Quality & Metrics

How to Make B2B Sales Prospecting Suck Less

September 11, 2013

Gary Brooks, Chief Marketing Officer, Cortera

New Software to Enforce Illegal Chemicals Supply Chain

September 10, 2013

Verify Brand, active in supply chain security software systems, says its new Verify Platform, a piece of advanced serialization, traceability and authentication software, could stop illegal, dangerous and counterfeit chemicals from entering a manufacturer's supply chain.

The Importance of Content Marketing in the Transportation Industry

September 10, 2013

Chris Sullivan and Courtney Bryson, Princeton Partners

Motivating Employees to Drive More Revenue

September 10, 2013

Beth B. Carroll, Principal, Prosperio Group

Usefulness of That Retail Customer Information You've Collected Is Imperiled

September 6, 2013

Storefront Backtalk

You know all that CRM data you've been so lovingly collecting from loyalty programs, special offers, POS systems and any other way you could find to gather shopper information? It's about to be put at risk by a data broker - and not in the way you expected.

Capitalizing Off Social Business Software and Data

September 4, 2013

IT Web

Big data - the practice of analyzing large data sets - is increasingly driving value creation in organizations across all industries.

Electronics Waste Often Shipped Illegally to Developing Nations

September 4, 2013

The Hindu

The disposal of computers and other electronic and electrical goods, e-waste, is a growing global problem, with much of the often dangerous junk winding up in emerging countries.

How Much Energy Does Retail Consume to Power E-commerce and Business Intelligence?

August 29, 2013

Storefront Backtalk

How much electricity is all of retail's e-commerce, big-data analytics and mobile shopping devouring? No one has calculated that, but a report out this month argues that all IT now consumes about 10 percent of the world's electricity.

Walmart Reports Ecommerce Sales Grow 30 Percent

August 28, 2013

RISnews

Walmart's second quarter sales climbed 2.1 percent to $68.7bn, driven by omnichannel investments in ecommerce logistics, updated mobile applications, expanded online inventory, products available for pick-up in store and rolling out fulfillment capabilities to an increasing number of supercenters.

GAO to Probe How Administration Calculates Damage from Carbon Pollution

August 28, 2013

The Hill

The investigative arm of Congress is going to look into how the Obama administration developed its increased monetary estimate for the amount of damage caused by carbon pollution.