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Paris, le 27 mars 2023 – Face à la recrudescence des risques géopolitiques, aux pénuries de matières premières et aux difficultés d’approvisionnement, SAP, à travers son étude Supply Chain 2023, revient sur les grands défis auxquels sont confrontées les entreprises internationales. Dans ce cadre, 350 responsables de chaîne logistique ont été interrogés et témoignent de la nécessité de transformer leur modèle : si à première vue les nouvelles semblent décourageantes, les entreprises y voient une réelle opportunité de s’améliorer et de devenir plus résilientes.

 

Seule 1 entreprise française sur 10 s’attend à la fin des problèmes qui touchent la chaîne d’approvisionnement d’ici l’été 2023

Les conclusions du rapport Tomorrow’s Supply Chain : Disruption Around Every Corner[1] soulignent l’état critique de la chaîne d’approvisionnement depuis le début de la pandémie. Les entreprises françaises, belges et néerlandaises ont été freinées par des retards dans la production de biens ou la livraison de services (50%) et un manque de matières premières (34%). Ceci a entraîné une baisse significative du chiffre d’affaires (33 %), une incapacité de payer le personnel (31 %) ou les loyers (41 %), mais aussi une perte de clientèle (35 %) ou une atteinte à la réputation (27 %).

Près de la moitié des entreprises françaises (46%) s’attendent à ce que les problèmes qui touchent actuellement la chaîne d’approvisionnement persistent jusqu’à la fin 2023. Seule 1 entreprise sur 10 prévoit qu’ils seront résolus d’ici la fin de l’été. Pour près de 4 entreprises sur 10, la durée de ces problèmes dépend de la résolution d’événements clés : la situation en Ukraine (24 %) ou la crise énergétique (17 %).

Les entreprises françaises en attente de mesures incitatives des pouvoirs publics pour attirer de nouvelles compétences, notamment venant de l’international

Si deux tiers des entreprises françaises sont en phase avec la stratégie du président Emmanuel Macron qui souhaite que la France « soit une nation plus indépendante », en faisant valoir que la démondialisation des chaînes d’approvisionnement favoriserait la croissance économique, elles indiquent clairement souhaiter davantage de soutien de la part du gouvernement pour résoudre ces problèmes, et demandent des mesures incitatives pour attirer et améliorer les compétences de la main-d’œuvre (49 %), y compris celles provenant de l’étranger (40 %). Ces entreprises demandent également une collaboration accrue avec l’industrie (40%). Le rapport montre par ailleurs qu’une majorité des entreprises françaises (66 %) pense que la démondialisation des chaînes d’approvisionnement pourrait favoriser la croissance économique. Aux Pays-Bas, elles sont plus mitigées : 34 % y seraient favorables et 66 % défavorables.

Olivier Kessler-Gay, Directeur Général pour l’Europe de l’Ouest chez Pandora, commente : « Notre défi aujourd’hui est de répondre aux nouvelles attentes d’une expérience d’achat transparente, personnalisée et omnicanale. En intégrant totalement notre chaîne de valeur, de la conception de nos bijoux et leur fabrication dans nos ateliers, à l’approvisionnement de nos boutiques, nous avons éliminé certaines problématiques que rencontrent d’autres acteurs du marché. Nous pouvons ainsi mieux anticiper l’impact d’évolutions macroéconomiques et gérer les risques. Si de nombreuses incertitudes restent complexes à appréhender, la connaissance de nos clients, la data et les outils à notre disposition nous permettent d’améliorer la croissance grâce à une approche beaucoup plus sophistiquée et à une compréhension plus fine de la demande. »

 

Une opportunité pour transformer la Supply Chain ?

La transformation de la chaîne logistique est prioritaire pour les entreprises : dans près de deux tiers des organisations, il s’agit d’une initiative parrainée au plus haut niveau. Environ six organisations sur dix prévoient une transformation majeure de la chaîne d’approvisionnement au cours des deux prochaines années et une proportion similaire considère les attentes des clients en matière de développement durable comme un facteur critique pour leurs activités. D’ailleurs, nombre d’entre elles agissent déjà en adoptant de nouveaux processus, de nouvelles méthodes et des solutions intelligentes pour pallier les risques actuels et futurs de leur chaîne d’approvisionnement.

Rémy Vernet, Directeur de la Digital Supply Chain chez SAP France commente : « Alors qu’autrefois la gestion de la supply chain consistait surtout à réduire les coûts, les entreprises sont confrontées au défi de rester en avance sur la demande des consommateurs, tout en améliorant la résilience, en réduisant les émissions de carbone, en diminuant le taux de rotation du personnel et en maintenant les coûts à un niveau bas. Le marché du travail post-pandémique, la guerre en Ukraine, la hausse des coûts de l’énergie ont exacerbé les défis des modèles actuels de supply chain en France. Quels que soient les facteurs externes qui perturberont la circulation des biens et des services, notre culture de consommation à la demande ne fera que s’accroître. L’expédition du jour au lendemain est considérée comme tardive, avec des mises à jour de suivi toutes les heures. Une approche novatrice est nécessaire pour répondre à cette demande. »

 

Comment STMicroelectronics a réussi à transformer sa supply chain.

L’industrie des semi-conducteurs est une activité complexe.  Elle compte plus de 40 000 produits, plus de 200 000 clients et des process de fabrication sophistiqués. Les étapes de fabrication comprennent des centaines d’étapes qui peuvent se dérouler sur six mois autour d’un grand réseau mondial d’installation et de production. Tous ces paramètres doivent être compris dans une forte demande sur quatre marchés finaux : automobile, industrie, électronique et infrastructures de communication. STMicroelectronics fait fonc face à un très haut niveau de difficulté à gérer au quotidien.

STMicroelectronics et SAP ont uni leurs forces pour développer une supply chain fondée sur l’analyse et l’optimisation de la big data, des modèles de jumeaux numériques pour fusionner le physique et le numérique, et des outils collaboratifs pour l’ensemble des opérations. Cette union a permis un changement radical dans la façon dont cette multinationale utilise le cloud.

 

Dario Fozibo, directeur de la supply chain chez STMicroelectronics, explique : “La dynamique commerciale du marché des semi-conducteurs était très instable pendant la pandémie. Depuis, la complexité de la chaîne d’approvisionnement s’est encore accru avec une plus grande volatilité de la demande, des pénuries d’approvisionnement et de matériaux. Tout ceci combiné à une perturbation de l’économie mondiale via l’inflation, une hausse des taux d’intérêts, une augmentation des coûts de l’énergie, des réglementations commerciales plus complexes, et bien plus encore.  Tous ces facteurs ont indéniablement un impact négatif sur de nombreuses chaînes d’approvisionnement, mais cette situation n’est pas irréversible. Grâce à nos investissements, nous avons pu mieux gérer, contrôler et automatiser nos processus en termes de visibilité et de résilience. C’est ce qui fait la différence aujourd’hui.”

 

Des entreprises françaises soucieuses de renforcer leur chaîne d’approvisionnement

La grande majorité des entreprises françaises est consciente du besoin d’améliorer sa chaîne logistique (87 %). 36 % d’entre elles comprennent également l’ampleur des changements à mettre en place. Les résultats de l’étude montrent que les entreprises françaises explorent d’autres voies pour améliorer leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement :

  • 74% prévoient de prendre de nouvelles mesures d’urgence pour leur chaîne d’approvisionnement
  • 70 % prévoient de trouver de nouvelles solutions respectueuses de l’environnement
  • 66 % prévoient d’adopter de nouvelles technologies pour les aider à surmonter les difficultés au cours des 1 ou 2 prochaines années.

