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Three Keys to Effective Digital Onboarding

The Center For Leadership Studies

It provides personalized customer service and experiences and offers relevant information and support in one dashboard. The digital journey and integration of the customer into your customer relationship management (CRM) platform is easy to track, and you can adjust the process if needed.

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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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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. frequently underestimate the costs of front-line resistance.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems.

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Free Customers Are More Valuable than Captive Ones

Harvard Business Review

And, in fact, many demand-side solutions are being developed and moving forward, mostly below the supply side's radar. For the past six years I've led ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Center , fostering development of tools and services that give customers two advantages: 1. The intelligence behind these solutions is the customers' own.

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Cloud Computing is Greener

Harvard Business Review

In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company's information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. As Monroe says, "Cloud providers want to provide an hour of CPU time, a Gigabyte-month of storage, a CRM transaction, an email, or a web page for as little cost and as high a margin as possible.