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As an innovator of Mobile Enabled Business Solutions, Touchwork is committed to keeping you in touch with some of the latest thinking in this space. We trust you find these articles interesting and informative and look forward to discussing how our mobile solutions can benefit your organization.
  Industry News
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A Decade of Mobile
by Noah Elkin
The fabled "year of mobile" may never have fully materialized, but in many ways, the past 10 years have been a decade of mobile. As the '00s have drawn to a close, it's worth putting the advances mobile has made in context.
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Mobile
How the Mobile Decade will change marketing, media & commerce
by Mickey Alam Khan
The nation stands today at a pivotal point where mobile will soon infuse every marketing, media and retail decision just as the Internet did in the last ten years. The Mobile Decade is upon us. Marketers have only to look around this country and see the one thing that consumers today cannot be parted from: their mobile phone. And that device, as the decade wears on, will become the interface between consumer and society.
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Customer Experience
8 Habits of Successful Customer Feedback Managers
by Kyle LaMalfa
Gathering customer feedback is the only way for businesses toCRM
understand customer needs and concerns. However, most companies struggle to manage and act upon that feedback, leaving critical customer concerns unanswered. Customer loyalty and engagement lead directly to long-term, highly profitable relationships.
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Customer Experience
Seven keys to customer experience in 2010
by Bruce Temkin
2010 will likely be an even more active year for customer experience. While many companies will make substantial progress, others will falter. Here is some advice for keeping your customer experience efforts on track this year.
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Mobile
9 Unpredictions: What's not going to happen with mobile in 2010

by Vanessa HorwellCrushing phone
Instead of producing an annual predictions list that many analysts and forecasters will be doing from now through the end of January, I am producing a series of "What's not going to happen in 2010" forecasts.
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  Corporate News
FMCG - Retail
Coca-Cola bottler pilots RETAIL SCORE for in-store retail compliance surveys
by John Kabalin
Peninsula Beverage, the Coca-Cola bottler for the Western Cape,AERODAQ
South Africa has chosen to pilot Touchwork's RETAIL SCORE, an
in-store retail compliance solution that uses the ordinary cell phone for collecting retail data. The flexibility of the solution and the fact that it doesn't need expensive hardware devices like PDA's for in-field data capture were some of the key criteria that were taken into consideration when selecting this solution.
Restaurant & Hospitality
New interactive text message based guest feedback solution for campus & corporate dining rooms
by Johann Leitner
Touchwork has launched an interactive text messaging based guest feedbackWoman in restaurant
solution for campus and corporate dining facilities. The system enables dining
room managers to get immediate feedback from guests about
their dining experience using their cell phones and uses digital display screens to display these comments and moderated manager responses in a highly visible and interactive way.
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Restaurant & Hospitality
Leading tourism group in Southern Africa chooses ESP360 to measure customer experience in their restaurants
by John Kabalin
Tourvest, a leading tourism group in Southern Africa with a selection
of well known destination restaurants, has chosen ESP360 as its customer experience measurement and service recovery solution.  ESP360 allows customers to rate a number of factors including the food and service they received in the restaurants using their cell phones. Sophisticated workflow management and reporting tools allows this information to be analysed and actioned as part of their overall customer experience strategy.

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