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Three-Part CRM webcast in September

Posted in Uncategorized by brucebain on September 17, 2009

 

Oracle CRM On Demand for the Digital Age:
Big Brother Marketing, CRM Implementation Success, and CRM-to-ERP Integrations

Three-Part Webcast Series for the Oracle Application User Community This September
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Host: Lucidity Consulting Group  
Webcast Titles & Dates: 1. Big Brother Marketing – Reading Your Prospect’s Digital Cues:  
    Wednesday, September 16, 20092. CRM Implementation Success – Keys to Making ‘On Demand’ CRM
    Work:  Wednesday, September 23, 2009

3. Integrating Oracle CRM On Demand to Oracle ERP – Creating Lasting   
    CRM Value:  Friday, October 2, 2009

Times & Duration: All Webcasts Begin at 1:00PM U.S. Central.  Each Webcast is approximately 30 minutes in length.
Target Audience: This webcast has been designed for:

  • VPs of Sales
  • Sales Managers
  • VPs of Business Development
  • VPs of Marketing
  • Sales Operations Managers
Webcast Learning Objectives: Webcast #1: Big Brother Marketing – Reading Your Prospects’ Digitial Cues

  • How companies can utilize subscription-based (software as a service) Email Marketing Automation technology like Eloqua to drive digital traffic and read the “cues” left behind by prospective buyers – Big Brother Marketing!
  • Best practices for managing your prospects’ digital cues in a subscription-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform like Oracle CRM On Demand
  • Simple processes for creating email marketing ’suspect’ lists organically
  • How technologies like ActivePrime can be used to clean and de-duplicate existing prospect/suspect lists
  • Recommendations for integrating Big Brother Marketing with your inside and field sales organization

Webcast #2:  CRM Implementation Success - Keys to Making ‘On Demand’ CRM Work

  • Best practices for implementing an “On Demand” CRM system like Oracle CRM On Demand in a modern, business-to-business sales organization – what to do and what NOT to do
  • Best practices for CRM user adoption and change management – how to get your sales force to buy into a new CRM system and stop resisting change

Webcast #3:  Integrating Oracle CRM On Demand to Oracle ERP – Creating Lasting CRM Value

  • Closing the loop between sales and delivery – an overview of pre-built integrations between Oracle CRM On Demand and Oracle ERP platforms like the Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards
  • Detailed overview of existing Process Integration Packs (PIPs) for Oracle ERP platforms, as well as Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture
For More Information: Questions about the series?  Please contact:Contact:   Tom Mattson, Lucidity Business Development
Phone:      612.242.1871
Email:       tmattson@luciditycg.com

 

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“Superperforming CEO” Tour Coming to NOLA 12/3/09

Posted in Overall Emerging Business by brucebain on September 2, 2009

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The Superperforming CEO by Dave Guerra  

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Want To Go UP? Don’t Move Into the 4th Quarter Without Being Armed for Superperformance.  Superperformance is new guidance. It redefines organizations, providing a shockingly simple formula that cuts through the haze, clearing the path to dramatically better results and outperforming ROI. Any organization can harness these principles to revolutionize people and profits.

Superperformance is a next-generation performance optimization approach that is turning conventional wisdom on its ear. As a group, organizational Superperformers outperform the S&P 500 by a margin of almost 5 to 1. They dominate their industries, produce a steady stream of breakthrough operating results, reach coveted levels of customer delight, and are able to continually accelerate and make responsive every aspect of their operations–over exceedingly long periods. And what’s more, they make it look easy! 

 Who  Are the People at the Top of These Organizations?

 Who are the people at the top of these companies? How do they think and how do they manage? What are the special things they do that keeps them in the winners circle for such amazingly long periods? Join us for a rare opportunity to explore the special patterns of the world’s greatest CEOs. Find out why Superperformance truly is new profound knowledge for corporate leaders.

Who Should Attend

CEOs, Board Members, C-Level Executives, Operations, Project and Functional Director Level people who want to move from Management to Optimization.

 You will Learn to: 

  • Use the 15 Distinctions of The Superperforming CEO 
  • See the Link between Servant Leadership & Superperformance
  • Leverage the Superperformance Formula to Survive in these Urgent Times                  
  • Bring your Organization to Life
  • Reframe Organizations & Projects for Superperformance 
  • Adopt a Sustainable and Simple Optimization Strategy
   

 “What Makes a Superperforming CEO?“ 

 What is all the controversy about? Forbes interviews Dave Guerra to explore the Superperforming CEO and to find out why Jack Welch did not make the list.  Click here to find out what Dave had to say. 


