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Buyer Centric Commerce Forum

   
 

 

Person Centric Commerce

‘Person-centric commerce’ is set to transform how individuals and organisations interact and transact, and change the way our economy works.

Defining ideas and principles

The individual as a business REVISED

Buyer centricity explained in 350 words

Personal Information Management Services (A Buyer Centric Commerce Forum White Paper)

The person-centric paradigm (a two minute slide presentation on the basic idea)

VRM and marketing (a two minute slide presentation on the relationship between Vendor Relationship Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).)

Core infrastructure

Person Centric Services Modules NEW!

  1. Comparison NEW!
  2. Permissions Management NEW!
  3. Personal Data Analytics NEW!
  4. Personal Knowledge Banks NEW!
  5. Personal Scenario Planning NEW!
  6. Problem Solving Communities NEW!
  7. Requests for Proposal NEW!
  8. Reverse Messaging NEW!
  9. Search NEW!

Personal Knowledge Banks (A Buyer Centric Commerce Forum White Paper)

From Choice to Voice NEW! (A Buyer Centric Commerce Forum White Paper)

Key building blocks

Added Value Buying Services (A Buyer Centric Commerce Forum White Paper)

Problem Solving Communities (A Buyer Centric Commerce Forum Discussion Paper, July 2007 )

Debate and implications

Reinventing Marketing



Implications for marketing

Brand strategy

A RightSideUp environment means brands have to evolve from opacity to transparency. See Tim Kitchin's presentation

Infodemocracy: what it means for your brand NEW!

Marketing effectiveness

Marketers dream of making consumers 'loyal' to their brands but rarely succeed. Alan Mitchell explains why marketing so often fails to 'work', why marketers so often fail to understand why their marketing fails to work, and what the alternative may look like. 'Marketing Alchemy' and the end of Brand Narcissism

 

 


 

 

 

 

What's on the Blog

15 March 2008  

Markets, pricing and VRM

How VRM will change markets and pricing ... for the better .

4 March 2008  

Transparency systems, with 'VRM inside'

Tim Kitchin explores the connection between brand strategies and 'infodemocracy'.

19 February 2008  

Employee directed health management

Scott MacStravic asks what would employee health care look like from a person-centric point of view?

13 February 2008  

Unpicking the real meaning of 'identify and meet customer needs'   by Alan Mitchell

26 November 2007 

Hard re-set for direct marketing

by Iain Henderson

26 October 2007 

Can I own my own data?

by Iain Henderson

5 October 2007 

The future of advertising

Is a rise of person-centric services dependent on - or perhaps a cause of - advertising decline? by Alan Mitchell

16 August 2007

Beyond the Persuasion Paradigm Modern commerce is organised around persuading consumers to buy companies' products and services. Enter a new logic: where new value is created by helping individuals make and implement better decisions.

30 May2007

How Maurice Saatchi advertises advertising

26 January 07

The coming crisis of comparison shopping

19 July 06 

Long Tail? Or Tall Story? Chris Anderson's new book is causing a buzz. But conceptually, it's a muddle   

see blog archive


Resources

Click here to access white papers and presentations on buyer-centric themes.


 
 

 

Welcome to

Right Side up

21st century economies are being reconfigured around a new centre of gravity: improving the economics of individuals (as distinct to improving the economics of companies).

  • Why is this happening?
  • What does it mean for individuals?
  • What does it mean for the orgnisations they deal with?

This web site explores these questions.


The Buyer Centric Commerce Forum (BCCF) exists to "to explore, encourage thinking about and understanding of the concept of buyer centric commerce, to help develop and promote best practice and its application, addressing an audience of people who can make a change to buyer centricity happen in their context."


Buyer Centric Basics

Buyer centric commerce is a new way of doing business. A buyer-centric organisation looks at the creation and exchange of value from the point of view of the individual – ‘the buyer’ – rather than from the point of view of a producer, supplier or seller. ....find out more