June, 2022

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5 Barriers to Overcome and Advance Your Board’s DEI Commitment

Board Source

It is quite common to see nonprofit organizations making visible commitments to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Many nonprofit organizations have DEI statements; some include the words in their missions. Many have DEI as part of their strategic plan. But when it comes to the composition and practices of nonprofit boards, it's clear that these commitments aren't necessarily translating into real board-level change.

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9 Tips for Marketing Innovation in an Old School, Traditional Industry

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Traditional industries often struggle with marketing innovation. Banks, law firms, manufacturers, and others are quick to rely on what works, thinking “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”. But these industries are often dry, and need something extra in their marketing strategies. They’re not as sexy and creative as fashion, art, food, or travel, though they can be with the right ideas.

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From helping to belonging

Stellar Partnerships

Motivation is a very personal thing. At my son’s high school the librarian had the challenge of inspiring teenage boys to read books. Rather than set them homework or threaten detention, she set up a book club where they could discuss a favourite book and provided free food. It was wildly popular among teenage boys who wanted party pies and sausage rolls at lunchtime and provided a safe space for the quieter kids to make friends.

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5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand

Partners Preceptors

5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand. By Rachel Luoma, MS, CAE. . If you have read any of my previous blogs, then you may see a theme amongst many of them – financials. Since I was a little kid, numbers just made sense to me. There was a correct answer and an incorrect answer and, more importantly, a reason why the correct answer was the correct answer.

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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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Congratulations ISTO’s Jessica O’Hanlon

ISTO / IEEE

The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced that Jessica O’Hanlon, CAE, a Senior Program Manager at IEEE-ISTO, has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE®) designation. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry. Jessica is a non-profit professional with over fifteen years of experience in volunteer, operations, and association management.

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When Sunsetting Your Nonprofit is the Hardest (and Best) Option

Board Source

If there is a lesson from the last several years, it is that we have to look inward before we do anything else. Between the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” political division, and heightened awareness of the ways racism and oppression has shaped everything we do in the nonprofit sector, we have been called to be more self-aware and reflective as leaders.

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Want your finance team to drive innovation? Here’s how to treat them right

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Finance is the unsung hero of the business world. For those who work in other departments, it can seem like oxygen – essential to life, but not exactly noticeable. The wheels keep turning, the invoices keep getting paid, and the annual audit just sort of… happens. When everything’s working, why stop to wonder about the processes and people who make it happen?

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Fear factor: Overcoming human barriers to innovation

McKinsey & Company

Worries about failure, criticism, and career impact hold back many people from embracing innovation. Here’s how to create a culture that accounts for the human side of innovation.

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What the World Can Learn From Nordic Boards

INSEAD Knowledge

Proactive, engaged and democratic, corporate boards in Nordic countries are well-placed to deal with today’s increasingly complex operating environments.

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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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Best New Management Books for 2022: Thinkers50 announces new booklist

Thinkers 50

PRESS RELEASE. Monday 27 June 2022 . LONDON – What are the new books every manager should read this year? Thinkers50, the global ranking of management thinkers, today announced its Best New Management Books: Top 10 New Titles for 2022. . The Thinkers50 Best New Books list offers an insight into what’s uppermost in managers’ minds. The Conversation , for example, by Harvard psychologist Robert Livingston is based on his extensive experience working with diversity and inclusion and offers guidance

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Three Keys to Hyper-Scale Your Marketplace Ecosystem

PartnerTap

In this article, we give you three quick, actionable steps that will hyper-scale your marketplace ecosystem. Whether you are just starting to scale, or you’re a tech giant that wants to see continued growth within your marketplace, this article will help you reach your goal. Over the past ten years, enterprises have invested and built up ecosystems of technology partners that get promoted to their customers via an online marketplace.

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7 Major Mistakes that MSSPs Make

Channel Insider

Any IT vendor or managed services provider (MSP) looking to add security services has several different directions they can go to achieve success. But there are also certain mistakes they can make that usually bring about failure. Here then are seven of the biggest mistakes a managed security service provider (MSSP) – or would-be MSSP – can make so you can stay on the path to success.

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The role of big data in enabling ERP to trigger unprecedented growth

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Businesses across every industry are operating in an era of vast globalisation and fierce competition. Unfortunately, given the current cost of business crisis, a 30-year high inflation rate, and supply chain disruptions, this also coincides with an inability to predict challenges that will occur from month to month. As a result, it is crucial that businesses aim to prioritise efficiency gains by gaining clear perspective of their operations and preserve control across every aspect possible. .

