Wed.May 31, 2023

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Why a ‘cloud strategy’ alone can’t stave off your competition

Compare The Cloud

For businesses to grow in the digital economy, they need to be smart. They not only need to optimise their workflow to increase efficiency and speed of production so that they can deliver competitive products to market faster, but they also need to ensure the quality and performance of digital products throughout their lifecycle, wherever their customers go.

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Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick

McKinsey & Company

“I really worry that people are not taking this seriously enough … this fundamentally is going to be a shift in how we work and how we interact at a level that’s as big as anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes.” A leading business school professor talks about why he thinks the technology underlying ChatGPT is so transformative that he is betting his career on it.

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From Quantity to Quality: Improving Your Idea-Generation Process

Hype

Day in and day out, we’re all coming up with ideas at work and home as we go about routine tasks or during meetings and problem-solving sessions. There’s often a tendency to think that more ideas mean better results. But, typically, this isn’t the case. A focus on generating more, rather than better-quality, ideas might lead to slower decision-making and lower motivation to be creative.

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Trends driving automation on the farm

McKinsey & Company

Economic pressures and the push toward more-sustainable practices are driving next-generation automation technologies, benefiting farmers, regulators, and consumers alike.

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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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Join us at PrestoCon Day, a free virtual community event

IBM Business Partners

The Presto Foundation is excited to share its upcoming virtual community conference PrestoCon Day , taking place on 7 June 2023. Register for the free, virtual event What is Presto? Presto is an open-source, fast and reliable SQL query engine that provides one simple ANSI SQL interface for all your data analytics and your open lakehouse. Some of the biggest companies in the world are contributing to the Presto open-source project, including Meta, Uber and Intel.

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Preventive maintenance vs. predictive maintenance

IBM Business Partners

Your maintenance strategy may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about the bottom line. Yet, given that machinery, equipment and systems keep businesses running, maintenance strategies have a major role to play. Without due care and attention, things break—regardless of whether that’s a transformer in an electricity grid, an axle bearing on a train or a refrigerator in a restaurant.

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Short-haul flying redefined: The promise of regional air mobility

McKinsey & Company

Innovative propulsion and flight-control technologies, combined with a better customer experience, could usher in a new era of frequent, convenient passenger flights on small regional aircraft.

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Connected products at the edge

IBM Business Partners

There are many overlapping business usage scenarios involving both the disciplines of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. But there is one very practical and promising use case that has been commonly deployed without many people thinking about it: connected products. This use case involves devices and equipment embedded with sensors, software and connectivity that exchange data with other products, operators or environments in real-time.

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Gartner Forecasts Strong Government Opportunities for MSPs

Channel Insider

Recent Gartner research forecasts that, with about one-third of Australian government spending to be dedicated to IT services, MSPs have a strong year of opportunity ahead in the sector. Overall spending will reach AUD$17 billion in 2023 , which is an 8.4% increase from the previous year. This is slower than the increase in spending in 2022 (9.4 %) but higher than the global growth in government spending (7.6% to US$589.8 billion).

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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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Young children are experiencing trauma: How Sesame Street wants to help

McKinsey & Company

Sesame Workshop’s Jeanette Betancourt explains what the show and the organization behind it are doing to address trauma and emotional well-being for young children.

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Keep it simple: How to succeed at business transformation using behavioral economics

IBM Business Partners

Business leaders often think it’s impossible to predict the outcome of a transformation effort—whether employees will embrace a new process, for example, or how customers will react to a new service. They’re missing out on a secret of change management, says IBM Global Managing Partner Jesus Mantas: “You really can predict, for the most part, why people do what they do.” The answers, he says, come from ​​behavioral economics.

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Lifting Poland’s ambition. On the cusp of a new era?

McKinsey & Company

Demographic processes, technology platforms, energy and resource systems, capital resources and world order will all be key to Poland’s future growth.

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Nurturing Business Ecosystem Maturing

Phoenix Consulting Group

Digital business models are revolutionizing how leaders conduct business. This is not just a technology industry phenomenon but one that reaches across industries. With your car having more computing power than your phone from ten years ago, is there any doubt that many industries are heavily technology dependent? Understanding how digital business works makes it clear how Southwest Airlines’ 2022 “ holiday meltdown ” was actually a technology meltdown.

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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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How Chriztine Kirk Strengthens Global Connections

Planview Blog

With employees and teams around the world, Planview is a global powerhouse. Each employee brings their unique background to their role to build something great together, no matter where they are located. This month, we’re highlighting Chriztine Kirk, our energetic and team-focused Director of Solution Consulting APAC, based in Singapore. Explain your role at Planview and a few of your responsibilities.

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Cloud Security: Enforcing Least Privilege Access to Workloads and Resources

Frost & Sullivan

Mounting Risks in Cloud Environments Organizations worldwide have been migrating to the cloud to help them achieve business goals of growing revenue, improving customer experience, and increasing operational efficiency. Recently, Frost & Sullivan surveyed nearly 1000 worldwide organizations and found that 73% of them see the cloud as the most important technology to achieve business priorities, among other technologies including Big Data Analytics, IoT, Collaboration & Conferencing, and

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“Ask the Experts” with Advertise Purple: Finding the Right Partners to Diversify Programs and Accelerate Growth

Impact

Scott Gold of impact.com sat down with Jonathan Moisan, CEO of Advertise Purple, to discuss the agency’s approach to partner recruitment and how impact.com helps to streamline this process. Scott: Can you share a bit about your personal background and experience with affiliate and partnerships marketing? Jonathan: I fell into affiliate and partnerships marketing by way of chance.

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Influencer Marketing in 2023: Three Secrets to Success

Impact

The post Influencer Marketing in 2023: Three Secrets to Success appeared first on impact.com.

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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.