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Measure for measure

Stellar Partnerships

Last Mother’s Day my family treated me to a dinner at a swish Melbourne restaurant. It had an impressive 4- star rating from the critics and looked just like a real Parisian bistro. But despite the lovely setting and friendly service, the steak was overcooked, the sauce bland and the wicker seat kept catching on my dress. It made me wonder what criteria they used to give it four stars.

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Cost Avoidance v. Cost Savings

CenterPoint Group

The fundamental role of a Procurement Department is to make sure that the company they work for continue to receive the necessary goods and services that allow their employees to operate efficiently and profitably. Of course, their underlying, and some might say actual role is to reduce the cost of those goods and service, while maintaining the same quality and service levels that they are currently enjoying.

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Building supply chain resilience with cloud apps

Compare The Cloud

Like most business operations, COVID-19 has disrupted the supply chain function too. Given the globalized nature of manufacturing and sourcing inputs, the worldwide lockdowns, and restrictions on the movement of goods proved to be the proverbial spanner in the works. However, disruption is not completely new for supply chain professionals because it is often the first function that gets impacted during natural calamities, wars, trade restrictions, and in recent times, epidemics like Ebola, SARS,

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Should US banks be moving to next-generation core banking platforms?

McKinsey & Company

Banks today urgently need a new core platform, but building one is time-consuming, expensive, and uncertain. It may help to think strategically and pursue a two-track process.

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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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Paradox Mindset: The Source of Remarkable Creativity in Teams

INSEAD Knowledge

Teams are more successful if they embrace internal differences and explore conflicting ideas instead of glossing over them.

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Three principles for security leadership in turbulent times

Compare The Cloud

When the world is in crisis, security leaders face a serious challenge. When risk levels are high, every staff member, from non-technical teams to the C-Suite, will look to the cybersecurity department for help, guidance, and reassurance. . In turbulent times, it can be tempting to simply pile more technologies on the security stack. But this is a wasteful approach in the short term and is a strategic mistake in the long term because solving today’s problems often comes at the expense of prepari

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Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh

McKinsey & Company

The leader of a cutting-edge institute talks about innovative new materials that “eat” carbon and may enable cotton growing without irrigation, as well as the potential for building the world’s shortest supply chain in two 40-foot containers.

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Ozonetel Commended by Frost & Sullivan for Its Highly Differentiated Cloud-based Contact Center Solutions with Trendsetting, Cost-effective Features

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio — July 25, 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the speech analytics for the customer experience market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Ozonetel with the 2022 India New Product Innovation Award for providing an innovative customer experience cloud-based management solution that eliminates the hassles and high costs associated with traditional contact center software.

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The Provocateurs: Episode 6 | Robert Lefkowitz

Thinkers 50

Thinkers50 in partnership with Deloitte presents: The Provocateurs: podcast series. EPISODE 6. ABOUT THIS EPISODE. Robert Lefkowitz: Adventures of an accidental scientist. Trained at Columbia, the National Institute of Health and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1973, Bob Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors.

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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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Achieving PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance in the Cloud

Compare The Cloud

Any organisation that takes payments from customers where transactions involve storage, processing or transmission of cardholder data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Introduced in 2004 by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB International, and Discover Financial Services, the Standard provides 12 rules to help organisations to protect their customers’ sensitive payment card data.

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US summer travel 2022

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey’s recent US travel survey shows that leisure travel is booming, and this summer many people are planning to take their vacations “no matter what”.

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Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

Planview Blog

We thought we knew about uncertainty. Market disruptions by startups; sure. Shifting consumer behaviors? Part of the job. But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. The only thing certain about our futures, it seems, is that we have an extremely limited ability to predict what they will hold.

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Bob Ayres at 90: Key Insights on Energy in the Economy

INSEAD Knowledge

Groundbreaking observations from a formidable figure in the field of industrial ecology on the fundamental role energy and materials play in the economy.

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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 can security leaders protect their data in a multi-cloud environment?

Compare The Cloud

The use of multi-cloud has gained enormously in popularity in recent years, becoming an essential part of day-to-day operations for many businesses. The adoption of such an approach increases agility whilst minimising vendor lock-in, improving disaster recovery and boosting application performance, all while streamlining costs. In a Gartner study, 81% of respondents said they are working with two or more providers while IDC predicts that global spending on ‘whole cloud’ services will reach $1.3

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How green can green growth be?

