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The Rise of Smart Vending Machines

Compare The Cloud

Self-service technology demand is increasing and is a trend to watch for 2023 , so it’s time to make smart vending machines a part of your businesses IT strategy. Growth in the smart vending machine market, thanks to all the benefits businesses can enjoy from making use of this innovative tech. With the rise of hybrid working companies and many more employees demanding more flexibility, this technology is coming into its own.

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IBM Consulting unveils Center of Excellence for generative AI

IBM Business Partners

IBM Consulting has established a Center of Excellence for generative AI. It stands alongside IBM Consulting’s existing global AI and Automation practice, which includes 21,000 data and AI consultants who have conducted over 40,000 enterprise client engagements. The Center of Excellence (CoE) already has more than 1,000 consultants with specialized generative AI expertise that are engaging with a global set of clients to drive productivity in IT operations and core business processes like H

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Making government an even better place for women to work

McKinsey & Company

Women are better represented in the US public and social sectors than in corporations. But these sectors lag behind others in areas that could make it hard to recruit and retain tomorrow’s women leaders.

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The five key benefits of AIOps and automation

IBM Business Partners

If you’re an IT professional—from the C-suite to a hands-on practitioner—you know the pressure your IT operations (ITOps) are under. You’re responsible for optimizing spend, operational efficiency and incorporating new and innovative technologies. But are your tools slowing you down? Coined by research firm Gartner, AIOps is artificial intelligence for IT operations.

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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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Redefining life insurance: An interview with Nichole Lecher

McKinsey & Company

Northwestern Mutual recently transformed its underwriting and life insurance purchase experience. Vice President Nichole Lecher discusses how.

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Staying ahead: How the best CEOs continually improve performance

McKinsey & Company

After the heady first years in the job, CEOs must sustain momentum and high performance. Here are four ways to avoid complacency and create even more value.

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Planview Named a Leader in Strategic Portfolio Management

Planview Blog

We are excited to announce that Planview has been recognized as a Leader in the April 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Portfolio Management for the second consecutive year. Planview was named a leader based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Planview is also recognized in the companion research, the April 2023 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Strategic Portfolio Management and is ranked the highest in all three use cases for Strategic Portfolio Management.

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An approach to boosting US labor productivity

McKinsey & Company

In a virtual roundtable discussing the latest McKinsey Global Institute research, McKinsey leaders and industry executives explore what it will take to achieve a potential $10 trillion boost to the American economy.

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Brand and Retail Participation in Manufacturing Innovation

CGS

Body Over the years, you have undoubtedly heard the stories chronicling large retailers’ decisions to invest in their manufacturing supply chains. Perhaps the most familiar are Walmart's historic commitments to buy products that support American jobs. Sam Walton launched the "Bring it Home to the USA" initiative in 1985, with the world's largest retailer making additional pledges to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of products made, grown or assembled in America ever since.

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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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Lifting the design potential of Japanese companies

McKinsey & Company

Japanese organizations are using real-world product development projects to hone critical design skills.

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Before Selling a Small Firm

PSMJ Resources Blog

The A/E space is a highly fragmented industry and, as a result, it is composed of a great number of small firms with fewer than ten or fifteen employees. Many of these firms grew from a one-person operation to the profitable and successful operations that they are today. However, at PSMJ, we hear frequently from leaders of these small firms that are at a crossroads.

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