{"id":2829,"date":"2017-10-19T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:29:35","slug":"your-business-is-talking-but-are-you-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/your-business-is-talking-but-are-you-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Your business is talking\u2014but are you listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Old habits die hard, especially when it comes to adopting new technology. Rather than changing with the times, many small<\/a> to medium-sized businesses<\/a> find it easier to adhere to the adage \u201cIf it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in this era of digital disruption, a wide array of emerging and increasingly affordable technologies, including powerful analytic tools and AI, can help you do more than fix what’s not (yet) broken. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adopting the right tools can help you discover the “voice” of your business.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day your business is talking to you about your product line, your marketing strategy, your employees’ productivity, your key performance goals and more. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embracing smart technological tools in your business can help you hear the story your business is telling. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those insights can help you make decisions that not only will help your business thrive<\/a> today, but also better adapt to change in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few tech advances that can help you listen to the voice of your business:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powerful analytics tools<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the latest cloud-based analytic tools, you don’t need to have a Ph.D. to crunch the numbers on how your business is functioning and performing. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data analytics help organizations evaluate product lines, assess customer ROI, enhance employee performance, build scenarios for entering new markets and more. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data contains the story that your business is trying to tell; ERP solutions<\/a> help bring that story to light through analysis, reporting and visualization.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finance and accounting tools<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to accounting<\/a> and finance functions, it’s not just large enterprises that are embracing cloud-based technology. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to <\/span>research<\/span><\/a> by staffing firm Robert Half and the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), nearly 60 percent of American businesses with annual revenue of less than $25 million are currently using cloud-based technology for their finance functions or intend to do so in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By automating manual accounting work with cloud solutions, you can free up your employees to focus their time on more value-added tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faster, smarter decision-making with AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adopting the right technologies will also help your employees build skills they’ll need to succeed in tomorrow’s world and workplace. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gartner <\/span>estimates<\/span><\/a> that by 2020, the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse.<\/mark> And as artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, it promises to become a valuable helpmate to employees, eliminating routine work and guiding their decision-making. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasingly, people must be prepared to collaborate and converse with technology in an almost human way.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have the right technologies in place to hear the voice of your business, and translate its messages into strategy? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you equipping your teams, in every department, with the advanced tools they need to succeed today and in the future? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the answer is no on either front, it’s time for action to spare your business, and its employees, from the risks of becoming casualties of digital inertia.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Old habits die hard, especially when it comes to adopting new technology. Rather than changing with the times, many small to medium-sized businesses find it easier to adhere to the adage \u201cIf it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\u201d But in this era of digital disruption, a wide array of emerging and increasingly affordable technologies, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":2841,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"post_featured_image_hide":false,"sage_hide_published_date":false,"sage_hide_read_time":false,"sage_hide_share_buttons":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,48],"tags":[145,4,170,154],"business_type":[40,41],"lilypad":[],"context":[102],"industry":[56,57,55,54,204],"persona":[100,101,98],"imagine_tag":[234,233,230,231],"coauthors":[694],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy-legal-operations","category-technology-innovation","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business-intelligence","tag-business-strategy","tag-technology","business_type-small-business","business_type-growing-business","industry-ecommerce","industry-financial-services","industry-professional-services","industry-retail","industry-technology"],"sage_meta":{"region":"en-us","author_name":"Nicole Hardin","featured_image":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/BusinessVoice.jpg","imagine_tags":{"234":"Enterprise Management","233":"Medium Businesses","230":"Small business","231":"Start up business"}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice US","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"business_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/business_type?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"lilypad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/lilypad?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"context","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/context?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"imagine_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/imagine_tag?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}