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How to Uncover Trend and Technology Insights Faster Than the Pros

ITONICS

This means your company must uncover emerging technologies and trends quickly to spot opportunities before the competition. But how do you ensure you’re effectively scanning and monitoring changes in your trend and tech landscape over time? A good business strategy should outline a path for future success.

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How Competitive Benchmarking Misses the Mark – And What Anticipatory Leaders do Instead

Daniel Burrus

Why does this happen, and how can you as a leader resist the urge to benchmark against the competition? I have five tips that can put a stop to counterproductive professional benchmarking, but first, understand this: The competition isn’t really competition, as we are all on the same team in one way or another.

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Customers Demand Contactless Payment Options — Here’s How to Make It Happen

Business and Tech

Contactless payments aren’t just a COVID trend. Contactless payments aren’t just a COVID trend. Customers are increasingly demanding contactless payment options, and retailers that can create a seamless contactless experience will lead the competition. Blake Morgan Author, “ The Customer Of The Future ”.

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Monitoring Emerging Technologies to Maintain Competitive Advantage

ITONICS

To stay ahead in innovation, think of yourself as a detective, keeping a close eye on disruptive trends and new technologies. This blog provides guidance on how to effectively monitor technologies relevant to your business. Companies need a system to monitor and analyze such drivers of change constantly.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Strategic Drift: How to avoid losing competitive advantage

Cascade Strategy

Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and it’s much easier to understand trends 10 years after the fact, we've already written about some of the worst business strategies in another article.

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Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)

Daniel Burrus

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Of all industries, this one is one that has to be anticipatory in both how they manufacture items, and in foreseeing disruptions and change long before they create problems.

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

Today’s supply chain environment requires a company to obtain a competitive advantage by improving its entire supply chain process end-to-end. The digital transformation of supply chains has already begun, so join us for this exclusive webinar to learn how to improve your company’s bottom line and, ultimately, your end customer experience.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

Learning Objectives: Review the challenges of balancing innovation and current user demands: Explore the fundamental principles behind balancing innovation and user needs, and understand the potential consequences of neglecting either aspect Align innovation with user needs: Learn techniques for gathering user feedback, analyzing market trends, and (..)

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of the CFO: A review of today’s automation revolution within the finance department as it faces evolving internal and external challenges.