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How to increase remote team alignment with Goals

Chances are, your company and team priorities have changed since the beginning of this year. And you’re not alone—45% of global companies say their goals have changed at least once since moving to remote work. Without a clear communication strategy, it can be difficult to know how these new priorities impact individual work. Communicating team goals and aligning as a team is already hard to do when you’re working together in the same office.

Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks

In a previous article, you learned how to receive data from an external source. In this article, you learn how to send a request or data to an external source using outgoing webhooks. As you learned from the first article in this series, we already receive alerts in Mattermost when the temperature of our fridge is too high. But what if we want to send a request to our fridges to give us the current temperature?

7 Things to Consider When Integrating Your Helpdesk and Project Management Software

Businesses are always looking for the best ways to accommodate their customers’ needs. And in this fast-paced world, they should be able to satisfy customer demands as soon as possible. Fortunately, there’s technology to help you with that. In a joint study by Avanade and Sitecore, 52% of businesses use technology to help deliver better customer support operations. As the world gets increasingly digital, service providers should deliver support through these channels.

Courier Live: Sending notifications from a Jamstack site

Paul Chin, Jr from Begin joins Aydrian and shows him how to use Begin to stand up a simple website with a form to send to Slack & SMS using Courier. Click "Show More" to jump to key moments in the video. Courier: The smartest way to design & deliver notifications. Design once, deliver to any channel with one API. Begin: Effortlessly ship web apps & APIs on AWS

Top 5 Strategies for Effective Organizational Communication

Effective organizational communication is crucial for any successful business. Not only will it lead to more effective outcomes, but it will also help to boost employee engagement, collaboration and workplace satisfaction. Organizational communication refers to all types: from verbal to written, from formal to informal. Making sure that you have an effective strategy is key to helping your business thrive. Here are 5 key strategies to help you improve your organizational relationships.

Part 1: How Artificial Intelligence Is Affecting the B2B Customer Support Sector

We’re lucky to be living in an age where technology is constantly evolving. Among all the innovations that have developed throughout the years, artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs that has ever happened to mankind. Ever since AI came into existence, it has been significantly impacting various sectors, including contact centers and the B2B industry.

The 3 Most Important Factors of Productivity (and How to Improve Them)

Looking to improve the productivity levels at your organization, but not sure where to start? Your employees’ productivity depends on a variety of factors, and you can’t pin it down to just one or two aspects. Unfortunately, you can’t afford to leave out any of these factors either, or else you’ll have an inaccurate picture of employee productivity. But don’t worry. In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the factors of productivity.

How to make virtual meetings count with Asana's Meeting Manifesto

Whether we’d like to admit it or not, meetings are a fact of work life. When conducted consciously, they can be a highly effective tool for sharing ideas or making decisions. Unfortunately too many of us have experienced “bad” meetings, the kind that turn into a laundry list of status updates rather than a productive meeting of the minds. So what’s a team to do when the best way for them to align is to meet in real time?

How to anticipate your customer needs and solve them

People don’t generally open their wallets to spend money without getting something in return. Even when making a donation, there’s an incentive like feeling good or connecting to a cause. To be successful, businesses need to tap into unmet customer needs and offer solutions. Sounds simple — but how do you actually find out what’s on your customers’ minds?

Why Cloud 100 startups are investing in CX

This year we’ve seen an unexpected acceleration of cloud and software companies, driven by the sudden shift to remote work. In particular, business-to-business (B2B) software is “having a moment,” and the trend seems likely to continue. In this context, the announcement of this year’s Forbes Cloud 100 List takes on a new significance.