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Why is Collaborative Leadership Important?

TRG Blog

Organisations nowadays have to keep themselves afloat with the ever-changing pace of the business world. The shifting movement is going towards a more collaborating, innovating and team-based way of operating. As a result, top leaders need to take a more open approach in the workplace in which each and every member of the team engages and contributes to the overall success.

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Mixing Business and Pleasure for Competitive Advantage

INSEAD Knowledge

A recent study shows how entrepreneurial team formation can be improved by combining two established strategies.

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KNOW THYSELF – THE PATH TO WISDOM

Be Partner Ready

You’ve probably heard of the good ol’ SWOT analysis. A business imperative that’s one of the first things you’re often taught in any sort of business/marketing/communication course. For those unaccustomed, a SWOT is a technique used to help an organisation identify their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, often related to competitors or feasibility planning.

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Top B2B Lead Generation Agencies of 2021

Jake Jorgovan

Finding a lead generation service can be a complicated task—there are many fly-by-nighters with a beautiful website and the gift of the gab, but their results lack expertise and are simply hot air. And then there are those lead generation agencies that don’t give value for money. How can you find a lead generation company that actually knows what it’s doing and can be counted on to bring new business to your sales pipeline?

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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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What will be Your In-Work Refreshments This Summer?

Peter Simoons

It is July already and we are fully into summer and enjoying great weather, every now and then interrupted by a thunderstorm. Such rainfall is good to shake up the atmosphere and wipe out the dust. Often it also provides us with new views on the things we see around us. During the rain the world looks a little different, a rainbow may light up the horizon and after the rain, the world returns to its refreshed state.

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Kaseya Breach Shakes Faith in ITSM Platforms

Channel Insider

Managed service providers (MSPs) both large and small are reassessing their approaches to managing IT in the wake of a cyberattack against the IT service management (ITSM) platform provided by Kaseya. Kaseya is now reporting its software-as-a-service (SaaS) instance of its Virtual System Administrator (VSA) platform will be back online sometime between 4:00 and 7:00 EST today.

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The Complex Psychology of Covid-19 Compliance

INSEAD Knowledge

Three main psychological factors helped determine whether people responded to first-wave Covid restrictions with deference or defiance.

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Which Leadership's Key Factor is Unintentionally Forgotten?

TRG Blog

Gallup’s data in 2020 1 depicted a troubling reality of employees’ dissatisfaction. Approximately 85% of employees worldwide are still not engaged or are actively disengaged at work despite more effort from companies. Sadly, not many leaders attentively concern about this subject.

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Complimentary access! SiriusDecisions Channel Marketing Strategies Research Brief: Marketing Automation Its Use In The Channel

Mindmatrix

A marketing automation platform (MAP) is usually perceived as a direct sales and marketing tool, yet it also can dramatically improve channel sales and marketing efforts. This research brief discusses four key categories where MAPs can benefit the channel, and provide specific uses within each.

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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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Innovation Study

Vantage Partners

This global benchmarking study analyzes innovation trends and their business impact, strategies to foster innovation and realize more value, and how company culture affects innovation initiatives. The study was conducted throughout 2020 and 2021 and comprises over 165 survey responses from individuals representing more than 150 companies, plus interviews and case-study analysis.

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How Should Humans Collaborate With AI?

INSEAD Knowledge

When bringing algorithms and employees together, businesses should respect rather than ignore human preferences.

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13 Executive Dashboard Examples Organized By Department

ClearPoint Strategy

If there is one phrase that represents both enormous potential and challenges to organizations today, it is big data. We have more and more data available to us every day and many companies are stymied by the sheer volume of managing it. And yet data-driven decision making is more important than ever. The unlikely and overlooked hero is the manager that can turn this avalanche of information into a well-designed dashboard.

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3 Evolving Aspects of Leadership & Management in the Digital Age

TRG Blog

In a world of constant change, the importance of leadership in business success is among a few things that will always hold true. What may evolve, however, are how effective leadership is defined and which competencies of leaders and managers matter the most.

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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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Frost & Sullivan Reveals Top Business Priorities in Data Use and Management across the Globe

Frost & Sullivan

Internet of Things connected devices are expected to exceed 66 billion by 2026, finds Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – July 7, 2021 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that organizations worldwide are inclined to invest in hybrid and multi-cloud information technology (IT) environments that can support users, applications, and data spread across diverse locations.