McKinsey & Company

The transition to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions will take trillions of dollars and several decades. Here’s how B2B leaders can extract maximum value from the journey.

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Revamp Your Incentive Travel to Motivate Channel Partners

ITA Group

Revamp Your Incentive Travel to Motivate Channel Partners. Is your incentive travel program as strong as it could be? Is it a differentiator for your brand in a competitive market? If your channel incentive travel offerings are well planned, they can incent many partners at once—building long-lasting relationships and brand advocacy within your channel ecosystem.

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impact.com #5 on 26 Top Influencer Marketing Agencies

Impact

The post impact.com #5 on 26 Top Influencer Marketing Agencies appeared first on impact.com.

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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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How to attract and retain new employees in an Employee Strong market

Better Business for Good Company

How to attract and retain new employees in an Employee Strong market. Now more than ever, new employees are demanding and expecting more from their new employers. Candidates have choices between good employers and great employers. How do you attract them to your company? What offerings and processes do employers need to offer and demonstrate to new candidates for their business?

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Coca-Cola: The people-first story of a digital transformation

McKinsey & Company

With thousands to train, the transformation of Coca-Cola’s commercial product supply operations needed buy-in from the boardroom to the front line.

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215% Marketplace ARR Growth for Seeq Drives Investment in Sustainability

Tackle.io

Why Tackle Executive Summary Seeq, a data visualization, collaboration, and analytics platform, decided to adopt a Cloud go-to-market strategy by leveraging AWS Marketplace and Microsoft commercial marketplace in late 2019 to meet their customers where they wanted to transact. With Tackle’s support and partnership, Seeq quickly went from struggling to launch a listing to now being a top Marketplace seller in its industry category.

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Cover Story: That’s the way the cookie crumbles

Impact

The post Cover Story: That’s the way the cookie crumbles appeared first on impact.com.

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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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Decarbonization Imperatives Drive the Mobility Industry to Innovate Towards ‘Zero’

Frost & Sullivan

Decarbonizing transport – which accounts for almost a quarter of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions – has become a priority as countries work to achieve their climate change targets and strive towards the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Cutting-edge technology and the new sharing economy have catalyzed this quest, while propelling the mobility value chain in the direction of a sustainable and clean energy future.

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Reimagining education in MENAP

McKinsey & Company

Stakeholders can consider a range of bold initiatives to transform education and create new opportunities for youth in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.

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215% Marketplace ARR Growth for Seeq Drives Investment in Sustainability

Tackle.io

Why Tackle. Executive Summary. Seeq, a data visualization, collaboration, and analytics platform, decided to adopt a Cloud go-to-market strategy by leveraging AWS Marketplace and Microsoft commercial marketplace in late 2019 to meet their customers where they wanted to transact. With Tackle’s support and partnership, Seeq quickly went from struggling to launch a listing to now being a top Marketplace seller in its industry category.

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Successful Software Implementation: How to Maximize Value and Outcomes

Planview Blog

Successful software implementation requires more than buying new software and training people how to use it. Yet, all too often, organizations focus so much on standing up the solution that they lose sight of all the elements needed for success. As a result, many fail to maximize the return on their investment in the software. More importantly, they fail to achieve the business outcomes they hoped to achieve with their implementation journey.

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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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Decarbonization Imperatives Drive the Mobility Industry to Innovate Towards ‘Zero’

Frost & Sullivan

Decarbonizing transport – which accounts for almost a quarter of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions – has become a priority as countries work to achieve their climate change targets and strive towards the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Cutting-edge technology and the new sharing economy have catalyzed this quest, while propelling the mobility value chain in the direction of a sustainable and clean energy future.

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The Great Attrition in frontline retail—and what retailers can do about it

McKinsey & Company

New research reveals which aspects of the employee experience matter most to US frontline retail workers. Retailers must pay attention and act quickly or risk losing more than half their store staff.

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How Are B2B Customers Different from Their B2C Counterparts?

Aepiphanni

Businesses are as unique as people are diverse. Because all businesses are distinct, each one meets the different needs of specific customer bases. Therefore, businesses serve an array of clientele. For example, B2B businesses (business-to-business) serve other businesses, and those businesses being served are the actual customers (although they are entities comprised of multiple individuals). […].