A recent article was written by Brain Solis – “Mobile is eating the world”, a new generation has been specified and named as Generation-C or iCustomer. The concept of iCustomer or Generation-C has been evolved from a research which Google has done sometimes back in 2015, May. Google revealed that mobile search had overtaken desktop search in the research. The study reveals that that mobile consumers look at their phones on average 1,500 times each week and they spend 177 minutes on their phone each day. With every pinch and zoom, touch and swipe, people are rewiring their brains to find, process, and act in mobile worlds. And as they do, mobile users are learning to expect that every business look, feel, and operate just like their favorite apps.
The Generation C or iCustomer is not a generation defined by age, income, education, or other demographics. This is a group that’s defined by a digital, mobile, real-time, always-on lifestyle.
To know more about the Generation-C or iCustomers, we need to look at the behavior and habits of this generation. Among their daily mobile habits, they:
Mobile devices and apps are introducing new capabilities hence we can observe new behaviors and expectations among iCustomers. Searching and making decisions about brands and making purchases is rapid fire, happening in micro bursts dozens of times each day.
The mobile consumers have created their own decision-making journey because today’s desktop-process-turned-mobile is outmoded and filled with friction. Hence its high time to move away from the traditional way of desktop-process-turned-mobile and think about the connected generation purchase journey for the improvement of business. That means you need to think about the Generation C or your iCustomers and create products, services, and experiences that are “born digital” and “born mobile” without legacy PC philosophies.
Brian Solis have described four ways marketers need to rethink customer experience management to deliver mobile-first experiences for Generation-C customers, they are :
Concluding, start first studying your consumers’ behavior, expectations, objectives, preferences, and values. Then you must study the role technology plays in all of this and how they interact with other companies. Doing so unlocks innovation in user experience and ultimately every aspect of engagement, from product development to marketing to service and support to customer relationship management to corporate culture. When all of these experiences add up, a brand is not just created, it’s co-created through the experiences you design and the experience people have and share.
Mobile, social, and the real-time web have changed everything. The good news is that brands that learn, adapt, and engage will earn relevance and loyalty. All it takes is understanding customer context, intent, and desired outcomes to add value to each mobile-moment. So watchful and transform your industry technology to meet Generation-C expectation and iCustomer needs.
Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders, keynote speakers, and best-selling authors in innovation and digital transformation. You can find the full version of the ebook on “Think With Google” resources or you can get in touch with me, I can provide the same as on request.
