The top driver for change in supply chains is the need to retain customers yet the least important element of a supply chain is the quality of service, according to a 2016 IDC Manufacturing Insights supply chain survey. Looking at priorities through 2017, reducing costs and eliminating waste was the top priority and customer-centricity...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
The Future of Business is Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI), also known as cognitive technology, is increasingly being adopted by leading businesses –and one of the initial trending areas of application is in supply chain.
Like other significant technological innovations of the past...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Cognitive technologies, also known as artificial intelligence, are perhaps the most transformative of our era. In fact, technology and economics are aligning in a way that puts society at a tipping point.
Cognitive technologies can understand all forms of data and continually learn about that data and related subjects...
Published: Aug 29, 2018
Some of the major and key challenges that have arisen today are that the majority of retailers lack experience in implementing a distributed order management (DOM) system, resulting in challenges around design, scope, implementation time scales and costs. These can cause unplanned compromises in the final implementation....
Published: Aug 22, 2018
How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank?
See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory:
Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas
Optimize in real-time...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Sales organizations are undergoing a paradigm shift, driven by digital transformation, to deliver meaningful customer engagement. Advance beyond agent productivity and capitalizing on technology’s ability to deliver key insights and predictive analytics.
Read our free e-book, where you’ll learn: ...
Published: Jan 12, 2018
User Generated Content (UGC) is not just another marketing buzz phrase, honest. It’s a very powerful strategy for your marketing team and all you need to do is add content created by engaged customers (such as product reviews, videos and photos) into your marketing campaigns.
UGC has been proven...
Published: Oct 03, 2017
With the announcement of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regarding updates to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the agency has brought focus on the affirmative action efforts for individuals with a disability as a top priority. In the effort...
Published: Nov 14, 2013
Unemployment insurance replaces part of the income workers lose when they become unemployed through no fault of their own. Unemployment insurance is considered to soften the economic impact job losses have on communities by maintaining purchasing power in the area where workers live.
Published: Jun 20, 2013
New game, new rules. It did not happen overnight, but it happened. Commoditization and global competition have put the squeeze on nearly every industry. To make matters worse, financial markets have become more demanding than in decades past. Everyone is looking for sustainable growth, but few have found the secret formula...
Published: Jun 08, 2013
You have bold ambitions for your sales team. You want to—and need to—reinvent productivity. But the success of your sales team is stifled by silos. It’s no wonder they’re struggling when their transactional systems, social networking, and productivity tools are separate.
With the Microsoft...
Published: Jan 12, 2018
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's digital marketers want to engage customers with offers that are based on deep customer profiles, transaction histories and other real-time content about their interactions. Delivering the right offer for the right customer at the right time will dramatically improve marketing results and lifetime customer value....
Published: Oct 30, 2017
A badly run webinar is like a badly run meeting — a waste of everyone’s time. So we’re taking a stand against poor production, dull delivery and coma-inducing content that can give this great format a bad name.
It probably won’t come as a complete shock, but we recommend Citrix GoToWebinar...
Published: Sep 01, 2016