In a digital world, where every campaign and customer experience can be tracked, it’s imperative for marketers to have data that proves the value of their every effort. Because when you can’t prove whether your marketing drives organisational profits, you’re less likely to get the budget you need to deliver...
Published: Apr 15, 2020
Now more than ever, an enterprise’s ability to understand the needs of their customers and respond quickly is paramount. By enabling customers to purchase digitally, not only do you enable cost efficient, self-serve buying experiences, you also benefit from the insight you need to rapidly adapt to major events like...
Published: Apr 28, 2020
More than ever, now is the time, to connect with your target audience and to provide them with educational content and solution-based collateral.
During these unprecedented times it is important for businesses to now review their tactics for reaching their target audiences, it is also important to maintain...
Published: May 15, 2020
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
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
Here are the key questions every marketer should ask themselves - and their stakeholders - when considering this kind of technology.
Get straight to the important stuff:
A checklist of DMP criteria to make sure you're asking vendors the right questions
A closer look at DMP competencies, nuances and...
Published: May 15, 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
Every business plans, but not every business excels. What separates the thriving businesses from the average ones is how well they create, execute, and adjust their plans as conditions change. The ability to connect planning capabilities across the business is the essence of Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
This...
Published: Sep 29, 2017
Customers expect more from brands when it comes to convenience, resolution times and agent expertise. Evolving customer preferences are tightly linked to innovations in digital technology, and brands must embrace both in order to keep pace with heightened expectations. The good news is that brands that can deliver on expectations...
Published: Jan 12, 2018
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
Your customers have a strong opinion of what makes a company customer-centric.
Customer service organizations must build on a foundation of operational efficiencies in order to deliver the great customer experiences that differentiate a brand. Leveraging tools for process automation and analytics, organizations gain...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
The key to accomplishing your customer-centric marketing goals is to experiment and test what works for your organization and your customers.
But where to start, and how to streamline? How do you fine-tune and fulfill pieces of the customer journey, to build foundations for the future?
In this whitepaper, we...
Published: May 15, 2018
Frost & Sullivan recently conducted a survey of almost 500 senior customer experience (CX) executives across Europe to understand how enterprises approached CX and whether they believed the Internet of Things (IoT) had or would have an impact on their business.
Interestingly, over 60% of respondents agree that...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
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