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Percentage of funding of KM applications, platforms, or technologies coming from the digital group/function
This measure calculates percentage of funding of KM applications, platforms, or technologies coming from the digital group/function. This Cost Effectiveness measure is…
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Percentage of funding of KM applications, platforms, or technologies coming from one or more business units/functions whose employees are end-users of the application/platform
This measure calculates percentage of funding of KM applications, platforms, or technologies coming from one or more business units/functions whose employees are end-users of…
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Outsourced cost to perform the process "manage sales orders", "manage customer requests/inquiries", and "manage customer complaints" per call contact
This measure identifies the outsourced cost (total cost of all aspects of a process transferred to a third party, minus one-time developments/improvements of systems) on a…
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Total cost to perform the processes "manage sales orders", "manage customer service requests/inquiries", and "manage customer complaints" per active customer
This measure the total costs associated with these three processes per active customer. These processes involve managing a customer before and after delivery, and obtaining…
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Total cost to perform the processes "manage sales orders", "manage customer service requests/inquiries", and "manage customer complaints" per inbound contact
This measure the total costs associated with these three processes per active customer. These processes involve managing a customer before and after delivery, and obtaining…
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Overhead cost to perform the processes "manage sales orders", "manage customer service requests/inquiries", and "manage customer complaints" per inbound contact
This measure calculates, per inbound contact, overhead cost (i.e. costs that an organization cannot identify as direct costs of performing a process; these include occupancy,…
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Personnel (staff) costs directly associated with leading, managing, and supporting the KM program, initiative, or service per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the organization's expenditure in personnel (staff) costs directly associated with leading, managing, and supporting the knowledge management (KM)…
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Number of business entity employees that participate in approaches and activities included in KM program, initiative, or service per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the number of business entity employees that participate in approaches and activities included in the knowledge management (KM) program, initiative,…
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Percentage of KM applications, platforms, or technologies hosted in the cloud
This measure calculates the percentage of knowledge management (KM) applications, platforms, or technologies hosted in the cloud. KM is the function responsible for…
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Percentage of funding for KM applications, platforms, or technologies from the KM program, initiative, or service
This measure calculates the percentage of funding for knowledge management (KM) applications, platforms, or technologies that comes from the KM program, initiative, or…
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Inbound contacts for the process "manage sales orders" as a percentage of total inbound contacts
This measure calculates the percentage of customer-initiated inquiries (related to sales, information, technical support, customer service, or complaints) that come from the…
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Percentage of sales order line items requiring no human intervention to create, modify, or fulfill
This measure calculates the percentage of sales order line items that required no manual intervention to create, modify, or fulfill. A sales order line item is an individual…
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Percentage of customers opting out of receiving marketing messages from the organization
This measure calculates the percentage of customers opting out of receiving marketing messages from the organization. It is part of a set of Supplemental Information measures…
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Percentage of total annual sales revenue attributable to sales completed on social media
A major part of the process "manage sales orders" involves companies monitoring sales performance across different platforms. This measure calculates the percentage of total…
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Percentage of total annual sales revenue attributable to sales completed on mobile applications
A major part of the process "manage sales orders" involves companies monitoring sales performance across different platforms. This measure calculates the percentage of total…