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See what's includedOur quarterly focus on digital transformation is soon to end, as we pivot to a new focus on eCommerce marketing. But whilst we're on the subject I thought it was important to highlight the lack of process in place for even larger businesses when funding technology innovation.
Technology innovation will be what brings in the customers of tomorrow. Those businesses who've used the latest tech to create the best products and the most seamless customer journeys will be the ones winning in the years ahead.
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Yet only a minority of businesses actually have a formal process in place across the business for funding technological innovation. The best performers were businesses with a turnover of over 250 million dollars, but even they had only a minority of 45% that were using formal processes established across the business. Smaller businesses had even lower rates of adoption.
By Robert Allen
Rob Allen is Marketing Manager for Numiko, a digital agency that design and build websites for purpose driven organisations, such as the Science Museum Group, Cancer Research UK, University of London and the Electoral Commission. Rob was blog editor at Smart Insights from 2015-2017. You can follow Rob on LinkedIn.
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