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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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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. Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems.

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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. Yet organizations that implement an enterprise system ( ERP , CRM , SCM , etc.)

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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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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. In my last book, Green Recovery , I focused on IT as one of five operational areas where green initiatives help companies save money quickly (the others were facilities, distribution, telework, and waste).

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Companies Are Reimagining Business Processes with Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Predictive powers gained by machine-reengineering are fundamentally improving the safety of operations. They saw the potential for significant business gains.

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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

For example, successfully deploying CRM software on time and to budget will deliver little unless sales, customer services, and fulfillment processes are redesigned, staff trained to have the right conversations with customers, data quality improves, and marketers build the right competencies to use all the data that will now be available to them.

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