Stibo Systems Blog

With NRF 2022 complete, one thing is clear: change continues to be the new normal for the retail industry.

As industry leaders trekked back to New York to attend NRF 2022, attendees couldn’t help but notice that while things looked similar, much had changed. Since the last in-person NRF in 2020, while the world and various aspects of the global economy have shut down at various points, the retail industry kept going at an accelerated pace.

Photo credit: National Retail Federation

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Five steps to unlock the value of your data and achieve compliance, using approved data management principles

As your company’s connected and online business activities increase, so does the data generated by these interactions. But, how are you using this data? Are you harnessing the insights it imparts to increase sales or launch new products? If not, why not? This post gives you 5 steps on how to improve your data management efforts.

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Make sure MDM includes matching and linking, business rules, governance, data privacy, enrichment and consent management

If you’re evaluating master data management (MDM) solutions, what are the basic features it should offer and why? More importantly, how will each of these elements come together to benefit you and your organization? Following are six master data management tools and capabilities you should look for before selecting and investing in a solution for your organization.

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It will not come as a surprise to anyone who has had to get leadership buy-in to invest in customer master data management to hear how frequently people in that position hear this commonly asked question: “Doesn’t CRM do that already?”

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Consumer packaged goods are changing faster than ever and master data is increasingly at the center of it all

Editors note: For the latests updates, jump to our coverage of trends impacting CPG in 2021 and prior to that in 2020.

Most industries have felt the winds of change for a while now. Digital commerce strategies, customer-centricity, and product innovation have all made their way to the heart of business. These winds are now blowing across the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space.

How do CPG companies prepare to benefit from these changes, along with the emerging trends and predictions surfacing in the industry right now? A good place to start is reviewing the seven most prominent mega-trends affecting CPG right now, the challenges and opportunities they bring and what CPG manufacturers and brands can do to leverage the synergies existing within them.  

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In my previous post, I discussed the challenges of being a chief marketing officer (CMO) today. Whether your organization targets consumers or other businesses, your current and prospective customers are bombarded with more information from more numerous sources than ever before. And, I covered the first two of five top challenges that CMOs face (content and clarity) and how customer master data management (Customer MDM) can help overcome them. In this post, I cover the remaining three challenges.

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Being a chief marketing officer (CMO) today is one of the most challenging roles in the C-suite. Whether your organization targets consumers or other businesses, your current and prospective customers are bombarded with more information than ever before. And, the sources of information available to research their options are more numerous than at any time in history. Consequently, breaking through the noise to win customers, and then maintain their continued loyalty, can seem an impossibly daunting task.

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If you want to improve your customer experience, you must improve the quality of your data. This post highlights essential information originally presented in this webinar hosted by "The Data Doc," Tom Redman, and Stibo Systems' own, Rob Bruce. The information provides key insights about customers as they relate to your company and the constant collection of new data.

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