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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.

With Adobe Analytics and Adobe Audience Manager—both part of Adobe Marketing Cloud—media companies can overcome today’s audience intelligence challenges. Adobe Analytics is an industry-leading solution for applying real time analytics and detailed segmentation across all of your marketing channels. A unified platform and customer ID unlock powerful customer intelligence and help you discover and retain high-value audiences. Make forward-looking decisions with its predictive intelligence capabilities, and find out which of your marketing efforts are paying off with its attribution functionality.

Wasted time is wasted money — and accounts receivable (AR) departments can waste a lot of both with antiquated billing and collections methods. Download the new white paper‚ Winning the Billing & Collections Battle‚ to learn how your organization can overcome common obstacles in every phase of AR by: • Automating invoice delivery without format restrictions • Giving your customers self-service access to invoices • Modernizing post-sale collections interactions • Going beyond DSO with advanced KPIs and analytics With a complete AR management solution‚ time and money is on your side!

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.

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!

Learn how midsize companies are putting in place a business intelligence information infrastructure - making them more likely to adhere to their budgets and deadlines, concentrate on improving the overall business rather than just one department, and reward employees accordingly.

The professional services market is back—and more competitive than ever. How will you outperform your competitors? By monitoring the financial metrics that matter. Through years of thorough research, Service Performance Insight has analyzed and identified the profit-centric measures that are highly correlated with financial success in professional services. Download the white paper, "The 5 KPIs that Matter for Professional Services," to learn: • The importance and primary characteristics of financial maturity. • The 5 financial metrics critical to service organizations. • Where successful service organizations fall in these metrics.

How strong is your renewal program? Are you able to predict and analyze your performance correctly? ServiceSource® believes that the real yardstick of renewal performance lies in a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs) that can tell a much broader story. Over the last 13 years and over 145 engagements, we’ve identified these twelve critical factors for successfully measuring and growing your renewal revenue. This whitepaper provides a detailed overview of those KPIs.

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?

Gain a clear understanding of what workforce analytics are and how they are integral for strategic planning to support your company's overall strategies from the creators of Human Resource Executive's 2010 Top Product, Aquire InSight.

An integrated customer communication strategy places customer needs, behaviors and value at the center of all interactions and will result in increased revenue, profit and shareholder value.