It’s been over 35 years since people first started talking about “the paperless office.”1 Surprise—paper still plays a huge role in all aspects of business, for a simple reason: customers still want it. Despite a seismic shift to digital communications, the printed medium is alive and well, even...
Published: May 13, 2014
With sales of mobile devices surpassing PCs, it’s easy to see why both consumers and producers of mobile media are flocking to it. Smartphones capture consumers’ undivided attention while enabling them to work in “microtime” – grabbing small slices of productivity as they use these devices...
Published: May 12, 2014
Digital has changed healthcare forever. Health information is now readily available to anyone with an internet connection, with the majority of consumers taking full advantage of this accessibility. Among the internet users responding to a recent survey, 72% reported seeking health information online in the last 12 months.¹...
Published: Feb 18, 2014
Introducing IBM Watson Supply Chain Business Network
Supply Chain Business Network correlates related documents so business users can quickly find related supply chain transactions, and pinpoint issues without involving IT... and natural language search and conversation allows them to get the answers they need fast,...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Both local and national governments and their agencies have made huge progress in delivering services to their citizens online, saving time and hassle for them. This has also resulted in efficiency savings for governments, reducing reliance on their contact centers and on face-to-face interactions. Many government agencies...
Published: Jan 01, 2015
All customers expect their purchase to show up as expected and on time. But if you’re a supply chain professional, like so many we work with, you know there are thousands of things that have to be executed perfectly for that customer to have their anticipated experience.
And we know things can, and do, go wrong....
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Nearly every enterprise has some form of an intranet, but how many view it as a strategic business tool, investing levels of budget and resources similar to other critical business systems? While traditionally the intranet has been treated as a necessary cost of doing business that should be minimized, today’s intranet...
Published: Feb 09, 2011
White paper // Five success factors for CMS Your customers and prospects expect a lot from your website. Is the content relevant? Is the presentation fresh? Is the experience personalized? Very few companies could answer “yes” to all three of those questions. That’s because online marketing has become...
Published: Jan 08, 2014
Customer engagement is more than a trendy buzzword. It’s the new marketing reality for businesses of every stripe. In this age of the empowered customer, engagement has replaced push marketing, with customers and prospects deciding how and when they want to engage with your company. They are also calling the shots...
Published: Jan 01, 2011
Building a foundation of people and processes is an essential step toward experience optimization success.
Download this guide which covers the best practices of some of the most successful and well-run optimization teams including:
How to choose the best optimization platform for your organization...
Published: May 10, 2016
Today’s customers are different. The digital age has not only created more ways in which businesses can engage with customers; it has also opened up endless research opportunities, meaning today’s customers have more choices and can make more informed purchasing decisions than ever before. In fact, most buyers...
Published: Apr 05, 2014
We are living in Age of the Consumer, as defined by analyst firm Forrester Research, with consumers having unprecedented access to information on products, services, and pricing as well as reviews—with the ability to shop anywhere, anytime. Every retailer, to a greater or lesser extent, has had to embrace digital,...
Published: May 19, 2014
SugarCRM has leveraged IBM and other strategic partnerships to broaden its omnichannel appeal to enterprises, making Sugar a strong alternative to Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
Download this report to learn how SugarCRM's four-pillar strategy enables businesses to create extraordinary customer experiences....
Published: Jan 28, 2016
Nearly all consumers are familiar with—and often prefer—online shopping. Seventy percent of US Internet users made at least one online purchase during the second quarter of 2011,1 and Forrester projects that US e-retail sales will grow by 10% each year, reaching $279 billion by 2015.2 As online sales grow,...
Published: Aug 04, 2013