How AI Is transforming B2B sales

Nathan Sykes·3 June 2019·Customer Engagement

...When it comes to business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, the impacts of emerging technologies are plentiful. The internet of things is changing how companies interact with consumers, AI is curating retail experiences, and 3D printing is helping to usher in industry 4.0 just to name a few. But business-to-business (B2B) companies… Read More...

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Redesigning the employee experience

Richard Chiumento·2 June 2019·People & Change

...I recently had the pleasure of attending the UK Employee Experience Awards at the Park Plaza Riverbank in London, having been a category judge. The standard of entries was exceptionally high, and the event proved to be an excellent showcase for a broad range of organisations which are achieving great… Read More...

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Part 7: The Connectivity Challenge and the Art of Dealing with Boundaries

Roland Deiser·29 May 2019·People & Change

...Large organizations always face the issue of balancing integration and differentiation – a fundamental and unavoidable tension that leads to the well-known pendulum game of periodic centralization and decentralization efforts. Like with the ambidexterity challenge (see part #6 of this series), this tension cannot be solved unilaterally; companies need to… Read More...

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Cyber security is becoming a matter of good corporate governance, good ethics, and quite simply – good business

JC GAILLARD·29 May 2019·Cyber Security

...Key factors for boards and executive management to consider in 2019 around cyber security and privacy. Cyber security has risen as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. As a recent AT Kearney report suggests, cyber-attacks have been topping executives’ lists of business risks for… Read More...

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Walmart vs Amazon – the worldwide retail champion heavyweight fight

Tony D'Onofrio·29 May 2019·Customer Engagement

...Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of participating in a Rethink Retail podcast with Bryan Gildenberg, Chief Knowledge Officer of Retail, Sales & Shopper at WPP’s Kantar Consulting and Paul Lewis, CMO of digital transformation agency Valtech. With Julia Raymond moderating, the three of us debated the… Read More...

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How to use digital channels for recruitment marketing

Nathan Sykes·27 May 2019·People & Change

...Maybe this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but about 92% of recruiters use social media to help narrow down their candidate searches. It’s not all about social websites, though — there are other digital channels your company or organization should be using if you want to engage in successful… Read More...

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6 important steps to building a successful factory of the future

Ronald van Loon·27 May 2019·Strategy & Innovation

...What is the factory of the future? Is it a synonym to Industry 4.0, or is it a different concept in its own right? Industry 4.0 and the factory of the future might sound similar, but they are different in some ways. To begin with, the factory of the future… Read More...

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What roles will emerging technology play in recruitment?

Nathan Sykes·27 May 2019·People & Change

...We’ve come a long way from posting wanted ads in the local paper. These days, job seekers begin their hunt online — and so do recruiters. Online job boards are probably the most significant change that recruiters have had to deal with in recent years. But they’re just the beginning… Read More...

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Will Artificial Intelligence replace the thinking executive?

Niall McKeown·23 May 2019·Enabling Technologies

...With Digital Transformation going at a pace, Prof. Niall McKeown discusses the role of the business leader when it comes to building a business that can create a new, sustainable competitive advantage, leveraging artificial intelligence. Transcript Okay, if you don’t mind, I’ll switch to English. My Finnish… Read More...

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Data’s continuous role in the B2B world

Nathan Sykes·23 May 2019·Data & Analytics

...Data is now the key to nearly every business process, operation, and design. There’s just no way to thrive without it, and more importantly, without real-time data that allows for near-instant reactions and decisions. Most discussions about data centre around the B2C space, however, barely touching upon B2B as an… Read More...

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What do we mean by an Organisational Operating System?

Lee Bryant·23 May 2019·People & Change

...“The greatest challenge for today’s leaders is how to upgrade their organisation’s operating system”. This is how we frame the conversation about organisational change and the role of digital transformation on our newly-updated website, so I thought I would explain our thinking.  Firstly, the term ‘digital transformation’ has been… Read More...

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What Are “Data Models?”​

Kevin Gray·21 May 2019·Data & Analytics

...Seemingly simple terms such as data model or unstructured data can be confusing and do not always cross disciplines smoothly. These brief excerpts from Data Science for Marketing Analytics: Achieve your marketing goals with the data analytics power of Python by Tommy Blanchard, Debasish Behera, and Pranshu Bhatnagar succinctly… Read More...

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