 

Rémy Vernet chez SAP France conclut : « Il est passionnant de voir qu’autant d’organisations réalisent l’importance d’investir dans les technologies de pointe pour innover et qu’elles prévoient d’adopter de nouvelles solutions de supply chain respectueuses de l’environnement. Les supply chains résilientes doivent être durables, non seulement en termes d’environnement, mais aussi par rapport aux évolutions des technologies et des infrastructures en France tout comme à l’étranger. Pendant des décennies, la gestion de la supply chain s’est concentrée sur les coûts, la priorité étant de la maintenir légère et rapide. Ce n’est pas la même chose que d’être agile et résilient. Avec la fin des modèles “just in time”, les entreprises doivent commencer à placer les mêmes attentes sur leur chaîne d’approvisionnement que sur leurs activités plus larges, en se structurant pour être “just in case”, afin de pouvoir s’adapter en cas de catastrophe. Celles qui n’opèrent pas ce changement s’exposeront à des 18 mois très difficiles. »

 

[1]  La Supply Chain de demain : des perturbations à tout moment

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À propos de SAP

La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en « entreprise intelligente » et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 87 % du commerce mondial total est généré par nos clients. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en « entreprises intelligentes ». SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration pour qu’ils puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services end-to-end permet aux clients privés et publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier, de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun.

 

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Levallois-Perret, le 16 mars 2023 – SAP France signe la Charte LGBT+ de l’Autre Cercle, véritable référent en matière d’inclusion des personnes LGBT+ dans le milieu professionnel, et ambitionne de poursuivre un objectif qui découle d’une stratégie plus globale chez SAP : « être l’entreprise Tech la plus inclusive au monde », tel qu’annoncé par Christian Klein, CEO & Executive Board Member de SAP.

La diversité et l’inclusion sont devenues des priorités pour les organisations qui concentrent davantage leurs actions autour de ces enjeux sociétaux. En tant qu’entreprise engagée, SAP France souhaite défendre ce qui est juste et tend, par cette action, à poursuivre une démarche forte et volontariste en matière d’inclusion pour les collaborateurs appartenant à la communauté LGBT+.

 

Les engagements

L’Autre Cercle, Association française de référence qui œuvre pour l’inclusion des personnes LGBT+ dans le monde du travail depuis plus de 25 ans, anime un réseau d’employeurs et de signataires d’entreprises engagés pour favoriser l’inclusion des personnes LGBT+ dans le milieu professionnel. Chaque signature est valable pour une durée de 3 ans.

En signant la Charte de l’Autre Cercle, SAP France s’engage à :

  • créer un environnement inclusif pour les collaboratrices et les collaborateurs LGBT+ ;
  • veiller à l’égalité des droits et de traitement entre toutes les collaboratrices et tous les collaborateurs, quelle que soit leur orientation sexuelle ou leur identité de genre ;
  • soutenir toutes les victimes de propos ou d’actes discriminatoires ;
  • mesurer les avancées et partager les bonnes pratiques pour faire évoluer l’environnement professionnel.

Cet engagement vient compléter les nombreuses actions déjà menées en faveur de la diversité et de l’inclusion au sein de SAP France (diversité de genre, de génération, personnes en situation de handicap, neurodiversité …) et encourage chacun et chacune à défendre la diversité, l’équité et l’inclusion chaque jour de l’année. L’occasion également pour SAP France de réaffirmer ses valeurs de respect et de bienveillance, tant en interne qu’auprès de tout son écosystème, afin d’être – ensemble – tous acteurs du changement.

 

Lancement de Pride@SAP

Au fil des décennies, SAP a su créer des espaces d’écoute, sûrs, où l’on se sent accueilli et où l’on peut venir alimenter la créativité de l’entreprise. Le bien-être au travail gagne de l’importance et devient un facteur d’attractivité, de fidélisation et d’engagement. Chaque entreprise doit pouvoir adapter son identité et ses valeurs à ces évolutions.

C’est dans cette optique que SAP France annonce le lancement de son réseau professionnel Pride@SAP France pour que chacune et chacun puisse revendiquer sa fierté d’être elle-même et lui-même.

 

Le mot des porte-paroles

Olivier Nollent, Président, Directeur Général de SAP France indique : « En signant cette charte, nous avons vocation à toucher tous nos employés mais aussi tout notre écosystème de partenaires, de clients ou d’investisseurs. Notre ambition est de montrer la voie, dans la continuité de nos actions en faveur de la diversité et de l’inclusion, et de faire écho au-delà de notre propre environnement. »

Caroline Garnier, DRH SAP France & Maroc ajoute : « La diversité contribue à rendre notre lieu de travail plus performant et l’inclusion est nécessaire pour l’épanouissement de chacun – toutes deux requièrent une attention constante, de la vigilance et des actions concrètes. Notre objectif est de promouvoir un environnement de travail dans lequel chacune et chacun peut s’épanouir, quelle que soit son orientation sexuelle ou son identité de genre. Sois fièr·e d’être toi-même ! »

 

Denis Triay, Président de L’Autre Cercle : « Comme les autres facteurs de diversité, ceux de l’orientation sexuelle et de l’identité de genre confèrent un regard et une expérience de vie différente qui permettent d’enrichir les réflexions et les modes de décisions dans les organisations. La norme induit un mode de pensée qui rassure, la diversité propose un mode de pensée en rupture.
La diversité est le catalyseur de la performance et de l’innovation, il  est de la responsabilité des employeurs de savoir la préserver, de la cultiver et de la promouvoir. C’est non seulement un enjeu de responsabilité sociétale mais aussi un enjeu de développement stratégique des organisations.
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Catherine Tripon, Porte-parole et Co-responsable du pôle Employeurs : « Quand on a pour devise d’améliorer le bien-être de toutes et tous, évidemment cela fait écho pour les employé.es de SAP. Tous les critères de diversité sont concernés par des démarches volontaristes inclusives. Mais cela ne peut se pérenniser sans embarquer l’ensemble du collectif de travail. Pour les personnes LGBT+, tenant compte des violences de part le monde, travailler dans une entreprise mondiale comme SPA, qui s’engage à les protéger et les valoriser dans leur parcours professionnel, c’est une marque d’engagement que la Charte LGBT+ permet de consolider. »

 

 

A propos de SAP

La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en « entreprise intelligente » et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 87 % du commerce mondial total est généré par nos clients. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en « entreprises intelligentes ». SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration pour qu’ils puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services end-to-end permet aux clients privés et publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier, de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun.

Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.sap.com. 

Contact presse SAP : sylvie.lechevin@sap.com

 

A propos de l’Autre Cercle

Association créée en 1997, L’Autre Cercle est l’acteur français de référence pour l’inclusion des personnes LGBT+ au travail. Ses valeurs sont le respect, l’humanisme, l’indépendance, l’engagement et le pragmatisme. Elle œuvre pour un monde professionnel épanouissant, inclusif et respectueux des personnes dans toutes leurs diversités, quelle que soit leur orientation sexuelle ou identité de genre. Outre sa vocation d’observatoire, ses missions sont d’accompagner les organisations et de promouvoir les bonnes pratiques. L’Autre Cercle fédère plus de 230 organisations publiques et privées adhérentes et/ou signataires de la Charte d’Engagement LGBT+ réunissant plus de 2 millions de salarié·e·s et agent·e·s.

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WALLDORF (Allemagne), le 8 mars 2023. SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) annonce des innovations majeures et des partenariats clés dans le domaine de la data, pour permettre aux clients d’accéder aux données critiques de leur entreprise, venant ainsi accélérer la compréhension des informations et améliorer leur prise de décision. SAP lance la solution SAP® Datasphere, la dernière génération de solutions de gestion de données, qui permet aux clients d’accéder facilement aux informations business directement exploitables dans l’ensemble du paysage de la data. SAP annonce également son partenariat avec des entreprises leaders dans les secteurs de la data et de l’IA – Collibra NV, Confluent Inc., DataBricks Inc. et DataRobot Inc. – afin d’enrichir SAP Datasphere et permettre aux entreprises de concevoir une architecture de données unifiée, combinant en toute sécurité les données SAP et non-SAP.

Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, l’accès et l’utilisation des données constituaient un réel défi au vu de la complexité de leur localisation et de leur système, qu’elles soient chez des fournisseurs de cloud computing, de data ou en site propre. Les clients devaient extraire les données depuis leurs sources d’origine et les exporter vers un point central, perdant au passage un aspect essentiel de leur contexte métier, et ne le récupérant qu’au prix d’efforts intenses sur le plan informatique. Avec ces annonces, SAP Datasphere met fin à cette « taxe cachée » sur la data, permettant aux clients de construire leur architecture de données qui fournit rapidement des informations significatives, tout en préservant le contexte et la logique de l’organisation.

« Les clients SAP générant 87% du commerce total mondial, les données SAP font partie des actifs business les plus précieux de l’entreprises et sont contenues dans les fonctions les plus déterminantes d’une organisation : de la fabrication aux chaînes d’approvisionnement, en passant par la finance, les ressources humaines et bien plus encore » a déclaré Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer et Membre Exécutif du Board de SAP. « Nous voulons aider nos clients à passer à la vitesse supérieure pour intégrer facilement, et en toute confiance, les données SAP avec les données non-SAP provenant d’applications et de plateformes tierces, afin de débloquer des informations et des connaissances entièrement nouvelles pour que la transformation digitale atteigne un autre niveau. »

 

SAP Datasphere

Disponible dès aujourd’hui, SAP Datasphere est la nouvelle génération de SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. Elle permet aux professionnels de la data de fournir un accès évolutif aux données critiques de l’entreprise. Grâce à une expérience simplifiée pour l’intégration, le catalogage, la modélisation sémantique, le stockage et la virtualisation des données, SAP Datasphere permet aux professionnels de la data de faciliter la distribution des données critiques de l’entreprise en préservant le contexte et la logique de cette dernière, avec une vision 360° de l’ensemble des données de l’organisation. SAP Datasphere s’appuie sur SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), intégrant de solides fonctionnalités en termes de sécurité pour l’entreprise : base de données, cryptage, gouvernance. Aucune étape ou migration supplémentaire n’est requise pour les clients actuels de SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, qui bénéficieront automatiquement des nouvelles fonctionnalités de SAP Datasphere dans leur environnement produit. Ces nouvelles fonctionnalités comprennent le catalogage des données qui permet de les découvrir et de les gérer automatiquement, de simplifier leur réplication avec une mise à jour en temps réel, et d’améliorer leur modélisation pour conserver la richesse du contexte métier dans les applications SAP. D’autres fonctionnalités d’intégration d’applications reliant les données et les métadonnées des applications SAP Cloud à SAP Datasphere sont prévues.

Messer Americas, leader mondial dans le domaine des gaz industriels et médicaux en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, avait besoin d’un accès simple et sécurisé aux données SAP et non SAP au sein de son organisation pour améliorer la prise de décision – pilotée par les données – et de libérer les ressources informatiques afin qu’elles se concentrent sur des tâches plus stratégiques. Grâce à SAP Datasphere, Messer Americas a construit une architecture moderne de données qui préserve le contexte de ses données d’entreprise.

« SAP Datasphere simplifie notre vue d’ensemble de la data et renforce notre confiance dans les données que nous utilisons tous les jours, ce qui nous permet de mieux répondre aux besoins de l’entreprises » explique David Johnston, Chief Information Officer de Messer Americas. « Nous sommes en mesure de réagir plus rapidement aux changements émergents de l’offre et de la demande, ce qui se traduit par une meilleure gestion des stocks, un meilleur service client et l’optimisation de notre chaîne logistique ».

 

Partenariats stratégiques

SAP et ses nouveaux partenaires open data aideront des centaines de millions d’utilisateurs à travers le monde à prendre des décisions stratégiques fondées sur des quantités massives de données. Les partenaires stratégiques de SAP apportent leur talent unique, issu de leur écosystème, et permettent aux clients de combiner toutes leurs données comme jamais auparavant.

« Tout le monde souhaite avoir accès aux données SAP, c’est pourquoi il est absolument nécessaire de prendre le meilleur des fournisseurs technologiques pour mettre en place une stratégie complète autour de la data », a déclaré Dan Vesset, Vice-Président du Groupe IDC, chargé des analyses et études de marché sur la data. « Les organisations vivent aujourd’hui dans un monde où la lecture de données multi-cloud, multifournisseurs, hors et sur site est la norme. SAP adopte une nouvelle approche en s’associant à un groupe restreint de partenaires de premier plan, traitant les données tierces comme des citoyens de tout premier ordre afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des clients. »

 

A propos des partenaires

  • Collibra prévoit une intégration sur mesure avec SAP, permettant aux clients de mettre en place une stratégie de gouvernance d’entreprise, en construisant un catalogue de données complet, avec un historique sur l’ensemble de leurs données, qu’il s’agisse à la fois de données SAP et non SAP. Collibra rend les données fiables et accessibles à l’ensemble de l’entreprise.
  • Confluent prévoit de connecter sa plateforme de streaming de données, permettant aux entreprises de débloquer des données business précieuses et de les connecter à des applications externes en temps réel. L’offre cloud native de Confluent est la plateforme de référence pour les données dynamiques, permettant un flux illimité en temps réel provenant de diverses sources au sein de l’organisation.
  • Les clients de DataBricks peuvent intégrer leur Data Lakehouse à SAP afin de partager les données tout en préservant leur sémantique et les aide ainsi à simplifier leur vue d’ensemble.
  • DataRobot permet aux clients d’exploiter les capacités d’apprentissage automatique multimodales sur SAP Datasphere et de les intégrer directement dans leur bases, quelle que soit la plateforme cloud où elles sont stockées.

 

A propos de SAP

La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en « entreprise intelligente » et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 87 % du commerce mondial total est généré par nos clients. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en « entreprises intelligentes ». SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration pour qu’ils puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services end-to-end permet aux clients privés et publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier, de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun.

Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.sap.com. 

 

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Personalized marketing is when you attune your marketing efforts based on customer data. This data can be anything from the first and last name to purchase intent, concerns, and history.

Personalized marketing has revolutionized the way businesses market their product and service to their audience. It brings value to people’s lives, spiking the sales graph for brands and businesses. So it’s a win-win situation for both the company and the consumer.

Even big companies do this for their campaigns. They do so because it gives them great results and ROI for their marketing initiatives. If these multinational businesses do this, it’s a good idea to incorporate this strategy and learn from a top resource on digital marketing.

This article aims to explain every nook and cranny of personalized marketing. By the end of this 5-minute read, you will know the impact of personalized marketing on our lives. And how you can integrate this into your marketing strategy to benefit your business.

What Is Personalized Marketing?

Have you ever encountered a business that knows what you’re going through? Or did you see an ad online that you closely relate to? Chances are, you were one of the target markets of those marketing materials. And if you could associate yourself with the ad, their marketing strategy worked.

That is what personalized marketing does to your audience, market, or particular demographic. This style of advertising leverages personalization in your marketing materials. The details of your marketing content are tailored to a specific audience and address the issues or real-time problems of a particular segment in your market.

Personalized marketing has become popular because more people demand it from businesses. Once the people have experienced what it felt like, they want to feel more of it.

To objectively see the demand for personalization, here are some statistics to back it up.

