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Three Key Steps to Prepare for Data and AI Leadership

INSEAD Knowledge

To harness the potential of new technology, today’s data-driven business leaders must also be politicians and communicators.

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Partner Loyalty Demands Proper Prioritization

Impartner

If you expect channel partners and business allies see the world through your lens given how much time, money and energy you invest in them, then here’s another news bulletin: your expectations are unrealistic. Chances your priorities are, too.

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An Alliance Shock Response Framework

Peter Simoons

For a little over a year now we have all, to some extent, been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some countries have reacted more vigorously than others. We’ve seen that in all stages of the pandemic (and now again with the vaccination roll out). Some companies have reacted more vigorously than others, to the changing circumstances. Some have held back and will wait until it all passes by, others have transformed immediately to new business models.

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How to make Strategic Co-Selling a primary Revenue Driver

PartnerTap

If you want to make strategic co-selling a primary revenue driver, building connections with your partner’s field teams is critical. Microsoft perfectly explains the benefit of co-selling: “co-selling with partners typically results in a larger sale on average than those sold independently, which incentivizes sellers and partners to work with each other to identify synergies and join forces.”.

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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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Hybrid Meetings that Work: Tips for Your Successful Event

ISTO / IEEE

by Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations, ISTO . Industry events that combine LIVE and digital components for in-person and remote audiences are what we now call the “Hybrid Meeting” or “Hybrid Event.” And while Hybrid events were conceived in direct response to travel restrictions during a worldwide pandemic, with the advancement of streaming and digital meeting technologies and the flexibility they afford, they are increasingly becoming a desired meeting format for the future

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM A GIANT ‘LIQUORISH ALL SORTS’ SCULPTURE

Be Partner Ready

I spent the Christmas holidays indulging in passion – making stuff (calling it ‘art’ is a bit of a stretch). I invaded my husband’s workshop (he’s a proper artist, unlike me) and thew myself into making a sculpture that’s been nudging my subconscious for years saying ‘make me, make me’ Creating helps me to relax & get away from the screen – but most of my projects never see the light of day.

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A world without cookies

Stellar Partnerships

Can you imagine a world without cookies? It’s enough to give our favourite cookie monster palpitations. But what if it turns out to be a big opportunity for you and your non-profit? Experts in digital advertising tell us there are major changes underway to online customer identification. Concerns have been growing about online security and the way in which customer information is captured by corporates.

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A Seven-Step Choreography for Thriving Teams

INSEAD Knowledge

Changes at team level will never take hold unless individuals’ objectives and behaviours are synchronised with those of the group.

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Frost & Sullivan Reveals the 50 Game-changing Technologies Transforming the Future

Frost & Sullivan

Webinar offers strategic guidance and actionable ideas on the hottest technologies with maximum potential to fuel global innovation and drive commercial success. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contact: Melissa Tan. Frost & Sullivan. P: +65 68900926. E: melissa.tan@frost.com. SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – The convergence of emerging technologies with other advanced solutions is driving powerful innovations that will generate multi-billion dollar markets and new growth opportunities acr

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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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Ep. 156 – ProdPerfect Co-Founder & COO, Erik Fogg

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Erik Fogg, co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect. ProdPerfect is the answer to fixing E2E software testing with Machine Learning and good operational design as well as automatically building and maintaining E2E test automation by analyzing user journeys on web applications. Since 2018, Erik and his team have helped dozens of cutting-edge, venture-backed, highly reputable brand name companies and their elite engineering teams to radically improve their software

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Lean Coffee Format for Virtual Teams

Planview Blog

What is a Lean Coffee? The Lean Coffee format is a structured, but agenda-less, meeting designed to facilitate collaborative group discussions. “ How can you have structure without an agenda?” you might ask. Allow me to explain. Seattle-based Lean thinkers Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith are credited with the invention of Lean Coffee. They wanted to start a regular discussion group for fellow Lean enthusiasts, but without the hassle of finding and scheduling speakers, setting agendas each week,

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Do CEOs Matter?

INSEAD Knowledge

Conditions that underpin the power and impact of chief executives vary widely, with remarkable results.

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Complimentary access! SiriusDecisions Channel Marketing Strategies Research Brief: Channel Marketing and Management Platform – Questions to Ask Vendors

Mindmatrix

When selecting a channel marketing and management (CMM) platform, b-to-b channel marketing and sales leaders must ask many kinds of questions to gain a complete understanding of the benefits and disadvantages each vendor offers. By doing so, they can assess each CMM vendor’s levels of capability in order to reveal the relative benefits and disadvantages of its solution.

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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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Interview Advice For COOs

COO Alliance

Many great COOs and leaders all possess an impressive list of skills. They’re great with numbers, have incredible vision of the future, boundless energy, positivity, and so much more. The problem is, out of all those skills, interviewing doesn’t tend to be one of them. Maybe it’s because as self made business people, some of these COOs have been through so few interviews themselves.

