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
Dark social is a significant and growing challenge that marketers need to take seriously.
There is a growing body of evidence to show that consumers are increasingly sharing content privately, for example through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger, rather than on publicly accessible social networks where...
Published: Feb 01, 2018
Companies are set to become increasingly employee-centric in the future. Those employers who make changes now to shape their business around the needs of their staff are likely to achieve significant competitive advantage. Employees are more like to stay with companies that show they value their staff and provide an environment...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
Financial Director, in conjunction with income protection insurers Unum, conducted a survey of finance directors to gauge the importance and availability of employee benefits in their respective companies.
Published: Apr 01, 2012
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
Sales organizations are undergoing a paradigm shift, driven by digital transformation, to deliver meaningful customer engagement.
Organizations are advancing beyond agent productivity and capitalizing on technology’s ability to deliver key insights and predictive analytics that can unlock revenue growth. ...
Published: Feb 15, 2018
Customers want, demand and quite frankly expect a cross-channel experience where they receive essentially the same message across all of those same channels.
In this particular guide, we’ll discuss some ways to remove any friction B2C marketers may be having as it relates to delivering a cross-channel...
Published: Feb 01, 2016
There's a new paradox in marketing. We present a vision for how marketing leaders can balance trust and regulation to begin delivering one-to-one journeys beyond their own organizational walls:
Recent industry insight into how Financial Services marketing can benefit from network effects
Customer...
Published: May 15, 2018
CRM, Customer Relationship Management, and more particularly the technologies involved in delivering it has caused more confusion than any other technology that has been available in the market for so long. Survey after survey shows that for the majority of companies, the awareness of the technology exists but the confusion...
Published: Feb 01, 2012
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
This whitepaper explains how you can use smart centralizing technology to take a proactive approach to GDPR and responsible, compliant marketing:
A clear glossary and explanation of the GDPR guiding principles
What these mean in a marketing context and how they can be proactively actioned and addressed...
Published: May 15, 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
In our 35-criteria evaluation of sales force automation (SFA) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — bpm'online, CRMNEXT, Infor, Microsoft, NetSuite, Oracle, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SAP, and SugarCRM — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
This report shows how each provider...
Published: Apr 04, 2018
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