A new consulting practice helps companies rethink value in the age of the empowered customer
Customers are increasingly technology savvy, embracing new ways to shop and buy, and using social networks to collaborate while influencing and accelerating the buying process.
Smarter commerce increases the value you generate for your customers and partners in a rapidly changing digital world through rethinking customer value, developing new levels of customer insight and developing new ways of facilitating customer and partner engagement, thus driving predictable and improved outcomes for your business.
Smarter Commerce is a strategic approach that places the customer at the center of your business.
Customer value strategy
Re-think how your customers define value and the changes you must make to your value chain so you can profitably deliver exactly what your customers want, when they want it.
- Market & customer management (US)
- Operations & supply chain strategy (US)
- Supply chain and logistics management (US)
- Business strategy (US)
Case studies
Customer insight
Develop deep customer insights in real-time that you can turn into immediate action.
Customer and partner engagement
Connect, collaborate, conduct commerce and create a differentiated customer experience with customers and partners
1-800-FLOWERS.COM: Creating an e-commerce platform for the future
Staples makes it easy for online customers and becomes a more flexible and successful business
Thought leadership
Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility
Smarter Commerce involves synchronizing your value chain to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes
Analytics: The new path to value
How the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action
Capitalizing on the Smarter Commerce
New rules for a new decade
A vision for smarter supply chain management
Beyond content
Capitalizing on the new revenue opportunities
From social media to Social CRM
What customers want (the first in a two-part series)
A Smarter Planet - Smarter Commerce RSS
Meet the expert
Paul Papas
Global Leader, Smarter Commerce, IBM Global Business Services
3 Questions for Paul Papas on Agile Commerce
Read the discussion with Forrester Research
Press release
Announcing New Smarter Commerce Consulting Services
Get Started Now
- Smarter Commerce - cross channel experience assessment (474KB)
- Smarter Commerce - customer value strategy accelerator (503KB)
- e-Commerce Visioning and Roadmap (470KB)
Embracing Digital Transformation
Capitalize on digital shifts to innovate and grow.
Digital Transformation vPanel
April 27, 12:30 - 1:30 ET
Can businesses become social?
Social commerce requires business to be collaborative, networked and non-hierarchical. Are organizational cultures ready?
Watch the panel discussion (replay)
Smarter Commerce
A new approach to help redefine the value chain in the age of the customer