Accenture reported that 91% of consumers are likelier to shop with businesses that offer them relevant content. This shows that the right product recommendations can increase the chances of shopping with you.

Salesforce mentioned that 66% of consumers expect companies to understand their individual needs. This statement proves that a generalized way of marketing isn’t as effective as before. The consumer mindset has already developed, and they demand more personalization from businesses.

A striking piece of data from Statista showed that 90% of consumers in the US find the idea of personalization appealing. If that figure is accurate, almost all businesses should start incorporating this into their strategies. There’s no reason for them not to try this out.

Given the high positive demand for personalized marketing, it’s no secret why more and more businesses are doing this. However, not every company out there is doing this right. A wrong way of doing this can bring a loss of clients and a negative ROI.

To help you go on the right track of using personalization in your marketing, read up on the next section of this article.

Know These 6 Tips To Correctly Do Personalized Marketing

You’d agree that knowing your customer’s first and last name is essential. But with the dynamically changing strategies, personalized marketing is going beyond that. It’s actually about understanding what your targeted consumers need, merging with a way to convey the message that your business is the solution.

To help you achieve this, take note of the things below:

1. Leverage Your Customer Data

The foundation of personalized marketing is laid on customer data. The best marketing professionals and strategists emphasize gathering relevant data if you want to scale. Excellent digital marketing courses will teach you that customer data will help you build a solid foundation for your content and campaigns.

Consumer behavior has always been the most important detail for target marketing. With every click, it has become easier to gather data about individual customers, their interests, hobbies, purchase history, buying behavior, and more.

You’ll be able to get this information if you’ve practiced data management and collecting customer data throughout the years of your operation. However, it’s not too late to begin if you haven’t started with this yet. There is a lot of marketing automation software that aids marketing teams in doing this. For example, many businesses use lead scoring software to gain insight into their clients’ needs and categorize them appropriately.

For your personalization efforts, you can use questionnaires, surveys, and feedback forms to capture personal data on the internet. A customer will happily fill out a survey form if a reward in return entices him. This reward can be in any form– a voucher, a first buy discount, free shipping, or more.

This initiative will help you get more data in a shorter time frame.

2. Understand Your Customer’s Needs

Hoarding data will be a complete waste of marketing efforts, capital, and efficiency if you do not extract consumer behavior from it. When you have access to a rich set of data, you have the privilege to understand your customers’ trending needs deeply. After gaining insights from the data, create a marketing strategy based on those findings to target your audience.

Doing this doesn’t just apply to B2C; it also works for B2B companies, which is why the demand for custom software development, tailored services, personalized packages, and B2B data providers have been on the rise in these recent years.

It is a two-way road. While you are on the lookout for your target market, at the same time, the customers expect businesses to know what they need. The market you’re currently serving expects you to know what products or services are fit for them.

So this is where it gets crucial: you have to dig deeper into your niche and find the specs of your audience’s needs. Having a general idea about the needs of your target audience and personalized marketing usually don’t go harmoniously.

Planning a better-personalized marketing strategy will not be a piece of cake but will be much more rewarding for every aspect of your business. May it be sales, return on investments, customer relationships, or personalized marketing campaigns.

3. Personalize Every Stage Of The Customer Journey

The first rule of business is convincing the customer that you are their best friend. Now that you know what they want, you pledge to provide them with whatever best you can. Limiting personalization to marketing is not the solution. You have to be vigilant in meeting these individual requirements at every stage. And remember that consistency is the name of the game. That is how you bring your business into the running.

You can integrate CRM automation, email marketing tools and deploy other content marketing strategies to help make this process a lot simpler. Personalized live chat and chatbots, such as those offered by ThriveDesk, allow businesses to personalize their offerings and build their brand reputation.

As a customer, my requirement would be reading content, browsing, and experiencing products that would hit home. A personalized experience is what every consumer demands. And this is what makes them want to go back and do business with you again.

By creating helpful and relevant content, recommending the right products to them, and giving out convenient payment options, you are setting your business apart from the rest. Doing this allows you to have personalized every touchpoint that your customers do with your business.

4. Present In An Engaging Way

Consider customer engagement as absolutely necessary. Having the best data set and knowing what your customers want is not enough. In the competitive space of business and marketing, everyone is trying to get the attention of one another. And this is what you are supposed to do. This helps in building consumer-brand relations.

When a consumer engages, meaningful things happen. Engaging content pushes the consumer through the funnel and hence promotes conversions. Your content should be creative and eye-catching.

Engaging content blended with personalization boosts the brand experience. Increased loyalty, trust-building, and improved customer experience enhance the conversion and sales speed.

A great way to use personalization in an engaging manner that most businesses overlook would be through exit-intent popups.

5. Be Where Your Customers Are

This is an element that some businesses miss out on. They have created excellent social media marketing content but only distributed it on the wrong channel. For personalized marketing to be effective, it needs to be seen by people.

Are you questioning your marketing techniques because all you see is stagnancy? You have set up an engaging online store on Shopify or Wix, collected all the relevant data, your content is engaging enough, and your marketing strategy is top-notch. But you are still unable to reach your clientele.

You start wondering what you are missing out on. Your content and your strategies will not be prolific if you are on the wrong channel. Remember: the message of your content has to reach the right people for it to be effective.

Should you be on social media? If so, which one? Do you get more traction with email campaigns? Or do you have more engagements on forums?

Find out where your market is, then spend your focus there. Now the next step is how to know where they spend most of their time?

This is where we go back in the loop. And hence we again emphasize that data collection is the foundation of any great marketing strategy.

6. Improve Marketing Content

Don’t rest on your laurels when you’ve gotten everything down to a tee and have attained your desired marketing analytics behind your personalized marketing content. Always think of ways how you can improve.

Evolving at every step will keep you in the running. Don’t be misguided into thinking that your work is done if you feel like you have reached the pinnacle. Keep looking for ways to get better. Set bigger goals and status for your business.

Always go back to the drawing board and brainstorm with your team on how you can change and strive with the dynamically changing world and mindsets. In the end, all you want is to build better relationships with your customers, new and existing.

For enhanced productivity, your marketing team should always look for new strategies. This is how fresh and great marketing ideas are made.

See How You Can Benefit From Personalized Marketing

Irrelevant information can waste energy and time for both customers and the business. Personalized marketing hits the bull’s eye 99% of the time. It brings immeasurable value to the company as well as the customer.

Here are some of the top benefits of personalized marketing:

1. Better Engagement

The first target personalized marketing aims at is grabbing an individual’s attention. And this results in better engagement eventually. If you are presenting your customer with something that wows them, needless to say, it will grab their attention.

This will help bridge the gap between your customer and your brand. Identifying customers’ needs and then giving them what they want will help improve customer interaction with your brand.

It can even be enough for them to follow your call to action. The next thing you know, they will be checking your website, signing up for a list, or even purchasing a product right then and there.

2. Higher Conversions

Are you there for your customer at the right time and place? One-on-one marketing provides easy solutions to customers because you hit them with just what they are looking for at the right time.

When potential customers realize that you understand what they’re going through and provide the solution, most won’t hesitate to try your business out.

Personalization isn’t just focused on content. It can also be integrated into your processes. This results in aiding the increase of higher conversion rates.

3. Improved Customer Experience

Offering personalization will significantly improve the user experience. Once you provide the products, services, and content that meet their needs, their opinion of your business automatically improves.

Considering the statistics about personalized experiences, it is evident that consumers demand personalization strategies from companies. And if you offer such an experience, you increase the chance of making them do more business with you. Personalization helps businesses in reducing cart abandonment rates, better customer journey, increased customer satisfaction, and many more.

