change knowledge: are you ready for tomorrow's consumer?
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Presentation for the Central European University in Budapest on the 26th of March 2010. Change Knowledge and it's implications & applications for brands and business in Russia & Denmark. Lighthouse CEE corporate profile, client offer and case studies. More informatiion about Lighthouse CEE at: http://www.lighthouse-cee.comTRANSCRIPT
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Change Knowledge:Are you ready for tomorrow’s consumer?
CEU Budapest26th of March 2010
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“Innovation at Apple is largely about shaping technology to the customer’s needs, not trying to force the user to adapt to the technology. It’s about being customer-centric.”
Steve Jobs, CEO Apple
Are you working with consumer knowledge?
CompetenceImportance? (1-10)
Ability today?(1-10)
Appliance of consumer knowledge to business operations
Consumer IntelligenceWe are working systematically to look ahead, identify movements, future needs and thinking in within our consumers in order to proactively ensure competitive advantage
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Product portfolio and market profileThe ongoing development of our products, services and business is based on data-based insights about our consumers' needs and requirements
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Delivery and implementationWe are able to effectively translate the available knowledge and consumer insights into concrete action plans and spread out the knowledge across the organization
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Corporate cultureOur corporate culture and employees are customer oriented to meet future changes in market requirements and consumer demand with innovative and effective solutions
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Lighthouse CEE
1. WHO WE AREA brief introduction of Lighthouse
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1. Who are we: Lighthouse CEEJoanna BakasManaging Partner
Education:Masters Behavioral EconomicNorthwestern University Evanston IL
Bachelor of ArtsLoyola University Chicago IL
Work experience:Communications agencies –Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann Erickson, DDB Europe, Lowe AmsterdamSpecializing in brand & business strategy including portfolio management, NPD, communication strategy
Field of expertise:Observing, synthesizing and planning for ongoing brand and business success
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1. Who are we: Lighthouse CEEStefan ErschwendnerManaging Partner
Education:Master in Business AdministrationJohannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Master in Social ScienceVäxjö University, Sweden
Work experience:Advico Young & Rubicam Zurich, DCNTRL Linz, DDB/Tribal DDB Budapest
Field of expertise:Business sociology, Digital thinking, Strategic Management,Organizational design
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1. Who are we: Lighthouse Copenhagen LighthouseOffers companies and organizations Change knowledge based on applied business sociology. Based on years of experience with applied consumer and future knowledge Lighthouse identifies new market opportunities for growth.
Background Founder of Lighthouse, Sociologist Eva Steensig, is a highly experienced Applied Futurist, consumer expert and market potential identifier.
Companies with aggressive growth strategies...
...often find it difficult to detect the true business opportunities based and potential needs in the market.
Lighthouse excels in shedding new light on market opportunities based on a deeply rooted understanding of present and future market needs. We call it Change knowledge.
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1. Who are we
we believe that business opportunities come from an insight into the bigger picture and
understanding consumers as people from a cultural and sociological perspective
In short we are a a brand and business consultancy with offices in Copenhagen focusing on the Nordics and in Vienna where we focus on Central Eastern Europe.
Our guiding principle is that as a brand and business consultancy, we believe that good strategies come from an overall understanding on society and people.
We measure changing consumer behavior and evolving needs. This helps us better understand the business opportunities – WHITE SPACES.
Based on identifying unmet needs and business opportunities, together with our clients we create and implement powerful business ideas that create value.
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““For more than a century, the public face of companies has been their advertising, slogans, brands, and logos. How much better it would be if a company’s public face were that of its public, its satisfied customers who are willing to share their satisfaction and its employees who have direct relationships with customers. Brands are people.”
“The question is not how you can change the behavior of your customers? They question you should ask is how you can help them to do this better, quicker or more convenient.”
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SO, WHO’S THE WOMAN BEHIND…
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A case for understanding social aspects of people as people and not just consumers
THE LAUNDRY LADY
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THE COOK
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THE FASHIONISTA
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WHY IT PAYS TO LOOK DEEPER AND PEEK AROUND CORNERS…THERE ARE NO MASSES
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“Masses are other people.” Sociologist Raymond Williams said in his 1938 book. Culture and Society. “There are in fact no masses, there are only ways of seeing people as masses.”
