As a SME owner, you know that information is power. However, gathering relevant and accurate data can be overwhelming, time-consuming and costly. That's where in-house research comes in – a cost-effective way to generate insights into your industry or target audience without breaking the bank. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of conducting research in-house, how to do it effectively and when it's time to consider outsourcing.
Read more ...Business intelligence is a collection of data and information that is used to make more informed decisions, explore trends, and measure performance in an organization. Business intelligence reports can provide insights that can help an organization make better decisions regarding operations, support sales growth and focus on competitive advantages. It is also a process for gathering, storing, maintaining and distributing data about your business so it can be analyzed to learn more about your business. Gaining an in-depth understanding of the current market, customer behaviors and needs, and actions that need to be taken to support the company's growth strategies is critical for success, but it's much easier to do so when you have accurate data. The ability to gather, analyze, and optimize all of this information with a user-friendly analytics platform will help your team succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Business intelligence, or BI, is a set of technologies that help data analysts gain insight into the performance, structure and content of large datasets. A business intelligence tool is an app, software program, or other analytics solution that supports the automation of the collection and processing of vast amounts of raw data from systems throughout the business. BI tools can also be used to create reports from query responses (that facilitate decision making) or to optimize query responses using machine learning techniques in conjunction with SQL-style joins.
Read more ...Finding out if your startup has product-market fit — that is, if you have validated that there’s a market for your product and people will pay money for it — sounds like something you have to do later in the process, when your business is already well on its way. But finding out whether your startup has PMF is important because it means you can justify investing resources during the next stage of growth.
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