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It’s Time for Your Company to Switch to VoIP

Strategy Driven

Due to its simple and convenient features, many businesses in different industries have successfully adopted this technology. Also, online VoIP service providers protect data using information security technologies, such as encryption and identity management. Second, VoIP easily integrates with CRM software.

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Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage

Strategy Driven

As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks. About the Author.

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Too Many Executives Are Missing the Most Important Part of CRM

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. It’s a result of misguided strategy.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. Unstructured data is very different.

CIO 50
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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S. Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned: Centralize your social media team.

Media 8
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Design Offices to Be More Like Neighborhoods

Harvard Business Review

Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations. Use your company’s intranet or another internal communication tool to provide an outlet for all employees (from intern to executive, remote to in-office) to ask tough questions or offer opinions about your office environment. Find your feng shui.

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What a Great Digital Customer Experience Actually Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

A customer’s experience in a physical setting is determined by a large group of factors , including how other customers are behaving (and whether there are any other customers at all), the environment’s overall atmosphere—its temperature, lighting, ambient noise, and music—and its physical location.

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