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Four Elements of a Collaborative Mindset

Peter Simoons

What does good collaboration require from you, and especially from your [collaborative] mindset? Can you just “do it” and collaborate for your own advantage, or is there more required to come to a good collaboration? Collaboration, whether inside an organisation in teams or between organisations in alliances, is established to achieve a result that cannot be achieved alone.

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Negotiations Are Having a Moment

Vantage Partners

It seems like negotiations are all over the news lately — strikes and threats of strikes, stalled contract discussions, and political negotiations of all kinds.

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Stop Focusing on the Lone-Ranger Sales Rep

PartnerTap

Have you ever noticed how the sales reps and deals that get called out for praise usually sound like a superhero storyline? There’s the big opportunity. Winning the deal requires a grueling battle against a villainous competitor. There’s a last minute plot twist that almost ruins everything. And then there’s the heroic save by the lone-ranger sales rep who pulls off a miracle, wins the big prize, and is now glorified like a superhero.

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Pros and cons of corporate-matched giving

Stellar Partnerships

Everyone loves a freebie. A ‘buy one, get one free’ deal is great clickbait for marketers. Corporate matched donations for a giving day event or campaign are often marketed in the same way. Double your giving and impact by triggering corporate donations. We love to see corporates spending some of their profits on the community rather than shareholders, but like the showbags at the Melbourne Show, the gifts don’t always live up to the promise.

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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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Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Staff Augmentation

PLM Alliances

In a constantly evolving market landscape, product teams remain under pressure to innovate, develop, and deliver. By the end of 2020, there were around 8 million tech occupations in the US. By 2030, tech employment is expected to reach approximately 9 million, according to CompTIA. To meet the growing demand for skilled talent, many organizations are turning to staff augmentation as a strategic solution.

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When to Guide and When to Listen: A Day in the Life of Global Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics Elvia Martínez

Planview Blog

Elvia Martínez manages two teams across three continents. Elvia uses her unique background from an immigrant family to lead her teams with inclusivity, collaboration, and support. Explain your role as a Global Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics and a few of your responsibilities. I manage two engineering support teams. They’re spread across the US, Sweden, Germany, and India.

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Top 6 customer referral marketing trends  your brand can leverage in 2024

Impact

It’s no surprise referral marketing is a rising force for brand promotion. After all, referral customers are 50 percent more likely to purchase than your non-referral audience. As 2024 approaches, this channel is taking a larger piece of the marketing pie due to its low customer acquisition cost (CAC) and higher return. With evolving technology and changing consumer habits, brands can benefit from tried and true word-of-mouth marketing.

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Solving the Problem of Remote Work

INSEAD Knowledge

The discussion around remote work — which has dominated news headlines, Slack conversations and water-cooler chats since countries relaxed their Covid-19 guidelines — is only getting more contentious. Many workers wish to continue working remotely in some capacity, while insisting that leaders’ productivity concerns are unfounded. However, some high-profile executives have been vocal about their opposition.

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Spatial computing is the next frontier in airline flight safety

IBM Business Partners

Flight delays are a frustrating aspect of flying. It’s a situation most can relate to: sitting in the terminal or on the tarmac wondering why your flight is delayed, with no answers or information. There are dozens of reasons why an aircraft could be delayed with safety being the underpinning reason for many of them. Suppose an aircraft incurs minor damage from a lightning strike or by coming into contact with ground equipment as it’s being towed or refueled, or it sustains damage fr

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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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Negotiations Are Having a Moment

Vantage Partners

It seems like negotiations are all over the news lately — strikes and threats of strikes, stalled contract discussions, and political negotiations of all kinds.

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PAI Welcomes Diverse Cohort of Partners to Synthetic Media Framework

Partnership on AI

Share Our Blog / Blog Announcements PAI Welcomes Diverse Cohort of Partners to Synthetic Media Framework PAI Staff September 26, 2023 Content Wrapper Click here to start editing --> Content Row Click here to start editing --> Partnership on AI is pleased to announce that Code for Africa , Meedan , the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence , Thorn , and Truepic have joined its Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media: A Framework for Collective Action , expanding a ground

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Two Aussie Distributors Merge to Better Support MSPs

Channel Insider

Two of Australia’s telecommunications technology distribution veterans, CommsPlus Distribution and BTC Wholesale, have announced a merger that serves to strengthen their ability to support MSPs and other value-adding channel organisations through services. “Over the last few years, BTC Wholesale has invested significantly in building a suite of products and a portfolio of network partners, moving from the peripheral side of unified communications towards collaboration solutions – a market which

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Generative AI that’s tailored for your business needs with watsonx.ai

IBM Business Partners

According to a recent IBV study , 64% of surveyed CEOs face pressure to accelerate adoption of generative AI, and 60% lack a consistent, enterprise-wide method for implementing it. An AI and data platform, such as watsonx, can help empower businesses to leverage foundation models and accelerate the pace of generative AI adoption across their organization.

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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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6 Tips to Ease the Pain of Planning and Drive Revenue Growth

Market Source Inc

Forecasting without revenue planning leaves can produce waste and hinder revenue growth. Read our blog for clarity on these and other truths as you embark on next year’s revenue planning journey. The post 6 Tips to Ease the Pain of Planning and Drive Revenue Growth appeared first on MarketSource.

