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The Five Imperatives of High Tech Leadership
White Paper provided by Infor

Innovative ideas don’t produce success in the high tech industry. It’s the ability to execute innovative ideas quickly, consistently, and profitably that matters. The qualities that separate the best from the rest in high technology revolve around five interrelated disciplines that form the basis for lasting success. Find out what they are when you download this free report from Infor.

5 Must Haves for a Complete Social Support Strategy
White Paper provided by Get Satisfaction

Your customers have adopted a more social way of communicating online, and they expect your support department to do so too. The good news is that you don’t have to hire an army to deliver exceptional customer support. A good social support strategy allows you to leverage your customers for dynamic, collaborative support that’s always available, anywhere your customers are.

Communities Build Better Customer Experience:The 6 Stages of the Customer Lifecycle
White Paper provided by Get Satisfaction

Your prospective customers trust the opinions of their peers more than they trust even your best-crafted marketing messages. The most effective thing you can do to influence their purchase decision is empower brand advocates to do your word-of-mouth marketing for you.

Free IDC Analyst brief: Deliver Better Customer Experience with Community
White Paper provided by Get Satisfaction

Download this brief to learn about the customer experience technology you can’t afford to ignore. In this brief, Michael Fauscette, Group VP of Business Solutions at IDC, explains why a customer community platform should be an integral part of your customer experience strategy.

5 Steps to Collecting Amazing Customer Feedback
White Paper provided by Get Satisfaction

Your customers use your products and services every day. They’re a great resource for insight into what you do well, and what you can improve upon. Smart businesses are recognizing that customer feedback is key to driving product innovation and customer loyalty.

The BI(G) Disappointment: Troubling Gaps Between Business Intelligence Expectations and Realities
White Paper provided by Domo

Domo surveyed 1,064 individuals in business leadership roles in a wide variety of departments, across a large number of industries. Domo wanted to know how the average business professional feels about the information they have—or do not have—and how they are interacting with that data. The company’s internal study examined the role of business information from a number of important perspectives, including the real-time nature of data, the devices used to access the data, and how information is being consumed within the organization.

The 7 Deadly Sins of Dashboard Design
White Paper provided by Domo

In the new world of business intelligence (BI), the front end of an executive management platform, or dashboard, is one of several critical elements needed to maximize the value of your data and traditional BI investments. Dashboards have the ability to leverage and transform your business intelligence into the real-time at-a-glance insights you need to enhance decision-making, reduce costs, increase productivity, respond faster to market conditions, simplify process management, optimize business operations and outpace the competition. Unfortunately, too many dashboard projects fail to meet their potential as a result of organizations committing 7 common mistakes outlined in this article.

Conquering Retail's 6 Biggest Cross-Channel Challenges
White Paper provided by Domo

In this paper we’ll explore how point solution pollution impacts the top six operational challenges faced by cross-channel retailers, as identified by retailers themselves in Retail Systems Research’s (RSR) new benchmark report, The Multi-Channel Retailer’s Reality in a Post-Amazon World. We’ll also illustrate how Domo’s cloud-based business intelligence platform helps overcome these challenges by enabling retailers to see all their disparate data sources in one place, in real time, on any device.

Turning Big Data into Big Revenues
White Paper provided by Domo

For many CEOs today, big data is at the top of the strategic agenda. At the same time, many business leaders are wondering how to turn the vast stores of data in their existing systems—in addition to the fast-growing volumes of data generated by the social Web and elsewhere—into top- and bottom-line benefits. According to a 2012 study by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., 65 percent of executives say big data and analytics is a priority for their organizations (see Figure 1, “Big Data High on Strategic Agenda,” at right). About half of business leaders say they expect to build competitive advantage with the initiative, and nearly a third intend to build a new business or tap into new profit pools.

The Data Warehouse Dilemma
White Paper provided by Domo

In the category of late bloomers, business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing can be added to the list. In use for more than 20 years, BI and data warehousing’s ability to provide substantive benefits remains elusive for many companies. While hard-and-fast statistics are difficult to get, widely reported failure rates for BI projects range from 50 percent to as high as 80 percent. However, such failure rates have not stopped companies from continually trying to gain benefits from BI. The results of a survey released in January 2012 by Gartner found that among the top technology priorities for CIOs, number one was analytics and business intelligence.