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Rejection or opportunity? What to do with a ‘no’.

Stellar Partnerships

Outside my local shopping centre there was a young man begging. I’d always stop to chat to him and pat his little dog. Benjamin had a tough story of homelessness, poor mental health and abuse that’s led him to living on the street. He’d been looking for enough money to get him a bed for the night and I met him when he asked me for some spare change.

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How Keyboard Shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste Became Standards

ISTO / IEEE

Contributed by Bill Narin, Global Business Development, IEEE-ISTO. Hundreds of millions—perhaps billions—of users around the world have the keystrokes command/control x, c, and v encoded in their muscle memories to perform cut, copy and paste operations. How did this happen? The near universal adoption of today’s cut, copy and paste keyboard shortcuts is the result of a combination of breakthrough innovations and pragmatic computer design.

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The Most Important Tool Missing from Your Salesforce Toolbox

Impartner

You can do amazing things with Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Communities. But helping partners grow your brand and launch compelling marketing campaigns through partners isn’t one of them, says Robb Franks, Director of Sales Engineering at Impartner. Franks describes the capabilities and use cases for Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA), which should be a staple of every channel marketer’s toolbox.

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How Africa Could Astonish the World

INSEAD Knowledge

Already the most dynamic and youngest continent, Africa could be the world’s next growth miracle – with the right type of leadership.

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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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Complimentary access! SiriusDecisions Channel Marketing Strategies Research Brief: Filling The Gaps In Partner Demand

Mindmatrix

As C-level executives look to leverage shared services as a means of cost-cutting, third-party channels often fall into the crosshairs. Channel leaders must find new ways to develop and deliver programs through the channel or risk losing critical resources. The demand center concept will likely be a key method of doing so, as b-to-b suppliers can increase efficiency while lowering operating costs.

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Measure your Sales and Marketing efforts—effortlessly!

Mindmatrix

Mindmatrix lets you measure every KPI related to your marketing and sales campaigns across various channels. By having all the key metrics tracked accurately, you will be able to determine which marketing campaigns were effective and which ones didn’t yield the intended results. Here’s a quick overview of the marketing campaign performance metrics tracked by our reporting and analytics functionality. .

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End Verticals’ Focus on Zero-defect Manufacturing Inflates Demand for Global Material Test Equipment Market

Frost & Sullivan

Efforts to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce emissions in the automotive and aerospace industries are expected to drive the demand for material testing, Says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. –June 28, 2021–Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the global material test equipment market finds that end verticals’—automotive, aerospace, primary metals, and plastics—emphasis on zero-defect manufacturing is inflating the demand for material test equipment, assuring high-quality products

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Fill the gap from Lead-to-Revenue with Mindmatrix’s Lead Nurturing and Sales Prospecting Capabilities

Mindmatrix

Engage in smart lead nurturing and sales prospecting programs via SMS and emails with Mindmatrix. Did you know that about 80% of the leads you drop do eventually make a purchase? These results clearly indicate you must adopt different tactics towards this 80%! . You know that in order to influence buying decisions in your favor, you need to be in constant touch with your leads.

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Could Now Be the Best Time to Target Key Opportunities across the US Transportation Market Spectrum?

Frost & Sullivan

The political landscape is reflecting market ambition. The significant developments across the political landscape, although not fine-tuned into detailed policies, happen to coincide with a market dynamic that is also shifting significantly. On behalf of the British Embassy in Washington, Frost & Sullivan has been engaged in delivering a comprehensive project to understand the detailed landscape for opportunities in the transportation sector in the United States, with a focus on adoption of

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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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Winning With Organizational Design by Prof. Stéphane JG Girod

Thinkers 50

Research has demonstrated that competitive advantage in business today erodes faster than in the past. Evaluating this evolution, many studies have advised companies on how to focus on intrapreneurship and new ways of innovating to invent their next S-curve. In these discussions, the role that organizational design plays to reinvent competitive advantage, both as a means and a source of competitive advantage itself, is overlooked.

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Next-Generation 911 Expected to Thrive in the United States as Managed Services Accelerate Market Momentum

Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan projects annual NG911 revenues in the United States to surpass $1 billion by 2026. Santa Clara, Calif. – June 29, 2021 –Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Next-Generation 911 (NG911): The Future of Public Safety, Forecast to 2026 , finds that in contrast to the legacy voice-centric enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) network, Next-Generation 911 (NG911) supports a more diverse set of internet protocol (IP)-based communications that will dramatically improve the speed, accuracy, and

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OKR Examples (& How To Track Them)

ClearPoint Strategy

Objectives & Key Results, or the OKR framework, may have catapulted to fame thanks to its association with certain legendary tech companies, but it has remained a popular strategy management methodology because it actually works. Not only is the OKR framework an excellent way for all types of organizations—both profit and nonprofit—to stay focused on achieving their goals, but it also offers a way to align the activities of individuals and teams so that everyone is working in tandem.

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Mindmatrix has powerful localization capabilities that are reflected throughout the platform—right from the log-in page.

Mindmatrix

Based on the language selected in the user profile, the Mindmatrix platform is localized across the board. Navigation, alerts, system messages, widgets, system-generated emails and reports for the user, etc., are all in the chosen language. . Apart from English, Mindmatrix supports language localization across the board for various languages including.

