Sat.Sep 02, 2023 - Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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Starting Off On the Right Foot

Partner Path

Three takeaways from my discussion with a solution provider. Webinars are not just a great chance for us to provide our audience with great content, but they can be a chance for me to catch up with channel friends. Recently, I had an insightful conversation with Dominic Grillo , President of Atrion Communications (now part of Aurora ) about how his organization decides to bring on a new vendor and the rough patches of getting started.

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Are you paying attention?

Stellar Partnerships

Have you ever entered a room and forgot what it was you came for? Or couldn’t remember which day of the week it was today? Don’t worry, it’s not early onset dementia and you’re not alone. The author Johann Hari calls it Stolen Focus and it turns out that the whole of society is having a problem with paying attention right now. His research shows that the average worker is distracted once every 3 minutes.

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How can charity partnerships help companies deliver their commercial goals?

Remarkable Partnerships

Written by Pater Chiswick, Director of Corporate, Remarkable Partnerships. In my 20+ years working in the corporate sector for major multi-nationals, I noticed that companies often form their charity partnerships on an ad-hoc basis. This approach often means they miss out on significant commercial value. However, if they build them on a strategic level, these partnerships can help them deliver their commercial goals as described below.

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The Business Community & Non-Profit Relationships

Dinkel Business Development

In the landscape of non-profit organizations, the quest for funding, volunteers, and sustainable growth never seems to get any easier. While many nonprofits focus on grants and individual giving when it comes to funding, many do not focus enough attention on their local business community. Beyond the obvious monetary contributions, local businesses offer a plethora of benefits that can catalyze the success of non-profits.

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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 to win in UK energy retail as the market reopens

McKinsey & Company

The static UK energy retail market is starting to move as wholesale energy prices fall. As a third of customers look to switch suppliers, here’s how energy retailers can plug into customer needs.

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Exploring the World of Consortium Leadership with Chair of IEEE-ISTO

ISTO / IEEE

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, collaboration is the driving force behind innovation and progress. To delve into the intricacies of managing diverse consortia across industries, we had the privilege of speaking with Yatin Trivedi, the Chair of the IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors. With over a decade of experience, Yatin shares his remarkable journey, insights, and vision for the future of IEEE-ISTO.

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Generative AI: Meet your partner in customer service

IBM Business Partners

Brands that deliver an excellent customer experience (CX) will always be more resilient than those that don’t. Giving our customers personalized support at every stage of their journey is proven to earn their longtime loyalty—and keep them from switching to a competitor. The challenge, however, is that many teams operate in siloes that inhibit them from applying their customer insights in meaningful ways.

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Turning consumer and retail companies into software-driven innovators

McKinsey & Company

As customers increasingly expect seamless, engaging digital experiences, consumer-facing organizations can follow six principles to perform like the most successful tech companies.

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Cracking the AI code: The recipe for successful human-AI collaboration

Compare The Cloud

You’ve no doubt seen the relatable AI memes travelling across the universe of cyberspace right now. “To replace creatives with AI, clients will have to accurately describe what they want. We’re safe, people.” The terms “creatives” and “clients” have been swapped out for programmers, product managers and anybody else whose job is at threat. But the message is the same: garbage in, garbage out.

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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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Discovering Excellence in Consortium-Based Standards Development with IEEE-ISTO

ISTO / IEEE

The tapestry of technological advancement is woven with the threads of collaboration, innovation, and standards. Dive into the remarkable journey of consortium-based standards development as Marco Migliaro, the former president of IEEE-ISTO, paints a vivid picture of over five decades of progress and impact. His insights, shared in an engaging video, shine a spotlight on the transformative power of IEEE-ISTO and its enduring legacy.

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Mainframe and the cloud? It’s easy with open source

IBM Business Partners

This is part four in a five-part series on mainframe modernization. The secret to mainstreaming the mainframe into today’s modern, cloud-centric IT environments is to make the experience of working with the mainframe like the experience of working off the mainframe—especially the developer experience (DX). Historically, working on the mainframe was an entirely different experience from the distributed world.

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Filling the gap: Boosting supply of recycled materials for packaging

McKinsey & Company

High long-term demand for recycled content in packaging could lead to shortages of recycled packaging materials. We explore three ways to boost rPET availability in the US market.

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The power of innovative tracking technology in streamlining trade payments

Compare The Cloud

Businesses in today’s fast-paced global economy are continuously looking for creative solutions to simplify trade payments, improve transparency, and assure transaction security. The introduction of cutting-edge monitoring technology, powered by IoT, has resulted in a fundamental change in how firms manage their supply chains and accept payments.

