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Give Me The Facts, Just the Facts

Jesse Lyn Stoner

Facts are bite size pieces of reality. There is no such thing as an “alternative fact.” If you start to believe there are alternate realities, it will make you crazy because there is nothing you can depend on. 2 + 2 equals 4. The sun rose this morning. George Washington was the first president of […]. The post Give Me The Facts, Just the Facts appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Myth busting in corporate partnerships

Stellar Partnerships

Corporate partnerships people are unique. They have special superpowers of resilience, creativity, courage, resourcefulness and emotional intelligence. But they’re not alchemists, who promised to turn lead into gold. Some of the biggest challenges in corporate partnerships are the myths and inaccurate assumptions about what constitutes a partnership and what a partner is willing to do for your non-profit.

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Should We Pursue This Alliance Opportunity?

Peter Simoons

What do you do if your company is approached by another company with a proposal to form an alliance together? There are two approaches to follow in response: the opportunistic one and the structural one. The Opportunist Approach. In the opportunistic approach your response is something like “Yeah sure, let’s do it” and you jump into a new adventure.

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3 Priorities from the Cisco Digital Partner Summit

Partner Path

Plus, a look at their new partner program. With all the uncertainty in my country and the world right now, it was comforting to have a consistent message from Cisco during their recent partner summit. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins opened the event with a hopeful message of agility and resilience – skills that have been tested in my household these last eight months.

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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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When AI Systems Fail: Introducing the AI Incident Database

Partnership on AI

Governments, corporations, and individuals are increasingly deploying intelligent systems to safety-critical problem areas, such as transportation, energy, health care, and law enforcement, as well as challenging social system domains such as recruiting. Failures of these systems pose serious risks to life and wellbeing, but even well-intentioned intelligent system developers fail to imagine what can go wrong when their systems are deployed in the real world.

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Mindmatrix Feature Spotlight: Alert and Notifications

Mindmatrix

Get instant updates on critical prospect behavior with Mindmatrix. Closing a deal often boils down to how well your sales network is connected to their prospects. Are they there when the prospects are ready to buy or when they have a question? If not, the lead may just move to a competitor. Mindmatrix sales enablement software can prevent this from happening by generating alerts via SMS and emails for your salespeople, channel partners, reps and dealers, helping them take the right action on tim

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Optimizing Your Alliance Management Operating Model: Considerations from CHI's 2020 Strategic Alliance Management Congress

Vantage Partners

Vantage Partners was proud to be the premier sponsor for Cambridge HealthTech Institute’s (CHI) 2020 Strategic Alliance Management Congress. While we all wish we could be together in person, we wanted to extend kudos to the organizers at CHI for putting on an engaging and thought-provoking virtual event. As in the past, this conference featured insightful presentations from leaders across Biopharma alliance management.

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Methods for Inclusion: Expanding the Limits of Participatory Design in AI

Partnership on AI

Why is it so challenging for tech companies to incorporate inclusive methods into their AI/ML development, and where do traditional participatory design methods fall short? The Inclusion Illusion: How to Approach Impacted Communities When Building AI/ML Systems. Participatory design approaches used in technology development have been around since the 1970s, relying on different stakeholder engagement practices like interviews, focus groups, user surveys, and system evaluations.

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AWS Hackdays Online 2020: Interview with Winning Team SymbloT

Agorize

Hot off last year’ s success, “AWS Hackdays Online 2020: Build Tomorrow!” drove over 2,300 participants with 4 new ASEAN participating countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar and Pakistan. Participants were encouraged to bring digital solutions to tackle challenges in the fields of Sustainability, Learning and Development, Automation and Security in Southeast Asia.

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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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Mindmatrix Feature Spotlight: Asset Permissions for Content & Messaging Integrity

Mindmatrix

Maintain content and messaging integrity with Mindmatrix’s Asset Permissions feature. Mindmatrix allows you to control asset access and use through its asset permission mechanism. The asset permission functionality lets you create and manage permissions for accessing, editing, sharing and copying assets. . User-level asset permissions- This is the broadest level of permissions.

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Ep. 135 – Klient Boost VP of Ops, Richard Uruchurtu

COO Alliance

Our guest today is KlientBoost’s VP of Operations, Richard Uruchurtu. . Richard Uruchurtu III was originally a film school grad, who left film freelancing to join a small media company as an editor. During his time there, he went from editor to manager, to training director, to sales director. And the company itself grew from a small shop to a 35+ employee, $2.2 million in revenue business that was eventually acquired.

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5 Tips for Developing an Innovation Framework

Planview Blog

It’s often said that truly innovative companies don’t follow a “big bang” approach to innovation – rather, they have a strong innovation culture that continuously evolves their business. If you’re struggling to reach that goal, it can be useful to go back to basics and orient your efforts around an innovation framework. But with so many options available, how do you know which is the best framework for your company — and how do you implement it?

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Tips for Using Employer Branding to Inspire Employees to Achieve Business Goals

ITA Group

Tips for Using Employer Branding to Inspire Employees to Achieve Business Goals. In 2019, roughly 30% of people made New Year’s resolutions. Of those who do, 30% were very confident that they’d be able to stick to them— and 7% did. Those are pretty dismal success rates, especially since theoretically people should be more likely to achieve goals that they set for themselves.

