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There is a lot of industry buzz about Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), but most contact centers currently focus on only one or two core KPIs, such as “Service Level,” and are only equipped to optimize these KPIs locally. Few contact centers have the tools to manage performance globally.

Providing Store Team Leaders with Easy Access to Sales and Operations KPIs, Enabling Timely and Intelligent Decision-Making.

Business management software can provide improvements in business functions all around. But, making a decision for implementing new software can be a big task. This paper gives key reasons software drives growth in construction and contracting firms.

Prophix and IMA hosted a webcast, titled “Overcoming Barriers to Implement CPM Methods”, featuring subject matter expert Gary Cokins, the CEO, at Analytics-Based Performance Management. The adoption rate of business analytics and corporate performance management (CPM) methods has been slowed by various barriers. Gary Cokins outlines the causes of this lag, as well as lessons learned about how to overcome obstacles, and obtain buy-in to manage and improve performance. He describes techniques such as strategy maps, balanced scorecards with key performance indicators (KPIs), channel and customer profitability reporting, and driver-based budgeting that can prevent failure when implementing CPM methods.

Social Media has evolved rapidly. Now it is the time to objectively evaluate how social media marketing contributes to your overall marketing strategy - where does social sit? What are your goals on social? - and the bottom line. The best way to successfully communicate and advocate for your social media strategy is through data. The numbers don’t lie. You need to be able to show performance for the right KPIs and benchmark against your competition and industry.

This paper will explore the common Retail KPIs used today across all sales channels, define the formula, discuss potential ways to improve them, and explain their use in the routine management processes of the business.

Part of a series on the Future of Procurement, by Oxford Economics

Part of a series on the Future of Procurement, by Oxford Economics

Markets constantly test organizations with shifting customer expectations and competitors seeking to provide better value at a lower cost. This tension is the catalyst that continually pushes organizations to search for ways to improve their services, improve the speed which they deliver value to their customers, enable employees to get more done with less administrative overhead, and most importantly, to constantly grow by generating more revenue. This is the basis of BPM, to be able to identify and capture processes in an organization to create repeatable, measureable and consistent execution of goals to drive their business forward.

The Business Intelligence Survey provides you with well-designed KPI dashboards packed with concise information, which can be absorbed at a glance.

Read Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of eProcurement solutions, we found that Ariba and Basware led the pack because of their superior user experience and wider supplier enablement capability.

IDC’s research shows enterprises around the world are using multicloud strategies to optimize the performance of modern and existing legacy applications running on-premises, in public cloud services, and on legacy systems. In the early days of enterprise cloud adoption, many organizations focused their cloud strategies on enabling net-new cloud-native applications written to take advantage of dynamic cloud infrastructure and pay-as-you-go consumption-based cost models. Early success with these implementations is convincing more and more enterprises to expand their cloud footprint and to migrate existing applications to cloud in order to enhance end-user experiences, optimize cloud resource utilization and costs, and create a more flexible and agile business environment.

Analytics is about so much more than defining high-level KPIs and building dashboards to amplify them. With a little creativity, you can create custom metrics designed to inform every member of an organization. With this knowledge of their effect on the business, everyone can optimize their impact on company-wide goals. What you'll learn in this webinar: • Why standard KPIs may not be getting you everything you need • Who can benefit from these new metrics (everyone!) • How to identify key metrics and roll them out to the entire organization • Get examples of how other companies are creating custom analytics

Industry analysts expect North American sports industry revenue to grow at a compounded annual rate of 4.8% to reach $67.7 billion by 2017, with customer-generated data the most collected type of external data.1 IBM Fan Insight, a software as a service-based solution available in the IBM Softlayer Cloud, and offers sports teams the breakthrough customer intelligence they need to lead in their industry.

As the saying goes, what you can't measure, you can't manage. You may understand the importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), but how do you measure them?

