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Blockchain: A Study Rooted in Reality

A new study from SAP sends this message to the business community about blockchain: It’s time to get real. The distributed ledger technology blockchain is in the early stages of an adoption cycle where its…

Six Ways Customer Service Can Transform Customer Experience

“Customer service is the way to change your customer experience.” I lost count of the number of times I heard people saying that at Customer Contact Week (CCW) Europe, an event that attracted dozens of…

Leverage The Internet Of Things To Deliver New Customer Experiences

Digitization is changing our world and our customer’s experience expectations. It’s expected that by 2020, IoT devices will increase from 6.4 billion to more than 50 billion. This pervasiveness of technology means many more data points…

Using The Cloud To Accelerate Your Intelligent ERP Journey

Ask any tech pundit, and you’ll doubtless hear without hesitation that the cloud should be your top IT priority. Wherever you may be with your deployment strategy right now, everyone’s pretty sure that we’ll soon…

Meet machine learning, your new favorite colleague

What if you had a colleague who would take care of all the dull, routine tasks without complaining? A colleague who lets you do interesting and challenging tasks, helps you solve them, then happily lets…

How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. But along with fax…

Realizing The Value Of Cloud ERP For Your Business

With cloud computing now considered mainstream, more and more organizations are embracing cloud ERP (public and private) to drive enterprise-wide innovation to improve customer relationships while delivering operational efficiencies. This trend is set to continue, with analysts…

Customer experience: Don’t lose it in the last mile

This year’s winter Olympics have featured the performance of two female athletes who ended up with two very different outcomes. The British speed skater Elise Christie experienced a bad crash in one of the final…

Innovation: A Skydiving Experience For Organizations

I finally experienced my first tandem skydive, after overcoming procrastination based on fear of the unknown and of failure. Indeed, the experience was out of this world. What made it life-changing for me was not…

Voice shopping may hit $40 billion by 2022 in the U.S. alone

The voice shopping market is expected to grow from $2 billion today to $40 billion by 2022, according to a new survey of 1,500 owners of smart speaker like Google Home and Amazon Echo in…