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World’s Largest Emotion Database: Part 1Steven WaldenSenior Head of Research and Consulting Beyond Philosophy
1. Viewer Window2. Control PanelGoToWebinar Example InterfaceWebinar Interface ReviewBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112
3Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The Beyond Philosophy PerspectiveCustomer Experience is all we do!Thought leadership is our differentiatorNew Fourth book Is now availableOffices in London, Atlanta with Partners in Europe & AsiaLinks with AcademiaFocus on the emotional side of  Customer Experience
4We are Proud to Have Helped Some Great Organizations…Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Experience Value is Emotional ValueCustomer SatisfactionEmotional SignatureBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20115
The Evidence from Marketing Experiments6Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The principle of precedence:  consumers attach greater importance to functionality (over hedonics) up to the point at which a "required" level of functionality is met.
The "principle of hedonic dominance“:  after a required level of functionality is met, hedonic aspects drive consumer choice.
a consumer shopping for a cell phone with at least an eight-hour battery life will choose an option that offers this level of battery life over ones that do not, even if this option is much worse looking than the alternatives. However, after the required level of functionality is met, consumers shift focus almost entirely to the hedonic aspects. Thus, if all available cell phones exceeded the eight-hour battery limit, the phone that looks best will be chosen, regardless of the differences among the options in terms of battery life. Source: Form versus Function: how the intensities of specific emotions evoked in functional versus hedonic trade-offs mediate product preferences
The Evidence from Neuroscience7Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011When making decisions in the future, physiological signals (or ‘somatic markers’) and evoked emotions are consciously or unconsciously associated with their past outcomes and bias decision-making towards certain behaviors. When a somatic marker associated with a positive outcome is perceived, the person may feel happy and motivate the individual to pursue that behavior. When a somatic marker associated with the negative outcome is perceived, the person may feel sad and act as an internal alarm to warn the individual to avoid a course of action. These situation-specific somatic states based on, and reinforced by, past experiences help to guide behavior in favor of more advantageous choices and therefore are adaptiveIn contrast to economic theory, the somatic marker hypothesis proposes that emotions play a critical role in our ability to make fast, rational decisions in complex and uncertain situations.Patients with damage to certain regions of the frontal lobe suffer from an inability to appreciate negative outcomes. Though they can reason logically, their decision-making ability is flawed. They have lost emotional reactivity at a high level; they can no longer sense, for instance, embarrassment or guilt or pride or shame. They have lost their ability to feel emotion relative to the future consequences of their actions and thus are no longer able to qualify their choices as "potentially good" or "potentially bad." Professor Antonio DamasioDecision-making is devoid of emotions and involves logical reasoning based on costs-benefit calculationsAssumes that individuals have unlimited time, knowledge and information processing power and can therefore make perfect decisions.
‘Somatic Marker’ MarketingFirms tend to see their experience as a detailed paintingCustomer tend to see their experience as an impression 8Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
The Urgency of Measurement9Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Four Clusters of Emotions Drive or Destroy ValueThe  2 years of baseline research produced the framework against which we will compare your experience.  The baseline model identified 20 emotions clustered into 4 hidden factors and that drive/ destroy value for business.  10www.beyondphilosophy.comBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
11Endorsement from the Market Research IndustryThe DNA of customer experience: how emotions drive value“The case for focusing on emotionas a philosophy for building a betterexperience for customers as presented in the book is a compellingone. The methodology for undertaking the necessary emotional analysisis practical, simple, potentially veryeffective, and enables organizations tobenchmark themselves by sector and'best practice'.International Journal of Market Research Vol. 53 Issue 1, Peter Mouncey, EditorEndorsement from  Research Industry Magazinehttp://www.research-live.com/magazine/why-we-must-measure-emotion/4003434.articleIndependent, Peer Reviewed Endorsement from the leading Journal for Market ResearchBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011Scale development with Professor Voss of London Business School, Professor Raymond (Chair of Experimental Consumer Psychology at University of Wales) and Dr Miles (ex- York University) now Quantitative Psychologist and RAND corporation
12Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The Worlds Largest Database of EmotionsEmotional Signature® Database (N=25,000)The 2 years of baseline research and subsequent 3+ years of client work has resulted in the world’s largest fit-for-business emotional database BenchmarkingThe Emotional Signature® system has been independently corroborated  and validatedIt looks not just at the PastBut perspectives on the future
The FindingsEmotion database13Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Emotion Exercise14Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011How would your typical customer feel towards your organization
The Emotional Database 15Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011N= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
Advocacy:  Happy, Pleased Reduce16Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Reduction in AdvocacyN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
Recommendation: Safe, Focused Reduce17Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Some reduction in RecommendationN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
Attention: No Change Except Pampered Reduces18Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Same levels of AttentionN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
Negatives: Significant Reductions19Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Reduction in NegativesN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
The Failure of Perspective20Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Internal Bias Towards Controlling Losses21Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Avoid The Cost of a Negative Experience 22Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011Case Study:Enterprise with 2 million customersRevenue = $200,000,000 per year Average Revenue per customer = $100 per yearSources: Cherry Tree Research, Bain & Co., McKinsey, Harvard Business Review and Gartner2,992 customers$299,200At risk — 34%Issue not resolved2,464 customers$246,400Complain2%Defect — 28%8,800customersPoor experience22%Resolved — 38%440,000customersDo notcomplain98%At risk — 55%Decline in walletshare237,160 customers$23,716,000Positiveexperience 78%431,200customers194,040 customers$19,404,000Defect — 45%
But Leave the Blight of the BlandFrom the American Customer Satisfaction IndexLooks good except when you look at the scale!23BeyondPhilosophy © Allrightsreserved. 2001-2011
Experience PsychologyFrederickson (1998) suggests that positive emotions ‘broaden the cognitive and behavioral repertoire, signifying new possibilities’, while negative emotions are more action specific e.g., fear leads to flight, anger to fight.  Needless to say for the business manager the positive emotion set represents the best point of competitive differentiation in a marketplace focused on controlling the negative emotions: in particular, happy and pleased which relates to the concept of achieving advocacy or total satisfaction with an experience encounter24Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
Rational 4Ps Trade-Offs No Longer Work25Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011I see the experiencePriceI feel wowed by the experienceProductPromotionPlaceThat feeling embeds in my memoryAs expected, little different from your competitors = Rational Satisfaction and declining ROII want to returnLoyalty Emotions = CLV
LoveMark your Experience26Brands are running out of juice". Love is what is needed to rescue brands. Roberts asks, "What builds Loyalty that goes Beyond Reason? What makes a truly great love stand out?”Kevin Roberts, CEO Saatchi and SaatchiBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
27Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011TV ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg
Reasons for the ChangeThe increasing transactional focus of companies on controlling the negatives in an experience by, for instance, reacting to customer complaints has led to a decline in negatives. With most competitors focused on this end of the emotional experience, the positive emotions have been largely neglected.

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Worlds largest database part

  • 1. World’s Largest Emotion Database: Part 1Steven WaldenSenior Head of Research and Consulting Beyond Philosophy
  • 2. 1. Viewer Window2. Control PanelGoToWebinar Example InterfaceWebinar Interface ReviewBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112
  • 3. 3Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The Beyond Philosophy PerspectiveCustomer Experience is all we do!Thought leadership is our differentiatorNew Fourth book Is now availableOffices in London, Atlanta with Partners in Europe & AsiaLinks with AcademiaFocus on the emotional side of Customer Experience
  • 4. 4We are Proud to Have Helped Some Great Organizations…Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 5. Experience Value is Emotional ValueCustomer SatisfactionEmotional SignatureBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20115
  • 6. The Evidence from Marketing Experiments6Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The principle of precedence: consumers attach greater importance to functionality (over hedonics) up to the point at which a "required" level of functionality is met.
  • 7. The "principle of hedonic dominance“: after a required level of functionality is met, hedonic aspects drive consumer choice.