4. Customer Retention

Retaining persisting customers is equally important to your business as bringing new ones. Most businesses face low customer retention. It’s also a factor that some companies overlook. You must understand that it’s not all about converting prospects into paying customers. Your focus should also be on retaining those customers to make them loyal advocates of your brand.

One of the major benefits of consistent personalization is an improved customer retention rate. Consumers tend to stay with a business that understands their needs and provides solutions to their problems.

Once you can transfer a customer to a loyal advocate, you can also receive a ton of benefits. These are people that are going to defend your brand from critics. These are the same people who will give you free marketing via word of mouth and positive reviews.

5. Better Customer Relationships

Personalized experience leads to customer retention, eventually building better relationships with your nurtured customers. These entities are connected in a loop.

Customer relationships are an aspect of business that significantly helps with scalability and higher revenue. So connecting with your customers and building a relationship with them is as important as the product you are selling. This is why strengthening customer relationships should be a top priority for businesses.

Personalization makes you an expert on your target market trends. You get to know your audience deeper, which helps you build a foundation for creating a great customer relationship. And this requires marketing and customer experience teams to work together in a symphony.

For this, you can use team collaboration software which aids in the optimization of content and your approach toward the market. You’ll have a better strategy in getting their attention, providing what they want, and recommending things they’ll be interested in.

All of these things help in building customer rapport. When a customer feels that you treat them as more than just a paying customer, their customer loyalty goes to your business.

Best Examples Personalization Marketing

To inspire you to integrate this marketing strategy into your operations, below are different personalization marketing campaigns done exceptionally by various businesses. Grab inspiration, ideas, and motivation from these examples.

1. Coca-Cola

We all know the most basic form of personalization is addressing your customers’ names, but Coca-Cola took this simple idea into a massive global campaign. Their “Share a Coke” campaign started in 2011, wherein they printed different popular names on their Coke bottles and cans.

It seemed like a regular campaign at first, but it started getting traction as more customers wanted to get the name of their family, friends, and themselves. Coca-Cola said the campaign’s purpose was “to create a more personal relationship with consumers and inspire shared moments of happiness.”

The soft drinks giant used personalization and tied such a strategy with its mission: to bring memories and happiness to its consumers. You, too, can do the same – combine your mission and personalization strategy to create a unique campaign.

2. Spotify

Spotify leverages user data in its marketing strategy. They have several campaigns that make users want to use their application more often because it gives out a more tailored experience.

Other than their year-end campaign( #spotifywrapped), where they show the most played songs and podcasts their users listen to (which was a viral hit), they now also have an #OnlyYou campaign that shows your unique listening taste partnered with a musical astrology reading.

3. Nike

Nike has consistently been recognized for authentic, personalized, and heartfelt ad campaigns. This personalization always makes them capture an audience who can relate and those who start connecting to the brand. So Nike isn’t new to personalization. Their aim is robust community engagement.

Their highly inspirational campaigns with real-life heroes induce inspiration in their audience. Nike is great at converting people because of its excellent storytelling ability while adding personalization to the mix.

Nike’s just launched a new app that offers personalized content and rewards for committed fans. They tackle challenges and issues head-on, but they always make their marketing messages relatable to their audience. That is why they “just do it.”

Conclusion

Personalized marketing is the secret sauce to thriving businesses in the world today. However, incorporating this marketing strategy and finding success is not as simple as you might think. You will face challenges, but with enough perseverance and brainstorming, you can surpass them and successfully create a great campaign.

Remember, this marketing approach can be a hit or a miss. The first step to making it a success is relevant data collection followed by judicious implementation. This isn’t an overnight activity that you can do. It requires months of diligence in the right direction with the proper guidance. And you can gain valuable insights into this guidance via the content marketing strategies outlined in this article. But remember, once you start rolling, there is no looking back.

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As a website designer, your professional life revolves around crucial questions that might help you to deliver better results for your clients.

Which widgets are essential to driving conversions? What kind of checkout page elements do you need to include? Should there be a video or slideshow on that product page?

One of the biggest queries that we face when building landing pages to encourage sales is whether a CTA (call to action) button needs to be above or below the fold. 

Answering the question: “Where should the CTA go?” correctly could make or break your client’s chances of a sale. Unfortunately, this particular concern has been the source of a raging debate for many years now. Everyone has their own opinion about CTAs and where they belong.

Today, we’re going to cover the benefits and issues with placing a CTA above the fold.

Should You Place a CTA Above the Fold? 

Starting with a quick refresher, the term “above the fold” refers to any area of a website seen on a screen when a user arrives on a webpage. The content that appears above and below the fold may differ depending on the device you’re visiting a website with. 

Experts in the design and digital marketing world have frequently claimed that if you want to get the best results with a CTA, you need to place it above the fold. 

This strategy makes a lot of sense. If your CTA is above the fold, then your chances of it being seen are significantly higher. Some customers might not want to scroll to the bottom of a page to find out what they need to do next in their buyer journey. 

Additionally, according to the NN group, the 100 pixels that appeared above the fold were seen 102% more often than the pixels underneath the fold. Eye-tracking technology learned that more often than not, you’ll get more engagement above the fold. 

Just look at this landing page from Lyft, for instance, you immediately see what you need to do next:

It’s not just a single study that has touted the benefits of an above-the-fold CTA, either. 

Another report into the “importance of being seen” found that above-the-fold ads and CTAs had a 73% rate of visibility compared to only 44% for those below the fold

So, with stats like that to think about, why would you ever consider using a below-the-fold CTA? 

When to Place a CTA Below the Fold

As with most things in web design, there is an exception to the rule. 

Yes, above the fold, CTAs will be better for you most of the time. However, there are times when you might need to think outside of the box. 

Most people think that placing a CTA below the fold practically guarantees that it won’t be seen. However, if you’re creating a website page or landing page that includes a lot of vital information, your audience will need to scroll. 

For instance, if you’re creating a page where someone can download an app to engage with a business they already know about, it makes sense to speed the journey along with an above-the-fold CTA. However, if you’re trying to convince someone to sign up for your webinar, you might need to tell them what that webinar is all about first. That’s where a below-the-fold CTA comes in handy. 

Customers might not have a lot of time in their busy schedules for scrolling these days. However, they still need the right information before they can make a decision about what to do next with your brand. According to Marketing Experiments, below the fold, CTA buttons can result in a 20% increase in conversions. However, this conversion boost only happens when you’re providing valuable, engaging, and persuasive content.

Check out this example from the Boston Globe, for instance:

The Fold Isn’t Everything in Web Design

The fold is often an essential consideration in web design. 

However, it’s not all you need to think about when you’re deciding where to place sign-up forms and valuable CTA buttons. 

According to the Nielsen Norman group, the content that appears at the top of the page will always influence user experience. However, that doesn’t mean that you need to place your CTA there. What you do need to do is ensure that whatever you have above the fold is promising enough to engage your visitor and make them scroll. 

Put simply, what’s above and below the fold does matter, but your focus should be on taking advantage of customer motivation, rather than worrying exclusively about an imaginary line. 

When deciding where a CTA belongs, you need to think about motivation. 

How motivated is your prospect to click on a button? How desirable is your offering at that time, and how much does your visitor already know about the thing they’re being offered?

If you’re going to need to provide more information before your customer wants to convert, then a below-the-fold CTA makes more sense. 

If you’ve already provided all the information that your customer needs and a prospect is visiting from an advertisement or another page on the website, then above the fold should be exceptional. 

The Truth About Designing for The Fold

The reality for web designers today is that achieving higher conversion rates doesn’t really have that much to do with whether a CTA is above or below the fold.

What’s important is whether your buttons come under the right amount of copy that answers the correct questions for an audience. 

