Thu.Sep 22, 2022

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Securing Europe’s competitiveness: Addressing its technology gap

McKinsey & Company

Even amid war in Europe and the energy and cost of living crisis that has resulted, the region needs to pay attention to its slow-motion corporate and technology crisis.

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Green infrastructure: Could public land unlock private investment?

McKinsey & Company

Emerging economies need the private sector to help fund green infrastructure initiatives. Access to public land can be structured to make those investments more attractive.

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What Are Partnership OKRs?

Chaneltivity

If you’re like most tech companies, there’s a dedicated quarter when annual planning begins. Leadership gets pulled into long meetings, evaluating how things went last year, how things are going this year, and what they can commit to the following year. Quite often, the outcome of these meetings is a set of company Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs.

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Resetting the e-commerce model to achieve profitable growth in Europe

McKinsey & Company

Winning EU consumer goods players are reprioritizing channels and markets to drive online sales, shifting to an online-first playbook, and investing in tech and specialist talent.

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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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What Drives Happiness (and Performance) at Work?

Compass Point

The single greatest driver of happiness and performance in the workplace is the quality of your relationships. When we are strongly bonded to those around us, know that our voice and ideas matter, and feel efficacious in bringing those ideas to reality in a well-functioning team, everything else around “satisfaction” usually falls into place. Quality relationships matter more to most people than money, benefits, and paid vacation days.

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The Importance of Natural History Data for Clinical Trial Development in Rare and Orphan Diseases

LaVoie Health Science Blog

The return of in-person conferences coming back to Boston is great to see. The late Summer and early Fall have been busy with the very well-attended 42nd Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference in August, along with Citi’s 19th Annual BioPharma and Wells Fargo’s 2022 Healthcare Conferences in early September. Gemma Bakx , who heads our Investor Relations and ESG at LaVoieHealthScience interviewed our Boston-based Vice President of Investor Relations, Paul Sagan , on his perspectives and takeaways.

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Author Talks: Steve Case identifies the US cities driving new innovation—and it’s not where you think

McKinsey & Company

For the past decade, most venture capital funding in the United States went to three cities, but Steve Case says a convergence of social, technological, and policy factors is rebalancing the scale.

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BlackBerry Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Its Innovative Mobile Threat Defense Solution and for Incorporating Mobile Threat Defense into Endpoint Management

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – Thursday, September 22 – Frost & Sullivan recognizes BlackBerry with the 2022 Global Market Leadership Award for its mobile threat defense (MTD) solution based on recent research and assessments of the global MTD industry. BlackBerry’s MTD solution, CylancePROTECT Mobile®, combines innovation, simplicity, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered protection, mobile endpoint management, and complete user privacy to ensure superior security of enterprise data and a best-in-class

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As ISVs disrupt payments, can merchant acquirers stay relevant?

McKinsey & Company

Merchant acquirers must act quickly to retain share as small businesses shift to integrated software vendors (ISVs), adopt value-added services, and address customers’ preference for omnichannel commerce.

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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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This “Unorthodox” Meeting With Your Team Every Month Can Get Them to Work As Hard As You Do (In Most Cases, Even More)

COO Alliance

I still remember the scene. It was Las Vegas. I was here to meet someone who is a reader of my COO Alliance blogs. Let’s call him Mr.X. Mr. X came out with his 40-foot pearl white Limousine. Two of his bodyguards in black suits escorted him to the entrance of our meeting room. For a minute, the entire crowd’s eyes were on his grand entrance…. He is a business magnate in this city.

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How the Gulf of Mexico can further the energy transition

McKinsey & Company

Long recognized as a pillar of US energy production, deepwater Gulf of Mexico could help provide the resources the world needs during the energy transition.

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Growth of Sustainable Farming Practices Drives the Agricultural Biologicals Market

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio –Sept. 22, 2022–The growing adoption of sustainable farming practices is expediting the agricultural biologicals market growth, finds Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Agricultural Biologicals Market, Forecast to 2030. Significant push from policymakers, rising awareness among farmers, and increased investment in product development and innovations will expand the biopesticides and biostimulants segments of the agricultural biologicals sector.

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Using advanced analytics to improve performance in customs agencies

McKinsey & Company

Machine learning and other analytics tools can improve fraud detection and strategic workforce planning, among other potential benefits.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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Frost & Sullivan Explores the Growing Impact of the Digital Front Door on Healthcare

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO – Sept. 22, 2022 – In just a few short years, the digital front door has shifted from being a nice-to-have online presence to being a critical part of every healthcare organization’s overarching digital health strategy. Extending well beyond a website, the digital front door consists of a federated suite of applications, services, portals, and digital devices, enabling healthcare organizations to engage patients through digital touchpoints as they journey across the continuum of care

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Cybersecurity is a requisite for unleashing 5G’s potential in healthcare

McKinsey & Company

New technologies in the healthcare area can lead to major quality-of-life improvements, but require massive investments in data security.

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LiveU Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Revolutionizing Live Video Streaming and Remote Production with Its 5G Video Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – September 22, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan recently researched the 5G video applications market and, based on its analysis, recognizes LiveU with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award. The company collaborates extensively with cellular carriers across the globe to achieve in-depth market knowledge, turning the experience into a unique competitive advantage.

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A new dawn for industrial channels: Meeting customers where they want

McKinsey & Company

The time is ripe for industrial OEMs to rethink their long-held distribution model and rebalance their channel mix.

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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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Continuing the IBM Power Momentum

IBM Business Partners

On July 12 th , we announced the IBM Power10 processor-based scale-out and midrange servers, completing the Power10 family. Our Business Partners have been hard at work this quarter meeting the demand from our clients and guiding them on their upgrade path to Power10. There has been much excitement from the market and our Business Partner community around the announcement and the opportunity of Power10.

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The gathering storm: The affordability challenge of endemic COVID-19

McKinsey & Company

Even as the acute threat to lives from the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, the ongoing challenges for the healthcare industry will persist.

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Employee Spotlight: Steven Martinez

Market Source Inc

Battling cancer didn’t stop District Manager Steven Martinez from working. He used his experience to teach his MarketSource team how a positive attitude, resilience, and determination can help you win. Read his inspiring story. The post Employee Spotlight: Steven Martinez appeared first on MarketSource.

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Tackle Customer Story: CoreStack

Tackle.io

[link] Parul Chheda, VP Strategic Alliances at CoreStack, shares how Tackle helped her team launch in Google Cloud Marketplace, the advantages of Marketplace, and much more.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.