Delivering Real Returns on CRM Deployments
Have you ever ordered an item from an online store and had it suddenly appear at your door the next day? This delivery process has become so easy that it’s easy to take for granted all the effort and coordination of information that’s required to get that package to almost auto-magically appear at your threshold. Easy, right? Let’s take a closer look at what actually goes on behind the scenes.
First, that online store has to keep a real-time running total of every item in stock. This can sometimes involve thousands or even millions of items scattered across offices and warehouses in various locations around the globe.
Garbage In/Garbage Out – Digging Your Way Out
Since it was first coined in the world of computer science in the 1950s, the phrase “garbage in, garbage out” has been a popular metaphor for flawed, or nonsense data input that produces flawed or nonsense output, aka “garbage.”
For those of us who are old enough to remember when the term was thrown around by computer salespeople or a firm’s resident technology geek, you may also recall what data management was like before before the days of Windows or Mac OS X. Picture black screens filled with green or orange text and a flashing cursor, and typing in pages of commands,
Garbage In/Garbage Out – Digging Your Way Out
Since it was first coined in the world of computer science in the 1950s, the phrase “garbage in, garbage out” has been a popular metaphor for flawed, or nonsense data input that produces flawed or nonsense output, aka “garbage.”
For those of us who are old enough to remember when the term was thrown around by computer salespeople or a firm’s resident technology geek, you may also recall what data management was like before before the days of Windows or Mac OS X. Picture black screens filled with green or orange text and a flashing cursor, and typing in pages of commands,