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5 ways partnerships are like parenting

Stellar Partnerships

“Parenting is a lot like folding a fitted bed sheet. No-one knows how.” It was Mother’s Day last weekend and hundreds of mums were wakened by the sound of pots banging and toast burning as kids attempted a breakfast in bed surprise. Or maybe your fur baby decided that 6am was the best time to greet you with a wet nose, a friendly paw and demands for a walk.

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Expand Your Ecosystem: 7 Advantages of Partner Relationship Management

PLM Alliances

Sustaining growth in a highly competitive market doesn’t happen by chance. Indirect sales leaders are increasingly turning to partner relationship management (PRM) solutions to automate their key processes, drive greater partner engagement, and optimize every stage of their partner journeys. In this article, we’ll explore the major advantages of partner relationship management platforms, and why having one in your tech stack can be the differentiator that allows you to truly achieve scalable, su

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What is Stopping Your Organisation from Adopting Continuous Close?

TRG Blog

Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in adopting real-time financial reporting processes. Organisations across various industries have recognised the potential benefits of continuous closes , such as enhanced decision-making, improved accuracy, and increased operational efficiency. So, why isn’t every organisation adopting continuous close by now?

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Capgemini and IBM Ecosystem strengthen partnership for Drone-as-a-Service

IBM Business Partners

Today, utilities and many other industries use drones extensively to conduct surveys, map assets and monitor business operations. They use drones for tasks as simple as aerial photography or as complex as sophisticated data collection and processing. The global commercial drone market is projected to grow from USD 8.15 billion in 2022 to USD 47.38 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 28.58% in the forecast period.

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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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CRM Cleanup Checklist: What Is Data Cleansing and Why Is It Important?

Chameleon Sales

Perhaps your company has collected prospect and client contact information well, and you’ve amassed a lengthy contact list. It might feel fantastic to look at such a long list of names, but is it as healthy as it is long? How can you ensure those contacts are still accurate and qualified? Enter: Data cleansing! So, what is data cleansing, and why is it important?

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Podcast Advertising Rates: How Much Does It Cost To Buy Ads on a Podcast?

Jake Jorgovan

Podcasting is growing at a tremendous rate, and podcast revenue is growing right along with it. It is estimated that podcast ad revenue will jump from $2 billion in 2023 to nearly $3 billion in 2025. There are more than two million podcasts today and that number is growing. According to Edison Research, in 2021, 78% of the people in the U.S. were familiar with podcasting and 57%, or 162 million people, listened to at least one podcast.

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What is a semiconductor?

McKinsey & Company

Semiconductors are the unsung heroes of the technology world: parts manufactured from pure elements that work behind the scenes to power and connect everything from smartphones to cars.

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Make SAP ERP deployments future-ready with IBM Cloud

IBM Business Partners

As we navigate an unstable economy, organizations across industries want to be “future-ready,” and that requires systems and processes that can continuously evolve in response to the marketplace demands. For customers who run their operations on SAP, this means modernizing to a cloud ERP platform that supports greater flexibility and agility.

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Elevating healthcare services with cloud computing

Compare The Cloud

Healthcare is going digital as a route to improving patient care and use of clinician time. Everyone gains through faster access to up-to-date patient medical history, better diagnostic support, the wider use of telemedicine and video consultations and providing patients with access to test results, appointment booking and requests for repeat prescriptions on-line.

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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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LaVoieHealthScience Announces Building Company Narrative Workshop at 2023 BIO International Convention

LaVoie Health Science Blog

…Preparing Companies for M&A, Partnering, and More BOSTON & NEW YORK, May 18, 2023– LaVoieHealthScience (LHS), an award-winning global health science investor relations and public relations consulting agency focused on advancing health and science innovations, today announced the presentation at this year’s BIO International Convention entitled, “Building Your Narrative: How to Tell Your Company Story in Just 15 Slide Topics.

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, April 2023

McKinsey & Company

Inflation remains high while trending down; the International Monetary Fund lowered global growth projections to 2.8% for 2023; US banking sector challenges persist; output indicators in services stay strong.

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IBM named a Leader in the latest Forrester Wave™ report for AI Decisioning

IBM Business Partners

Forrester Research just released “ The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2023: The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up ” by Mike Gualtieri with Aaron Katz, Catherine Marcin, and Jen Barton, and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader. This report outlines the combination of traditional decision automation tools with machine learning models and other technologies.

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Building the Business Case for Satellite IoT 

Compare The Cloud

The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. Weather monitoring stations are transforming the efficiency and environmental performance of remote copper mines and helping farmers to safeguard crops and livestock in a changing climate. The shipping industry is improving cargo traceability to mitigate on-going disruption.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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A Flexi-Work World Needs New Performance Appraisals

INSEAD Knowledge

Although the days of full remote work may be over, many employees have expressed a desire for flexible work arrangements. But with Covid-19 no longer a global health emergency, more organisations could demand that people return to the office – setting the scene for an inevitable tug-of-war. Some organisations including Google, Meta and EY have continued to allow teleworking in some capacity, but others have followed the lead of Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk and insisted on calling employees back

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Consumers are in fact buying sustainable goods: Highlights from new research

McKinsey & Company

Which sustainability attributes matter most at the point of sale? Do consumers pay attention to sustainability claims? A new report from McKinsey and NielsenIQ provides answers.