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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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Negotiating with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: A Scenario Planning Framework

Vantage Partners

In September, the first 10 products were identified for negotiation with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Some pharmaceutical companies are waiting to see how the litigation plays out, while others are preparing to negotiate based on assumptions about the final process. Any number of outcomes are possible, and planning for a set of the most likely scenarios will allow companies to identify accompanying strategies and tactics – and be prepared to act up against a potentially tight time

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Data is essential: Building an effective generative AI marketing strategy

IBM Business Partners

Generative AI is powering a new world of creative, customized communications, allowing marketing teams to deliver greater personalization at scale and meet today’s high customer expectations. The potential of this powerful new tool spans the entire end-to-end marketing process, from internal communications and productivity to customer-facing channels and product support.

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North American mobility retail balances old and new for future success

McKinsey & Company

With the growth of e-mobility and younger consumers seeking high-tech convenience, nimble North American mobility-retail players are combining old and new offerings to stay competitive.

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Unique Ways of Incorporating Branding in Your Business: Expert Tips and Strategies

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Businesses are always looking for new and innovative ways to stand out from their competitors. One way to do this is by incorporating branding into every aspect of the business. From the products and services offered to the way the business is presented to the public, branding can make a significant impact on the success of a business. One unique way to incorporate branding is through the packaging of products.

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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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A/NZ MSPs Have Big Opportunities in the Cloud: Forrester

Channel Insider

Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand MSPs with cloud capabilities have a lot to look forward to in the short and medium term, according to a new report by Forrester. The State of Cloud in Australia and New Zealand 2023 report shows that 53% of local cloud decision-makers believe that their organisation will prioritise modernisation via cloud computing.

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Building AI for business: IBM’s Granite foundation models

IBM Business Partners

It’s an exciting time in AI for business. As we apply the technology more widely across areas ranging from customer service to HR to code modernization, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping increasing numbers of us work smarter, not harder. And as we are just at the start of the AI for business revolution, the potential for improving productivity and creativity is vast.

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Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler

McKinsey & Company

A leader on funding Europe’s energy transition talks about the three Ss that are necessary: speed, scale, and simplicity.

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Elevate Your Strategy: ClearPoint now Integrates with Microsoft Teams!

ClearPoint Strategy

Stay streamlined and in sync. ClearPoint brings strategy to your fingertips.

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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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TeraRecon Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Solving Time-related Challenges in Neurological Care and Its Market-leading Position

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – September 7, 2023 – Recently, Frost & Sullivan researched the AI-based neurological solutions industry and, based on its analysis, recognizes TeraRecon , a ConcertAI company, with the 2023 Global Company of the Year Award. The US-based company operates in more than 74 countries and offers AI-empowered solutions for radiology, oncology, cardiology, vascular surgery, and neurology.

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What is the vulnerability management process?

IBM Business Partners

Modern enterprise networks are vast systems of remote and on-premises endpoints, locally installed software, cloud apps , and third-party services. Every one of these assets plays a vital role in business operations—and any of them could contain vulnerabilities that threat actors can use to sow chaos. Organizations rely on the vulnerability management process to head off these cyberthreats before they strike.

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The plant as a product: Hyperscaling green capex

McKinsey & Company

Most capital projects overrun schedules and exceed budgets. A new delivery system for capital expenditures can help reduce costs and increase efficiency for green tech projects.

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Tackle on Tackle: How Cloud GTM Redefines G&A

Tackle.io

In recent blogs, we’ve covered how Tackle leverages Cloud GTM to drive revenue , and even how we use a data-driven approach to super-charge our Cloud GTM strategy. But there’s much more to the story than the benefits of Cloud GTM for the sales and revenue side of the house. As conversations at ISVs focus on driving efficiencies during times of economic uncertainty , the role of Cloud GTM in helping companies accelerate growth is becoming more important.

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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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PSMJ Honors A/E Firms Consistently Achieving Circle of Excellence Status

PSMJ Resources Blog

PSMJ Resources, Inc., the world’s leading authority on architecture, engineering, and construction firm management, recently announced sixty-eight exceptional architecture and engineering (A/E) firms made it onto the exclusive 2023 Circle of Excellence list. The Circle of Excellence represents the top 20 percent of participants in PSMJ’s annual A/E Financial Performance Benchmark Survey, based on 13 key performance metrics.

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Connecting to private VPC networks using IBM Cloud Secrets Manager authenticated VPN on IBM Cloud

IBM Business Partners

As security becomes ever tighter, with businesses provisioning more of their infrastructure on private networks, flexible access requires a VPN solution. In this post, we examine how to leverage the IBM Cloud VPN as a Service (VPNaaS) offering for VPC, while managing authentication through IBM Cloud Secrets Manager. IBM Cloud Secrets Manager IBM Cloud Secrets Manager provides a centralised resource to manage various secrets.

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US government productivity: A more than $2,000 per resident opportunity

McKinsey & Company

Government remains one of the biggest productivity improvement opportunities. Organizations must be given both the ability and motivation to improve.