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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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7 Top tips for prospect research

Stellar Partnerships

How is your partnership prospecting going? Unless you’ve got a Rolodex like the legendary PR guru Max Markson, I suspect you don’t have the connections to the corporate partners you want. We often hear from non-profits that the board is full of technical experts or they’re not well-connected businesspeople. They claim they can’t provide connections or introductions to help the partnership team.

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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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How Infor SunSystems Hospitality Empowers Hotel Businesses

TRG Blog

There are reasons why Infor SunSystems is the chosen financial management solution of more than 2,200 hospitality companies worldwide. The system is designed to transform the way you collect, analyse, manage, and report financial information. More important, it can help your hotel business drive the bottom line and improve guest experience through timely and actionable insights.

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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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Data ethics: What it means and what it takes

McKinsey & Company

Every company must establish its own best practices for managing its data. Here are five pitfalls to avoid based on our conversations with experts and early adopters.

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5 Major Impacts of Diversity Initiatives.

CenterPoint Group

Companies have long been aware of the advantages of diversity, but now they realize the economic and social impacts. Diversity initiatives in procurement benefit everyone. It includes company shareholders and customers, as diverse workforces create more products and services that appeal to everyone – whether black, white, or Hispanic; Christian, Muslim, or Hindu; gay or straight.

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AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Data Lake Technology Comparison

Channel Insider

Today, businesses’ success is determined by their ability to derive value from their data. Aside from the promise of a competitive advantage over their peers, organizations often implement data lakes to capitalize on advanced analytical capabilities or to modernize traditional approaches such as data access and speed of retrieval. For managed service providers (MSPs) and others providing data services, it’s inevitable that your customers’ big data analytics efforts will eventua

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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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Why a Low Employee Turnover Rate Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing

ITA Group

Why a Low Employee Turnover Rate Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing. When it comes to employee recruitment and retention, turnover is definitely bad for business. Right? Not so fast. While a high employee retention rate is often a top priority, an atypically low turnover rate is a good indicator that there may be underlying issues your organization needs to address.

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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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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes GlobalSign with the 2022 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the Holistic TLS Certificate Market

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — September 20, 2022— Based on its recent analysis of the Global Holistic TLS Certificate Market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes GMO GlobalSign with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award for deploying a wide range of public key infrastructure (PKI) security and digital identity management technologies. GMO GlobalSign is a well-established certificate authority (CA) and market-leading company in the holistic TLS certificate market, with an impressive market share of 8.9%

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Optimizing Corporate Data Pooling Plans

CenterPoint Group

Remember when BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) seemed like a bright idea?

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Software bill of materials: Managing software cybersecurity risks

McKinsey & Company

As software-related vulnerabilities continue to grow, companies must manage their software cyber risks to innovate faster and create safer, more secure digital products.

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The Digital Future of Software Sales

Tackle.io

B2B selling and buying is broken. There is friction at every turn and go-to-market systems are growing more complex by the day. Why is it that, in a software-driven business world, it’s still so hard to buy and sell software? Buyer behavior is changing. Gartner says 80% of sales interactions will be in digital channels by 2025. But most go-to-market systems are not built for this future.

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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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Arity Awarded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling Data-driven Business Decisions and Reducing Costs With its Vehicle Data Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – September 21, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan recently researched the North American vehicle data analytics industry, and based on its findings, recognizes Arity with the 2022 North American Vehicle Data Analytics Product Leadership Award. The company collects and analyzes billions of miles of mobility data to help a wide variety of customers make data-driven business decisions and improve their bottom line and reduce costs.

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5 Interrelated Go-to-Market Tactics to Fortify Lead-to-Customer Conversions

SFE Partners

For sales leaders, capitalizing on buyer interest through caring for new leads and filling the sales funnel with best-fit opportunities remains among the top priorities for growing revenue. Nothing new here. For marketing leaders, these priorities should drive all go-to-market tactics and lead generation strategies. 53% of marketers spend at least half their budget on lead generation, meaning that even for established companies, go-to-market tactics like inbound marketing and lead scoring can be

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To slow down attrition, pay closer attention to what workers really need

McKinsey & Company

The Great Attrition continues, but if companies understand the differences among five common employee personas, they may be able to find and retain talent more effectively.

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The Digital Future of Software Sales

Tackle.io

B2B selling and buying is broken. There is friction at every turn and go-to-market systems are growing more complex by the day. Why is it that, in a software-driven business world, it’s still so hard to buy and sell software? Buyer behavior is changing. Gartner says 80% of sales interactions will be in digital channels by 2025. But most go-to-market systems are not built for this future. .

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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 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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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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Still feeling good: The US wellness market continues to boom

McKinsey & Company

Our research shows continued growth of consumer interest in health and wellness, with persistent gaps in certain areas presenting exciting opportunities for companies to serve unmet consumer needs.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Out of the shadows: A brighter future for pharma technical development

McKinsey & Company

The sometimes-overlooked function of chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) has a rare opportunity to reimagine its role and find innovative ways to improve and accelerate drug development.