands a CEO-led organizational redesign.
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A framework for all influence activities, for the social media, info tech and
business strategy of the 21st Century.
It demands a new and simple model, devoid of ‘baggage’, to think about what
we’re trying to achieve.
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The Six Influence Flows
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We are more influenced by the 150 nearest to us
than by the other six or so billion combined
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Influence(r)-centric
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* AVE – advertising value equivalence, a discredited measurement of media relations performance
Maturity Characteristics
High Trace the influence (the action) back to source. Focused on business
outcomes, as we should be. Best practice, intelligent and you could say scientific and professional marketing and PR, and associated activities.
Influence-centri
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Medium It’s quality not quantity. Not how many people you interact with, but how and in what context?
Low Number of followers, friends, subscribers, circulation. Empirically supported network science. Akin to column inches and
AVE* – measurement because you can, not because you should.
Influencer-centri
cPitiful Obfuscating compound measures of
non-contextual trivial variables. No empirical evidence.
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Influence centricity
1. Focusing on the influenced
Related to the emphases of Net Promoter Score (albeit focused on all stakeholders that have been influenced or influenced others, rather customers that would recommend us)
Outcome rather than output oriented
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2. Tracing influence
Understanding and learning from how influence has happened
Not hung up on finding ‘key influencers’, but rather it’s about:
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The Influence Scorecard
How can we systematically learn from and manage influence flows?
How do we define, develop, and execute a consistent and coherent influence strategy?
How do we prioritize investments in influence-related human, information, and organizational capital?
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Kaplan and Norton’s strategy map tool and Balanced Scorecard framework are well suited to these efforts.
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The Influence Scorecard /2
The Influence Scorecard serves as both the methodology for defining influence strategy and the tool for executing it.
It’s a subset of the Balanced Scorecard, containing all the influence-related objectives and metrics extracted from their functional silos.
Helps management ensure that the potential to influence and be influenced is exploited cohesively and consistently throughout the organization.
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The Influence Scorecard /3
Ultimately, the ease and effectiveness with which we
manage and learn from influence flows is integral to the ways all
stakeholders interact with organizations to broker mutually valuable, beneficial relationships.
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The Chief Influence Officer
Are you ambidextrous of mind (left- & right-brained)?
Are you fluent in public relations excellence and other influence disciplines? Can you effect change in the face of entrenched organisational resistance?
Then this is your perfect storm. You might be the new breed of influence professional, and perhaps Chief Influence Officer. //The Business of Influence
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In conclusion
Today, influence activities are:
– Spread, uncoordinated, across functional silos
– Encompass only some aspects and subsets of the Six Influence Flows and the Influence Scorecard
– Defined in the context of 20th Century technology, media, and articulation of and appreciation for business strategy
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In conclusion
Tomorrow, your influence strategy must:
– Socialize the enterprise, systematically
– Take best advantage of new info technologies
– Drive business performance managementI recommend the Influence Scorecard.
The Business of Influence: Reframing Marketing and PR for the Digital Age
Philip Sheldrake, Wiley, May 2011ISBN 978-0470978627
www.influenceprofessional.com#infpro
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