Read the Book!  If you have yet read Superperformance, its time to get Super – the original book still lays out the best path to revolutionizing the immediate and long-term performance of individuals, projects, and entire organizations. >> I want it now. Click here to get Superperformance in electronic, paperback or hard cover version.

 

 

 
   

 

                

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December 3, 2009

 

 


     

     

 

 

 

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August 28-30, 2010

Join us next August 28-30,  2010 for the first annual World Conference on Super as we explore this amazing condition  in organizations, projects, functions, and individuals around the world. Learn from and interact with some of the world’s thought leaders in continuous improvement, lean, agility, complexity principles applied to cultural emergence, diversity, servant leadership and stakeholder engagement. Join the World Movement. 

 

 

Bridge Gap…Budgets & Reality Webcast 9/16/09

Posted in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) by brucebain on September 1, 2009
 
 
Bridging the Gap Between
Budgets and Reality

 

 
  Breaking down the silos and creating an organization that values collaboration with synchronized business planning is the first transformational move towards closing the gap between budgets and operations.

By providing shared visibility across the ecosystem, the organization will make better business decisions based on real-time information. This will lead to increased shareholder value as the company accelerates its pace to provide better decisions, based on fact and business strategy.

Join Rahul Teotia, Director of Global Supply Chain, Emerson and Guy Yehiav, Oracle VP Sales and Strategy Value Chain Planning as they discuss the business value Emerson has realized by sharing visibility across budgets and operations.

Participate in our live Webcast to learn how Oracle’s Synchronized Business Planning solution can help you:

  • Align day-to-day sales operations with strategic goals
  • Know how different decisions affect your top and bottom line
  • Identify emerging problems and take appropriate actions
  • Create more reliable revenue forecasts and commitments
  • Correlate operational decisions with business outcomes

Register now!

Oracle’s Integrated Business Planning synchronizes world-class Financial and Sales & Operations Planning solutions to optimize the business plan across your enterprise.
   

Free LIVE Webcast

 
 
Live Webcast:
Synchronized Business Planning – Linking Your Financial System With Your Operational Processes

Date:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Time:
9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET

Register now!

 
Who should attend?

Register for our Webcast if you are aligned with:

  • Office of the Controller
  • Financial Planning
  • Manufacturing
  • Operations
  • Sales
  • Supply Chain
 

Register Now

 
 

 

 
     
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You Can Present At Collaborate 10

Posted in Uncategorized by brucebain on September 1, 2009

April 18-22, 2010

Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Share Your Oracle Knowledge at COLLABORATE 10!

You are invited to submit a presentation proposal and share your approach to Oracle Applications in an education session at the premier annual conference for Oracle customers — COLLABORATE 10: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community, presented by IOUG, OAUG and Quest. More than 5,000 users, technology leaders, Oracle executives and solution innovators will gather for the premiere user-driven education and networking event April 18-22, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you are an Oracle Applications professional with an interest in Oracle E-Business Suite, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, as well as applications technology, please submit through the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG). Proposals are now being accepted. The deadline is Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

As a selected presenter, you’ll have the chance to:

  • Share your best practices and tested solutions for Oracle technologies and applications
  • Enhance your own knowledge through new conversations with your peers
  • Attend a full week of education sessions to learn from other Oracle users, experts and leaders

Get more information about presenting at COLLABORATE 10, including tracks, specific industry- or product-related areas of emphasis, presenter requirements and the presentation submission and selection processes.

Submit your proposal through the OAUG

Note These Important Presentation Submission Dates and Deadlines

  • October 20, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EDT: Presentation abstracts due.
  • December 2009: Accepted presenters notified by the OAUG.
  • January 21, 2010: Acceptance of the compliance agreement due.
  • March 9, 2010: All presentation materials including white paper and presentation slides are due.
  • April 18 – 22, 2010: We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

IOUG, OAUG and Quest strive to provide top-quality content at COLLABORATE, emphasizing user-driven education sessions that truly benefit attendees and their organizations. We will monitor sessions and feedback from attendees to ensure education sessions are not focused on a sales-centered topic. Presenters in violation will be noted and may be prevented from speaking at future COLLABORATE conferences. This does not apply to any purchased vendor activities, which are clearly communicated to attendees as sponsored events.

Attention Team Oracle! All Oracle employees interested in speaking at COLLABORATE 10 are to contact Lisa Stuart at lisa.stuart@oracle.com prior to submitting papers through the official COLLABORATE 10 call for papers engine.

Connect with COLLABORATE 10 — OAUG Forum on Twitter for conference news, reminders and networking. Use hashtag #C10.
The OAUG is also on LinkedIn. Join us!

