Building a team: 4 ways to look after your remote workforce

Endri Hasanaj·20 April 2017·People & Change

...In today’s tech-savvy world, the workplace can take many different forms … your living room, a quiet corner of your local coffee shop, a rented desk in a co-working space – so long as you’ve got a solid internet connection, you’ve got yourself an office. As a result, roughly four million Brits now choose to work from home, avoiding commutes and restrictive nine-to-five days for the freedom of clocking in their office hours virtually instead. Read More...

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CLOSING BELL: Peer Group ‘Scaling up breakthrough / digital innovations’

Frank Mattes·19 April 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Recently I pointed your attention towards a Peer Group which is currently forming. The response we have received showed the significance of this topic. More than 20 companies are on the Yes, I am interested list (see below). Read More...

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How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Digital Enterprises

Ronald van Loon·19 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...According to the prediction of IDC Futurescapes, Two-thirds of Global 2000 Enterprises CEOs will center their corporate strategy on digital transformation. A major part of the strategy should include machine-learning (ML) solutions. The implementation of these solutions could change how these enterprises view customer value and internal operating model today. Read More...

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5 Areas in Marketing where Artificial Intelligence can help

Anupam Bonanthaya·19 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...There is lot of debate on how robots will replace humans and how some jobs will cease to exist in the immediate future. While Elon Musk is trying to fuse humans with robots, Bill Gates is talking about taxing robots to keep humans competitive. Enough indicators from the technology visionaries on what AI can do! Read More...

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Digital Disruption Must Die

Adam Burns·19 April 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Businesses are stronger together, so why are the leaders trumpeting something that creates division? Disruption is dead. Long live transformation. Read More...

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Is Digital Recruiting Making It Harder to Hire New Talent?

Carla Curtsinger·19 April 2017·People & Change

...Job openings have outnumbered new hires since February, 2015. It may not feel like it, but it’s true: there are more jobs out there than new hires being made. The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) results released in December confirm that job openings have outnumbered new hires since February, 2015. Read More...

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How to Become an Omni-Channel Data-Driven Retailer

Ronald van Loon·19 April 2017·Customer Engagement

...In today’s digital age where customers are as likely to buy a product from an eCommerce website as from a bricks and mortar store, delivering a seamless and value-adding shopping experience has become more important than ever before. The multiple shopping channels available to customers and the competition posed by other retailers have made it an absolute necessity for a retail business to integrate data inputs from different channels and use to it define an omni-channel shopping experience.  Read More...

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What the End of Globalization Means to Retail

Tony D'Onofrio·19 April 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...In an article published in November, we discussed the following five ingredients driving the age of disruption: Geopolitical risks ahead, Need for technology speed, Data as the new oil, Next generation consumers, and Shopping till you drop. Reverse globalization is a subplot of these trends impacting many industries including retail. Read More...

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Introducing Marketing Research to Data Scientists

Kevin Gray·17 April 2017·Data & Analytics

...Most people working in data science have probably heard of marketing research but may be confused about what it really is. Marketing research, also known as market research, has been in existence in one form or another for at least a century. Definitions of it vary and no marketing researcher I know has in-depth experience with all of it. Read More...

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Aligning HR with business strategy

Richard Chiumento·17 April 2017·People & Change

...The majority of HR organisations are behind the curve when it comes to addressing issues that are central to achieving the most important enterprise goals, a new report from the Hackett Group finds. These include aligning talent strategies to business needs, dealing with critical talent and skills shortages and implementing organisational change. Read More...

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Digital ‘Native’ Strategy and the need for Agility

Peter Abraham·10 April 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Strategy in business is about wanting to win. Winning is about seeing a gap, having an advantage and seizing it. Strategy is what you do to create a competitive advantage in order to win. Strategies used to deliver value for the long term but now in today’s environment of accelerating change, competitive advantage is more transient and so perhaps the best strategy of all is to achieve the agility to constantly refine, modify and, when required, pivot. No strategy is sustainable for the long term but the achievement of agility is the best chance you have of survival. Read More...

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Chatbots transform any function, not just customer-facing ones.

Bertrand Maltaverne·10 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...  More than a year ago in January 2016, I imagined the future of Procurement technology. The origin of my idea of a Procurement Assistant you could interact with via chat came from growing interest in the development of chatbots. Most mainstream communication platforms are having one or are certainly working on one. Read More...

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