Remember, when visitors come to a website, they’re looking for different things. There are visitors that:

  • Already know your brand and value your offering: These people are often clicking into your landing pages from other marketing campaigns where they’ve learned about the brand or offer. You can give these prospects a CTA immediately so they can continue down the buyer’s funnel as fast as possible. 
  • Are uncertain about your offering and need to know a bit more: These people need some extra information. They might have a concern that needs to be addressed before they’re willing to spend their money. You might not need much copy here, which means that a CTA may still appear above the fold. 
  • Are brand new to your website: These prospects need a reasonable amount of copy. They don’t know what you’re offering or why it’s valuable to them. Because of this, you may need to wait to push them into action until you’ve delivered the right copy. 

In some cases, you may even place multiple CTAs on the same page. Some people will have a general understanding of the technology and what it does. This means that they’ll be happy to click on the button at the top of the fold. 

On the other hand, there could also be visitors arriving on the same page that don’t understand what the benefits of real-time personalization are. This means that you need to elaborate a little on what you have to offer. A simple one-line explanation isn’t enough here.  

Figuring Out Where to Place a CTA

Deciding where to place different elements of a website is a common challenge for web designers. Despite tons of blogs out there, that claim “above the fold” is always the best option for any conversion rate optimization, the truth is a little more complicated. 

The critical thing to remember as a web designer is that a CTA button asks a customer for commitment. Even if the CTA allows someone to download a free demo or sign-up for a newsletter without spending any money, it requires a customer to start a relationship with a brand. 

In a world where customers are less trusting of companies than ever, it doesn’t make sense to push them into a relationship too quickly. Asking for a commitment from a target audience before they’ve had the chance to see what’s “in it for them” is not a good idea. 

Jump in too quickly, and you’re likely to rub people the wrong way. 

Go Out and Master the Fold

The issue for today’s designers isn’t figuring out whether a button needs to be visible from the moment someone arrives on a page. Instead, you need to think about whether visitors are finding the CTA at a time when they’re ready to take action. 

You can only answer the question “where should the CTA go?” after you’ve carefully analyzed the project that you’re working on. 

Remember, above the fold isn’t always the answer. 

 

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New Zealand Rugby (NZR) a annoncé la signature d’un partenariat majeur pluriannuel avec SAP afin d’accélérer la transformation numérique de l’Union de Rugby. SAP, tout premier grand partenaire technologique de NZR, devient à la fois un Partenaire Officiel Mondial Premium, un Partenaire Technologique Officiel, et le Partenaire Officiel des Logiciels Cloud des « équipes en noir »*, notamment les All Blacks et les Black Ferns.

Leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, SAP possède l’expertise, les solutions et l’envergure nécessaire pour créer une infrastructure technologique plus efficace, connectée et innovante pour NZR. Les deux organisations collaboreront pour identifier et mettre en œuvre des solutions Cloud novatrices, et connecter les données dans des domaines clés, afin de fournir un avantage concurrentiel sur et en dehors du terrain aux équipes, et plus largement à tout l’écosystème de NZR.

Ce partenariat permettra à NZR d’exploiter les solutions SAP et d’innover dans quatre domaines clés : créer un système de gestion intégré pour diriger et améliorer ses opérations, parfaire l’expérience des supporters, réaliser des objectifs de développement durable pour l’organisation et explorer la manière dont l’utilisation des données et des solutions peut favoriser la performance des équipes.

  • Opérations organisationnelles : l’utilisation d’un hub digital de solutions SAP pour créer des systèmes interconnectés permettant à NZR de tirer le meilleur parti de la puissance de ses systèmes et des données hors terrain, afin de mieux soutenir leurs équipes en place.
  • Performance de l’équipe : en implémentant SAP SuccessFactors et en se dotant d’une source unique de données RH, NZR compte améliorer l’expérience de ses membres et leur permettre ainsi d’atteindre leur plein potentiel.
  • Expérience des fans : créer de nouvelles façons de se connecter et de dialoguer avec la base de supporters locaux et mondiaux de NZR, tout en exploitant les nouvelles technologies et plateformes, afin qu’ils se rapprochent de leurs équipes et joueurs préférés.
  • Impact environnemental : exploiter les solutions et les capacités numériques permettant à NZR de gérer de manière holistique ses performances en matière de durabilité, tout en soutenant la stratégie plus large de NZR en matière de responsabilité sociale et d’environnementale (RSE).

Angela Nash, Chief Information & Technology Officer de NZR, a déclaré : “La NZR entreprend une transformation numérique de grande ampleur qui nécessite le soutien et l’expertise d’une organisation technologique internationale, pour nous aider à réaliser notre objectif : devenir l’Union de Rugby la plus avancée sur le plan technologique dans le monde. SAP est à l’avant-garde de la transformation numérique au niveau mondial et dispose des outils nécessaires pour nous aider à mettre en place une équipe d’experts qui, non seulement partage notre vision, mais dont les compétences et les capacités sont de renommée internationale. Nous sommes ravis qu’ils soient notre premier partenaire technologique et qu’ils travaillent avec NZR sur toutes les plates-formes clés afin d’examiner, d’améliorer et de nous permettre de fournir des systèmes technologiques qui garantissent que nous sommes les meilleurs sur le terrain et en dehors.”

Scott Russell, Executive Board Member & Customer Success, commente :

New Zealand Rugby s’est fixé un objectif ambitieux : devenir le collectif de Rugby le plus avancé technologiquement au monde. En tant que tout premier partenaire technologique de l’organisation, SAP peut aider NZR à atteindre cet objectif en favorisant la transformation numérique dans tous ses domaines d’activités et en introduisant des technologies révolutionnaires qui aideront les équipes de NZR à donner le meilleur d’elles-mêmes – et à gagner. ”

SAP et NZR mettront également l’accent sur le développement de programmes et d’initiatives supplémentaires visant à promouvoir et à célébrer la diversité et l’inclusion.

Grâce à ce partenariat, SAP bénéficiera de divers droits et avantages, notamment le marquage et la signalisation dans les stades et sur le terrain pour les matchs gérés par NZR, le marquage sur toutes les plateformes numériques, les interventions des joueurs et des rencontres exclusives avec les équipes et les joueurs.

*Les « équipes en noir » de la NZR – les All Blacks, les Black Ferns, les All Blacks Sevens, les Black Ferns Sevens, les Māori All Blacks, les All Blacks XV et les All Blacks moins de 20.

 

À PROPOS DE NEW-ZEALAND RUGBY
Fondé en 1892, New Zealand Rugby s’efforce d’inspirer et d’unifier les Néo-Zélandais à travers le rugby. Notre objectif est de diriger, soutenir, développer et promouvoir le jeu national de la Nouvelle-Zélande, en mettant le rugby au cœur de chaque communauté. Le système de haute performance de NZR s’efforce de promouvoir les compétitions que nos fans aiment, d’encourager les talents qui peuvent représenter nos équipes en noir et d’être leader mondial sur et en dehors du terrain.

À PROPOS DE SAP
La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque entreprise à fonctionner comme une entreprise intelligente et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à fonctionner au mieux : Les clients de SAP génèrent 87 % du commerce mondial total. Nos technologies d’apprentissage automatique, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée permettent de transformer les activités des clients en entreprises intelligentes. SAP aide à donner aux personnes et aux organisations une connaissance approfondie de l’entreprise et favorise la collaboration qui leur permet de garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie pour les entreprises afin qu’elles puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services de bout en bout permet aux entreprises et aux organismes publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie des gens. Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.sap.com.

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When you hear the word “leadership,” do you think of a particular person?

If you’d been asked that question anytime before the 1900s, chances are you’d think of an accomplished politician or a battle-tested general. These were the people leading society for most of recorded history. Today, you might have someone else in mind.