  • 8. a consumer shopping for a cell phone with at least an eight-hour battery life will choose an option that offers this level of battery life over ones that do not, even if this option is much worse looking than the alternatives. However, after the required level of functionality is met, consumers shift focus almost entirely to the hedonic aspects. Thus, if all available cell phones exceeded the eight-hour battery limit, the phone that looks best will be chosen, regardless of the differences among the options in terms of battery life. Source: Form versus Function: how the intensities of specific emotions evoked in functional versus hedonic trade-offs mediate product preferences
  • 9. The Evidence from Neuroscience7Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011When making decisions in the future, physiological signals (or ‘somatic markers’) and evoked emotions are consciously or unconsciously associated with their past outcomes and bias decision-making towards certain behaviors. When a somatic marker associated with a positive outcome is perceived, the person may feel happy and motivate the individual to pursue that behavior. When a somatic marker associated with the negative outcome is perceived, the person may feel sad and act as an internal alarm to warn the individual to avoid a course of action. These situation-specific somatic states based on, and reinforced by, past experiences help to guide behavior in favor of more advantageous choices and therefore are adaptiveIn contrast to economic theory, the somatic marker hypothesis proposes that emotions play a critical role in our ability to make fast, rational decisions in complex and uncertain situations.Patients with damage to certain regions of the frontal lobe suffer from an inability to appreciate negative outcomes. Though they can reason logically, their decision-making ability is flawed. They have lost emotional reactivity at a high level; they can no longer sense, for instance, embarrassment or guilt or pride or shame. They have lost their ability to feel emotion relative to the future consequences of their actions and thus are no longer able to qualify their choices as "potentially good" or "potentially bad." Professor Antonio DamasioDecision-making is devoid of emotions and involves logical reasoning based on costs-benefit calculationsAssumes that individuals have unlimited time, knowledge and information processing power and can therefore make perfect decisions.
  • 10. ‘Somatic Marker’ MarketingFirms tend to see their experience as a detailed paintingCustomer tend to see their experience as an impression 8Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 11. The Urgency of Measurement9Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 12. Four Clusters of Emotions Drive or Destroy ValueThe 2 years of baseline research produced the framework against which we will compare your experience. The baseline model identified 20 emotions clustered into 4 hidden factors and that drive/ destroy value for business. 10www.beyondphilosophy.comBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 13. 11Endorsement from the Market Research IndustryThe DNA of customer experience: how emotions drive value“The case for focusing on emotionas a philosophy for building a betterexperience for customers as presented in the book is a compellingone. The methodology for undertaking the necessary emotional analysisis practical, simple, potentially veryeffective, and enables organizations tobenchmark themselves by sector and'best practice'.International Journal of Market Research Vol. 53 Issue 1, Peter Mouncey, EditorEndorsement from Research Industry Magazinehttp://www.research-live.com/magazine/why-we-must-measure-emotion/4003434.articleIndependent, Peer Reviewed Endorsement from the leading Journal for Market ResearchBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011Scale development with Professor Voss of London Business School, Professor Raymond (Chair of Experimental Consumer Psychology at University of Wales) and Dr Miles (ex- York University) now Quantitative Psychologist and RAND corporation
  • 14. 12Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011The Worlds Largest Database of EmotionsEmotional Signature® Database (N=25,000)The 2 years of baseline research and subsequent 3+ years of client work has resulted in the world’s largest fit-for-business emotional database BenchmarkingThe Emotional Signature® system has been independently corroborated and validatedIt looks not just at the PastBut perspectives on the future
  • 15. The FindingsEmotion database13Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 16. Emotion Exercise14Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011How would your typical customer feel towards your organization
  • 17. The Emotional Database 15Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011N= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
  • 18. Advocacy: Happy, Pleased Reduce16Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Reduction in AdvocacyN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
  • 19. Recommendation: Safe, Focused Reduce17Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Some reduction in RecommendationN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
  • 20. Attention: No Change Except Pampered Reduces18Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Same levels of AttentionN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
  • 21. Negatives: Significant Reductions19Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-20112005 to 2011Reduction in NegativesN= 25,000 New Overall Business Index
