GMC Software, the award-winning leader in Customer Communications Management (CCM), announced today it is speaking and exhibiting at Document Strategy Forum ‘17 to be held May 1-3 in Chicago. GMC... View More
The DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF) is pleased to announce that its 2018 Conference will be held on May 21 - 23, 2018 at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston. For the past nine years, the DSF has blazed a... View More
Focusing on customer experience (CX) has become the new normal for customer communication-intensive enterprises, such as banks, insurance providers, utilities, and others. This pivot toward improving CX... View More
There are many changes in the customer communications marketplace today. As a result, many are left with some big questions: What trends will affect organizations most significantly? What are the capabilities... View More
Marketing is becoming more complex with an increasing number of channels, varied experiences, and immense volumes of data. In response, a strategy that organizations have adopted is to develop customer... View More
What is disruption? Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma defined innovative disruption as a “process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications... View More
Merriam-Webster adds thousands of new words and phrases to the dictionary each year. Some recent additions include FOMO (fear of missing out), athleisure, and meet-cute. While it’s not yet officially... View More
Improving the customer experience is a key concern of every business, and delivering omni-channel communications is an essential requirement of these strategies. However, delivering transformation in this... View More
IDC defines digital transformation (DX) as the use of "3rd Platform" technologies (cloud, mobility, data analytics, and social business) to create value and competitive advantage through new offerings,... View More
Only the most fervent cord-cutters would be unaware of the many important political changes in 2016 and 2017. There were many, but some of the most important include the pro-Brexit vote in the UK, the... View More
Many firms in just about all industries have been struggling to keep pace with digital transformation in customer communications management (CCM). The pace of change has increased so dramatically that... View More
As we begin 2017, many enterprises are under pressure to improve their customer experiences. It is becoming increasingly common for enterprises to use customer journey mapping tools to understand the touchpoints... View More
If 2016 taught us anything, it was, "Expect the unexpected," and the document and information management industry was no exception. It was a year of tectonic shifts in the technology landscape that redefined... View More
In this age of hyperconnectivity, it’s not about if we have data but about how we use this data to drive business outcomes and intelligent decision-making. There’s a lot of discussion on the... View More
US companies spend millions of dollars each year developing the best strategies and tactics to reach their target audience and increase sales. In fact, a survey on chief marketing officers (CMOs) found... View More
I am not sure if it was General Patton, Lee Iacocca, or Thomas Paine, but someone said, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” In any case, it’s time for customer experience (CX) thinking.... View More
Xerox expanded its portfolio of Communication and Marketing Solutions, and enhanced its Document Transaction Processing Services. Both services help large enterprises better manage front- and back-end... View More
Determining whether to shut down your internal print and mail operation and outsource to a print service provider can be a tough conversation—as opposed to keeping it in-house and potentially making... View More
Last time, I introduced the idea of employing a software as a service (SaaS) customer communications management (CCM) approach to meet the critical customer experience challenges that lie ahead in... View More
Several DOCUMENT Strategy articles have chronicled the rise of customer experience (CX) within enterprises over the past year or two, but CX has really moved from theory to practice recently. Many enterprises... View More
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in an era of unprecedented data collection, processing and utilization. While this has propelled innovation, efficiency and convenience
Across the globe, organizations are seeking to better cater to increasingly diverse customer populations. In the United States, for example, the number of non-English speakers has tripled over the las
A recent article on Chiefmartec asked an interesting question about automation in marketing: Is automation making things more efficient for the company or the customer? The example they gave is someth
