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by Pine & Gilmore
The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money | Harvard Business Review Press; December 10, 2019
Twenty years ago, this seminal book on experience innovation by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore explored how savvy companies excel by offering compelling experiences for customers–resulting not only in customer allegiance but also in a more profitable bottom line. Translated into more than fifteen languages, The Experience Economy has become a must-read for leaders of enterprises large and small, for-profit and nonprofit, global and local.
Now in an exciting hardcover re-release (featuring an all-new preface) Pine and Gilmore make an even stronger case for experiences as the critical link between a company and its potential audience, broadening its application to the demands of today’s increasingly distractible, time-starved world. Experiences and transformations are the basis for future business growth and prosperity, and The Experience Economy offers the script from which managers can continue to generate value in ways that are aligned with a strong customer-centric strategy.
The Experience Economy: 2011 Edition | Harvard Business Review Press; 2011
In 1999, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore originally offered this idea to readers as a new way to think about connecting with customers and securing their loyalty. And though the world has changed in many ways since then, the way to a customer’s heart has not. In fact, the idea of staging experiences to leave a memorable—and lucrative—impression is now more relevant than ever. With this fully updated edition of the book, Pine and Gilmore make an even stronger case that experience is the missing link between a company and its potential audience.
Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills | Greenleaf Book Group Press; 2016
An exciting new work from Jim Gilmore. In his latest book, Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Gilmore introduces a metaphor of ”six looking glasses.” Each looking glass represents a particular skill to master in order to enhance the way we look at the world. Gilmore helps readers grasp the Six Looking Glasses by including helpful everyday examples and practice exercises throughout. Put into practice, this method of looking will help you see the world with new eyes.
Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want | Harvard Business Review Press; 2007
Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what you sell—or how you sell it? In Authenticity, James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II argue that to trounce rivals companies must grasp, manage, and excel at rendering an authentic experience. The first to explore what authenticity really means for businesses and how companies can approach it both thoughtfully and thoroughly, this book is a must-read for any organization seeking to fulfill consumers’ intensifying demand for the real deal.
Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier | Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2011
Digital technology offers limitless opportunities—you really can create anything you want—but real-world experiences have a richness that virtual ones do not. So how can you use the best of both in today’s Experience Economy? How do you make sense of such infinite possibility? What kinds of experiences can you create? Which ones should you offer? In Infinite Possibility provides a profound new tool geared to exploring and exploiting the digital frontier. Using scores of examples, the book shows how innovative companies operate within and across digital realms to create extraordinary customer value.
Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition | Harvard Business Review Press; 1992
The Mass Production of standardized goods was the source of America’s economic strength for generations and became the model for successful industries. Today, that model is a major cause of the nation’s declining competitiveness. Innovative companies are embracing a new paradigm of management – Mass Customization – that allows them to individually customize their goods and services at competitive prices or better. The book details the strategies, methods, and organizational transformations required to develop, produce, market, and deliver individually customized goods, experiences and services on a high-volume basis, and shows managers how to analyze their own industries to determine if they should shift to Mass Customization.
Markets of One: Creating Customer-Unique Value Through Mass Customization | Harvard Business Review Press; 2000
This collection of ten Harvard Business Review articles – edited by, and with an introduction from, Pine & Gilmore – chronicles the evolution of business competition from mass markets to markets of one. In other words … from creating standardized value through Mass Production to creating customer-unique value through Mass Customization. The book examines many of the resulting changes in approach to strategy and operations – for example, moving from pushing products to fulfilling individual needs, moving from focusing solely on market share to measuring customer share, and moving from marketing to the masses to cultivating learning relationships with each customer.
Pine & Gilmore’s Field Guide for the Experience Economy | Strategic Horizons LLP; 2011
Geared for a wide variety of uses – from group learning and executive education, to university classes, employee training, and even leading your own Learning Excursions, Pine & Gilmore’s Field Guide for the Experience Economy packs powerful lessons in a compact package. This pocket-sized reference contains ten traveling tools to help discerning observers explore and learn from experiences across the economic landscape. A hands-on resource designed to provide real-world learning, the Field Guide contains key models and exercises for evaluating and extracting best principles from experiences throughout the Experience Economy. Copies available on Amazon; for orders of 25 or more, contact Strategic Horizons LLP via email to Explore@StrategicHorizons.com
The Geek Squad Guide to World Domination | Darden Business Publishing; 2009
Geared for a wide variety of uses – from group learning and executive education, to university classes, employee training, and even leading your own Learning Excursions, Pine & Gilmore’s Field Guide for the Experience Economy packs powerful lessons in a compact package. This pocket-sized reference contains ten traveling tools to help discerning observers explore and learn from experiences across the economic landscape. A hands-on resource designed to provide real-world learning, the Field Guide contains key models and exercises for evaluating and extracting best principles from experiences throughout the Experience Economy. Copies available on Amazon; for orders of 25 or more, contact Strategic Horizons LLP via email to Explore@StrategicHorizons.com