The last decade and a half has witnessed a tectonic shift in the management style and management models that guide corporate business. The move has been from a very hierarchical, top-down, process-driven approach to a more democratic model, where problem-solving and managing happens in smaller, more agile and less structured teams. Consequently, it is of little surprise that the way companies structure and disseminate learning into their workplace has started to mirror this model.
Your Guide to Software Selection
How to Determine the Cost Per Qualified Lead
Leads are the lifeblood of a B2B business, and they’re much more difficult to come by than they have any right to be. Finding the right balance between how much you’re paying to draw in leads and how much profit you make when those leads convert can be a delicate process. How do you know how much an individual lead is worth? There are a variety of methods to determine this key KPI, so let’s dive into a few ways to determine the cost per lead for B2B organizations.
Field Service Predictions: Cloud Everywhere, for Everything
“Cloud everywhere for everything” is a quote from Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst for IDC Research at the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry Predictions. His emphasis was on the vital urgency for businesses to acknowledge that the public cloud is the best platform to use for their future digital engagements with technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual reality (VR).
Human Resource Management Predictions: Continuation of Employee-Centric Changes
The direction within Human Resource (HR) management going into the next year maintains the focus on the employee that we’ve already established in my LMS predictions and Talent Management predictions. While technology has grabbed the attention of professionals tasked with optimizing their workforces, the employee has continued to gain relevance and utility in the workplace.
Best Inventory Management Apps for Mobile
Anyone who’s stepped foot in a warehouse can attest to just how much inventory laborers have to move around. In addition, inventory personnel is also responsible for documenting the pick, pack and ship process while on-the-go. But if your inventory management software doesn’t support a mobile app, your staff might not be working as efficiently as they could. Due to the mobile nature of this type of work, it’s beneficial to implement one of the best inventory app systems that can keep pace with you and your workers.
The Most Important Payroll Software Features and Leaders
Sorry payroll service providers, you’ve gone out of style. These days, a do-it-yourself payroll management approach with the help of software is the way to go. Payroll systems tend to be cheaper, users have more internal control and changes are easier to make than with payroll services.
The Future of CRM
The future has arrived — at least it has in the world of customer relationship management or CRM software, one of the fastest growing categories of enterprise software. We are entering the era of intelligent, integrated CRM, and the future of CRM is even brighter. From small businesses to global enterprises, sales and marketing teams are adopting CRM to deliver better customer experiences, acquire and retain customers, and gain new customer-centric insights that are changing their companies for the better.
How To Kickstart CPQ Strategies and Grow Revenue
Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) is the fuel that drives sales cycles for any company that sells complex, configurable products and services. The greater the customization a product has, the more important it is to support selling efforts with a CPQ application that scales across all selling channels. For additional insights into why CPQ is one of the hottest CRM applications in enterprise software today, please see the article, The State of the CPQ Market.
Benefits of ERP: Advantages and Disadvantages
Deciding which technologies your businesses should and shouldn’t invest in is difficult, to say the least. On the one hand, you want to be the one responsible for innovation and growth within your company. But you also don’t want to be the one to pull the trigger on a failed project. So, is an ERP software investment worth the risk? To find out, you need to weigh the benefits of ERP, specifically how ERP system advantages and disadvantages breakdown when compared against each other.
Discrete ERP Market Guide
According to Statista, the ERP market is expected to reach almost $85 billion in 2021. As ERP software technology becomes more affordable and the manufacturing sector more competitive, manufacturers of all sizes are increasing their efforts to adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology. For some manufacturers, this means adopting a discrete ERP. The main reasons for the high acceptance of ERP will be discussed further below.
What Are the Features of Patient Management Software?
As a healthcare provider, your first priority is caring for patients — and the buildup of everyday tasks like paperwork, scheduling and billing can get in the way of that. What is patient management software anyway? A patient management system is also known as clinic management software, patient manager software, medical patient software or medical practice management software (MPM). It refers to a number of efficient automated systems designed for tracking patient information, diagnoses, prescriptions, interactions and encounters within healthcare organizations like medical clinics or hospitals.
The Big List of Field Service Management Software Features
Imagine you’re sitting at your desk, sipping your morning coffee after having just arrived at the office. All is well until you notice a huge stack of papers lying on the corner of your desk. You quickly realize that today isn’t going to be anything near easy. You thumb through the papers, full of job schedule complaints, work orders, and screenshots of texts and emails between your dispatchers and field technicians. Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, doesn’t it? But if you don’t already take advantage of field service management software features, this is more than likely your reality.
Compare Payroll Software vs Payroll Services
Payroll management is an essential component of running a business — but it can be an arduous task with plenty of room for error. Around 40 percent of small businesses face payroll mistake-related fines of about $845 per year according to IRS data, reports Inc. Human resource departments are assigned the duty of consistently maintaining timely, accurate records and ensuring employees are paid, on-time and in-full. To assist with this responsibility, consider the merits of payroll software vs. payroll services.
The Future of Distribution ERP Software
Disruptions within the supply chain industry are growing in number and size. If you think you haven’t already been affected by disruption, you haven’t been paying attention. The problem with combatting disruption is that distribution requirements rarely stay still — they’re never static. As economies shift and develop, so too do the most efficient methods of delivery. While distribution software can end up contributing to this frenetic pace of change, it’s also a secret weapon for warehouses and distribution centers.
Augmented Analytics 101: A Starter’s Guide
One of the latest developments for business intelligence tools is the rise of augmented analytics. We’ll cover the basics of augmented analytics, a combination of machine learning and natural language generation, in this guide.
Construction Management Software Requirements Checklist
Construction projects are some of the largest, most important that we undertake, and managing them can feel like a monumental task. Construction management software can take that behemoth of a job and divide and conquer it into attainable segments. We’ve compiled a comprehensive construction management requirements checklist to get you started:
The ERP Market: Studying the Changing Trends
The last year was a pretty dynamic year in the ERP software market, with some of the largest manufacturers like SAP ERP growing, while maturing startups have taken market share away from other companies. Overall, the ERP market size is predicted to reach $41.69B by 2020 according to Allied Market Research.
What is Enterprise Performance Management Software?
Improving operational performance has a direct effect on the financial performance of any business. The vital link of operational data generated from service, sales, support and production workflows to the machinery and production team levels are now possible. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is entering a new era, where long-standing challenges of linking day-to-day operations data with strategic performance is a reality. Cloud platforms are enabling EPM software industry frontrunners, including Host Analytics, to be adopted quickly, in addition to helping define Corporate Performance Management (CPM).
NextGen vs Epic EMR
How Manufacturing KPIs and BI Let You Track and Improve Performance
Many manufacturers obsess about performance. They have good reason to do so. In a world where products can be copied too easily by rivals, superior manufacturing productivity and profitability may be the only way to come out on top. Performance involves metrics and indicators to see where you are and what you should do about it. Manufacturing KPIs (key performance indicators) play a critical role.
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