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CIO February 15, 2004 Lafe Low |
The 12th Annual CIO Enterprise Value Awards As always, competition was stiff for our winners. But this year we've added a twist-industry categories allowing companies to compete with business peers for this prestigious award-as well as a special new honor. |
CIO August 15, 2002 Todd Datz |
Strategic Alignment Your business processes can't enable superior customer service or an efficient supply chain without integrated systems. The four companies profiled here demonstrate the benefits of a strategic perspective and long-term commitment to integration. |
Insurance & Technology July 11, 2008 Akhil Tripathi |
Web-Based Solutions Deliver on Agents' Tech Expectations Insurers can leverage agent portals and systems integration technology to streamline agents' workflow and improve efficiencies. |
CRM May 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Making a Clear Connection Integrating your multichannel operations can seem like a near-impossible feat, but it doesn't have to be. Follow these strategies to ease your integration process and maximize your multichannel potential. |
CRM November 2011 Leonard Klie |
10 Ways to Rearchitect Your Contact Center Hiring, training, and technology are considered keys to raising the customer service standard. |
CIO February 15, 2004 Meridith Levinson |
Getting to Know Them Tackling CRM is a huge challenge for companies across all industries. Here's how four of this year's winners are able to gather and mine customer data for real value. |
IndustryWeek December 16, 2005 |
Tying Supply Chain To Customers How Dell succeeds in an increasingly competitive market. |
InternetNews November 21, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Dell Finds Small Tweaks Bring Gigantic Savings A little change here, a little there, and suddenly, Dell has spared its customers a collective $3 billion. |
CFO September 15, 2003 Russ Banham |
Does Dell Stack Up? The company that triumphed by selling "good enough" technology wants to challenge IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Is it good enough? |
CIO March 1, 2002 Ben Worthen |
Travelin' Man A profile of Randy Mott, CIO of Dell Computer... |
CIO October 1, 2005 Meridith Levinson |
A Strong Job Market for CIOs The average tenure of a CIO in any single job is about five years. |
InternetNews February 18, 2010 |
Recovery Has Started for Dell, Says CEO With all three PC segments up by double digits and the services business growing, Dell's founder and CEO said his firm has turned the corner. |
CIO November 1, 2001 Louise Fickel |
Know-It-Alls To streamline customer service, Marconi employed a system to facilitate knowledge sharing among its tech support personnel. In the process, the roles of tech agents changed dramatically... |
CFO February 1, 2011 Randy Myers |
Integration Acceleration Why successful M&A now depends on getting your ducks in a row as early as possible. |
CRM February 24, 2012 Leonard Klie |
Aspect Inks a UC Distribution Deal with Dell Dell Services will deliver Aspect's unified communications solutions for next-generation customer contact centers. |
Insurance & Technology May 16, 2007 Susana Schwartz |
Drive For Automation Causes Insurance Carriers To Integrate The Internet has yielded more choices among comparative raters and aggregators, thus elevating agents to a more powerful position as the gatekeepers to multiple company ratings. |
CRM July 2013 Barton Goldenberg |
Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
CIO June 1, 2006 Susannah Patton |
Answering the Call Everyone's had a bad experience with a call center. But now companies are investing in advanced technologies and at-home agents to connect with customers, not put them on hold. |
CIO May 15, 2003 Lafe Low |
Integration the Right Way, the Wrong Way Harvard's Marco Iansiti, who has studied the technology strategies of nearly 100 companies, says: Keep your integration expertise in-house. |
PHONE+ September 16, 2009 Lynn McCullough |
Agents Identify 7 Best Practices for Channel Managers Agents share their points of view on what can be done on a daily basis to ensure the best possible customer experience. |
PHONE+ December 22, 2009 |
How Will the Communications Industry's Indirect Channel Be Transformed in the Next 10 Years? Telecom executives weigh in on what the future holds for the telecom industry. |
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Andrew Park |
What You Don't Know About Dell A look at the management secrets of the best-run company in technology. |
Insurance & Technology November 28, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
InternetNews December 4, 2006 David Needle |
Energy Efficiency Key to Dell's New Servers Dell unveiled two additions to its PowerEdge server line that require less power and sport better performance per watt than comparable models in the PowerEdge Line. |
CIO August 15, 2002 Ben Worthen |
Mergers and Acquisitions Many of the CIO-100 honorees were thrust into the theater of integration following a merger. These companies shared the same urgent pace of integration as they streamlined processes and combined systems. |
CRM June 7, 2013 Peter Chase |
Five Steps to Giving Marketers Data Ownership Integration is key. Collecting data is the easy part; the real challenge comes from connecting the different types of data across multiple channels. |