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When will this approach work?
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And when will this?
RUSSIA: THE EMERGING FEMALE
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The cult of beauty and social currency The cult of beauty and social currency
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Trading in to newer modelsTrading in to newer models
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Trophy culture and age rageTrophy culture and age rage
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Where are the men?Where are the men?
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Where are the men?Where are the men?
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Children for SaleWould $36,000 convince you to have another kid?By Daniel Gross
Communism is officially dead in the Soviet Union, but the Marxist belief that men and women are essentially economic creatures is alive and well at the Kremlin. In May, Vladimir Putin, alarmed at Russia's declining population, which is falling thanks to short life expectancy and a plummeting birthrate (1.17 children per woman, down from about 2 in 1990), offered a bonus of 250,000 rubles (about $9,200) to women who would have a second child.
Communism is officially dead in the Soviet Union, but the Marxist belief that men and women are essentially economic creatures is alive and well at the Kremlin. In May, Vladimir Putin, alarmed at Russia's declining population, which is falling thanks to short life expectancy and a plummeting birthrate (1.17 children per woman, down from about 2 in 1990), offered a bonus of 250,000 rubles (about $9,200) to women who would have a second child.
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In my opinion the reasons are: lack of attention to the "weak gender"; neglect to the spiritual and personal world of his
wife; alcohol abuse
In my opinion the reasons are: lack of attention to the "weak gender"; neglect to the spiritual and personal world of his
wife; alcohol abuse
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Moscow cop jailed over supermarket rampageFrom Maxim Tkachenko, CNNMoscow cop jailed over supermarket rampageFrom Maxim Tkachenko, CNN
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Ladies man Putin: ‘I like all Russian women’
The shoulders to count onThe shoulders to count on
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Working mothers still enjoy strong protection under the law, which guarantees partially paid 18-month childbirth-related leave (extendable up to 3 years of unpaid leave). Sadly, not all employers follow the law. Russian women often face discrimination and negative stereotypes at the workplace, comparable to that experienced by women over the course of many decades in the United States. The social institutions established by Soviet system that protected working mothers are now in decay, and there are very few new institutions to replace them.
Working lifeWorking life
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BEAUTY as POWER
GIVE ME SHOULDERS
MEN MIA
THERISEOF THE‘LONELY’SOLDIER
Key concepts that will make her listen
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DENMARK: THE EMERGING FEMALE
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OPTIMIZING
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Toptuning Social hygiene Anchorage in our own gender
Technology
Health
Communities
PengeFinancial Independence
More women earn much money. It is expected that in 2025, Danish women will own 60% of the nation's private wealth. Women interested in increasing investment.
MotherhoodMotherhood
Focus on optimizing children's development is becoming more sophisticated: Psychologists, child yoga, child fitness and dieticians for children over the decidedly self-development and stress management aimed at children
Genders: same same but different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIutgtzwhAc
Little Princesses
Femininity
No man needed
Choice of Life
Puncture the bubble of the Superwoman
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90THEEMPOWERED WOMANIN HARMONYWITHHERSELF ANDSOCIETY
Key concepts that will make her listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb6xRz0ZhnE
Getting the social context right decade after decade: how Coca Cola remained relevant to the times by understanding social evolution
coke…WWII…American patriotism
1942 1944
Cultural insight: Champion American valuesCoke attitude: Patriotism and support of the American ‘good’ valuesOutcome: During WWII, Coke started shipping product to the troops in the front lines and celebrated the war effort with print ads. The media reported that soldiers were writing home and asking for bottles of Coca Cola. This idea was picked up by the author of the book ‘God Is My Co-Pilot’ who wrote: ‘In shooting down my first enemy aircraft, I was motivated by thoughts of America, democracy and Coca Cola’. Drinking Coke became a matter of national pride.
