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How to Strategically Compete Against Your Peers… And Yourself

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve seen this in the past with directly competitive product and service feature-for-feature advertising and marketing; and we are still identifying it in such sectors as automotive, retailing, cable television, banking, and wireless lelecom. So, in benchmarking gamification efforts of a peer, an organization may take up similar approaches.

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How to Strategically Compete Against Your Peers… And Yourself

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve seen this in the past with directly competitive product and service feature-for-feature advertising and marketing; and we are still identifying it in such sectors as automotive, retailing, cable television, banking, and wireless lelecom. So, in benchmarking gamification efforts of a peer, an organization may take up similar approaches.

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Seven technologies to improve customer service in SMBs

Vonage

And with technological developments ranging from mobile connectivity to speech analytics, businesses have more opportunities to enhance this experience than ever before. Speech and text analytics. Speech analytics is changing this, making it how the customer answers, rather than what they answer, the key to confirming their identity.