Sat.Sep 09, 2023 - Fri.Sep 15, 2023

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Alliance Failure and Alliance Success: The 80% Rule

Peter Simoons

The research into alliance failure and success rates continues to display a broad spectrum of figures. The figures range from a mere 20% alliance failure rate at best, to a daunting 80% alliance failure rate at worst. It is this notably high alliance failure rate of 80% that sparks disbelief! This prompts one to wonder whether companies would genuinely invest in something they believe has a 4 in 5 chance of failure?

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The Three Pillars of Leadership

Vantage Partners

Today’s leaders need to approach leadership on multiple levels — namely, as leaders of themselves, of their teams, and of the business. Through the integration of these three dimensions, leaders have the foundation to successfully thrive amidst uncertainty and complexity and drive their teams and the organization forward. The leader of self is self-aware, possessing emotional intelligence, demonstrating trustworthiness, and building one’s resilience for the turbulent voyage of leading through ac

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Hack your habits for partnership success

Stellar Partnerships

“You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems”. James Clear. I’m guessing that most of you have big goals for corporate partnerships. Rarely do I speak to a non-profit that is just happy with whatever comes along. More likely the CEO has asked for a million dollars in partnership income by the end of the year and maybe some free wine for the Christmas party.

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Wellness as an Essential Focus for the Holistic Leader

Vantage Partners

What is a holistic leader? We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations implementing leadership development training, and we believe the most effective leaders act along three dimensions: They lead self, they lead others, and they lead the business. One leadership element that cuts across each of these dimensions is the desire to create and nurture wellness.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Setting the Standard: ISTO to Co-Host CHIPS Research and Development Standards Summit

ISTO / IEEE

Standards play a pivotal role in shaping industries and driving progress in a world driven by technology, innovation, and precision. It’s with this understanding that we are excited to introduce the upcoming CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Standards Summit—a dynamic event that promises to be a cornerstone in the evolution of the standards in the semiconductor and microelectronics sector.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Suki AI with the 2023 North American Technology Leadership Award

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — September 12, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the healthcare voice assistant industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Suki AI with the 2023 North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award. Suki is a leading technology company that provides superior artificial intelligence (AI) based voice solutions for the healthcare sector.

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Wellness as an Essential Focus for the Holistic Leader

Vantage Partners

What is a holistic leader? We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations implementing leadership development training, and we believe the most effective leaders act along three dimensions: They lead self, they lead others, and they lead the business. One leadership element that cuts across each of these dimensions is the desire to create and nurture wellness.

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Setting the Standard: Introducing the CHIPS Research and Development Standards Summit

ISTO / IEEE

Standards play a pivotal role in shaping industries and driving progress in a world driven by technology, innovation, and precision. It’s with this understanding that we are excited to introduce the upcoming CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Standards Summit—a dynamic event that promises to be a cornerstone in the evolution of the standards in the semiconductor and microelectronics sector.

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Data breach prevention: 5 ways attack surface management helps mitigate the risks of costly data breaches

IBM Business Partners

Organizations are wrestling with a pressing concern: the speed at which they respond to and contain data breaches falls short of the escalating security threats they face. An effective attack surface management (ASM) solution can change this. According to the Cost of a Data Breach 2023 Report by IBM, the average cost of a data breach reached a record high of USD 4.45 million this year.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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How to Choose the Right MSP Vendor Partners in 6 Steps

Channel Insider

A vendor partner is a business that offers products, solutions, or services meant to support and enhance the offerings of a managed service provider (MSP). These partners provide the technological backbone that enables MSPs to deliver impactful services to their clients. However, with many options on the market today, you have to evaluate vendor partners correctly to pinpoint the right one for you.

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Leadership Mindset: Adapting Amidst Ambiguity

Vantage Partners

Every leader possesses a particular mindset. That mindset—what and how leaders think and feel about their role, their people, their goals—drives what they say and do. Leaders can’t just be told what to do—“now it’s time to adapt and collaborate!”—or merely instructed to adopt or change any other fundamental behaviors. Such directed behavior changes might last for a while, until people forget and their underlying mindsets retake the reins.

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Report Automation: The Associated ROI

ClearPoint Strategy

Still struggling to produce monthly reports? Take a peek into report automation.

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UK Government tests frictionless trade models with Ecosystem of Trust pilots

IBM Business Partners

The UK government’s Ecosystem of Trust is a potential future border model for frictionless trade, which the UK government committed to pilot testing from October 2022 to March 2023. The pilots made supply chain data directly accessible to the government, used new technologies to preserve goods’ physical integrity and considered how trusted relationships could enable certain controls to be performed by industry rather than the government.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Cell Phone Carrier Announces Price Increases | CenterPoint Group

CenterPoint Group

Verizon customers who were hoping for a telecom cost reduction during these economically tough times might be disappointed by the company’s plan to increase service prices. The telecom carrier has been steadily losing customers for the past few years, prompting it to bolster its revenue with price hikes. Verizon's 2023 (VZ -0.09%) first-quarter (January 1-March 31) earnings were lackluster.