coke…post war…good life of suburbia
Cultural insight: Post war America..the American dream of a good life and post war ‘happiness’ catch upCoke attitude: Classic American suburban values – house, car, family, communityOutcome: Coke became the real thing and probably one of the first lifestyle brands
coke…1960’s…cute and sweet
Cultural insight: A more contemporary American ‘good life’Coke attitude: cute, funny, trendyOutcome: Not the most inspirational Coke attitude to date
coke…1970’s…hippie culture
The Hilltop ad songI’d like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love…
I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…
I’d like to buy the world a coke and keep it company
Cultural insight: The war in Vietnam and the racial inequality at home were creating cultural undercurrents that led to the deconstruction of the American myth. Coke attitude: Coke tapped into these cultural undercurrents brilliantly with the Hilltop campaign. The ad featured fresh-faced youth of different nationalities, holding Coke bottles as if they were flags, singing a song. The song that went ‘I’d like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love…’ turned into an anthem ending with ‘…I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company’’Outcome: Backer, the author of the book The Care and Feeding of Ideas described the effect of the campaign in the following way: In that moment I began to see a bottle of Coca-Cola as more than a drink. I began to see the familiar words, "Let's have a Coke," as . . . actually a subtle way of saying, "Let's keep each other company for a little while."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8H5263jCGg
coke…1980’s…wall street junkies
Cultural insight: the Yuppie, money, wall street, the ME generationCoke attitude: At a time of wall street and ‘greed is good’ Coke tried a reunion ‘Hilltop’ Outcome: It missed the cultural mark and was immediately pulled off the air
coke…1980’s…performance
case: coke…1990’s…MTV generation
coke…NOW
Cultural insight: At a time of insecurity, a changing world, a revaluation of ‘authentic real values’…life complexity…Coke attitude: SIMPLY ENJOY…positive, tapping into the need to see the lighter side and to get back to authentic positive feeling…get a little magicOutcome: So far…so good
The advertising dream car
And the American Dream
VW understood how America was evolving and got the timing right
Big & beautiful luxury
A new America was emerging
The age of the anti-hero…
The VW myth
The VW legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWgs98iBGk
SERENDIPITYCHANCE, FATE, DESTINY, KARMA
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SYSTEMATICALLYMETHODICALLY, THOROUGHLY, ANALYTICALLY
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HOW WOULD YOU RATHER ANTICIPATE WHAT WILL STICKBY LUCK – ON PURPOSE
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2. WHAT WE DOOur way of thinking and model
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Lighthouse CEE is a specialised consulting company researching future consumer behaviour and future demands
Our clients get insight into consumer behaviour in the near future which enables them to meet new needs better and thereby strengthen their competitive situation today and tomorrow
We work from a sociological perspective with a systematic distinct and unique method which supplies clients with precise, relevant and operational knowledge about consumer behaviour and needs specific to each company.
We identify patterns of changes and what opportunities and risks these hold and we help companies navigate successfully in these changes by developing and implementing ideas that are based on consumer needs
2. What we do
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2. What we do
You can’t see around corners but you hear around them.
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CONTEXT measurement(strategy and opportunity spaces)
Ideas that people are ready to embrace
idea CREATION(content)
Powerful concepts inspired
by context opportunities
consumer CONNECTION(implementation follow through)
Getting it out there to market
2. What we do: Our model – Culture Tap
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2. What we do: context
If you want to see how a lion hunts, go to the jungle, not the zoo
"You don't get anything from sitting behind a two-way mirror listening to focus groups. You learn from living and breathing your brand“
Simon Pestridge, CMO, Nike UK
“If I asked someone who had only used a personal calculator what a Macintosh should be like, they couldn’t have told me. There was no way to do consumer research on it.”
