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Three Keys to Effective Digital Onboarding

The Center For Leadership Studies

Consumers expect businesses to have a complete digital presence regardless of whether the organizations operate in commerce, banking or other sectors. It provides personalized customer service and experiences and offers relevant information and support in one dashboard. What Is Digital Onboarding?

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

New technologies : The consistency and predictability of structured data is what gave rise to today’s centralized IT departments – running SQL/Relational Database Management Systems, and ERP and CRM software. Unstructured data is very different. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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For Sales Forces, Big Data May Be Overhyped

Harvard Business Review

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article (" Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing ") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. Big data has a lot of potential, much like CRM always had, but we need to do it right.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Avoiding a new technology may not be an option, but it shouldn't come first.

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How Analytics Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (and How It’s Stayed the Same)

Harvard Business Review

The technologies I’ve mentioned for analytics thus far are primarily separate from other types of systems, but many organizations today want and need to integrate analytics with their production applications. Firms still use statistics packages, spreadsheets, data warehouses and marts, visual analytics, and business intelligence tools.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. Paul Bradbury/Getty Images. We think this is a bad idea.