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Utordo allows logistics companies to integrate with the OnBuy online marketplace

Retail Technology Review

Utordo – the cloud-based multi-channel order management solution – is now fully integrated with OnBuy.com, the fast-growing UK-founded online marketplace. Internet Retailing Retail Supply Chain Loading

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Safety is too important to rely on ‘off the shelf’ products. When sourcing safety solutions, consultation is key

Retail Technology Review

By David Thomas, General Manager, ZoneSafe - Proximity Warning & Alert Systems. The boom in online retail in recent years has undoubtedly boosted warehouse and logistics operation in the UK while the circumstances of 2020 continue to fuel further growth within the industry as consumers steer clear of the high street; opting instead for online shopping and delivery. Internet Retailing Critical Issues Retail Supply Chain

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Four Types of Ecommerce Merchandising That Business Owners Should Know

Retail Technology Review

By Sam Cortez, managing editor and outreach specialist for Scalefluence.com Merchandising is the process and practice of displaying and arranging products for the best customer experience. The concept of merchandising is based on guiding prospective customers through the buyer’s journey and presenting them with the right products, at the right time and place, in the right quantity, and with the best prices. Critical Issues Internet Retailing Retail Supply Chain Loading

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Wehkamp plots double-digit growth trajectory with Manhattan Associates

Retail Technology Review

has announced that Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has selected Manhattan’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) to manage its new distribution centre (DC) in Zwolle, Netherlands. Manhattan Associates Inc. Internet Retailing Retail Supply Chain

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Do You Have an Immediate Need for Skilled Offshore Staffing?

Using talent from overseas is creating new challenges for managers. Here’s a closer look at common offshoring complications for HR managers and best practices for overcoming them. Download this comprehensive guide, "Overcoming Human Resource Management Challenges in Offshoring Teams," to learn more!

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Product Management And Security Collaboration Benefits More Than Product Security

Forrester eCommerce

Last year, we reached out to product management decision-makers to learn more […] Age of the Customer Application Security Cybersecurity Trends Product Management security risk management

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Product Management Spending Recommendations, 2023

Forrester eCommerce

Learn where to expand investment, where to hold back, and where to get creative with your product management strategy in 2023. Age of the Customer digital product management Product Management

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New Technologies Transform Transportation Management

Forrester eCommerce

TMS used to streamline operations and reduce logistics costs. But in its journey to the cloud TMS embedded AI, added mobile geolocation. It shifted focus from cost to customer and employee experience. Age of the Customer

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Managing Costs In Azure

Forrester eCommerce

Cost management is a topic that consistently comes up in inquiry, regardless of whether the original question was about cost management or about other aspects of cloud strategy. Up until recently, cost management was exclusively served by third-party software offerings.

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The Keys to Effective Digital Product Management

Forrester eCommerce

If you’re in product management, your skills are needed today! According to Glassdoor, the number of product manager job openings has increased 135% over the past five years, with up to 17,000 available job openings on the site today.

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Manage Your Martech, Or It Will Manage You

Forrester eCommerce

I know that CMOs are busy — I mean, really busy. The scope of the CMO role continues to grow, customers are more demanding than ever, and marketing operates under constant disruption driven by factors beyond your control.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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The New Change Management: Automated And Decentralized

Forrester eCommerce

Change management has continued to be a hot topic on social media and customer inquiry. As a process symbolizing traditional IT service management and the ITIL framework, it’s under increasing pressure to modernize in response to Agile and DevOps trends.

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Three Tips for Using Design Thinking in Product Management Activities

Forrester eCommerce

Product managers must integrate design thinking into their product commercialization and lifecycle process to foster a customer-focused approach for offerings. customer experience customer-centric design Product Management SiriusDecisions Research user experience (UX) Customer Needs Discover

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Here’s How To Update Your Risk Management Posture Given The War In Ukraine

Forrester eCommerce

Risk management leaders in Europe and worldwide are already being impacted by the war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian actors.

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Product Management Leadership For This New Era

Forrester eCommerce

Product Management SiriusDecisions ResearchThis post outlines three key ways product leaders can use customer input and feedback to drive growth in the coming year.

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A Comparison Of Agile And ITSM Change Management Mindsets

Forrester eCommerce

Let’s Compare Agile And ITSM Thinking We all know that pushing every change – no matter how big or how small – through a change management process is not only bureaucratic but also introduces delays that most development teams can neither afford nor tolerate.

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Management Techniques for Offshore Employees

This whitepaper looks at the changes and challenges that stem from remote hiring and current HR trends that address them. Download this comprehensive guide to learn more!

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How Big Data is Improving Inventory Management

BigCommerce

The challenge, however, is… Analysis + Analytics analytics data inventory managementWith online retail sales showing no signs of slowing, the opportunity for business growth is monumental.

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Update Your Knowledge Management Practice With Three Agile Principles

Forrester eCommerce

Long-standing “waterfall” knowledge management (KM) practices are failing to meet the needs of the modern enterprise, and technology leaders must reassess their approach.

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Channel And Ecosystem Leaders Are Demanding More From Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Solutions

Forrester eCommerce

As brands increasingly use different types of partners to reach, influence, transact, and retain customers, partner relationship management (PRM) solutions are being asked to serve both traditional and nontraditional channels at a new level of scale and personalization.

