Personalization traditionally works best when you have tons of behavioral data for each product. But how do you personalize for new products or ones that are considered “long-tail”? How do you ensure that this inventory is immediately visible and recommended to your customers? Well, you couldn’t until recently .. not without NLP.
You can’t have a meeting these days without someone throwing out the platitude “data is key”, but all too often, we find that even with the vast amounts of data being collected, business leverage of this valuable data is a problem
Personalization, at its core, is the idea that as a consumer, you are served exactly what you want, when you want it. AI is being deployed by retailers and brands who understand that this is a “big data” problem and when product catalogs become larger, machines start to perform as good as, if not better than, human merchandisers.
But does this quest for delivering “exactly” hurt consumer choice?
A McKinsey survey of senior marketing leaders found that only 15 percent of CMOs believe their company is on the right track with personalization. In this recent article, they summarize 3 trends in the future of personalization:
- Digitization of Physical Spaces
- Scaled Empathy
- Usage of Ecosystems by Brands
San Francisco & London 9th July 2019 – RichRelevance, the global leader in experience personalization and the first to deliver on hyper-personalization, has been named a ‘Leader’ in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines[1].
San Francisco & London 9th July 2019 – RichRelevance, the global leader in experience personalization and the first to deliver on hyper-personalization, has been named a ‘Leader’ in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines[1].
First thought.
“Would you like fries with that?”
Just kidding!
Retailers have been interested in acquisitions for a long time to help fill gaps in their customer segmentation, supply chain and yes, also in technology. Here are a few notable ones in the last couple of years, summarized:
It Turns Out the Joke Is on Us
One the of the great cosmic jokes we almost all struggle against as we get older is the belief that the following generation had an easier time of it than ours. While the reality is that each new generation has its own context that really can’t be compared to the one that came before or after, I’m starting to think that the current business climate might just be the exception.