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Why Financial Visibility Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage in Construction

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Introduction The hardest part of the job has never been winning projects; rather, the real challenge is keeping them profitable once they start. Projects generate hundreds of thousands of decisions regarding additional work authorizations, time tracking, equipment usage, subcontractors, materials, and many other details. If such data flows freely within the organization, company executives can gain insight into how projects are going and address minor problems before they become major. Unfortunately, that's not what happens all the time. In rapidly growing construction businesses , project information is scattered across emails, spreadsheets, handwritten documents, mobile phones, accounting applications, and other sources. Each department knows its little bit of the story, but no one has the whole story at the moment it matters most. That's why financial transparency is no longer just about reports. Financial transparency is now a competitive edge that enables contractor...

Customer Data Management and Integration

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 Customer Data Management and Integration The customer data management and integration process is an important part of any organization’s customer engagement strategy. It is the key to connecting the front-end with the back-end of your business. There are several areas that need to be addressed in order to create a seamless customer experience. They include: 1) Integrating disparate systems 2) Collecting customer data 3) Storing and managing data 4) Enabling customers with self-service channels 5) Leveraging analytics to improve decision making Customer Data Management and Integration (CDMI) is the process of integrating and managing customer data across all channels and touchpoints to create a unified customer-centric view. Companies must be able to collect, manage, integrate, and make sense of data from every company touchpoint in order to provide an enhanced customer experience. The more channels or touchpoints a company has, the more complex this process becomes. For example - ...

Customer relationship management for Higher Revenues

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  In today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving business landscape, remaining complacent is not an option. The more information you have on your audience in the form of customer data, the better equipped you’ll be to beat your competitors and offer better products and services. One of the most valuable types of enterprise data is the relationships and interactions that you have with your customers and prospective customers—a concept summarized as customer relationship management and associated with the snappy acronym “CRM.” So what is CRM exactly and what are the benefits of CRM for your business? What Is Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? Customer relationship management  is a catchall term for the various processes and systems that businesses use to manage their interactions and relationships with their customers and prospects. Breaking down this term into its three constituent parts, you get: Customers:  Your existing user base, as well as any prospects and leads in y...