Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

How HubSpot uses Asana to drive team alignment and scale

When a company grows quickly, it’s hard for teams to stay aligned. In today’s remote work environment, people require an increasing number of technologies to do their jobs effectively, but often lack a central place to coordinate work. As a result, the average person spends 60% of their time on work that’s about work—like writing status updates and sitting through alignment meetings—rather than on the strategic work they were hired to do.

S&OP guide: Meaning, process, and purpose

Most businesses strategize sales through the eyes of the customer. What do customers want? How do we make customers happy? What are the best upsell strategies? These are all worthwhile questions—and the customer is certainly important—but no company can help their customers if they have internal issues in serious need of fixing. That’s where sales and operations planning (S&OP) comes in.

2022: The year of customer service-led growth

While leaders navigate a constantly changing reality, they must keep thinking about how to drive their business forward. As many companies hold on deploying new initiatives until the outlook is more clear, they are eyeing where current investments can be made: such as in customer experience. Why CX? Where human interactions are concerned, it’s quality, not quantity that ultimately matters most—now more than ever before.

Important Business Functions to Outsource as Your Company Grows

Outsourced teams and third parties are used by companies across industries all over the world. There are plenty of compelling reasons for them to seek out trustworthy partners to assist them in developing a product, developing a new service, or improving their present performance. The financial component of outsourcing, however, is almost always the primary motivation for doing so, along with expertise that you may not have in-house.

7 Surprisingly Affordable Tech Solutions Businesses can Leverage

Will your technology be able to keep up as your company expands? Is it possible to scale it up or down based on demand? Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a fast digital revolution, many businesses are failing to keep up, losing out to more agile competitors. With that in mind, below are 7 surprisingly affordable tech solutions that businesses can leverage.

3 Ways Your Support Software Prevents You From Being Customer-First

To be successful in 2022, it’s vital that you bring customers to the forefront of your B2B business. However, did you know your customer support software is likely holding you back, or outright preventing you from achieving this? To truly be a customer-first business, you need to know what your customers’ goals and pain points are, support them in ways that make these goals more achievable (or alleviate their hindrances), and ultimately help them grow.

Secure collaboration for cybersecurity teams

Imagine being a CISO, hauled into a boardroom, and asked: “Why is your team using a collaboration tool that isn’t even end-to-end encrypted?” Where would you go with that? via GIPHY While there’s a fair amount of truth that you “never get fired for buying ,” there is far more truth in “you definitely get fired for failing to take basic precautions that make getting breached far harder.” Although to be fair that doesn’t trip off the tongue.

Your 2022 checklist to the best employee monitoring software

Employee computer monitoring software covers the major factors of analyzing how your remote workforce is supposed to perform and what they actually do. It measures employee productivity on a broader level and draws the line between productive vs non-productive performance behavior. Thus, when it comes to choosing out of all the options you get in the market, please consider the below information before taking any step.