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Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Comes Of Age

Forrester eCommerce

Maturing Into A Horizontal Channel Management Platform Aligned With CRM and Marketing Automation. Partner relationship management (PRM) connects the dots between partner planning, recruitment, […]. Channel and alliance leaders are known to be good jugglers. With the average partner program containing over 90 distinct components, encouraging channel growth while mediating conflict is a complex undertaking.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management can be, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. Entrusting a vendor to help maintain its accuracy and completeness is no ordinary engagement. Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider.

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Introducing The CLM Landscape, 2023: Contract Management Gets A Dose Of Digitalization

Forrester eCommerce

Unlike customer-facing functions, however, the software that powers the creation, execution, and management of these commercial obligations hasn’t made the shift toward digital … until now! All businesses rely on contracts.

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Microsoft Announces Defender Vulnerability Management

Forrester eCommerce

Microsoft recently announced Defender Vulnerability Management is available in a 120 day public preview as as a standalone, EDR-agnostic option. Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Trends security risk management Vulnerability

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Bot Management Solutions Grow Up

Forrester eCommerce

The bot management market has matured considerably over the past few years. With the release of The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022, we see a market that […]. Age of the Customer Application Security Cybersecurity security risk management

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How A Password Manager Could Save Your Marriage

Forrester eCommerce

Cybersecurity identity & access management (IAM) security risk management Zero Trust Model cybersecurity data management passwords Security & RiskMy wife has the good fortune of living with a security and risk pro who also happens to be a US Army intelligence officer, so she’s been previously scolded about lax security practices. I also point out how “hacking” scenes on TV and in movies are comical and inaccurate.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. The primary takeaway? Forrester found only 1.2% of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices. However, organizations are fighting back - and winning.

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Qualtrics’ $1.125B Acquisition Of Clarabridge Upends The Customer Feedback Management Market

Forrester eCommerce

Age of the Customer customer experience management Customer Experience Measurement omnichannel customer experience voice of the customer (VOC Yesterday evening, Qualtrics announced that it’s acquiring Clarabridge in an all-stock deal worth $1.125 billion.

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Best Free Task Management Tools for 2023

Ecommerce Platforms

The best free task management tools are extremely valuable in today’s fast-paced workplace. Whether you’re embracing the trend of hybrid and remote working patterns, or you’re simply trying to keep your internal team on the same page, task management tools can help.

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Managing Your Company Through The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forrester eCommerce

To navigate the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, governments and companies must design and enforce Pandemic Management Protocols (PMPs) — a set of procedures and processes by which people will go to the office, go to school, congregate in public, eat in restaurants, travel, and move without causing unmanageable new outbreaks of the virus.

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Poor Change Management Kills CRM Success — Here Is How To Get It Right

Forrester eCommerce

Application Development & Delivery Customer Engagement customer experience customer obsession customer relationship management (CRM Ready to give up on your CRM deployment? Before you do, you should know: CRM is a huge market. It is valued at $63.91

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes. Download this ebook to learn how to maintain a strategy that includes refreshed information, database cleanses, and an accurate analysis at the same time.

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Meet The New Analyst Focusing On Master Data Management, Data Governance and Data Quality: Jayesh Chaurasia

Forrester eCommerce

customer analytics and insights Customer Insights Data Analysis Data Governance Data Insights data science supply chain managementWho am I?

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Is Performance Management Broken?

Forrester eCommerce

Outdated and disconnected performance management programs are increasingly causing damage to employee and organization success, but some organizations are turning to continuous performance development (CPD) programs that are proving successful in solving these problems. .

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Best Online Reputation Management

Kissmetrics

How do you successfully manage your online reputation, too? But if you’re already managing a lot, your best bet is outsourcing it to an ORM, or an online reputation manager. The Top 4 Options For Online Reputation Management. Long-Term Crisis Management.

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Top 10 Benefits of Using an Integrated Retail Management System

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Does your retail management system do what you really need? And can it manage all aspects of your retail operations from one place? What is an integrated retail management system? What are the benefits of an integrated retail management system? Workforce Management.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E (you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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Best Task Management Software

Kissmetrics

Most project managers confess to having problems with defining clear objectives. Task management software helps solve the challenges mentioned above and much more. Task management can be chaotic, especially when working in a team environment with complex tasks and interdependencies.

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Four Tips For Better Product Portfolio Management

Forrester eCommerce

Product portfolio management is a major responsibility for product management leaders, but it’s often approached in a disjointed, ad hoc manner that can cause confusion for teams, customers, and buyers. Product Management SiriusDecisions Research

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How COVID-19 Forced Wealth Managers To Become More Hybrid

Forrester eCommerce

This compelled wealth management firms to accelerate their digital transformations and upgrade their sales, service, and advisory capabilities. Age of the Customer Customer Engagement customer experience financial services Wealth Management

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The Future Of Work Is All About Changing Your Management Culture

Forrester eCommerce

An innovative management culture provides a strong purpose, creates diverse and cross-functional teams, focuses on the customer as the center of business activity, and embraces transparent communication with the organization.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns. And to begin the targeting process, marketing teams must develop an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) with appropriate firmographic and behavioral data to ensure they’re going after the correct audience.Download this eBook to learn how to start improving your marketing team's data!