Your Online Store Has High Traffic, but No Sales? 16 Potential Causes and Solutions
Stuck in a high traffic no sales situation for your online store? Dig into these common reasons for low conversion along with their solutions.
4 Key Flow Metrics for Agile Delivery Teams
Flow Engineering is the science of creating, visualizing and optimizing the flow of value from your company to the customers. In the end that is the million-dollar (likely more) challenge of most product companies: How to we create value in the form of product and services and ship those to our customers as quickly, sustainably and frictionless as possible.
7 Ways To Reverse ETL
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is an important part of how companies manage their data. Using the ETL framework, it is possible to take the data your business collects and put it into cloud databases. Aggregating data on a massive scale becomes possible since all of the data sent to the data warehouse can be transformed into something that they can store and effectively manage.
The Most Unique Snowflake
Okay, I admit, the title is a little click-batey, but it does hold some truth! I spent the holidays up in the mountains, and if you live in the northern hemisphere like me, you know that means that I spent the holidays either celebrating or cursing the snow. When I was a kid, during this time of year we would always do an art project making snowflakes. We would bust out the scissors, glue, paper, string, and glitter, and go to work.
Hitachi Receives Double Recognition for IoT Leadership
More than a decade into the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the immense potential of IoT is becoming real. We’re moving from proof of concepts and pilots to projects at scale. What’s become increasingly clear is the vast complexity of deploying IoT solutions at scale and the necessity to do so to become a data-driven business.
Your Digital Transformation Program is Wasting Your Money
The amount of money invested in “Transformation Programs” is staggering. In the past 20 years we have seen Digital and Agile Transformation Programs grow and swell to $1.3 trillion dollars in 2020 alone. According to the HBR, 70% of that spend is wasted. Many companies miss a key component in their Transformation Program. How will a Product-Led Transformation be different?
How to use descriptive analytics to drive company growth?
Data analytics is invaluable to companies that want to drive growth. Research from giants like McKinsey, the Financial Times, and Google confirms it: Companies that rely on data analytics to drive business decision-making grow 2.5x faster than their lagging competitors. So how does descriptive analytics fit into the wider frame of data analytics?
Driver-Based Budgeting and Planning: A Guide for Finance Teams
Driver based budgeting (DBB) is rapidly gaining attention. As business environments rapidly change, business leaders are seeking to gain greater agility and responsiveness. DBB is an innovative approach to planning and budgeting designed to identify the variables that have the greatest impact on a company's performance. By tying budgets to those critical variables, finance leaders can build flexibility into budgets, enabling them to adjust quickly to changing conditions.
The Implications of Automating Tax Management in an Era of Global Change
A unique combination of evolving tax regimes and regulations, disruption to global trade triggered by the pandemic, a strengthening focus on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda, and increasingly powerful technologies is bringing about change for multinational companies and their tax teams. It's also creating an exciting opportunity to completely reset multinational enterprises' (MNEs) approach to tax planning and forecasting by investing in high performance software. This will enable tax teams and professionals to add significant value to their organizations.
The metrics layer has growing up to do
Recently there has been a lot of excitement around the idea of a stand-alone metrics layer in the modern data stack. Traditionally, metrics have been defined in the BI or analytics layer where various dashboards are used to look at business metrics like Revenue, Sales Pipeline, numbers of Claims, or User Activity. Given that most organizations end up with multiple BI/Analytics tools, the idea has a lot of merits.