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How do you think of this consumer-driven commercial world?


How do you think of this consumer-driven commercial world?

Darwinism in consumer-driven commercial world

Modern Companies should focus more on their “improvisation capabilities” that rely on data, innovation, collaboration and individual’s own adaptation capabilities. Erik and Kyle provide a useful framework to think corporate strategy from a different perspective in this book that perfectly applies Evolutionist Theory to the Digital Age.

Vincent Stuhlen, Global Head of Digital, l’Oréal, Luxury Division


Never has it been tougher for a company to adapt and survive in this fast-evolving world driven by customers.

Common management approaches prove increasingly obsolete, companies must reinvent their relationships with the consumer. But the multiplication of actors and channels has led to a high degree of complexity that requires strong guidelines to redefine organizations.

Erik Campanini, BearingPoint, and Kyle Hutchins, West Monroe Partners, take inspiration from nature and from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to offer a new vision of the Customer Relationship Management. This practical book reveals that it is not the strongest that survives but the most adaptable to change.

The sheer volume of information available today has dramatically altered the balance of power between companies and consumers. As consumers have become overloaded, they have become increasingly skeptical about traditional company-driven advertising and marketing and increasingly prefer to make purchasing decisions largely independent of what companies tell them about products.


This tectonic power shift toward consumers reflects the way people now make purchasing decisions. Once consumers make a decision to buy a product, they start with an initial consideration set of brands formed through product experience, recommendations, or awareness-building marketing. Those brands, and others, are actively evaluated as consumers gather product information from a variety of sources and decide which brand to purchase. Their post-sales experience then informs their next purchasing decision. While word of mouth has different degrees of influence on consumers at each stage of this journey, it’s the only factor that ranks among the three biggest consumer influencers at every step.

It’s also the most disruptive factor. Word of mouth can prompt a consumer to consider a brand or product in a way that incremental advertising spending simply cannot. It’s also not a one-hit wonder. The right messages resonate and expand within interested networks, affecting brand perceptions, purchase rates, and market share. The rise of online communities and communication has dramatically increased the potential for significant and far-reaching momentum effects. In the mobile-phone market, for example, we have observed that the pass-on rates for key positive and negative messages can increase a company’s market share by as much as 10 percent or reduce it by 20 percent over a two-year period, all other things being equal. This effect alone makes a case for more systematically investigating and managing word of mouth.