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India’s Continued Focus on Digital Infrastructure Development and Emergence as a Remarkable Power in the Realm of Digital Payments Ecosystem

Frost & Sullivan

Background – Focus on Digitalization New Delhi, India has hosted the 18 th G20 summit on Sept 9 and Sept 10. The main agenda was to focus on global digital transformation and improve sustainability to save the earth. The summit was a success, so much so that India launched ‘G20 Digital Innovation Alliance’ (G20-DIA) initiative amongst the G20 countries and nine guest countries to elevate the different sectors across countries.

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5 impact.com features small ecommerce businesses need for affiliate partnership success 

Impact

Key takeaways from this blog Consumers trust recommendations from others more than traditional ads. This makes affiliate partnerships a powerful tool for small ecommerce businesses like yours. impact.com is a platform that can make your journey into affiliate partnerships easier. With cross-device tracking and performance analysis, you can measure how successful your partnership marketing efforts are.

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IBM Cloud inactive identities: Ideas for automated processing

IBM Business Partners

Regular cleanup is part of all account administration and security best practices, not just for cloud environments. In our blog post on identifying inactive identities , we looked at the APIs offered by IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) and how to utilize them to obtain details on IAM identities and API keys. Some readers provided feedback and asked on how to proceed and act on identified inactive identities.

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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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Positivity and Kindness Drive Kristin’s Success

Market Source Inc

Business Development Manager Kristin Edwards lives and works by these words: Connecting on a personal level accelerates trust, and as my wise mentor says, truth over time = trust.” The post Positivity and Kindness Drive Kristin’s Success appeared first on MarketSource.

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Chatty Tech, Big Impact: Design and Optimize Conversational AI to Revolutionize Your Contact Center

Frost & Sullivan

Like chatbots, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) can handle large call volumes, offer quicker resolutions, improve the consumer and agent experience, and increase profits. For instance, a global hotel chain used [24]7.ai’s conversational AI solution to create a self-serve option for tens of millions of customers annually. Rapid adoption enabled over 112,000 monthly interactions, increased agent satisfaction by 97%, and led to a 3x increase in sales conversions.

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Ways to Improve Employee Efficiency: Tips and Strategies

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Improving employee efficiency is a key goal for any organization. It not only helps to increase productivity but also ensures that the employees are performing at their best. There are several ways to improve employee efficiency, ranging from simple changes in the workplace to more complex strategies. One of the most effective ways to improve employee efficiency is to provide them with the necessary tools and resources.

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Discovery to delivery: Transform the shopper’s journey

IBM Business Partners

The relevance of a promise The fundamental principle of commerce is the concept of a “promise.” A promise of accuracy in product detail, product capabilities, quality, price and delivery. The promise of accuracy in inventory—or, more importantly, in the availability of inventory—is very important when there are competing demands for the same unit of inventory and unpredictable disruptions to sources of supply.

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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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The Complete Guide to Partner Marketing in 2023

Chaneltivity

In B2B SaaS, partner marketing is a fairly new concept. That means it has a high potential of being misunderstood, deprioritized, or delegated to a marketing team that already has its hands full. Why is that a risk? Because without a solid better-together story, without co-marketing, without lead-generating events, it’s really hard for partners to sell.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cellcard with the 2023 Cambodian Product Leadership Award for Offering Innovative Products that Provide Affordable Access to Mobile Data

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — 1st Oct, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the Cambodian mobile services industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Cellcard with the 2023 Cambodian Product Leadership Award. Cellcard is Cambodia’s longest-serving and the only fully Cambodian-owned operator with a long history of first-to-market innovations, outstanding customer service, and the fastest mobile network.

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Why Uniform Destruction is Vital for Your Business Security

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Uniform destruction is an essential aspect of business security. It refers to the secure destruction of uniforms and other branded clothing that employees wear while on the job. The destruction of uniforms is important because it prevents unauthorized individuals from accessing sensitive areas of the business premises, impersonating employees, or stealing sensitive information.

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Debunking observability myths – Part 6: Observability is about one part of your stack

IBM Business Partners

In our blog series, we’ve debunked the following observability myths so far: Part 1: You can skip monitoring and rely solely on logs Part 2: Observability is built exclusively for SREs Part 3: Observability is only relevant and beneficial for large-scale systems or complex architectures Part 4: Observability is always expensive Part 5: You can create an observable system without observability-driven automation Today, we’re delving into another misconception about observability—

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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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ForzaDash now accepting Media sponsorship to Events and Firms.

ForzaDash

ForzaDash Announces Exciting New Media Sponsorship Opportunities Renowned for its innovative approach to connecting the tech world, ForzaDash proudly announces a brand-new feature: Media sponsorship options. This development comes hot on the heels of the rousing success and acclaim garnered by the podcast “Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations” With this new addition, ForzaDash continues its mission to bridge the gap between technology enthusiasts, MSPs, tech firms, companies, and eve

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TMEIC Awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 Global Company of the Year Award for Revolutionizing the Power Electronics Industry with Its Innovative Technologies

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — September 29, 2023 – Frost & Sullivan recently researched the power electronics industry and, based on its findings, recognizes TMEIC with the 2023 Global Company of the Year Award. TMEIC (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation) is a leading-edge company that develops and engineers sophisticated automation systems, photovoltaic inverters, hydrogen rectifiers, motor drive inverters and large AC (alternating current) motors among other industrial so

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10 Popular AI Tools for Ecommerce Businesses in 2023

Binfire Collaboration Blog

In this digital era, technology is constantly advancing making new and easier ways to perform tasks and processes. This includes the innovations in ecommerce driven by the evolution of AI or artificial intelligence tools. AI tools are transforming the way people shop online and how companies can provide better, faster and more convenient service to their customers to meet their demands.