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Candid conversations

Stellar Partnerships

Kids are the most brutal critics. Perhaps that’s why so many people prefer dogs; they don’t care if you’re dressed badly or haven’t cleaned the house, you’ll still get a warm welcome and undying love. My daughter is training to be a teacher and she sees what kids write in their daily diaries. They are startlingly frank about their family’s shortcomings.

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6 Elements of Effective Strategic Planning

PLM Alliances

While the business operations framework is a continuous cycle in which each stage informs the next, developing a strategic plan is the best place to start. During the strategic planning process, an organization performs three steps: Builds or modifies the foundational strategic vision and mission. Commits to goals that drive overall health. Develops a long-term plan to achieve the goals.

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How utilities can use advanced analytics to elevate customer experience

McKinsey & Company

Industry players can both lower costs and improve performance by capturing the full value of today’s technologies.

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Best Project Portfolio Management Solutions

Channel Insider

To assist project managers, managed service providers ( MSP ), and business leaders everywhere with the never-ending evaluation, planning, and execution of projects, project portfolio management (PPM) software solutions offer a central platform for organizing and managing projects. Whether it’s managing your own business or evaluating multiple business lines, PPM can help harness insights for decision-making.

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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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The Advantages of a Strong Procurement Analytics Program

CenterPoint Group

Procurement and data analytics are two very different concepts that sound like they wouldn't belong in the same world, but many businesses have discovered that effectively combining them can result in some real benefits for everyone involved.

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The digital reinvention of enterprise tech go-to-market

McKinsey & Company

As customers demand both transformational expertise and simplified, self-serve experiences, the traditional enterprise sales playbook is being disrupted from the top down and bottom up.

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10 Powerful Leadership Lessons Learned From Coaching Kids

PLM Alliances

I now have over 30 years of experience in the business world, and I have experienced many distinct types of leaders and team situations. Along the way, I coached my children's soccer, lacrosse, and baseball teams. Most of the teams were competitive in their league. Some teams won every game, while others lost every game, so I’ve seen it all. Certain teams only existed for a year or two, while others I coached from the time the kids were five or six until they graduated from high school.

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How IT Vendors Can Attract Channel Partners

Channel Insider

The channel has largely taken over from direct sales as the best way for IT vendors to sell their wares. Particularly when it comes to cybersecurity, the as-a-service market is booming. Managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) are steadily taking up more and more market share. Many IT vendors have launched their own subscription services in an attempt to safeguard market share.

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A Message from our CEO David A. Yovanno & Co-Founder Per Pettersen

Impact

It’s undeniable that impact.com has a certain spark, a ‘thing’ that, whatever it is, separates us from some of the best companies in the industry. Over time, we’ve realized that the thing we have that makes us special, is the creativity, passion, willingness to help each other out, and tenacity to build something great. We see this every day in our employees.

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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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Building the next big experiences

McKinsey & Company

Brian Solis, Salesforce global innovation evangelist, sees curiosity and empathy as integral parts in delivering new experiences in the metaverse. An edited version of the conversation from our ‘Value creation in the metaverse’ report follows.

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5 Steps to a Killer Messaging Framework That Will Save You

PLM Alliances

Saying a messaging framework can save you might seem a little strong. But a well-crafted Messaging Framework can save you hundreds of hours and, ultimately, make your field and partners significantly more effective. Want to know more about this miracle reference document? First, a messaging framework document is a summary of messages, evidence and copy blocks from which field, customer and partner facing materials can be created.

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MSPs Embrace Premium Services as They Manage Customer Experiences

Channel Insider

Managed service providers (MSPs) are always worrying about keeping up with changing customer needs — and having the skilled IT staff needed to provide all those services. MSPs face a seemingly endless supply of business and customer challenges and demands. Some may require MSPs to make small adjustments to their service offerings, while others might require a complete business makeover.

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This 5-word question can reveal any interview candidate’s real traits…

COO Alliance

Mark was an accomplished COO of a reputable organization in New York. He was a typical high anxiety, hard-working executive. He started as a supervisor and worked his way up the ladder…. Now he has a very big problem. All of the new responsibilities are overwhelming him. How is he supposed to drive the company’s growth, keep track of key tasks, maintain a schedule & not miss any meetings?

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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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Creating a technology risk and cyber risk appetite framework

McKinsey & Company

Here’s how to build a comprehensive, measurable, and objective end-to-end risk appetite framework as a foundation for managing technology risk and cyber risk.

