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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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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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Trevor Noah on shopping, advertising, and the importance of being authentic

Impact

Trevor on the informed consumer. Consumers are more empowered than ever to gather information and make their own buying decisions online. A brand’s website probably won’t be the first stop on the journey. Trevor on who’s accountable. We live in the age of the almighty product review. An advertiser can promise the moon, but customers have the last word about what a product or service measures up.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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). […].

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Using Guided selling to improve sales and marketing performance

Mindmatrix

Guided selling involves providing guidance to sales and channel partners to sell the company’s products and services. Guided selling takes the complexity out of selling by guiding the salespeople or channel partners at every stage of the sales cycle, helping them take the right actions in order to close a lead. This blog discusses how companies can benefit by making guided selling a part of their sales process. .

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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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Right Person, Right Seat

Managed Services Platform

Apple Podcasts: [link] Spotify: [link] Youtube: [link] So, you’ve started a company. Great! Now the hard part; finding people to run it. Many companies look at their employees as nothing more than bodies in a seat. Once a seat is empty, they’ll look for anyone to replace it. But running a company is more than just ensuring that seats are filled. Your company’s mission statement and culture not only tell your story, it tells your employees who you are, what you value and how they are a part of yo

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Software Defined Vehicles Will Highlight the Automotive Industry’s Transition from “Steels and Wheels” to “Software and Services”

Frost & Sullivan

As connectivity, autonomous, shared, and electric (C.A.S.E.) trends disrupt the automotive industry, vehicles are increasingly becoming defined by software. This is being reinforced by customers’ demand for vehicles that integrate seamlessly into their highly interconnected, digitally driven lifestyle. In a virtuous cycle, software defined vehicles (SDVs) of the future will support an in-vehicle experience that is productive, immersive, and personalized for vehicle occupants, while, simultaneous

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5 Ways Cloud Solutions Power Business Agility

TRG Blog

Understanding of cloud computing within the general business community has been an evolutionary process; however, the picture of what it is, how it works, and what it means has become crystal clear. Increasingly, cloud technology is being seen as an essential tool for turning change from a threat into an opportunity.

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Setting the context: Negotiating with Suppliers in an Inflationary Environment

Vantage Partners

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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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ImpartnerCON 2022 – The Premier Customer Channel Industry Event Returns in October in Salt Lake City

Impartner

Event brings together channel professionals and executives from leading industries worldwide for networking and channel education. Thought provoking sessions will focus on industry trends, best practices and technology from leading industry analysts, channel chiefs and Impartner executives. SALT LAKE CITY – July 12, 2022 Impartner, After two years of hosting virtual events for channel chiefs and the channel industry, Impartner, the world’s most complete channel management platform and Part

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Developments Around Fleets, Autonomous, Connected and Electric (F.A.C.E.) to Underpin 2030 Vision of Commercial Trucking

Frost & Sullivan

Macro-economic and sector-specific factors such as geopolitical instability, supply chain realignment, growth in e-commerce, increasing CAPEX and OPEX, and the need to improve efficiency are triggering unprecedented disruptions in the commercial trucking industry. Decarbonization imperatives are further impacting the industry, which is indicted as a major contributor to air pollution and climate change.

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a.s.k. datenschutz: on the safe side thanks to stackfield

Stackfield Blog

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Negotiating with Suppliers in an Inflationary Environment: A Sample Skills Development Module

Vantage Partners

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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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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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Clarius Applauded by Frost & Sullivan with 2022 North American Portable Ultrasound Technology Innovation Leadership Award for Enabling High-Quality and More Affordable Ultrasound Imaging With its HD3 App-Based Scanners

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – July 27, 2022 – Recently Frost & Sullivan analyzed the North American portable ultrasound industry, and based on its findings, recognizes Clarius Mobile Health with the 2022 North American Portable Ultrasound Technology Innovation Leadership Award. The company developed the revolutionary Clarius HD3, a third-generation line of app-based wireless handheld scanners that enable physicians from a wide range of specialties to use ultrasound for fast diagnosis and safe procedure

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kw neun manages projects more efficiently thanks to stackfield

Stackfield Blog

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