Project Management
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Loading...New Work: Happy employees mean happy customers
Whether Work 4.0 or New Work, the way in which attractive and successful workplaces in the digital age should look is still a trending topic. It’s not just about how you, as a company, can stand up to the pressure of innovation, but also about how, with the help of the right corporate culture, you can ensure that everyone involved works happily and well. Be it a question of time, the right tools, or the right rooms.
This connection of people, space, and technology forms the basis for turning trends into innovations to create added value for the business as well as for users. And users, not just the customers, partners, and suppliers, but above all, employees. What it takes to make »could’ve, should’ve, would’ve« also be a successful corporate practice, and which organisational and team concepts are increasingly prevailing, we’d like to briefly introduce today.
An ERP isn’t everything!
How do you perform successful digitally? It’s a little bit like school. With practice and diligence everything works much better. Translated into the question of how to properly manage and diligently analyse the flood of data today, many companies think that their enterprise resource planning system, or ERP for short, serves as a cure for everything.
But that’s only partially true. The purchasing manager of a construction company, for example, who is responsible for purchasing and procurement processes and supplier management in day-to-day business, rightly works with the ERP system as the central data solution for their transactional data activities.
The situation is similar to the quality assurance manager. But in work areas such as marketing or sales, other data are at the centre of interest. Customer data. The software market also offers a technical solution for this data, Customer Relationship Management (CRM). But wouldn’t it be much more interesting to be able to collect all the data at one point and also be able to relate to each other?
BIOS – How BayWa AG optimises business processes with an internal order platform
Digital transformation affects all areas of a company internally and externally. This is particularly evident when it comes to internal procurement. BayWa AG also experienced this. We’d like to show you the journey our client has set out to do, optimising corporate processes with a central, internal ordering platform – BIOS (BayWa Internal Order System), thereby saving time and money.
Agile project management – Neither faster, nor cheaper, only better!
Brands, retailers, and manufacturers need innovative solutions to meet the fast pace of the digitised economy. It requires short communication channels, fast feedback loops, and rapid decision-making, in short: a flexible work organisation. Away from pyramid-shaped hierarchical structures to cross-team network structures. Agility is a buzzword that has already been heavily used and often debated in this context. The questions posed (most of the time from management) and the honest answers will be found here today.
Digital business compass: Handelskraft 2019 »Digital DNA« now available for download!
Old but gold, because going through it, you realise how long so many trends actually last. In 2019, and more than ever before, it’s all about theory becoming a real-life success and how to turn trends into innovations.
To do this, companies need to write their own digital code, because »Digital DNA« is what they need to survive in a highly competitive online business. It’s their evolutionary
advantage in the digital age and our title for this year’s trend book: Handelskraft 2019.
WÜRTH receives the 2019 Shop Award
Skilled craftsmanship and digitisation. If you don’t think one can benefit from another, the results of the 2019 Shop Áwards should be the final nail in the coffin to put that reasoning to bed. After all, whoever succeeds in transferring classic retail virtues from analogue to digital, and with great success, rightly deserves the coveted award: Online shop of the year. That’s what our client WÜRTH was told they had when they were in Munich and took first place in the category: 2019 Best B2B Shop.
Digital patient records – The Danish example
While in Germany we’re discussing paper organ donor cards, tormenting ourselves in crowded waiting rooms for hours to obtain a printed prescription, or looking in vain for our vaccination certificate, our neighbours in Denmark have been solving their health issues conveniently and successfully for many years in an app.
»Thanks to automated processes, sales staff have more time for personal customer care.« – Handelskraft speaker Achim Ahrens Interview
Online shopping doesn’t end after a purchase. Many companies are now aware of this. But what does it take to be successful in the digital business in the long term? Whether B2C or B2B, it’s important to offer the customer added value beyond the product purchase. And how does that succeed? With all-round service. In the digital age, however, this is no longer exclusively in the hands of the sales department. So the challenge is to transfer the analogue customer relationships into digital. Important factor: Customer Relationship Management. But with the selection and introduction of a suitable CRM system it’s not done, because as well as the customers, a system wants to be understood and maintained.
Frequently this means a restructuring (if not a complete reorganisation) of organisational and process structures. MEVACO also experienced this. On 28 March 2019, Achim Ahrens, e-commerce manager at MEVACO GmbH, will give practical insights into the technical and internal requirements at Handelskraft 2019, which will entail the implementation of a CRM system. In our interview with him, he discusses the topic with us before the conference!
Real added value thanks to real-time personalisation [New study]
»Time is money,« says Benjamin Franklin’s essay: »Advice to a Young Tradesman« published in 1748. And even over 270 years later, this famous quote hasn’t lost importance. On the contrary: More than ever before, the e-tailers – the “tradesmen” of today and tomorrow – need to make the most of their time, the time of their customers, and the signs of the times. Sounds philosophical, but leads to the central question of this fast-moving digital age: How do dealers manage to meet customer demands in light of the times?
And the answer – always presents companies with complex challenges: Almost everything has to be REAL. Real-time personalised offers, real-time for real relationship management from person to person, real content, promoted by real users, and not least, a true brand image. However, this will only succeed if companies “look for innovative and new ways” and integrate them – with the customer at the centre of all efforts – into their business strategy.
This is also shown by the study »eTail – Driving Decisions with Real-Time Data«, in which 100 e-commerce execs from Germany and Europe were asked at the end of 2018 about which challenges they currently face. Today, you’ll learn what the Worldwide Business Research Insights study in collaboration with dotSource, Looker Data Science Inc., and Algolia has revealed.