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If We’re Not a Channel Anymore, What ARE We?

Channel Insider

The channel has changed dramatically and will change even more dramatically in the coming decade. Should we even call it “the channel anymore”? Before we get to a possible answer, let’s set the stage with a quick look back into history. In August 1981 IBM introduced their Personal Computer. Since it was a corporate rule that nobody but IBM could sell IBM, they needed a workaround for this IBM PC.

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Five essential tips for creating a good influencer marketing strategy

Impact

Reading time: 8 minutes. More than two thirds of retailers in North America use some form of influencer marketing as part of their marketing strategy. Almost half of US and UK digital marketers use at least 10% of their marketing budget on influencer marketing. With those numbers rising every year, knowing how to shape a successful influencer marketing strategy is key to promoting your brand. .

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The Future of Privacy in a Hyper-connected World

Frost & Sullivan

The future of privacy and cybersecurity has been at the forefront of concerns around the digitization of data for over a decade. The future of privacy and cybersecurity has been at the forefront of concerns around the digitization of data for over a decade. The digital age has brought about a hyper-connected world. Vast amounts of data are added to the internet and shared via connected devices every day.

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Revenue Leaders: Pipeline Not Where You Expected?

Market Source Inc

Revenue leaders are often blind-sided with a sales pipeline forecast that starts going sour. The problem can be solved with a diagnostic approach. Explore practical solutions with our handy symptom checker. The post Revenue Leaders: Pipeline Not Where You Expected? appeared first on MarketSource.

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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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Strategies for a Small to Medium-sized Enterprise to Engage in an Existing Ecosystem

TIM Review

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael E. Porter. Professor at Harvard Business School. Introduction. Recent advances in ecosystem theory prescribe that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) need to develop offers that are modular and form complementarities with other offers that are unique or supermodular (Jacobides et al., 2018).

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Infographic: Why Manufacturers and Consumer Goods Companies Should Care About Right to Repair

CGS

We surveyed 500+ consumers on their knowledge of the Right to Repair movement and their views on promoting environmental sustainability. The results show consumers want to reduce e-waste and many are up to the do-it-yourself (DIY) challenge—with a little help of course. Smart manufacturers can take advantage of these trends not only to show sustainability leadership but also to reduce customer effort , provide a better customer experience (CX) and drive customer loyalty.

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How Can Firms Effectively Use Technology in Customer Journey Management

TIM Review

Everyone from the CEO down to the contact center agent should know what it feels like to be a customer. Blake Morgan Keynote speaker, best-selling author & futurist. Introduction. As societies and markets are being continually transformed by digital technologies, the workaround where the customer is found has become complex, going through multiple ordering channels, interactions, advertisements, and influences, with a mixture of both physical and digital touchpoints.

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How Resilience is Powered by Digital Technologies

Thinkers 50

by Michael Wade, Didier Bonnet, Tomoko Yokoi and Nikolaus Obwegeser. Sometimes we can find inspiration for how to compete in the future by looking into the past — in particular, at the stories of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod described the story of the hydra, a creature that guarded the entrance to the Underworld, that had a special power — when one head was cut off, it was able to grow two others to replace it.

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Editorial: Insights (Issue 7/8)

TIM Review

Welcome to Issue 7/8 of the Technology Innovation Management Review. This edition is a collection of insights across a range of topics from SME ecosystem engagement, integrated trust sites, technology in the customer journey, action research with a participant-observer approach, web text analytics on digital health companies, and energy transition, including renewables.

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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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Integrated Test Sites for Innovation Ecosystems

TIM Review

To stay ahead in innovation, look at horizontal industries and the ones leading your current industry, someone is always doing something new. Jeff Butler Keynote Speaker/ Scholar. Introduction. Performance uncertainty and switching costs often hinder novel technologies, methods, and tools (Guerin, 2000). Regulatory, scientific, engineering, and investment communities require proof of concepts to overcome adaptation reticence (Kreijns et al., 2018).

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Charting a Course of Action: An Insider-Outsider Approach

TIM Review

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln. 16th president of the United States (1861 to 1865). Introduction. Recent research discusses the merits and reasons to engage action research in the technology and innovation management context (McPhee et al., 2019a, 2019b; Guertler et al., 2020; Ollila & Yström, 2020).