CRM September 2007 Ian Jacobs |
Across the Universe Contact center managers have begun to examine this idea of the universal agent, agents theoretically capable of handling any contact, via any channel. |
CRM January 2004 Jason Compton |
The Changing Role of the Contact Center Agent With the proliferation of online self-help and new call center technologies, agents are being asked to resolve more challenging issues or to transform themselves into salespeople. But are current agents, who primarily respond to basic service requests, right for these new roles? |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Procter & Gamble Leads the Way In its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings conference call, Proctor & Gamble shows why it continues to dominate the global market in consumer goods. |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2011 Harsh Chauhan |
Looking Beyond Dell's Buyback Would it be wiser for Dell to spend money on R&D rather than buybacks? |
Fast Company November 2004 Bill Breen |
Living in Dell Time Dell has replaced inventory with information, and that has helped turn it into one of the fastest, most hyperefficient organizations on the planet. Here's how Dell uses speed as the ultimate competitive weapon, and why rivals may never be able to catch up. |
CIO January 1, 2001 Sarah D. Scalet & Lafe Low |
Come Together CIO brought together three IT leaders and three business leaders to decide on the best ways to get in step. |
CRM August 2, 2010 Alex Dayon |
From Deflecting Customers to Embracing Them Six ways that the new Internet - a mobile, social, and real-time Internet - is changing the playing field for CRM and putting customers back in control. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2005 Steven Mallas |
P&G Gambles on Prosperity Shareholders will have a nice stock on their hands for a while. Procter & Gamble sees steady growth four years out. |
Search Engine Watch November 7, 2007 John Tawadros |
Making It Work: 6 Factors to Integrate Search with Other Best of Breed Partners How can an organization integrate search with their other best of breed experts for optimal results? |
InternetNews December 6, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Dell Shows It's Serious About New Channels In the span of two days, Dell launched a channel partner program and made its retail play with Best Buy. The sleeping giant is awake. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Jonathan Greenblatt |
Taking a Gamble: P&G Bets on Silicon Valley Can P&G, a consumer products behemoth, embrace open-source innovation? |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2006 Michael Leibert |
Fool on the Street: P&G Still Going Strong Investors who believe that the consumer goods giant can achieve organic sales growth of 4% to 7% over the next few years might consider the current share price to be an attractive entry point to own a stake in an industry leader. |
Job Journal January 29, 2006 Julia Hollister |
The Home Team A variety of fields have job openings involved with helping homeowners protect their investments. Check out these examples in title searching, mortgaging and insurance. |
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 |
Michael Dell, Dell At age 38, Michael S. Dell is the master of electronic business. Now he's carrying his network magic to the next level. At a time when many tech companies are paring costs, Dell is piling on new manufacturing supply-chain technology. |
The Motley Fool November 1, 2005 Nathan Parmelee |
A Small Surprise From P&G Proctor & Gamble delivers, just like it promised, releasing first-quarter earnings that were actually a penny ahead of expectations. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Get Record-Low Rates This is a great time to consolidate your student loans and save money. |
CIO July 15, 2005 Alice Dragoon |
CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
InternetNews April 22, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Dell Calls on Government for Green IT Push Dell outlines plan for government to establish baseline standards for data efficiency. |
Insurance & Technology February 1, 2006 Phil Britt |
A Web of Support There has been an upturn in insurers' investments in Web-based tools that enable agents to work more efficiently and, through those efficiencies, sell more, increase commissions and make more money for the companies they represent. |
BusinessWeek June 19, 2006 Louise Lee |
Dell: Facing Up To Past Mistakes Dell's cost-cutting efforts have alienated its customers. But Richard Hunter, Dell's new head of customer service, hopes to change that. |
CIO May 15, 2001 Esther Shein |
Hello, Dolly! A virtual, Web-based call center helps this custom doll maker find made-to-order agents... |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Sean Sun |
Stock Cheat Sheet: Procter & Gamble If you're new to Procter & Gamble, consider this your cheat sheet to get introduced to the consumer products giant. |
CRM June 2005 Bailor et al. |
100 Proven CRM Ideas, Part 2 90 bright ideas for your CRM strategy and 10 dim ones to avoid. Here are tips 51 through 100. |
CRM February 2003 Rochelle Garner |
Just Desserts Rewarding and recognizing contact center agents is as much science as it is art. |