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How to build a successful affiliate marketing website

Impact

In recent years, affiliate marketing emerged as a necessary and sustainable revenue stream. In this article, we unpack what you need to become an affiliate publisher, start an affiliate marketing blog, and set yourself up for success. U.S. businesses expect to spend $8.2 billion on affiliate marketing in 2022, almost $1 billion more than the year before.

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Best of Both Worlds: What Agile Project Management Can Do for Your AEC Firm

PSMJ Resources Blog

Disruption is a fact of life for companies in the architecture, engineering, and construction business. If it’s not a project delay due to supply chain issues, then maybe it’s an untimely resource shortage on your project teams or severe weather threatening to halt project work.

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How to Attract Top Talent Without Competing on Compensation

COO Alliance

Attracting Top Tier Talent can be a needle in a haystack situation…. Most of them are already in satisfying jobs. Or they expect 6-figure or even 7-figure compensation. In this post, you’ll discover: How to “attract” the right people who love working with you & your team (We are talking about those who are the first to come with a big smile on their face).

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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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Freelance, side hustles, and gigs: Many more Americans have become independent workers

McKinsey & Company

Independent work is booming, the American Opportunity Survey shows. For these workers and society, the upsides and drawbacks are all part of the gig.

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Improve Your Sales Process to Ramp Up B2B Revenues

Market Source Inc

An inefficient B2B sales process can lead to lagging revenues. Business process engineering can spot areas of wasted time and effort and streamline sales so your reps get faster, better results. The post Improve Your Sales Process to Ramp Up B2B Revenues appeared first on MarketSource.

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4 Major Improvements to the AWS Partner Path

Tackle.io

In January 2022, AWS rolled out its ISV Partner Path to replace the previous APN Partnership tiers and improve the partnership process for ISVs. With AWS Partner Path, partnership tiers are based on the solution that the partner is providing—bringing wider access to a host of benefits that were previously unavailable under the APN Partnership tiers.

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Edge Computing Drives Industrial IT/OT Convergence in Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, and Automotive Verticals

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO – Aug. 25, 2022 – Industrial businesses continue to undergo rapid digital transformation as digitalization increases operational efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness to the market. Digital enterprises can create new, more competitive solutions and services and superior customer experiences. Gathering, analyzing, and utilizing vast amounts of data from equipment, processes, customers, and suppliers also drive this transformation.

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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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Author Talks: Into the unknown

McKinsey & Company

Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr provide a tool kit for navigating the growing uncertainty we face in our lives.

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A Culture to Fuel the Next Generation

Market Source Inc

MarketSource team members are bound by four core values—relationships, open communication, work ethic, and serving others. These are the ties that bind, and this is the difference culture makes. The post A Culture to Fuel the Next Generation appeared first on Migration.

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The Outlook of Leading Enterprise ERP in 2022

TRG Blog

The ERP Value Matrix is a well-known ERP ranking and evaluation report published annually by none other than the equally famous, market-leading technology research and analysis firm, Nucleus Research. Read more: Everything you need to know about ERP solutions.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Palo Alto Networks with the 2022 Global Company of the Year Award in the Secure SD-WAN Industry

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX — 23 August 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the Global Secure SD-WAN Industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Palo Alto Networks with the 2022 Company of the Year Award for delivering visionary innovation and performance. The Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN enables simplified, secure, and consistent connections that help customers modernize their branch infrastructure.

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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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Building an open metaverse

McKinsey & Company

CEO John Hanke says the promise of the metaverse is massive, but there are technological and financial hills to climb. An edited version of the conversation from our ‘Value creation in the metaverse’ report follows.

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Answering 3 Key Automotive Industry 4.0 Questions

Planview Blog

Vehicle factory shutdowns due to a microchip shortage, an automotive CEO losing his job for software concerns, and millions of connected cars on the road. No doubt about it, Automotive Industry 4.0 is here. Technology-related issues that weren’t a concern just five or ten years ago are now top of mind as customer demands and a rapidly changing industry push automakers and OEMs in new directions.

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5 top tips for new corporate fundraisers 

Remarkable Partnerships

The early days of being a corporate fundraiser can be daunting. When I started as a corporate fundraiser I was in a brand new profession, in a new sector and I felt nervous, overwhelmed and alone. We want every corporate fundraiser to get off to the best possible start. Which is why we have created this blog sharing our five top tips for new corporate fundraisers.