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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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How technology is shaping learning in higher education

McKinsey & Company

New McKinsey research shows that students and faculty are eager to continue using new classroom learning technologies adopted during the pandemic, but institutions could do more to support the shift.

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Making Humanitarian Operations More Sustainable

INSEAD Knowledge

Do good intentions always lead to good outcomes? Experience shows that the lack of coordinated response can lead to future humanitarian and sustainability challenges.

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Introducing Messaging — a better way to communicate 

Impact

The most successful partnerships aren’t simply set-it-and-forget-it. Partnerships work best when brands and publishers are active participants in the relationship, communicating regularly to ensure mutual growth. But partner engagement with hundreds or even thousands of partners is hard, especially when you rely on disparate systems for partner communication and management. .

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Partnership on AI Awarded Funding from Moore Foundation to Explore Ethical AI in Healthcare

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Partnership on AI Awarded Funding from Moore Foundation to Explore Ethical AI in Healthcare. PAI Staff. June 1, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. To realize the enormous potential for artificial intelligence and machine learning systems in the healthcare field, we need to advance understanding on questions such as accountability, equity, access, and transparency.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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The Rise of Sheconomy: Women’s Increasing Impact on Business, Culture, and Healthcare

Frost & Sullivan

The Sheconomy impacts almost every economic sector because a more significant proportion of highly educated women are joining the global workforce every year. With the increase in spending power, women are propelling economic activity from both ends—accelerating the firm’s growth as a workforce and featuring as promising retail consumers. However, this female-powered economy is more than a mega-trend for leveraging the economy.

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What ‘flavour’ of cloud is right for your organisation?

Compare The Cloud

Cloud technology has never been more important in the business world. The pandemic had a significant effect on the adoption of cloud services and now, it is predicted that budget for cloud computing will make up 51% of IT spending by 2025. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2025 “over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% in 2021”.

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The next frontier for AI in China could add $600 billion to its economy

McKinsey & Company

By 2030, AI could disrupt transportation and other key sectors in China, adding significant economic value—but only if strategic cooperation and capability building occur across multiple dimensions.

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The Consumer Decision-Making and Buying Process – Part 2

Chameleon Sales

In our previous blog , we introduced the five stages consumers move through as they make their purchase decisions. The five stages were generally intended for individual consumers. However, it is important to consider the decision-making process in B2B settings. We’ve discussed the first two stages of the consumer decision-making and buying process, so today we will discuss stages three through five.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Brand partnerships: making authentic connections with values-driven consumers

Impact

The power of choice. It’s a brand’s toughest competition — and they’re marketing to the most informed, educated buyer in history. When a product is positioned at a similar price point and quality as other products, businesses win the hearts of shoppers through brand values. Core brand values encompass the beliefs a company stands behind and guides: Brand stories Company actions and behaviors Decision-making processes.

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Making It Easier to Compare the Tools for Explainable AI

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. ABOUT ML. Making It Easier to Compare the Tools for Explainable AI. Surya Karunagaran. June 30, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. As AI’s influence on individuals and society increases, so, too, do calls for the AI industry to assume greater responsibility for the impact of their products.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Lorenzo Davids

Thinkers 50

Lorenzo Davids is a leader in social development who has worked to address poverty and improve lives in South Africa. He is the CEO of The Development Impact Fund, an organization that invests in projects and entrepreneurs with potential to transform themselves and their communities. Through this work, it is his mission to help South Africa reconnect to the ideals of its constitution, the preamble of which states that it seeks to improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential

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The End of Backup, As We Know It

Compare The Cloud

Organisations must always be prepared for a disaster scenario. Whether it’s a cyber-attack, a natural disaster or a system failure, companies of all sizes need to formulate disaster recovery plans that will allow them to continue to operate when something goes wrong. The traditional approach to disaster recovery, particularly for large enterprises, has been to build and maintain a separate datacenter at a safe distance from the primary datacenter site, maintained with expensive high-speed WAN co

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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Transforming advanced manufacturing through Industry 4.0

McKinsey & Company

Manufacturers in industries such as automotive and electronics, nearing the tipping point of digital adoption, are achieving even faster and more sustainable change through Industry 4.0.

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How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

Planview Blog

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth. The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to inspire our employees to commemorate the day and support local black communities.

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Get certified as a partnerships pro with new Product and Agency certifications

Impact

You’re a pro with the impact.com platform, and now you’re ready to achieve career credentials to match. Get Product Expert-certified and Agency-certified through Partnerships Experience Academy (PXA) for a professional edge in the partnerships industry. Six free, self-paced course modules are on the path to Product Expert-level Training certification.