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
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
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
Learn about the five gaps that could be costing you time, customers, and profit in this digital e-book. Discover how to close those gaps and transform your people, process, and technology to better serve your customer.
You’ll also learn how to:
Create a unified view and deliver personalized experiences...
Published: Apr 03, 2018
Retailers are rethinking their eCommerce engagement strategy to respond to customers’ new shopping behaviors. Marketplaces provide a new way for retailers to interact and engage with customers. They offer a broad assortment of products and services at competitive prices and have quickly gained traction as an extension...
Published: Apr 04, 2017
A sales stack is a collection of software solutions that support a sales organization’s efforts to generate revenue.
In this first annual Sales Tech Benchmark Survey, we identify the most commonly used sales technologies, and which are being considered most for the year ahead. This will give us a clear view...
Published: Jun 19, 2018
Discover how your business can be transformed using one of the most valuable resources already at your disposal - data.
This eBook by Microsoft explains how, cost effectively and with minimal disruption, you can enhance efficiency and productivity while growing your organisation effectively.
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Published: May 24, 2016
The results from the 5th annual CSO Insight’s Sales Management Optimization Study have been released! The study reflects responses from over 1,200 companies worldwide on 122 sales effectiveness metrics. This report shares key trends and best practices for sales compensation and performance management, as well as...
Published: Oct 01, 2015
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
We asked analysts and industry leaders what customer engagement trends they thought were key for 2017 and beyond.
From cutting-edge technologies such as IoT and bots to a new spin on old ideas, hot topics boil down to five key trends that will define the customer experience going forward.
In this ebook, learn:...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
Recent Aberdeen research has uncovered that, on average, sales teams only achieve 55% of their company’s annual sales goal. Based on the performance ranges of all surveyed sales organizations, this result, in itself, should be alarming.
Simultaneously, the top pressure cited by 44% of sales organizations is...
Published: Jun 19, 2018
The 2017 Aberdeen Report on Contact Center and Customer Experience Trends states that companies with an omnichannel program see 25% greater annual revenue growth and 55% greater decrease in customer complaints.
Whether through phone, email, social media, or other web interactions, it is vital for successful companies...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
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
Businesses today must keep pace with unprecedented change. Some can react quickly, while others struggle. What separates the winners from the losers?
“The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning” is the product of HBR’s in-depth research. The report includes interviews with industry experts, analysis...
Published: Jun 07, 2017