Since the industrial era, the US has birthed a pantheon of founders who’ve arguably led our society as much as any statesman or president. We put Rockefeller and Ford right next to Lincoln and Jefferson. Think about it; these guys haven’t just changed the US; they’ve changed how the entire world lives and does business.

Founders of successful companies today command even larger amounts of capital and power than JD and Henry. With the rise of social media, they are often thrust to the forefront of their brands and the public, whether they like it or not. Some manage the responsibility better than others.

In my opinion, the best businesses use all that capital, manpower, and name recognition to do more than simply make a profit. By leading with authenticity, inspiring positive action, and influencing their brand’s vision for innovation – they try to make a change.

I wanted to take a minute to reflect on some modern founder-led brands I think are doing a killer job of creating unique, world-changing businesses and company cultures. I also want to discuss the lessons I have learned from them.

Elon Musk – Tesla

When talking about founder-led brands of the 21st century, it’s hard to pass over electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and its outspoken CEO, Elon Musk. Love him or loathe him, he belongs in any conversation on influential founders.

While Musk isn’t technically the founder of Tesla, he is one hundred percent responsible for the company’s direction over the past decade. I think two of the strongest leadership points for Musk are his focus on branding and innovation.

Tesla created showrooms and charging stations long before his business had the sales to justify the expense. People saw the name Tesla everywhere, got curious about it, and now that’s paying off big time. Tesla today is at the forefront of the EV industry while all the other car companies play catch-up.

Behind the scenes, Tesla was also early to create a vertically-integrated supply chain – giving it almost complete control over its product and logistics. That’s another feature with a hefty upfront price tag but paid off when the pandemic hit. Now the biggest automakers in the world are rushing to copy that model.

Musk arguably even convinced China to deregulate foreign ownership of automotive companies. That’s hard to prove. However, China changed its rules around foreign ownership of EV companies shortly after he refused to enter the country.

Arguably, Tesla today is one of the frontrunners in redefining how traditional companies run. Musk is known to hate bureaucracy and traditional hierarchies. He hires other people to take care of bureaucratic processes for him.

Musk is also known for hiring relatively young, hard-working employees into high-power management positions in the company and letting them prove themselves. That inspires extreme loyalty from his employees from an early age. Musk’s focus on efficiency and rejection of traditional hierarchies has sparked a small revolution in tech companies.

Finally, I respect Musk because he has goals beyond showing year-over-year growth to shareholders. That’s hard to do day in and day out.

Sara Blakely – Spanx

Sara Blakely is an example of a founder with her hands in every part of her business, from product creation to sales. Most importantly, she created an authentic company culture with values she felt the business world lacked.

For those who know her story, Spanx very nearly didn’t happen. Blakely pitched her slimming undergarment to multiple women’s brands run by men. Most told her it would never work.

It might seem silly now, but men used to think they knew women’s fashion better than women. It wasn’t until one executive gave Blakely’s product to his daughters to try out that he agreed to start stocking Spanx. It’s a great example of how businesses can make a lot of money by listening to their customers.

Besides founding a women’s clothing company that sells products women want, Blakely strived to bring “feminine energy” into the workplace. I saw this poignant quote from her in an article:

“Twenty-one years ago when I started Spanx, I ended up in the paper in Atlanta, and I was at a cocktail party and a couple of guys came up to me and they said, ‘Sara, we read about you. Congratulations! We heard you invented something.’ And I said, ‘Yes I did, I’m so excited.’ They said, ‘Business is war,’ and then they pat me on the shoulder and they kind of laughed at each other. I went back home to my apartment that night. I was 29 and I just thought, I’m not going to war. I’m going to do this very differently. I’m going to honor a lot of feminine principles — intuition, empathy, kindness. Just allowing myself to be vulnerable through this process. And of course, a lot of the masculine energy has helped me also — it was a balance. But I wasn’t going to do it by squashing the feminine.”

Blakely worked hard to create a sales-oriented company culture that was purposely welcoming from that point forward. She regularly scheduled “oops meetings” where employees could stand up and say how they messed up and turn it into a funny story. At Spanx, it was okay to make mistakes and learn from them.

Blakely wanted everything about her product to be fun, including the way it was sold. She created a mandatory boot camp for salespeople, which, among other things, requires employees to perform standup comedy. Little things like that resonated with people and made Spanx synonymous with “fun.” Even famous actresses were flashing their Spanx on the red carpet.

The lesson we can all learn from Spanx and Blakely is that fun and positive energy are great marketing tools for any business. Many companies try to push a fun culture publicly without any authentic leadership that genuinely exemplifies that narrative, they won’t have the same effect. Blakely’s story of Spanx is not just a story of the brand but a story of her life and the experiences that shaped her vision and goals.

Jack Dorsey – Block (FKA Square)

While better known for founding Twitter, Jack Dorsey has recently been in the news for his move to solely running payment processing business Block. I admire Dorsey because he radically encourages his teams to think differently about how they work.

Dorsey is known for optimizing ways to stay productive and focused throughout the day. He manages through unconventional tactics like communicating only through voice memos on his phone that he runs through transcription apps. He says this prevents him from being sidetracked by distractions on his computer. I think that kind of mindfulness is necessary now more than ever.

Dorsey tries to bring this level of focus to his interactions with his employees too. I saw a great quote from him in this article discussing computer-less meetings at Block.

“When phones are down and laptops are closed, the team can discuss any issue at hand without distraction. We can actually focus and not just spend an hour together but make that time meaningful — and if that time is 15 minutes, then it’s 15 minutes and then we move on with our lives.”

Besides limiting distractions, Dorsey is known to walk five miles to work daily, theme each day, and create detailed agendas and goals for each team meeting. In his former company, Twitter, the culture was frequently described as a space where employees could speak freely to management about things they wanted to change.

On that subject, Dorsey has been known to push hard for employee control in his companies. Perhaps ironically, he was also quoted saying he wants Twitter to break away from its co-founders’- vision and control, calling founder-led companies “severely limiting.” However, it still seems he has some sort of vision for the world that he wants to bring around via Block.

His business goals are visionary, pushing the boundaries of innovation in the financial world.

Dorsey is a known cryptocurrency enthusiast but had pushback from the Twitter team, including his CFO, about making a crypto-centric product. His move to payments processor, Block, seems to be a bid to follow his passion and exert his vision on the world.

Block has since made headlines for being extremely bullish on cryptocurrencies, while many have expressed doubts. Dorsey even changed the business’s name to Block to better reflect its focus on blockchain and famously purchased $50 million worth of Bitcoin in 2020. All the while, Dorsey has been quietly creating arms of his business in the hopes of improving BTC’s usefulness. That may pay off down the line.

Melanie Perkins – Canva

I identify strongly with Melanie Perkins, co-founder of graphic design SaaS, Canva. Besides being roughly the same age, we both came from nondescript beginnings with no background in entrepreneurship or tech.

Canva is an excellent example of a business created by becoming intimately familiar with a customer problem and executing. Perkins spent years teaching people how to use design platforms like Adobe Creative Suite because they were so complicated. Taking that knowledge, she started a simple product to help customers create high school yearbooks. That expanded into a super app covering every aspect of design.

This super-app has unlocked a way for millions to learn design and produce high-quality content at any skill level. The cost to use Canva is many times lower than anything else on the market.

While Canva is an amazing product, what I like most about Perkins is that she believes business serves a higher purpose than maximizing profits.

When she was suddenly thrust into the limelight with a $40 billion valuation, people were even more impressed by Perkins’ philanthropic goals. She vowed to donate a 30 percent stake in Canva to a charity dedicated to eliminating poverty (about $12 billion). She is also known to regularly fundraise for 25,000 different nonprofits through her app. She doesn’t just inspire people with words, but by actions, she’s actually taking.

