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Good Company Notes (02 — Song In-hyeok)

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Good Company Notes (02 — Song In-hyeok)


Networks matter. 

  : book — The Connected Company.


You are selling a service.

  : Product → service.


Why didn’t we know they were good companies?

  : Passive perception of media and brand.

  : As we move into a dialog era, perception becomes more active.


If there are 23 people in a room, what’s the probability that two share a birthday?

  : 10% vs over 50%. 

  : 10 — because you thought of it centered on yourself.


  : 50 — the number of comparisons increases!

  : The era of serendipity!

  : The connection itself becomes more important than the content of the conversation.

  : Product-centric → service (person, self, user)-centric.

  : The era of the public.

  : Customer vs user.

  : Not a manufactured image (brand), 

    but people grouping themselves by their actual tastes.


theory-X (negative) vs theory-Y (positive)

  : People who want to live as they really are.

  : Who want to do meaningful, passionate, valuable work.

  - “Just do the work you’re given — hard” ?

  - Efficient for the company, 

    but an uncomfortable experience for the customer.

    (A call center is a blockade, not a contact point with the customer. Apps too…)


>> Hospital — “We think of our customers as family.

          That’s just as true of our staff.”

         : The daily-wage worker is the service.

         : Company problems are opened up.

>> Zappos 

    - Online shoes: pleasant delivery, call center.

      : Returns — husband died — flowers at the funeral.

      : Jjajangmyeon — a recommendation.

      : Book — “Delivering Happiness.”

      : When visitors come, they greet them and do a trending dance with them.

>> Alphascan (monitor sales) 

      : “Can we blame a customer’s mistake on their child?” 

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Unlike before, good companies like these are coming to light.

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John Lennon: 

You don’t really understand life…

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Service.

Connection.

Approach — getting closer.

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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