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Operationalizing AI Ethics Through Documentation: ABOUT ML in 2021 and Beyond

Partnership on AI

Technical standards form the backbone of many of the world’s most trusted technologies. Few people think about this when they get on a plane, plug in a new appliance, or securely enter information into a website: they just know it works. Ultimately, this confidence is made possible by specifications which codify industry best practices. With ABOUT ML, the Partnership on AI (PAI) is leading a multistakeholder effort to develop similar guidelines for the documentation of machine learning (ML) syst

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Measuring Partner Success

Channel Incentive Best Practices

To enable success, you must first be able to measure it. So when it comes to measuring partner success in the channel, what are the metrics? Measuring partner success comes after first establishing what that looks like to all parties. Each stakeholder will have their own idea as to how they define a healthy and profitable partnership, based on their own specific parameters.

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Procurement Expected to Overtake RDT&E Spending in US DoD’s Electronic Warfare Market by 2025

Frost & Sullivan

There will be continued efforts to detect and counter adversary EW systems and improve aircraft and ship survivability, finds Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. –April 13, 2021–Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis , US DoD Electronic Warfare, 2020–2025 , finds that in 2021 the integration of commercial information technology (IT) products with legacy electronic warfare (EW) technologies will accelerate.

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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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Interview Advice For COOs

COO Alliance

Many great COOs and leaders all possess an impressive list of skills. They’re great with numbers, have incredible vision of the future, boundless energy, positivity, and so much more. The problem is, out of all those skills, interviewing doesn’t tend to be one of them. Maybe it’s because as self made business people, some of these COOs have been through so few interviews themselves.

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Top Business And Technology Trends In 2021

Aepiphanni

Not only have businesses been forced to “re-think” internal operations, they were also challenged to monitor customer expectations and quickly pivot as marketplace landscapes changed in the last 18 months. The long-term strategy from 2021 and beyond for businesses in any industry will most likely be focused on the perspective of customer experience in a post-COVID world.

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Keeping Meaning Alive as Your Workload Surges

INSEAD Knowledge

These days, we’re all expected to do more. But that doesn’t mean the psychological fulfilment we get from our work has to suffer.

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Frost & Sullivan Examines Global Opportunities for Fuel Cell Trucks in Hydrogen Economies

Frost & Sullivan

Webinar will analyze the product and opportunity landscape of fuel cell trucks as well as growth strategies across the supply chain. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contact: Melissa Tan. Frost & Sullivan. P: +65 68900926. E: melissa.tan@frost.com. SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 15, 2021 – The global automotive industry is rapidly evolving in terms of technology and tackling environmental issues.

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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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Tame Your Quota Giant

Impartner

Ever feel like retiring your channel sales quota is akin to taking down Goliath? If you do, then take heart: you can overcome your quota Goliath just like David overcame the Philistine who stared him down. Some new thinking may help your cause. To stimulate new ideas, here are three questions that every channel sales manager and channel salesperson should consider at the start of every month, quarter and year.

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6 Considerations When Deciding a Loyalty Program vs. Incentive Program

ITA Group

6 Considerations When Deciding a Loyalty Program vs. Incentive Program. A loyalty program is not the same as an incentive program. While many people—even professionals in the field of motivation—use the words interchangeably, that is a mistake. The difference is that loyalty isn’t something you can achieve easily—it’s the long con; the sum of all the parts.

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The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation

Hype

This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experienced innovation managers to understand how they've built an open innovation capability in their organizations and how they strive to make this capability increasingly stronger.

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Flipkart and Adani Group’s Strategic Collaboration: Key Takeaways for India’s E-commerce Logistics Infrastructure

Frost & Sullivan

The e-commerce market is heating up in India as the country is one of the biggest consumer markets globally, ranked behind America and China. The Indian e-commerce logistics market is flourishing due to an increase in internet penetration, rise in smartphone adoption, favorable demographics, and surge in acceptability of online payment. Further, supportive government initiatives to boost infrastructure development and GST implementation have improved e-commerce across the country.

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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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5 Ways to Incentivize Your Sales Team to Live, Eat, and Breathe Partnerships

Crossbeam Blog

If partnerships can lead to a 50% faster time to close , a 232% increase in feature adoption , or a #1 ranking in an app marketplace , why is managing the sales team’s execution of partnership strategies a top challenge for partnership leaders? The metrics are there, but the morale oftentimes isn’t.

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Three Secrets to a Better Retail Sales Team: Train. Reinforce. Repeat.

Market Source Inc

Top-performing retailers know how to keep and retain top talent. Discover the secrets to training that expands customer lifetime value. The post Three Secrets to a Better Retail Sales Team: Train. Reinforce. Repeat. appeared first on MarketSource.

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Donna L. LaVoie, President, CEO, and Founder of LaVoieHealthScience Interviewed by Global Business Reports

LaVoie Health Science Blog

Donna LaVoie was recently interviewed by Global Business Reports. Read the interview HERE. The post Donna L. LaVoie, President, CEO, and Founder of LaVoieHealthScience Interviewed by Global Business Reports appeared first on LaVoie Health Science.

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