Canva is very public about its ethos. I like their values because they are general yet avoid the jargon many companies fall into. They are:

  • To be a force for good and empower others;
  • Pursue excellence;
  • Be a good human;
  • Make complex things simple;
  • Set crazy big goals and make them happen.

Besides revolutionizing how modern businesses design and harness goodwill marketing, Canva was also one of the forerunners of the remote work trend.

Most of Canva’s “Canvanauts” worked from homes worldwide even before the pandemic. Canva showed a lot of tired old businesses that you could still run a successful company without having employees in the office 24/7.

How I Try to Learn From the Best

Finally, I want to talk about what I am trying to contribute to my team and society with my current business, startup acquisition marketplace, MicroAcquire.

As I’ve mentioned, I think it is very much on myself as a founder to set the tone of my business – and that starts with who I hire. When I’m searching for new employees to join the “#Micromafia” I not only look for productive workers, I look for people I genuinely enjoy spending time with. It’s the best feeling in the world to go to meetings where you leave thinking, “That was really fun.”

Besides creating a great team, I’ve tried to address another problem I see again and again at major tech companies: employee burnout. There’s a reason the average tenure of a tech employee is three years.

I love working on startups. It’s like playing a video game for me, and it’s probably why I’m a founder. That said, I know my employees don’t always feel the same way. As CEO, I make sure my team knows I want them to live their lives outside of MicroAcquire.

On the business side of things, I take cues from the best. Like Musk and Dorsey, I want to preemptively create features that I know our customers will love. I knew people wanted an easy way to sell their startups because I wished I’d had one back when I was doing it.

Like Spanx and Tesla, I also strongly believe in the power of innovative branding – and I make sure we spend in areas that will give us significant returns down the line.

For example, we’ve made it easy to get MicroAcquire merchandise online completely free. The extra exposure we get from tech people rocking MicroAcquire t-shirts is more than worth the cost. We also created our own media publication Bootstrappers.com to tell the founder stories we thought major publications had missed. That’s been a huge hit with our customers, who also happen to be founders. These people traditionally have had to spam inboxes and pay for press because they didn’t raise billions in funding.

Finally, like Blakely and Perkins, I also want to actively listen to customer feedback and make sure we create a necessary and desired product. That’s why I make sure we’re constantly engaging with our community both on our website and social media. Many of the features we’ve added are just things we’ve heard mentioned multiple times from customers.

So far, I love the community we’ve created online and in the office. I don’t claim to have the winning formula, but I feel we are making a real difference out there. We’re lucky to live in a world with so many smart people getting their ideas out and making a positive change in the world.

 

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Few fonts in the world have become a part of the cultural landscape that they have an entire documentary film and a MOMA exhibition made about them. Helvetica, however, is different. It has been the go-to font for everyone from government agencies to hip pop-up shops whenever clean and modern text is called for. It has become so much a part of our daily lives that it has created a long list of detractors. 

It is strange for a humble font to be so used and so hated at the same time. Is Helvetica the font that symbolizes hip, cool and modern? Or is it a ’60s anachronism loved by boomer designers that deserves to go the same way as the 8-track and gasoline?

Birth of a Legend

Helvetica is the Latin word for Switzerland, the birthplace of this font. It was created in 1957 in the middle of a boom of fonts created by Swiss designers that today is known as the International Typographic Style. It was the handiwork of two designers, Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. 

They designed this simple sans-serif font to be — ironically enough, given today’s divided opinions — a neutral font. It was modern, in the popular style, but simple, dense, and legible. It was something that could be put on a sign and easily be read from a distance. 

Helvetica represented a clean break from the fonts that came before. The designers upended the more formal and intricate serif fonts of the 19th and early 20th centuries with bold, clean simplicity. Perhaps it was a product of a new era, maybe it defined a new era as it went, but Helvetica was a revolution in font design. 

The new font was an enormous hit. One of its earliest fans was the United States Government, who put it everywhere from the sides of space shuttles to agriculture policy reports. The European Union went so far as to require its use on all health warning information. In addition, the font spread to languages as diverse as Khymer, Urdu, and Korean. 

The font was initially cast in hot metal typeset and has been altered and redesigned as the world and printing technology have changed. There have been several updates, all modifying the original design to exaggerate or change the font for greater legibility, particularly on computers where many claim the font falls short. And as with anything popular in the design world, the number of imitators and ripoffs far exceeds the scope of the original.

Where Helvetica Stands Today

Today in the 2020s, despite now being old enough to qualify for a pension, this font is everywhere. Why, though, is something so ubiquitous so controversial among designers?

Any style that becomes the ‘next big thing’ will attract critics, particularly if that ‘next big thing’ sticks around longer than expected. For some, the International or Modern fonts era is simply a piece of history. Not unlike the art or architecture from those eras, the pieces are lovely to look at, but it has been done. To continue it now would be imitation, or worse, a lack of imagination. 

Why the Haters Hate

For some critics, Helvetica has fallen victim to the banality of overuse. The day the US Department of Agriculture decides it loves a style, that style is officially uncool. Too many ‘squares with no taste’ have decided that Helvetica represents what must be cool, so the people in the know reflexively reject it. The trend makers define their role in the art world by being avant-garde and neophilic. They have to use the next new thing before anyone else or their tenure as a trend maker is finished. For these critics, Helvetica isn’t bad per se, just old and worn out. 

Lastly, there is the ever snarky group of critics who have come to loathe Helvetica for what it represents: boring corporate design. Helvetica became the darling of every group of people who wanted to give the image of clean modernity. It’s a boring choice, uninspiring, damn near default. It makes designers look lazy, their work stale. Helvetica’s success in becoming a near-ubiquitous font has made it too much of a default to be cool.

Why Helvetica is Well Used and Well-Loved

There are an equal number of fans for every salty critic who has come to dislike Helvetica. Those who favor the font love that it is true to its design, simple and legible. For a government agency or large corporation, it is clean and efficient. It is stylish enough to give a little life and flavor to the publication but is subdued enough to show professionalism and erudition. 

The font’s connection to the Modernist and International era can be appealing to others. Some styles retain their popularity throughout the years, seen as cultural hallmarks and high points of culture and expression. Helvetica was a product of an optimistic age where the dense, dark expressions of the past were replaced with light and airy styles. These looks have fluctuated in public opinion but have never totally gone out of style. This enduring appeal has kept Helvetica in many designers’ good graces. 

Finally, many fans like it because they have been steeped in its use so long it has become part of their style. From the original modernist era designers to the students they taught, and now their students’ students, it was a look many incorporated into their own style. All designers are products of their education and stand on the shoulders of previous generations; Helvetica has been such a part of the design landscape that many people have made it their own. Perhaps this was conscious, perhaps unconscious, but either way, many cool new designers at the forefront of new styles still choose this font to express text in their works.

Cliché or Classic

Perhaps in a twist of ironic fate, the two designers of Helvetica aimed to create a font that would be, in their words, “A neutral font that should not be given additional meaning.” This clean neutrality was a goal worthy of anything named after Switzerland. And this might very well be the true source of division; it is a plain, clean font into which all designers can place some or no meaning. It is a blank canvas, and just as any blank canvas hung in a museum, it would attract positive and negative opinions by its very nature. 

To call it a cliché, or classic, though, is Helvetic’s conundrum. It is undoubtedly classic, and its rampant overuse causes it to stray pretty far into cliché territory. The strange situation it finds itself in is that it seems to exist as both cliché and classic at the same time. It has become a default but a beautiful default.

Helvetica is everywhere, and like anything that is everywhere, it is both divisive and ignorable. Either way, love it or hate it; it isn’t going anywhere. 

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