  • 22. The Failure of Perspective20Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 23. Internal Bias Towards Controlling Losses21Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 24. Avoid The Cost of a Negative Experience 22Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011Case Study:Enterprise with 2 million customersRevenue = $200,000,000 per year Average Revenue per customer = $100 per yearSources: Cherry Tree Research, Bain & Co., McKinsey, Harvard Business Review and Gartner2,992 customers$299,200At risk — 34%Issue not resolved2,464 customers$246,400Complain2%Defect — 28%8,800customersPoor experience22%Resolved — 38%440,000customersDo notcomplain98%At risk — 55%Decline in walletshare237,160 customers$23,716,000Positiveexperience 78%431,200customers194,040 customers$19,404,000Defect — 45%
  • 25. But Leave the Blight of the BlandFrom the American Customer Satisfaction IndexLooks good except when you look at the scale!23BeyondPhilosophy © Allrightsreserved. 2001-2011
  • 26. Experience PsychologyFrederickson (1998) suggests that positive emotions ‘broaden the cognitive and behavioral repertoire, signifying new possibilities’, while negative emotions are more action specific e.g., fear leads to flight, anger to fight. Needless to say for the business manager the positive emotion set represents the best point of competitive differentiation in a marketplace focused on controlling the negative emotions: in particular, happy and pleased which relates to the concept of achieving advocacy or total satisfaction with an experience encounter24Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 27. Rational 4Ps Trade-Offs No Longer Work25Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011I see the experiencePriceI feel wowed by the experienceProductPromotionPlaceThat feeling embeds in my memoryAs expected, little different from your competitors = Rational Satisfaction and declining ROII want to returnLoyalty Emotions = CLV
  • 28. LoveMark your Experience26Brands are running out of juice". Love is what is needed to rescue brands. Roberts asks, "What builds Loyalty that goes Beyond Reason? What makes a truly great love stand out?”Kevin Roberts, CEO Saatchi and SaatchiBeyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 29. 27Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011TV ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg
  • 30. Reasons for the ChangeThe increasing transactional focus of companies on controlling the negatives in an experience by, for instance, reacting to customer complaints has led to a decline in negatives. With most competitors focused on this end of the emotional experience, the positive emotions have been largely neglected.
  • 31. The increasing use of Six Sigma, Lean and other BPR initiatives has led to an increased focus of control on the negative emotional experience. This has been to the detriment of value-adding positive emotional experiences.
  • 32. The recession has led to a cut-back in initiatives that focused on positive emotional experiences.
  • 33. The meaning of a positive emotional experience has changed under conditions of hyper-competition. That is to say that to score highly on a word like happy requires an increased effort over and above what has happened before to match changed expectations. For this to have been the effect, firms efforts would have been minimal over the last few years to evoke a positive emotional reaction from clients and consumers.28Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 34. Managerial ImplicationsThe positive emotion set represents the best point of competitive differentiation in a marketplace focused on controlling the negative emotions: in particular, happy and pleased which relates to the concept of achieving advocacy or total satisfaction with an experience encounter.MEASURE THE EMOTIONSMAP THE EXPERIENCECREATE POSITIVE EMOTIONAL PULL29Beyond Philosophy © All rights reserved. 2001-2011
  • 35. Thank YouQuestions or ideas?Contact Steven WaldenSenior Head of Research and ConsultingEmail: steven.walden@beyondphilosophy.comTel USA: +1 678-638-3050Tel UK: +44 158-263-5007

Editor's Notes

  • #6: The unconscious and the subconscious are vastly different, though non-psychiatric professionals often incorrectly use subconscious. In contrast to the unconscious, the subconscious mind lies just below consciousness, and it is easily accessible if attention is paid to it. For instance, you might know someone’s phone number. This information is not stored in your conscious mind, but in your subconscious. If you think about it, you can produce the phone number, but it isn’t simply floating around in your conscious mind. You need to direct your attention to memory in order to dredge up the phone number. Those memories you can recall easily are not conscious unless you pay attention and focus. When someone asks you to describe your perfect day, you reach into your subconscious mind for these memories. However, if someone asked you to describe the worst day you ever had, especially if it was particularly traumatic, you might not really be able to describe the worst. You’d be able to discuss memories in your subconscious that were memorably bad, but a truly traumatic day could be in part, or completely repressed. In this way, one of the differences between the unconscious and the subconscious is that, at least in Freud’s estimation, the unconscious worked as a protecting force on the mind, even if this protection was wrongly guided. Really finding the most traumatic day of your life might mean significant therapy to access layers of memory buried away from both from conscious and subconscious, deeply hidden in the mind.