Of late, there’s been an ongoing debate in the scientific community as to whether intelligence is fixed or changeable. If intelligence is fixed, then each person’s measure is doled out in the womb, and no amount of information acquisition can increasesomeone’s intelligence quotient, or IQ. But if intelligence...
Published: Jun 01, 2011
The rise of marketing technology has in some ways shined a light into areas that were previously hard to measure: media effectiveness, engagement with marketing campaigns, and the impact on the bottom line.
But new areas of darkness have been created: growing amounts of siloed and unstructured data that are not harnessed,...
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Business-to-business (B2B) manufacturers today are facing greater demand for frictionless buying experiences. But they face a number of significant challenges to setting up direct customer relationships, including maximizing conversions, taking full advantage of customer data, and dealing with concerns over channel conflict....
Published: Apr 04, 2017
What keeps marketing teams from reaching for the stars and succeeding? Common culprits include a lack of time, resources, IT support and management buy-in.
This tip sheet will help you map out a plan to get started on the most important programs for your business and move through the process to achieve your...
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Acquiring traffic is a major challenge for e-merchants worldwide. Over the course of the evolution of ecommerce practices some new forms of visitor acquisition have been developed. The challenge now revolves around conversion optimisation. Indeed, acquisition costs follow an upward...
Published: Dec 22, 2016
Marketing leaders will find a host of new vendors in this year's Magic Quadrant for multichannel campaign management. Vendors are focused on integrating machine learning, personalization and ad tech capabilities into big data foundations for deeper customer engagement.
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Published: Oct 30, 2017
Forrester forecasts cloud subscription revenues to grow overall by 22% in 2016. This is a result of businesses becoming increasingly comfortable with moving critical systems to the cloud, due to cloud experience and exposure. The benefits of cloud computing have become mainstream and so have cloud contact centers.
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Published: Jul 26, 2017
Building a sales team and compensating every member of the team properly requires careful planning and thoughtful design, and in order to ensure that you are providing the right incentives to ensure you help your company achieve growth and success, you need to think strategically about the design process of your sales...
Published: Oct 29, 2015
The vast increase in dark data—all of the unstructured data from the Internet, social media, voice and information from connected devices—is overwhelming many executives and leaving them completely unprepared for the challenges their businesses face.
The smartest executives focus on making sense of the...
Published: Oct 30, 2017
Today, most organizations have a customer experience strategy (96%), but recent Avanade research shows that only 14% are ahead of their customers’ expectations. This means that 86% feel that they are behind the curve, the competition — and most importantly — their customers’ expectations.
The...
Published: Oct 05, 2017
To build and deliver products that customers love, product teams at leading enterprises such as Uber, Netflix and Airbnb are focusing on experimentation as a critical business process. These teams are empowered to A/B test each new feature and gain valuable insights before rolling it out widely.
After seeing what...
Published: Jan 08, 2018
It’s hardly a secret that marketing executives of all types are using more data. Data is more powerful than ever, driving decision-making and informing strategy. Increased reliance on data has upended traditional marketing approaches and added greater layers of accuracy, targeting, analytics and measurability to...
Published: May 10, 2019
Sales and marketing. They’re lumped together so much in conversation, you’d think they’re a perfect combination — like peanut butter and jelly. But the relationship is more often like oil and water.
Get five suggestions any organization can follow to better align their sales and marketing...
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Field service management teams want to keep costs down, while improving their customer service relationships.
This can be hard for organisations in any industry—often, reducing costs hurts customer relationships—but IoT provides a way for field service organisations to achieve this goal.
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Published: Jan 12, 2018