By Jason Corsello on May 25, 2020
As a data-driven investor, we constantly track data. Fundraising data. Market data. Economic data. Over the last month, one question persists —how will COVID-19 affect venture capital fundraising particularly in the Future of Work? We decided to look at our data to understand VC fundraising over the last month and compare last month’s data with the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 25, 2020
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains […]
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By Jason Corsello on May 19, 2020
Gender Diversity & Future of Work Companies — We Can Do Better! Since launching the Future of Work Global Index earlier this year, we have been pouring through the publicly available data on the companies within the index. Who are the outliers and why? What makes the strong performers unique? What are some unique metrics about the segment itself? […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged diversity, future of work, HRTech, Human resources |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 18, 2020
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past seven weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and Covid-19 fall out. The conversations with clients and the analysis from the research team have resulted in […]
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By Louis Columbus on May 17, 2020
Bottom Line: Every organization needs to digitally reinvent their business, starting at the system level to safely sell and serve customers with minimal physical interaction. The hard reset every business is going through creates a strong sense of urgency to increase the agility, speed, and scale of selling, as well as customer service […]
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By Louis Columbus on May 16, 2020
Bottom Line: This year’s hard reset is amplifying how vital customer relationships are and how much potential AI has to find new ways to improve them. 30% of customers will leave a brand and never come back because of a bad experience. 27% of companies say improving their customer intelligence and data efforts are their […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ADE, AI customer experience, AI in customer engagement, Artificial intelligence, BMC Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE), Customer Engagement Management, Customer Experience, Customer Experience in 2020, E-Commerce, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning |
By Louis Columbus on May 10, 2020
U.S. retailers’ online year-over-year (YoY) revenue growth is up 68% as of mid-April, surpassing an earlier peak of 49% in early January. There’s been a 129% year-over-year growth in U.S. & Canadian e-commerce orders as of April 21 and an impressive 146% growth in all online retail orders. Online conversion rates increased 8.8% in February, […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged COVID-19 Commerce Insight, COVID-19 E-Commerce, COVID-19 impact on e-commerce, E-Commerce, Emarsys, GoodData Kount Consult, Kount, Kount Control – Account Takeover Protection, Louis Columbus' blog |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on May 7, 2020
It is a remarkable time in this particular moment in human history, where most organizations have become almost entirely distributed, yet for the first time still remain largely functional. We can thank a combination of three modern advances for this, which have never been available to us before at their current level of maturity. Namely, […]
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By Paul Greenberg on April 22, 2020
I’d love to say that this is my work but it isn’t. Its the work of Dr. Stephen LeMay, a professor at University of Western Florida who has a long history in both supply chain and CRM. The supply chain is not morally agnostic and, stretched as it is now, it still is accountable.
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By Louis Columbus on April 22, 2020
Bottom Line: Existing approaches to securing IT infrastructure are proving unreliable as social engineering and breach attempts succeed in misdirecting human responses to cyber threats, accentuating the need for machines to protect themselves. Any nations’ digital infrastructure and the businesses it supports are its most vital technology resources, as the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear. Cybercriminal […]
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