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The Three Pillars of Leadership

Vantage Partners

Today’s leaders need to approach leadership on multiple levels — namely, as leaders of themselves, of their teams, and of the business. Through the integration of these three dimensions, leaders have the foundation to successfully thrive amidst uncertainty and complexity and drive their teams and the organization forward. The leader of self is self-aware, possessing emotional intelligence, demonstrating trustworthiness, and building one’s resilience for the turbulent voyage of leading through ac

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Turning Life’s Lemons into Successful Lemonade

Market Source Inc

District Manager Alexxis Coons understands that good things come to those who wait. “What comes easy won’t last…and what lasts won’t always come easy.” The post Turning Life’s Lemons into Successful Lemonade appeared first on MarketSource.

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IBM Cloud for Payments is an imperative, not a nice-to-have

IBM Business Partners

The global digital payments ecosystem continues to evolve as new and incumbent financial institutions, payment networks, central banks, governmental agencies, businesses and other market players push for innovation. They all work toward the common goal of creating secure, compliant, real-time, ubiquitous and low-cost payment rails. Payment rails are the most critical element when thinking about payments No matter their size, scope or sector, all businesses that handle transactions and transfers

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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Setting Objectives: How to Define Success in an Online Giveaway Campaign

Binfire Collaboration Blog

In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, hosting an online giveaway campaign has quickly become a powerful strategy to captivate audiences, foster engagement, and amplify brand visibility. These campaigns offer a dynamic way to connect with your target audience and create a buzz around your brand. The allure of an online giveaway lies in its ability to deliver various benefits for brands and businesses.

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Leadership Mindset: Adapting Amidst Ambiguity

Vantage Partners

Every leader possesses a particular mindset. That mindset—what and how leaders think and feel about their role, their people, their goals—drives what they say and do. Leaders can’t just be told what to do—“now it’s time to adapt and collaborate!”—or merely instructed to adopt or change any other fundamental behaviors. Such directed behavior changes might last for a while, until people forget and their underlying mindsets retake the reins.

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Ascenty Awarded the 2023 Brazilian Company of the Year Award for Leading the Data Center Infrastructure across Latin America with Its Best-in-class Infrastructure

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — September 15, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the data center services industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Ascenty with the 2023 Brazilian Company of the Year Award. Ascenty is a major provider of data center services, featuring world-class services through its highly sophisticated technology and 34 data centers across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia.

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The tsunami of sustainability disclosures facing American multinationals: Is your company prepared?

IBM Business Partners

Globally, there has been an uptick of landmark regulations forcing companies to address sustainability issues like climate change, and to disclose the work they are doing to address these issues. On July 31, 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and published them as “ final rules ” for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the most far-reaching set of disclosure requirements companies have to comply with, cove

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Infor SaaS: The Trusted Cloud Infrastructure for Your Business Solutions

TRG Blog

Businesses today rely heavily on cloud solutions, applications, and services to drive their operations, enhance collaboration, and deliver seamless customer experiences. To support these technologies effectively, a powerful and agile cloud infrastructure is crucial.

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How to Build the Modern Operations Tech Stack for Your Business

Aepiphanni

In this day and age, it’s a no-brainer that companies must adopt some type of technology. The challenge often lies in how they are embracing that technology and whether they can extract the maximum ROI out of it.

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IAA Mobility 2023: Vehicle Electrification, Autonomous Driving, Connectivity, and Sustainable Mobility in the Spotlight

Frost & Sullivan

Seismic technological shifts are being accompanied by a competitive shakeup as Chinese automakers dominate, and European OEMs move to ramp up their electrification roadmaps. This year’s International Mobility Show Germany or, as it is better known, IAA Mobility 2023, was held in Munich, Germany from 5 th to 10 th September 2023. Touted as the world’s largest mobility event, it brought together leading CEOs and industry veterans from the automobile, mobility, and tech sectors.

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Managing your cloud ecosystems: Keeping your setup consistent

IBM Business Partners

Planning and managing your cloud ecosystem and environments is critical for reducing production downtime and maintaining a functioning workload. In the “Managing your cloud ecosystems” blog series, we cover different strategies for ensuring that your setup functions smoothly with minimal downtime. Previously, we covered keeping your workload running when updating worker nodes , managing major, minor and patch updates , and migrating workers to a new OS version.

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How to Measure the ROI of IT Operations

IT is viewed as a cost center by organizations. In troubling economic times, this puts intense pressure on IT to demonstrate value for IT investments. Register for this webinar to learn how to quantify the intrinsic benefits of IT using analytics.

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Something to Celebrate: September is National Recovery Month!

Chameleon Sales

Did you know September is National Recovery Month? As a Recovery Friendly Workplace, Chameleon Group would be remiss to pass up this opportunity to highlight something we are so passionate about. National Recovery Month began in 1989 and, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is a national observance held every September to promote and support: New evidence-based treatment and recovery practices The nation’s strong and proud recovery community The d

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How to Build the Modern Operations Tech Stack for Your Business

Aepiphanni

In this day and age, it’s a no-brainer that companies will embrace some type of technology. The challenge often lies in HOW they are embracing that technology. With insight from 20 years of working with different companies, we have discovered the factors business owners should examine to select software that improves their business processes and helps their bottom line.

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impact.com acquires SaaSquatch to help brands gain higher ROI through customer advocacy

Impact

Today, impact.com joins forces with SaaSquatch to become SaaSquatch by impact.com. SaaSquatch is a referral marketing platform that empowers brands to transform customers into loyal advocates through authentic word of mouth. Referral marketing is a cost-effective approach that taps into the trust and loyalty of existing customers to attract new ones.

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