Take a moment and hark back to the time you’ve had the best ideas of your professional life. Where were you at the time? Taking a walk? Having a discussion with your friend over a pint of beer? Or, better still – in the shower?
The notion that you’re most productive at your job in the office is becoming...
Published: May 11, 2016
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
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
The science of customer loyalty isn’t new—marketers were introduced to it more than 20 years ago.1 But the pursuit of loyalty is an ongoing struggle; marketers still grapple with disjointed, and even dysfunctional, toolsets as they attempt to engage each customer in a personal, long-term relationship with a...
Published: Aug 04, 2014
Digital media has enabled financial services organizations to increase their engagement with customers and move toward providing a more compelling customer experience. According to a global survey by Ernst and Young,¹ 86% of consumers now use online banking, with 60% accessing their banking data via a mobile device....
Published: May 08, 2013
Managing subsidiaries – not to mention suppliers and other partners – is a complex undertaking. With SAP® software, you can empower them all to function independently yet still coordinate operations enterprise-wide. Designed to fit each entity’s needs, SAP software is preconfigured to support best...
Published: Oct 19, 2013
The travel, hospitality and tourism industries have been some of the fastest growing sectors in the world. Deloitte has predicted that tourism alone will be worth more than £257 billion to the UK economy by 2025!
Fierce competition, business pressures and the disruption caused by social media are making all...
Published: Oct 03, 2017
It’s hardly a secret that marketing executives of all types are using more data. Data is more powerful than ever, driving decision-making and informing strategy. Increased reliance on data has upended traditional marketing approaches and added greater layers of accuracy, targeting, analytics and measurability to...
Published: May 10, 2019
In November of 1993, the Stanford Federal Credit Union became the first financial institution in the world to offer online banking. By 2001, most financial institutions in the developed world offered website and internet banking access for their customers. Today, however, those humble beginnings have become something many...
Published: Jul 07, 2014
The marketplace environment is very varied, and lets all types of retailers to sell in a particular zone to a particular audience. There are B2B, B2C and C2C marketplaces, where people exchange physical goods, intangible goods, and services. With so many different marketplaces, it is important to distinguish between generalist...
Published: Oct 15, 2016
If your CEO tells you that you’re focusing on the wrong metrics, you’re not alone. In a 2011 survey of CEOs by The Fournaise Group, 73 percent of respondents said that marketers lack business credibility because they fail to quantify the success of their campaigns.
Published: May 19, 2014
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
In a highly competitive market, online retailers are always on the lookout to boost their online activity in order to generate more qualified traffic to their websites and convert visitors with ease. Discover a range of different acquisition tools throughout Lengow’s guide to help you decide which ones are best for...
Published: Jan 02, 2017
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