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Marked for Disruption, Deep in Denial: Law Firms at a Crossroads

INSEAD Knowledge

The greatest threat to the survival of law firms isn’t technological, but psychological.

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16 Podcasts Every Event Professional Should Listen To

ITA Group

16 Podcasts Every Event Professional Should Listen To. One of life’s simplest pleasures for me is a long road trip on my own. I love having open road in front of me and the flexibility to go where I want, stop when I want, and listen to what I want. This is probably why I have an extensive list of favorite podcasts—some that I listen to regularly and some that I save on standby waiting for my next trip. .

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3 Key Steps to Keep You From Overrating Your Leadership Skills

TRG Blog

Whether you're a CEO or a mid-level manager, it is important to have an accurate picture of your leadership skills. This includes personal leadership skills, such as organisation and time management, as well as higher-level skills including delegation, communication, vision and empowerment of others.

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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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Five Key Trends That Will Shape Growth in the Global Automotive Aftermarket

Frost & Sullivan

Beyond acknowledging that the automotive aftermarket was impacted by the pandemic in 2020 (revenues from parts and accessories sales fell by an estimated 8.8% last year) there are more long-term considerations, such as what important trends and opportunities will emerge in 2021 and how will they shape growth in the aftersales business. In attempting to answer these questions, the Mobility team at Frost & Sullivan has determined that five key trends – online-to-offline integration, the

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What Do Modern Deal Registration Programs Look Like?

Channel Incentive Best Practices

One of the most popular channel programs to offer to Partners is that of Deal Registration. However, with an increasing number of Partner types in the channel – from Distributors, Resellers, VARs, System Integrators, Influencers, Referral, Marketplace, CSP, MSP, Service Provider, Alliance, Technology, to Solution Provider, how are Deal Reg programs evolving?

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Vetting 100s of Channel Partners? Use This 4-Criteria Checklist to Speed Up The Process

Crossbeam Blog

When you look at your list of channel partners , do you feel overwhelmed because you don’t know which partners to prioritize and which to cut ties with?

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Key Factors that Contribute to Exceptional Leadership

TRG Blog

Have you ever pondered upon the thought: “What makes a great leader?” Some of us are naturally born leaders, while others might not do as great.

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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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Back to basics: What is affiliate marketing?

Impact

Est reading time: 4 min. For those new to affiliate marketing or keen to keep up with the latest affiliate partnership trends, it’s a good idea to go back to basics. Today let’s answer one of the top questions marketers ask about affiliate marketing: What is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing channel. Affiliate publishers promote products on behalf of brands.

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Recent A/E/C Mergers and Acquisitions in the News

PSMJ Resources Blog

Here’s a recap of some of the latest A/E/C mergers and acquisitions that have been announced in recent weeks.

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Prepared to Pivot and Swivel: Developing the Skills of Adaptive Leaders

Vantage Partners

Originally posted on April 19, 2021 on Training Industry's blog.

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Ep. 169 – Bell Curve Managing Partner, Ian Martins

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Ian Martins, Managing Partner for Bell Curve. . Ian currently runs operations at Bell Curve, which is a San Francisco-based agency that helps startups and high-growth enterprises grow. Bell Curve has worked with companies like Microsoft, Clearbit, Segment, and Pilot to name a few. . Before working with Bell Curve, Ian helped build the advertising agency Abacus, which worked with clients like Nestle, Starbucks, Campbells, CIBC, and more.

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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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How commerce content increases revenue

Impact

There’s a lot of chatter about commerce content these days and how it’s the future of advertising for publishers. Even though the practice has been around for years, there’s been a recent significant uptick. Simply explained, commerce content or content partnerships is when publishers — websites and apps with loyal followings — create articles, listicles, videos, and other digital content that promotes brands and products their editorial team believes in.

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PROACTIVE FIRMS MOVE AHEAD POST COVID

PSMJ Resources Blog

Solid strategic planning and enthusiastic brand activism are front and center for proactive firms wanting to differentiate themselves from the competition. Two industry leaders share their secrets for staying ahead of the curve.

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Hosting in-person events in 2021? Here are 3 ways to plan for success

PLM Alliances

As event planners , your job is to embody a quote from British actor Michael Caine: “Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” Although the coronavirus pandemic restrictions have largely lifted in the United States, the return of events will likely be different than prior to the pandemic. Plus, risks still exist for those not yet vaccinated with new variants emerging.

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