THE PROBLEM The company is very active in the e-commerce andsocial media markets, mainly through TelstraDigital and its wireless units. For example, it providedits corporate customers with Facebook appsso they can manage their Telstra accounts. One areawhere the company saw an opportunity but hadsome marketing difficulties was m-commerce. Inparticular, the company offered its corporate customersapplications that had many intangible benefits. The customers had difficulty getting approvalfrom their own top management for paying forTelstra’s services without detailed justifi cation. Telstra was interested in promoting the followingfour lines of applications: 1. Fleet and fi eld service management. Thistopic, involving enterprise mobility applications,was described in Chapter 6. 2. Video conferencing. This application usesvideo conferencing in order to save on travelexpenses to meeting places, and helps expeditedecision making. Both fixed line andmobile services can support this initiative. 3. Web contact centers. This application isdesigned to improve CRM as described inChapter 8 and in Online Tutorial T1. 4. Teleworking. Allows employees to work offsite.Teleworking (also known as telecommuting)requires sophisticated technology toenable effective communication, collaboration,and collaborative commerce activities(Chapters. 5, 8, and Online Tutorial T5). Both the infrastructure and the software forthe above applications cost money. Many Telstra
customers were interested in learning about to
justify the investment, but they did not know how
to go about it.
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