Looking for a way to align your business goals, improve your internal processes, and refine your strategy? If the answer is “yes,” a balanced scorecard could be just what you need. When used correctly, a balanced scorecard helps businesses identify the best growth opportunities. It focuses on a range of different business areas, allowing leaders and managers to align their goals and keep employees on the same page, no matter what their role is in the company.

Every writer knows the terror of the blank page. You can have a whole cast of fully fleshed-out characters, a vivid setting, and an awesome idea. But what do you do after you type “Chapter 1”? If your stories always lose focus once you start working on them, you might need to do some planning first. A plot diagram keeps you from getting lost while you tell your story. It’s like a map you can follow on your expedition through the lands of creativity.

The desire of firms to maximize workforce productivity at every level of the company spun the concept of employee control. Despite its off-putting name, the overarching goal of employee control is actually to help employees effectively achieve their potential within the workspace. This article discusses employee control systems and the accompanying technology that helps make these systems effective.

As unfortunate as it is, having poor experiences with businesses seems to be a universal truth for everyone in the 21st century. Even with the internet and all of the conveniences of the digital age, products still don't arrive, they break, or they don't operate the way they are supposed to. On a basic level, disappointment is inevitable.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides an enhanced security mechanism for your entire organization by requiring multiple methods of authentication credentials. Using traditionally managed passwords for accessing your apps, services, and networks is no longer a secure methodology. Indeed, cyber threats are on the rise. Hackers today employ sophisticated techniques such as spear-phishing or pharming to gain unauthorized access to corporate accounts.

We all realize that customer feedback is a goldmine of insights. But it’s easy to lose track of what your customers expect, want, and need from your business. That’s why you need a structured and organized feedback management system, a.k.a, a Voice of the Customer(VoC) program that taps into the voice of every customer segment to gain business value. If you’re looking for more reasons, techniques, and best practices to kickstart a VoC program, then we’ve got you covered.

Support reps or business owners may find themselves in a fix when they have to say no to customers. Chances are that your customer may have asked for a feature you don’t offer or requested for an unreasonable service, shared concern about a company policy, or given unsatisfactory feedback for your product. Saying no to a customer should count as an essential skill for a customer support representative. But how do you say no to customers in a positive way?

The role of the IT service desk manager is not an easy job. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to manage an IT service desk efficiently. With rapidly evolving technology and accelerated product launches, service managers have to be constantly on their feet and with their eyes trained on the horizon to ensure seamless IT delivery to their clients. Modern service desk solutions and frameworks have helped considerably. Many tasks can be automated and delegated more efficiently.

People understand the purpose and perhaps the strategy in creating internal comms. However, can you describe how to achieve a return on investment (ROI)? And in three steps? That was the core of the conversation between Simpplr’s Amanda Berry, Corporate Brand & Communications Manager and Head of Internal Communications, and Jason Anthoine, Managing Founder of Audacity, in the ninth Cohesion Podcast.