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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

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Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions.

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Digital Transformation Delivers Business Benefits

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The survey results indicate that efforts to modernize and automate the underlying IT infrastructure are finally translating into what really matters for the organization: business efficiency, business outcomes, and improved customer satisfaction. The second phase entails digital expansion and IT modernization.

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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

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Among the unenlightened, running IT “like a business” is supposed to be best practice, delivering goods and services to internal customers who IT must fully satisfy, and who then pay for what IT delivers to them through the auspices of a charge-back system. Coordination is the IT Business Office’s raison d’être.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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These process flows are broken down into sequences of activities necessary to transform a business concept into a valued digital solution. Apply cadence (timing), synchronize with cross-domain formation to recognize business opportunities and allow for corrective action as needed.

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Can Businesses Meet Increasing Consumer Expectations?

This leaves room for businesses to fill in the gaps currently seen between consumer expectations and corporate ESG communication. This research reveals what issues consumers care about and how businesses can tailor their communications to different segments of consumers. adults actively seek and follow sustainability issues.

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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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Generative AI such as ChatGPT has of late captured the imagination of business leaders across industries. The combination of CarMax’s revolutionary digital business model applied to the used-car business with revolutionary AI tools available to all makes for powerful and profitable business outcomes. billion overall.

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Controlling cloud chaos: How to realign IT with the business

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The cloud is undoubtedly transformative for both IT and businesses, but the business has often been left out of the process when it comes to cloud technology decisions. The business has to get involved. But insight alone isn’t enough to realign the business and IT.

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What Consumers Are Saying About ESG – And What That Means for Your Business

A growing body of evidence shows that environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are important to business growth. Consumers see businesses as crucial change agents and are willing to take their business to the competition if their current brand comes up short on ESG.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season!

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Going to Market Smarter in the New Economy

The fight to find new customers and retain existing ones is the biggest business challenge for many companies. In 2022, as companies continue to move more functions online, employees will take a more virtual -- and flexible -- mindset and lifestyle in parallel to the digitization of businesses.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. This is your chance to create unprecedented brand awareness, bring in the best leads sales has ever seen, and play an instrumental role in generating new and existing business revenue.

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

Whether it’s a business deal or a personal connection, they are a driving force to solidify a foundation of trust. Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. Conversations have always been at the heart of our most authentic relationships.

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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12 Plays to Kickstart Your Recruitment Process

That means placing the right people in the right roles can be the difference between your business growing or stagnating — and the competition is getting fierce. According to Harvard Business Review, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated seismic shifts that were already rocking the talent market.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.