Steve Jobs, CEO Apple
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2. What we do: contextWe actively seek signs of changing behavior in the areas of:
• Role of the genders• Health• Childcare and upbringing• Work and career• The role of the home• Social issues• Food and well being • Consumption in general • What’s news in the media • Heroes and villains• Entertainment • Technology• Political reaction and actions
The principal behind LHCEE's method for pattern based forecasting: see and understand patterns
Pattern based forecastingStrategic implications and connections
Identification of patterns
SignsStrong and weak signalsBehavioural change
2. What we do: context
Precise method to understand patterns of changes in behaviour
The world
Collections
Patterns
Themes
Stories
2. What we do: context
Sign collectionIllustrative example
2. What we do: context
Strategic development
Today Tomorrow
Consumer behaviourConsumer behaviour
Company X's Products & Go to market
Company X's Products & Go to market
Firma X delivery
porcesses
Firma X delivery
porcesses
Consumer patterns
Consumer patterns
Products and Go to Market adjusted to new market
demands
Products and Go to Market adjusted to new market
demands
Delivery processes adjusted to
new demands
Delivery processes adjusted to
new demands
Demand
Strategic gap
Delivery
Offering
adjusting companies’ products, services, go to market and delivery to demands of tomorrow
Change knowledge
Movements
Consumer demands and needs
Purchase criterias and behaviour
Usage behaviour
2. What we do: content
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Russia
2. What we do: content
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2. What we do: content
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Global
2. What we do: content
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2. What we do: content
We cannot build an iPod but we can identify the emerging consumer need to have one.
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2. What we do: implementation
Implementation across all levels of customer experience
We don’t execute campaigns or R&D but we do act as coordinators of our client's strategic partners during the IMPLEMENTATION process. To ensure that the newly developed ideas are executed in an integrated way regardless of media or disciplines.
“Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does. Experience, as we will see, not only matters—it drives results to the bottom line.“
Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon
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2. What we do: implementation
Implementation with the best network of co-creators
We can also draw upon our network of co-creators to help with the implementation of newly generated ideas.
We can bring in specialists on an ad hoc basis for the duration of a project.
LIGHTHOUSE CEE services
STRATEGIC/CREATIVE DEVELOPMENTSpecific strategic/creative projects for companies and organisations/follow through
MONITORINGBusiness and company specific monitoring of consumer changes
CONSUMER INTELLIGENCESpeaks, newsletters, events on ad hoc basis
3. IN SUMMARYWhy LHCEE
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Change Knowlegde Approach©
© Change Knowlegde Process is Copyright of Lighhouse Cph A/S
Competitive advantage and survival is dependent on ability to see and act upon patterns of change
The number and rate of change increases everywhere in society
Today it is necessary to detect patterns and weak signals and act on them – proactive competition rather than reacting to competition
Change takes place in patterns
Therefore it becomes crucial to find patterns of change and identify the opportunities and risks they contain for brands and business
Earlier forecasting research methods have focused on predicting changes based on historical data – ours is based on emerging behavior
Why use the change knowlegde approach?
Fact based insights into future movements of consumer behaviour will secure pro-activity in the company’s business development
The additional knowledge gives competitive advantages by allowing the company to better meet the demands of consumers and systematically map new business opportunities
Increased insight into consumer behaviour is a pre-requisite and foundation for empathy and thereby a more customer oriented company culture
Why chose LIGHTHOUSE CEE as partner?
Systematic/Sciencific
method
Intuitive/ad hoc
Reactive/backwardlooking
Proactive/forwardlooking
How do we differentiate from other suppliers of knowledge about consumer behaviour?
Adver-tising
Antropo-logists
Hören
Sagen
Futuro-logists
Consul-tancy
Research Institutes
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“The need for products already exists way before people realize it, it’s just a matter of discovery”
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Companies that will learn to innovate based on emerging consumer needs instead of trying to change consumer behavior will increase effectiveness and efficiency and lower their cost – this is a competitive advantage.
Lighthouse CPH & CEE
4. CONTACTSfor more information
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4. Contact:
Lighthouse CEEhttp://www.lighthouse-cee.com
Joanna [email protected]+36 709 538 030
Stefan [email protected] + 43 650 372 6486
Lighthouse CPHhttp://www.lighthouse-cph.com
Eva [email protected] +45 70 22 26 36
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Thank you