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Optimizing Distributor Profitability Seminar at TX A&M

Posted in Overall Emerging Business by brucebain on July 21, 2009

After successful sold-out sessions in 2008-09, Dr. Barry Lawrence is presenting an open enrollment educational session on “Optimizing Distributor Profitability” at Texas A&M University. The seminar is on Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2009. Attendees will receive the BRAND NEW “Optimizing Distributor Profitability: Best Practices to a Stronger Bottom Line” book (along with a profitability map), published by National Association of Wholesalers (NAW).

While preparing for the upturn, optimizing resources and setting the stage for growth is the top priority for many distributors. The improvements can only be achieved through effective best practices implementation. The best practices could range from inventory stratification to customer segmentation to lean process improvements. The new book is developed based on Optimizing Distributor Profitability research consortium and real-world results. Find out what those best practices are and how to implement them using your own workforce. Learn from this ground-breaking research on how to assess and optimize shareholder value.

 

Also refer the following link to learn more about the book  – http://www.naw.org/optimizdistprof

 

Please let us know if you would be interested and/or need any help with registration (http://readcenter.tamu.edu/pages/OptDistProfitability.php). Note that we have discounts for 2 or more participants from the same company. We look forward to seeing you at A&M. 

With best regards, 

Industrial Distribution Program,
Thomas & Joan Read Center for Distribution Research and Education,

Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3367

Phone : (979) 845-4907

E-Mail : supplychain@entc.tamu.edu

Web   : http://readcenter.tamu.edu
            http://id.tamu.edu

Free CRM On Demand 30 Day Trial

Posted in Uncategorized by brucebain on May 21, 2009
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It takes less than 2 minutes… simply fill out one simple form… we’ll do the rest.Have you been thinking about how you can:

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  • Improve Service Effectiveness
Act now and sign up for your FREE Siebel CRM On Demand Trial!

With our Get Started Quick Guides, Welcome Tour and Frequently Asked Questions, it’s never been easier to get you up and running and experiencing first hand how to identify, acquire, serve, and retain profitable customers.

The world’s top organizations turn to Oracle to help them maximize their sales, marketing and service effectiveness. And now you can too. Oracle’s Siebel CRM On Demand incorporates the best practices and experiences that have made more than 4,000 Oracle CRM customers and 4.6 million users of all types and sizes successful, in an easy-to-use, fast-to-deploy solution.

“We view Oracle’s Siebel CRM On Demand as an integral part of our business. It is a tool that we use as an integral part of managing our total business to achieve a greater customer experience.”Kevin Joyce, Kodak

With so much to gain, don’t wait, sign up for your FREE 30 Day Trial now!

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Free American Management Association Webcasts

Posted in Uncategorized by brucebain on May 20, 2009

Complimentary On-Demand AMA Webcasts: We now have over 100 hour-long On-Demand Webcast programs in a variety of subject areas from leadership, communication, sales and marketing to cutting-edge business research. Please take the time to explore the list.

Free Manufacturing Benchmark Survey

Posted in Uncategorized by brucebain on May 19, 2009

Participate Now in the Industrial Manufacturing Benchmarking Survey

http://www.oraclesurveys.com/se.ashx?s=25113745612FA961

This survey is jointly presented by the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) and has been co-developed with Oracle and Mainstay Partners, a research firm with years of manufacturing experience. The purpose of this survey is to provide each participant with a benchmark evaluation across many business functions and against other similar companies. The functional areas for benchmarking include:

Manufacturing Supply Chain

Procurement

Product Innovation and Portfolio Management

Customer Service and Repair

Sales and Order Management

Customer Support

Finance

Technology

Human Resources

Participants can complete any or all areas of the survey and participation is free. Respondents will receive the survey results comparing their organization to other survey participants. All survey data will be kept confidential. Survey results can be aggregated and provided back to you in either a basic file format or through a custom report; the choice is yours. We are pleased to offer this valuable service to our members. We strongly encourage you to participate in this exercise on a regular basis to measure not only your performance against your peers but also to monitor your organization’s improvement over time.

Best regards,

Ray Payne, OAUG President

Roger Parks, Quest President

Financial Executive Solution Factory

Posted in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) by brucebain on March 4, 2009

Visit the new EPM Solution Factory:

 

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Applications for Midsize Organizations

Applications for Midsize Organizations: The Customer Experience is an excellent resource blog site written by Jim Lein of Oracle and features a wealth of pithy information about applications for emerging companies.

You can get there at: http://blogs.oracle.com/midsize/