Category Archives: Social Media

Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: October 7, 2011

Life of Steven Paul Jobs (popularly called Steve Jobs), the co-founder, former Chairman and CEO of Apple Computers, who died recently has been described in glorious terms. In the past few days, much has been written about his life and legacy, and I don’t think I can add anything new to what has already been said. [...]

Social CRM Case Study: Netflix Vs. Blockbuster

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: October 3, 2011

In one of my previous post titled Social Media: The New Front End of CRM System, I highlighted that Social Media has empowered customers like never before as they can discuss about brands/products on Social Media channels and companies have no control over what customers are saying about their brand. Moreover, as this discussion is [...]

Netflix’s self-made CRM crisis and how Social CRM can help

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: September 24, 2011

Netflix, Inc., the provider of online video streaming and DVD by mail service, has fallen from customers’ grace hard and fast. Once a darling of its customers, Netflix management seems to have misjudged the negative impact of price increase and other service changes they announced “unilaterally” this summer and as a result have lost many [...]

Social Media and the Rise of Consumer to Consumer (C2C) Marketing

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: September 11, 2011

I have seen several examples of marketers in both,  Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C) segments, trying to use the same old B2B or B2C strategies when it comes to Social Media marketing. Marketers are failing to take advantage of unique characteristics of Social Networks by not modifying or re-engineering their business [...]

Social CRM Market Size Undervalued?

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: September 7, 2011

Gartner, Inc., the Stamford, Connecticut based IT research and advisory firm recently reiterated its guidance that “market for Social CRM is on Pace to Surpass $1 Billion in Revenue by Year-End 2012″ (for more, see this). I have seen similar estimates regarding size of Social CRM market from other research and analyst firms in recent past. Such [...]

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  • Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.


  • Dr. Harish Kotadia has about ten years’ work experience as a hands-on CRM Program and Project Manager implementing CRM solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the US.

    He also has about five years’ work experience as a Research Executive in Marketing Research and Consulting industry working for leading MR organizations.

    Dr. Harish currently lives in Dallas, Texas, USA and works as Social CRM, CRM Consulting Lead for Infosys Technologies. Views and opinion expressed in this blog are his own.






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