In most cases, starting a BI initiative that’s not clearly linked to specific KPIs or business goals or aimed at addressing a specific pain point is sowing the seeds of eventual project failure. This is why it’s crucial to have the processes and mechanisms in place to establish what the desired outcome would be and to start from there.

Demand for benchmarking of monitoring KPIs and metrics is on the rise. While monitoring tools look to deliver more consistent and standardized means of comparison, approaches vary. I&O leaders must determine key criteria and considerations when identifying tools to meet this growing requirement. Download now to learn more!

It’s critical that Finance teams have accurate, relevant, and timely data to understand current run rates and to steer your company toward growth. “The Finance Boss Guide to Oracle E-Business Suite to Drive Exponential Financial Gains” will help you translate numbers into fiscal performance through better reporting, analytics and planning, such as: How to create your own usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking financial performance and progress against company-wide KPIs Avoiding over-investing in dated ERP tools Industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and planning best practices and tools How Finance leaders at Bibby Distribution used the ability to drill down into reports to get exactly the detail they needed to address immediate business issues

Get “The Consummate IT Pro’s Guide to Driving IT Innovation & Efficiency with Oracle EBS” and we’ll help you capitalize on the value of IT through better reporting, analytics, and planning directly through your ERP. Use these resources to get up to speed on: Enabling end users to create their own usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking financial performance and progress against company-wide KPIs Avoiding costly mistakes when upgrading your ERP system Industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and planning from ERP systems How Finance and IT leaders at Ladbrokes replaced Oracle reports and quit having to manipulate data in static spreadsheets

Forget making business decisions with outdated data. Keep operations on track with real-time insights from every facet of your business including finance to supply chain management. “The Operations Guru’s Guide to Oracle EBS” will help you master more efficient company operations so you can focus on making a massive operational impact. Tactical insights, covering: How your team can create usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking progress against company-wide KPIs from multiple systems, without leaning heavily on IT An industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and analytics from ERP and other critical data sources How Finance and IT leaders at Ladbrokes replaced Oracle reports and quit having to manipulate data in static spreadsheets

It’s critical that Finance teams have accurate, relevant, and timely data to understand current run rates and to steer your company toward growth. “The Finance Boss Guide to JD Edwards to Drive Exponential Financial Gains” will help you translate numbers into fiscal performance through better reporting, analytics and planning, such as: How to create your own usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking financial performance and progress against company-wide KPIs Avoiding over-investing in dated ERP tools Industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and planning best practices and tools How Finance leaders at Bibby Distribution used the ability to drill down into reports to get exactly the detail they needed to address immediate business issues

Get “The Consummate IT Pro’s Guide to JD Edwards,” and we’ll help you capitalize on the value of IT through better reporting, analytics, and planning directly through your critical business systems. Use these resources to get up to speed on: Enabling end users to create their own usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking financial performance and progress against company-wide KPIs Avoiding costly mistakes when upgrading your ERP system Industry analyst’s take on how to get better reporting and planning from ERP systems How Bibby Distribution gave users the ability to drill down into reports to get exactly the detail they needed to address immediate business issues

Forget making business decisions with outdated data. Keep operations on track with real-time insights from every facet of your business including finance to supply chain management. “The Operations Guru’s Guide to JD Edwards” will help you master more efficient company operations so you can focus on making a massive operational impact. Tactical insights, covering: How your team can create usable, sharable reports and web-based dashboards tracking progress against company-wide KPIs from multiple systems, without leaning heavily on IT An industry analyst’s view on how to get better reporting and analytics from ERP and other critical data sources How Bibby Distribution gave users throughout the company the ability to drill down into reports to get exactly the detail they needed to address immediate business issues

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It takes a lot of money and resource to recruit and train new, talented telemarketing agents. So what can businesses do to keep their telemarketing teams focused and happy? This ebook provides guidance on: • Which KPIs to track • The best way to structure a bonus plan • How to retain your best agents It also lists the questions you should ask when selecting a telemarketing agency.