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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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Optimize B2B Sales Training & Coaching with the Right Tech Stack

Market Source Inc

Our sales engineers and instructional designers use the latest technologies to optimize B2B sales training and coaching. Read how your sellers can learn more efficiently with the right tech stack. The post Optimize B2B Sales Training & Coaching with the Right Tech Stack appeared first on MarketSource.

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NTI Commended by Frost & Sullivan for Its Proprietary Technology for Nanofilm Deposition, the Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc (FCVA)

Frost & Sullivan

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 28, 2021— Based on its recent analysis of the Asia-Pacific market for nanocoating deposition, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Nanofilm Technologies International Limited (NTI) with the 2021 Asia-Pacific Technology Innovation Leadership Award. NTI has developed a revolutionary filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) technology that leverages a plasma source and electromagnetic waves to create high-quality coatings.

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The Secret Formula behind modern beauty brands: Interview with Organic Bioactives

Agorize

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there is less debate regarding the rapid growth of the beauty and cosmetics industry. Combined with fields of deep tech, the future of beauty is not only more sustainable, environmentally friendly, but also scalable and innovative. While the world-leading beauty and cosmetics companies are adopting new technologies, there are also many startups and small companies trying to enter the industry and implement their cutting-edge tech solutions in the context

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OKR Examples (& How To Track Them)

ClearPoint Strategy

Objectives & Key Results, or the OKR framework, may have catapulted to fame thanks to its association with certain legendary tech companies, but it has remained a popular strategy management methodology because it actually works. Not only is the OKR framework an excellent way for all types of organizations—both profit and nonprofit—to stay focused on achieving their goals, but it also offers a way to align the activities of individuals and teams so that everyone is working in tandem.

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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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Editorial: Distributed Ledger Technologies for Smart Digital Economies (June 2021)

TIM Review

Welcome to the March issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition returns to explore the topic of blockchain (distributed ledger) technology, which the TIM Review began publishing about in the October 2017 edition. The reasons for focusing on the combination of “DLTs for smart digital economies” in this edition are multiple. The World Economic Forum in 2015, predicted that “10% of global gross domestic product (GDP) [would be] stored on blockchain technology” by 2027 (WEF,

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Total Airport Management: Deconstructing the Concept

Frost & Sullivan

What is Total Airport Management (TAM) – a concept, a collaboration, a product? It’s a question many industry stakeholders are actively debating to better understand the value proposition and the business models – what to monetize and how? The TAM (Total Airport Management) Webinar held on June 2, 2021 tapped into some of these critical queries and debates the industry is having on this evolving approach.

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Learning from Early Adopters of Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Review of Supply Chain Case Studies

TIM Review

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. Sun Tzu. The Art of War. . 1.Introduction. Blockchain technology is expected to contribute to the global economy in many ways. A recent study by PwC (2020) estimates that blockchain technology has the potential to boost global GDP by $1.76 (USD) trillion by 2030 through five main areas.

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Manage your Leads effectively throughout the Sales Cycle

Mindmatrix

Better lead management through automated lead scoring, lead nurturing, lead segmentation, and lead routing. End-to-end lead management capabilities. The Mindmatrix platform offers end-to-end effective lead management capabilities. . Flexibility in lead data capture. To begin with, the Mindmatrix platform offers default (static) lead information fields and you can further add custom lead information fields to capture as much lead data as you’d like.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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An Exploration of Blockchain-based Traceability in Food Supply Chains: On the Benefits of Distributed Digital Records from Farm to Fork

TIM Review

"Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.". Andy Kennedy Co-founder of FoodLogiQ. Introduction. In recent years, various food scandals have damaged consumer trust in the food industry across the world (Sarpong, 2014; Garaus & Treiblmaier, 2021). In 2011, China witnessed a massive pork mislabeling scandal along with food fraud, which led to recalling donkey meat products that included fox meat (Kamat

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Distributed Ledger Technologies and Social Machines: How to “smartify” the economy with blockchain-based digital extension services?

TIM Review

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. Marshall McLuhan (1969). Introduction. What are now called “social machines” have been around for decades as part of a computer-driven wave of digitalization that has taken over developed societies around the world, including but not limited to the invention of the Internet.

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A Cross-Pollination of ideas about Distributed Ledger Technological Innovation through a Multidisciplinary and Multisectoral lens: Insights from the Blockchain Technology Symposium ’21

TIM Review

" Cross Pollinators can create something new and better through the unexpected juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts.". Tom Kelley Author of Creative Confidence, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. and partner at the renowned design and innovation consultancy IDEO. Introduction. In his 2004 book, The Medici Effect , Francis Johansson describes how creativity and innovation emerge when new ideas are begotten of existing ideas (Johansson, 2004).

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A Practitioner’s View on Distributed Storage Systems: Overview, Challenges and Potential Solutions

TIM Review

Filecoin is a decentralized storage market - think of it like Airbnb for cloud storage - where anybody with extra hard drive space can sell it on the network. Juan Benet. Founder/CEO of Protocol Labs and creator of IPFS. Introduction . The technology now called “blockchain” was originally conceived in Bitcoin as a decentralized e-commerce alternative to “financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments” (Satoshi Nakmoto, 2008).

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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.