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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The Theory of Winning – Part II

Roderic Yapp·9 April 2017·People & Change

...If you’re reading this, you probably read my previous epic on the OODA Loop – thank you – and I appreciate you coming back to find out how you can best implement this philosophy into your organisation. Last time, I explained how the OODA Loop works. Read More...

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Global innovation and expansion: avoiding 5 common mistakes

Endri Hasanaj·9 April 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...The path to international business success is littered with horror stories about both startups and established companies who failed in their attempts to expand into foreign markets. And although they’re likely to get your heart racing and have you abandoning your plans for world domination, really these examples are more useful than all the success stories combined. Read More...

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The Future is Bright for Banking

Ronald van Loon·5 April 2017·Customer Engagement

...2018 is likely to be a game-changing year for the banking and finance sector. As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) are implemented across the European Union, the exclusive control of banks and other financial institutions on financial data of their customers is about to end. These new regulations will open the door to almost any company interested in claiming a share, particularly the tech giants, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google.  Read More...

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Redefining leadership for a digital age

Richard Chiumento·5 April 2017·People & Change

...Experts have warned of a digital leadership void that exists which could cost their organisations dear in the era of digital transformation and disruption. Hats off then to Deutsche Telekom, which has introduced a training programme for its executives worldwide which focuses on successful leadership in the digital era called levelUP!. Read More...

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An Executive Summary: Leading Digital by George Westerman, Didier Bonnet & Andrew McAfee

The Digital Transformation People·27 March 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Leading Digital is a classic book on the subject of Digital Transformation.  Here is a full and in-depth summary to get you started, but this is definitely one for your collection. Inside this executive summary you will learn: Why Bother with Digital? Build your Digital Capabilities Build your Leadership Capabilities… Read More...

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