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How Infor SunSystems Can Help with Your Intercompany Accounting

TRG Blog

Intercompany accounting can be a complex and time-consuming process for businesses with multiple entities. The need to manage intercompany transactions and reconcile balances between related companies can lead to significant manual effort, errors, and delays.

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Using Cloud To Avoid Bloated Business Models

Compare The Cloud

There has been an exponential rise in the volume of cloud-based business tools and cloud-first businesses, which has been further propelled by the pandemic and necessitated a rapid transition to remote working. As business working models settle after these significant changes, cloud is becoming an increasingly popular choice for organisations looking to improve productivity and long-term business strategy.

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Sales Kickoff Beyond the Meeting: How to Plan & Execute a Successful SKO

Speaker: Gerhard Gschwandtner, CEO, Selling Power | Beverlie Heyman, Director of Sales Enablement, Bigtincan | Jared Hibbs, Sr. Sales Enablement Manager, Bigtincan

Sales kickoff (SKO) meetings are a critical time for sales enablement and management teams to drive learning and motivation that (they hope) will last the whole year. Unfortunately, those same meetings can also become long, tedious, repetitive days that cause reps to tune out and turn off. Over the past few years, sales kickoffs have looked very different.

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TDC Digital leverages IBM Cloud for transparent billing and improved customer satisfaction

IBM Business Partners

Web-based ERP providers are experiencing significant growth and demand as more companies seek to streamline their business processes, cut costs and improve operational efficiency. With the rise of cloud computing, web-based ERP providers increasingly offer Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become a popular option for businesses of all sizes.

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Land: A crucial resource for the energy transition

McKinsey & Company

To achieve its decarbonization targets, the European Union will need to expand renewable-energy capacity. Identifying and allocating sufficient land will be foundational to the effort.

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How to Share and Manage Knowledge for Innovation

Hype

Knowledge sharing and innovation In the 1970s, Walker’s Wagon Wheel Tavern sealed its role in innovation history. Its name perfectly captured what took place there – like spokes on a wheel, people converged and the air was full of conversation on a Friday night. Ideas flew around, many of which crashed and burned. But some fused, became something bigger, gained momentum, and grew into new businesses.

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Tackle’s Guide to AWS Marketplace’s CPPO (Channel Partner Private Offers)

Tackle.io

If you’re selling on AWS Marketplace and leveraging private offers , you might also be thinking about expanding your reach and selling power by partnering with some of the more than 1,400 global consultants in the AWS Marketplace to reach new customers via CPPO (Channel Partner Private Offers). Read more: Tackle’s AWS Marketplace Seller Guide to People and Programs What are Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPO)?

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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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Leveraging partnerships, technology, and design to enhance water quality through the inaugural Aquality app

IBM Business Partners

Summary: Together with IBM, Deltares is working to enhance and expand the reach of its Aquality app, formerly called the Nitrate app. The tool can help farmers improve water quality, protect biodiversity, save on fertilizer costs and make farming practices more sustainable. The Aquality app leverages technologies such as machine learning to help communities detect nitrate pollution and other quality characteristics in water and is experimenting with artificial intelligence to provide feedback an

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In the near term, commercial real estate may not hedge inflation

McKinsey & Company

Rising cap rates could erode CRE’s power to outperform amid inflation. Real estate players can still take steps to thrive.

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Building a Career in Partnerships: Advice From 7 Partner Leaders

Chaneltivity

Although partnerships have been around for a long time, a career in partnerships is fairly new in the B2B SaaS world. Unlike other roles, there’s not a tried and tested partnerships playbook you can just rinse and repeat. So, how do you know whether you’d be good at it? And if you think you would be, how do you convey that to partner leadership or parlay those skills into a partner role at a different company?

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Resolving Construction Disputes in Michigan: How a Construction Lawyer Can Help

Tishkoff

Construction disputes can arise unexpectedly, causing delays, financial setbacks, and strained relationships between project stakeholders. Resolving these disputes efficiently and effectively is crucial to minimize disruptions and protect your interests as a contractor in Michigan. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore common construction disputes, negotiation strategies, and the invaluable role of a construction lawyer in achieving favorable resolutions for all parties involved.

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Mastering Intent Data: Understanding its Importance & Best Practices

Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

In this webinar, Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union and business strategist, will take you through the ABCs of intent data. You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

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Unlock productivity with advanced generative AI

IBM Business Partners

AI and automation are driving business transformation by empowering individuals to do work without expert knowledge of business processes and applications. Whether it’s an employee who knows what they need but doesn’t know how to do it, a knowledge worker who knows how to do the task but needs help doing it more efficiently, or a customer who wants to resolve an issue but struggles with self-help tools, artificial intelligence (AI) unlocks new levels of productivity by empowering ind

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Forward Thinking on the rollercoaster of central banking with Hans-Helmut Kotz

McKinsey & Company

“A boring world might lead us to terrible stagnation, which we don't want. We need innovation in front of all the issues we are dealing with.” A former central banker and economist talks about the difficult balances that need to be struck.

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A Comprehensive Overview of Infor SunSystems Cloud Core Modules

TRG Blog

Infor SunSystems Cloud offers two distinct suites of modules: Financials and Order Fulfilment. SunSystems Cloud Financials comprises ledger accounting, fixed assets, and corporate allocations, while SunSystems Cloud Order Fulfilment provides sales order management, purchase order management, inventory management, and costing.

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