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Competitive Analysis Requires Benchmarking Your Own Company

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This brings us to a concept called competitive benchmarking, which is critical to competitive analysis success. Keep reading to learn how to benchmark your company against your competition for a successful competitive analysis. What is Competitive Benchmarking? Let’s start with the basics.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

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This is a common scenario: A client reaches for benchmarks and metrics without fully grasping the larger context. But benchmarks, while useful in certain cases, are often misleading when taken out of context. Executives and boards want hard data, and benchmarks offer an easy way to provide seemingly objective metrics.

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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation. Organizations should introduce key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure CIO contributions to innovation, revenue growth, and market differentiation.

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Banks bet on AI to deliver digital efficiencies

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The Global Banking Benchmark Study 2024 , which surveyed more than 1,000 executives from the banking sector worldwide, found that almost a third (32%) of banks’ budgets for customer experience transformation is now spent on AI, machine learning, and generative AI.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Bridging the IT skills gap, Part 1: Assessing current strategies and introducing GenAI as a unified solution

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International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets. the worlds leading tech media, data, and marketing services company. Prior to joining IDC, Mona served as a market insights advisor for the IBM infrastructure team.

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What fuels Soltour’s strategy of digitalization and innovation

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It allows tourism companies to anticipate demand, optimize resource management, and improve sustainability, he says.And in an environment where speed, precision, and personalization are essential, its vital to adopt solutions to improve the customer experience and be on the front foot to new market changes.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?