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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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Mindmatrix Feature Spotlight: Asset approval and Expiration

Mindmatrix

Ensure your sales and marketing teams have access to the most recent version of the sales and marketing materials. It is all too common for salespeople and channel partners to be using outdated or incorrect versions of sales and marketing materials, thus diluting the corporate brand and messaging. Not to mention creating legal problems. Mindmatrix resolves this challenge with its asset approval and expiration feature. .

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The Tension-Filled World of Luxury Consumption

INSEAD Knowledge

Recent research highlights how luxury consumers are pulled in different, often contradicting directions.

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Agile Terminology

Planview Blog

Whether you’re new to Agile or a seasoned practitioner, it never hurts to brush up on your Agile terminology! Bookmark this alphabetized glossary of key Agile terms to use as a reference whenever you need it. Agile Terminology to Know. Acceptance Test. A set of criteria, written from the perspective of the customer, to ensure that the product created meets its requirements.

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5 New Product Launch Best Practices

SFE Partners

Successful new product launches have become more important than ever, but remain a high-risk investment. You can, however, increase your chances of success with these new product launch best practices.

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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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Asset consumption visibility is not that tough a goal to achieve!

Mindmatrix

With Mindmatrix you can get a clear view of how your prospects, customers, salespeople and channel partners are interacting with your sales and marketing assets. Mindmatrix’s powerful asset reporting capabilities help you understand how effective and popular your assets are with your prospects, partners and sales teams. You also get full visibility of how each of them interacted with your assets.

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Quick Tips on Virtual vs. In-Person Event Sponsorship

ITA Group

Quick Tips on Virtual vs. In-Person Event Sponsorship. Many meeting organizer debates are currently taking place on whether a virtual conference can bring as much ROI to sponsors as an in-person conference. There are pros and cons to both types of events, but putting on your event marketing hat a little differently can help drive home the best return.

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Strategic Planning In Local Government: The Main Components & Examples

ClearPoint Strategy

You’re working on a strategic plan for your local government. You may be just starting to create your goals or already looking to implement and execute on your initiatives. Either way, you’ve come to the right place. We know that taking your grand plans and turning them into real benefits for your community isn’t easy. It takes planning, execution and a lot of hard work.

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The 5 Steps to Sales Plan Success

SFE Partners

Working with a sales advisory firm can give you a serious competitive advantage. When you have experienced sales professionals developing a comprehensive sales plan, you will find the right markets and deliver the right message through the right media.

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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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How to Sell More on AWS Marketplace With the ACE Program

Tackle.io

We’ve got good news for anyone determined to find scalable success selling via Marketplaces—you don’t have to do it alone. Partner programs and co-sell benefits establish relationships between your company and Cloud Provider reps that set a flywheel of sales into motion. . In an edition of Cloud Marketplace Office Hours we explored the AWS ACE Program.

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O’Dwyer’s PR News: “The Biopharma Communications Balancing Act”

LaVoie Health Science Blog

LaVoieHealthScience President and CEO, Donna LaVoie , contributed to the O’Dwyer’s PR News Magazine October issue focused on healthcare and medical public relations. Donna discusses what makes strategic communications and investor relations in biotech different from other industries. The communications function is often reliant on the entire strategic leadership team in a startup biotech.

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Franchising vs Business Opportunity

Internicola Law Firm

Franchises and business opportunities are a part of the same family, both are regulated by the Federal Trade Commission, both are regulated by state specific laws, and both require a pre-sales disclosure process. The difference between a franchise and a business opportunity is that in a franchise transaction the franchisor possesses the legal right to exert on-going and long-term control over the operations of the franchisee whereas in the sale of a business opportunity degree of control is limi

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9 Ways To Increase Sales And Revenue In Your Business

Aepiphanni

In a conversation with a gentleman about his business, we were reviewing how he would actually do business. We began with questions about his products and services, pricing and other features, to which he was able to provide answers. However, despite having the pieces and parts in place in theory, the plan was lacking the alignment that a business requires to effectively drive sales and revenue.

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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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Tech Mahindra CEO says "Don't miss out on citizen development"

Project Management Institute

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#ELGL20: It’s a Wrap

ClearPoint Strategy

#ELGL20: Local Gov Oktoberfest is the Engaging Local Government Leader (ELGL) network’s annual conference. This year, the conference was offered virtually throughout the whole month of October. We are proud to partner with ELGL to help educate and discuss best practices in strategy, innovation, and budget! With a mission to engage the brightest minds in local government, ELGL conferences cover a wide variety of local government topics.

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Why You Shouldn’t Franchise Your Business?

Internicola Law Firm

Frequently we talk about how to franchise your business , should you franchise , and the cost to franchise but, not enough attention is given to why you shouldn’t franchise. So, let’s discuss 3 reasons why you shouldn’t franchise your business. Reason #1 – You Don’t Have the Time To Devote to Building a Franchise System.

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