Curious about what businesses should be doing to win in 2015? Whether your business has it all squared away or still digging for more opportunity, these top trends will help you stay ahead of your competitors:
1. Data scientist
This term didn’t exist five years ago and now people are looking for these unicorns with large math backgrounds that enjoy data analysis. If you don’t have someone on your staff analyzing sales and business analytics, you’ll soon be drowning. Colleges have begun offering centralized studies around analyzing data. Accessibility to granular business data will continue to spread among all types of small businesses in 2015.
2. Smart Data equals Big Data
Companies who have gathered all of this data now have no idea what to do with it. There is a growing trend in understanding and contemplating that data to mold business operations moving forward. Like learning from customer feedback, the data helps business make smarter decisions, supported by hard facts and numbers.
3. Seamless, integrated systems
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