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Customer Data Management: 5 Key Elements to Build Your Strategy

How much data does the world generate in a single day? The answer through a simple Google search is a mind-boggling 2.5 quintillion bytes! This data is valuable to organizations because it helps to answer questions on how customers make buying decisions. So customer data is collected, stored, and analyzed in an organized manner by companies and this process is called customer data management.

The Art of Forgetting About Work When Not Working

It’s odd – we’re always talking about the healthy work-life balance and know that working long hours can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression. Yet, we continue to dedicate more and more time to our jobs. In fact, research shows that 80% of workers answer emails and return phone calls after hours. For one, people believe long hours on the job to be proof of their work ethic.

Why project management software is key to online collaboration

Baseball legend Babe Ruth knew a lot about collaboration. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success,” Ruth explained. “You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” While the Great Bambino was referring to the sport that made him famous, this is also true for teams in the workplace. Collaboration is critical to success.

Transform your remote team: The power of capturing knowledge in meetings

If there was one thing you could improve on your team, what would it be? Most common answers to this question aren’t around ability or leadership. Instead, they tend to focus on a lack of alignment and information. These were difficult areas to get right before the shift to remote work and have only gotten more challenging since. We have experimented with all sorts of approaches for keeping our team aligned and informed at Hugo.

Build a business case for your management to invest in field service management software

As a manager handling a team of employees who go on-site and resolve customer issues related to your product/service, buying field service management (FSM) software to help you manage the workload of your team is critical—especially as your business scales and the team grows. However, such a purchase decision will often require management buy-in. The management needs to completely understand the ROI associated with such a product.