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  • The Future of Enterprise Management

    By 2005, Today’s Top Solutions Will Be Irrelevant and Inexpensive

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    Enterprise systems management as we know it today is on the way to irrelevance. It is about to be replaced by a new wave of enterprise management solutions.
    Sep. 6, 2001
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  • Catalog Commerce

    Helping Your Customers Make Wise Choices

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    We like the phrase “catalog commerce” because it puts the emphasis where it belongs: on the power of the catalog.
    Aug. 30, 2001
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  • Meta Customer Flight Deck(SM)

    What Metrics You Should be Tracking to Correlate Customer Experience with ROI ?

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    Here's a listing of the key customer metrics you should be monitoring to ensure that you're delivering a great Quality of Customer Experience (QCE) and reaping the rewards in profits and marketshare.
    Aug. 23, 2001
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  • RX: Solve Critical Content Problems Today

    Forget Central Planning; Distribute the Control and the Decisions

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    Enterprise systems management as we know it today is on the way to irrelevance. It is about to be replaced by a new wave of enterprise management solutions.
    Jun. 21, 2001
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  • Saving Customers’ Time: Master Customer Scenario® Design

    How National Semiconductor, Tesco, and Buzzsaw.com Use Customer Scenarios to Improve Customer Experience

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    Customer Scenario® Design is a technique that, when used well, will ultimately save your customers time and foster customer loyalty.
    Jun. 7, 2001
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  • The Customer Revolution

    How to Thrive When Customers Are in Control

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    In The Customer Revolution, the essential truths of business today are identified: “The Internet economy is the customer economy, and the fundamental source of value in the new customer economy is customers.” In the customer economy, the depth of your customer relationships is directly proportional to the value of your business. Attracting and retaining customers will be the core competencies of successful firms. Companies will be increasingly valued based on how they build relationships with their customers and on those customers' long-term value to the company.
    Jun. 1, 2001
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  • The Product-Pairing Revenue and Relationship Opportunity:

    Product-Matching Services = Customer-Initiated Cross-Selling

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    Product-matching services are an effective form of interactive product merchandising.
    May. 31, 2001
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  • Syndicated Product Content Management Is One of the Greatest Challenges in E-Commerce

    Invest in Product Content Management and Make It Easier for Your Customers to Do Business with You

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    What does a product content management system look like? This report identifies the tools that manufacturers and distributors need to manage their product information better.
    May. 24, 2001
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  • Philips Consumer Electronics Gets Closer to Its Customers:

    Personalization and Manufacturers’ Aisles Are Key Strategies for Customer and Dealer Loyalty

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    Philips Consumer Electronics is working on a two-pronged approach to interacting with customers, capturing information about end customer visits and enabling dealers to provide Philips-branded manufacturers’ aisles.
    Jan. 11, 2001
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  • Lessons from FindMRO.com, the MRO Sleuth

    Best Practices in Content and Search

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    This report analyzes FindMRO’s content strategy and programs and identifies nine lessons learned.
    Dec. 21, 2000
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  • Contending with Content

    The Five Labors that Deliver Compelling E-Business Experiences

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    Making e-business content a competitive advantage promises to be a Herculean effort that will overwhelm those with incomplete strategies and weak architectures.
    Nov. 2, 2000
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  • Don't Manage Your Partners

    Manage Your Customer Experience

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    The value of Partner Relationship Management is tied to the value of the partnership itself. And that value is ultimately derived from the value the channel provides to the customer.
    Sep. 21, 2000
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  • Understanding the Requirements for E-Markets

    Where Should you Place Your Bets?

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    E-markets are hard to use for buyers, have a problematic business model for suppliers, and are still quite immature in terms of functionality. Executives rethinking their e-market investments will see where their companies fit and what the trade-offs are.
    Aug. 17, 2000
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  • How Do You Manage Your E-Business?

    Your Workers Are Invisible, and Their Managers May Not Be on Board

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    As business shifts to ebusiness, IT problems have become business problems. Electronic business systems, which automate business processes and allow customers to serve themselves, must have automated management systems.
    Dec. 14, 1999
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  • E-Merchandising Readiness Checklist:

    Helping Customers Make Buying Decisions

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    Jul. 28, 1999
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  • What Is Alignment?

    Projects Succeed When You Can Achieve It

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    A straightforward model and easily applied technique to assist business and IT professionals in aligning their efforts.
    Jul. 23, 1999
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  • Putting the E in E-Merchandising

    Well-Merchandised Sites Cover the E-Merchandising Fundamentals and Do More

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    Whether they are customers, business partners, or employees, adult learners in business situations seek solutions to their work-related issues. E-learning initiatives at National Semiconductor and IBM demonstrate how instructional content can provide jus
    Jul. 21, 1999
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  • Duck Head Apparel Goes National on the Web

    Non-Catalog Retailer Tackles E-Commerce

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    Duck Head Apparel, a brand of casual clothes sold through major retailers, launched its own online store—a major undertaking for a manufacturer that had never even had a catalog
    Apr. 14, 1999
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  • SAAB Cars USA

    Streamlining the Customer Experience

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    Feb. 24, 1999
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  • Adding Executive Job Searching to the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition

    Crossing the Digital Divide for Job Recruiting

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    The Wall Street Journal and Korn Ferry created a partnership to link the WSJ's employment ads with Korn Ferry's interactive screening tool, FutureStep. Their goal: reduce the time to fill business manager positions from 4 months to 30 days.
    Jun. 1, 1998
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