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You Boost Your Competitiveness When You Pair Decision Automation With Augmentation

Boost Your Competitiveness With Decision Automation and Augmentation

In today's fast-paced business environment, making quick and accurate decisions is crucial to stay ahead of the competition. However, with the growing complexity of data and processes, decision-making has become a challenging task for organizations. Fortunately, decision automation and augmentation technologies can help companies achieve better decision-making outcomes. In this blog post, we will explore how combining decision automation and decision augmentation can help CTOs, CEOs, marketing directors, operational staff and other business leaders make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.

Top 10 Challenges SMEs Face When Scaling Their Commerce Business

Top 10 Challenges SMEs Face When Scaling Their Commerce Business

Scaling a Commerce business seems, on the surface, like it could be a very linear affair. Shipping worked so far? Fine, do it more and faster. Getting more financial data entry with our newfound success? Just hire more admin staff. Supply Chain availability and scheduling awareness? Dave will do it - more. Dave? Dave?

digBiz Podcast ep 17 | Supply Chain and Better CX Through Data, You Say Data, I Say Dayta

digBiz Podcast ep 17 | Supply Chain and Better CX Through Data

Data is changing our customer experiences and the rate of change has accelerated rapidly over the past 3 years.

In this guest appearance iTristan's own Jason Agouris on the New York-based podcast You Say Data, I Say Dayta, Joe Forish and Jason chat about how this is happening.

Why, What, and How: The Power of Creative Problem Solving Principles

Why, What, and How: The Power of Creative Problem Solving Principles

The analytical aspect of complex business problem solving involves breaking down the problem into smaller parts, identifying patterns and trends, and analyzing data to gain insights. The creative aspect involves generating ideas, exploring new perspectives, and, where applicable, taking calculated risks to develop unconventional solutions.

Roadmap 2023: Trends Driving Business in a Rollercoaster World

Roadmap 2023: Trends Driving Business in a Rollercoaster World

As businesses strive to stay ahead of the competition, they are now turning to automation technologies to help them remain competitive. In 2023, it will become even more prominent as businesses leverage decision-automation, smart algorithms, AI, and machine learning to streamline processes. From customer service chatbots to automated supply chain optimization, and financial adjudication, business automation is evolving rapidly and new trends are emerging that will shape the future of business operations.

Identify and Tackle the Most Difficult Project Concepts First

Identify and Tackle your Most Difficult Project Concepts First

Too often, teams try to take on too many difficult concepts at the same time in their projects. This can lead to confusion, team disconnect, a lack of progress. At worst it can lead to incorrect planning, failed and lost deliverables, even outright project failure.

How to automate your business decisions for improved efficiency and accuracy

How to automate your business decisions

Business automation is the process of automating business decisions in order to improve efficiency and accuracy. Automating these decisions can yield a number of benefits, such as improved accuracy, speed and consistency including critical ones that impact the bottom line.

The Difference Between Strategy and Planning: And Why It Matters

The Difference Between Strategy and Planning: And Why It Matters

What's the difference between strategy and planning? Many people use the two words interchangeably, but they actually have different meanings. Strategy is about making decisions that will achieve your desired outcome, while planning is about putting those strategies into action. We'll discuss the difference between strategy and planning, and why it matters for your business

Never Overlook the Value of Decision Intelligence Planning to Your Business

Never Overlook the Value of Decision Intelligence Planning

Discussing speed in business has become synonymous with topics of systems and servers, networks, and devices -- if your technology screams then your business will too. What gets shuffled to the side is the speed of access to accurate, and timely, data, knowledge, and insight for your team, customers, clients, and stakeholders alike.

digBiz Podcast ep 16 | Customer Experience | with guest Ric Phillips

digBiz Podcast ep 16 | Customer Experience | with guest Ric Phillips

Customer Experience Needs to Come from Every Corner of your Business with guest (Communication Coach) Ric Phillips. Your business success is intrinsically linked to your customer's experience with your product or service. Creating a memorable and lasting customer experience should always be your team's one priority.

Business Operational Agility is Crucial for Becoming and Staying Competitive

It's an Agile World, We're Just Living in it

In order to be successful in today's business climate, it is crucial to be operationally agile. This means that you need to be able to rapidly make decisions in order to adjust the utilization of your supply chain assets. This can manifest itself in a number of ways, such as modifying production lead times, manufacturing cycle times or lot sizes. By being able to react quickly to short-term demand and supply volatility, you can stay competitive in today's market.