In a 2015 Forrester customer service survey to more than 7,000 adults in the United States, 77% stated their top priority is to have companies value their time. Optimizing your contact center to support customer expectations has an invaluable impact on satisfaction and loyalty. The white paper “Contact Centers Must Go Digital or Die” illustrates: • How to deploy digital […]
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Build Great, Engaging Managers
Employees aren‘t quitting their jobs—they’re quitting their bosses. That’s bad news for organizations planning for innovation, succession, and market longevity. Human capital is an organization’s most valuable resource—and turnover is expensive not just in terms of sourcing, rehiring, and training costs, but also lost productivity. See how Employees, Managers, and Executives benefit from using a Unified Talent Management approach.
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How HR Can Help Executives Get the Big Picture
Today’s executives don’t hold HR in very high esteem: according to Deloitte, “42 percent of business leaders believe their HR teams are underperforming or just getting by, compared to the 27 percent who rate HR as excellent or good when assessing HR and talent programs.” Learn how HR can become a strategic partner to the C-Suite.
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IHS Infonetics White Paper: Integrating UC With Business Applications
In this white paper, IHS Infonetics Research discusses how businesses are steadily migrating voice and Unified Communications (UC) to a hosted cloud model. This trend enables seamless use of emails, text messages, instant messages, voice and video—from anywhere. However, key business applications largely remain in their own silos. The paper describes the next wave of unification, which involves integrating applications—from […]
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Is This Your Financial Close Process?: Four Ways “Just Getting It Done” Is Costing You More Than Just Time
“It takes a long time—but at least we’re getting it done.” But are you getting it done well? And how much is the way you are doing it costing you in the long run? Highly manual, inefficient financial close and balance sheet substantiation processes are more expensive than most organizations realize. They’re more prone to errors, have the potential to […]
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The 2015 BlackLine Survey of Mid-Market Executives: The Financial Close and Period-End Accounting Activities Are Still Big Headaches—But 36% Have Found a Solution
BlackLine and Gatepoint Research got together to ask Mid-Market Finance and Accounting executives about their accounting processes. The results highlight key process holes that effect Mid-Market business today.
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From QuickBooks to Cloud Financials
Why Fast-Growing Companies Leave QuickBooks and Adopt Cloud Financials to Accelerate Growth. This whitepaper covers many of the issues that growing companies using QuickBooks typically face, and why so many have decided to move to NetSuite—a modern, integrated, cloud-based solution that enables accelerated business growth. Case studies and quotes from those who have adopted NetSuite describe why enterprises have made […]
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Live Chat Comparison: A Goal-Driven Approach to Chat Vendor Selection
Selecting a live chat vendor can feel like evaluating dizzying lists of feature – each feature-set will help achieve a goal. But the challenge is to determine the features that will help you achieve your goals. Live chat can achieve many results, like driving sales conversions, reducing shopping cart abandonment, enhancing customer experience and improving operational efficiencies. Whether live chat […]
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