Sat.Sep 09, 2023 - Fri.Sep 15, 2023

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Alliance Failure and Alliance Success: The 80% Rule

Peter Simoons

The research into alliance failure and success rates continues to display a broad spectrum of figures. The figures range from a mere 20% alliance failure rate at best, to a daunting 80% alliance failure rate at worst. It is this notably high alliance failure rate of 80% that sparks disbelief! This prompts one to wonder whether companies would genuinely invest in something they believe has a 4 in 5 chance of failure?

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The Three Pillars of Leadership

Vantage Partners

Today’s leaders need to approach leadership on multiple levels — namely, as leaders of themselves, of their teams, and of the business. Through the integration of these three dimensions, leaders have the foundation to successfully thrive amidst uncertainty and complexity and drive their teams and the organization forward. The leader of self is self-aware, possessing emotional intelligence, demonstrating trustworthiness, and building one’s resilience for the turbulent voyage of leading through ac

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Hack your habits for partnership success

Stellar Partnerships

“You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems”. James Clear. I’m guessing that most of you have big goals for corporate partnerships. Rarely do I speak to a non-profit that is just happy with whatever comes along. More likely the CEO has asked for a million dollars in partnership income by the end of the year and maybe some free wine for the Christmas party.

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Some employees are destroying value. Others are building it. Do you know the difference?

McKinsey & Company

More than half of employees report being relatively unproductive at work. New research into six types of employees shows how companies can re-engage workers while amplifying the impact of star performers.

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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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Wellness as an Essential Focus for the Holistic Leader

Vantage Partners

What is a holistic leader? We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations implementing leadership development training, and we believe the most effective leaders act along three dimensions: They lead self, they lead others, and they lead the business. One leadership element that cuts across each of these dimensions is the desire to create and nurture wellness.

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Setting the Standard: ISTO to Co-Host CHIPS Research and Development Standards Summit

ISTO / IEEE

Standards play a pivotal role in shaping industries and driving progress in a world driven by technology, innovation, and precision. It’s with this understanding that we are excited to introduce the upcoming CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Standards Summit—a dynamic event that promises to be a cornerstone in the evolution of the standards in the semiconductor and microelectronics sector.

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Gen AI in high gear: Mercedes-Benz leverages the power of ChatGPT

McKinsey & Company

Philipp Skogstad, CEO of Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, shares the story of bringing generative AI to 900,000 beta testers and discusses the vision, impact, challenges, and path forward for generative AI applications in the automotive sector.

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impact.com Announces Acquisition of SaaSquatch to Help Brands Increase Revenue and Reach New Audiences Through Authentic and Trusted Customer Referrals

Impact

By adding SaaSquatch’s leading customer referral technology to impact.com, clients will be able to transform customers into lifelong advocates through authentic, profitable, and scalable partnerships between consumers and brands NEW YORK – September 12, 2023 – impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, today announced it has acquired SaaSquatch, a best-in-class provider of customer referral software.

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Compare the Cloud interview – Matthew Bardell – nVentic

Compare The Cloud

Step into the realm of inventory management with Matthew Bardell from nVentic! In this comprehensive discussion, Matthew offers a deep dive into what makes nVentic stand out and the nuanced strategies they employ for effective stock inventory control. It’s a journey of discovery that unveils the secrets of efficient inventory management. Be sure not to miss these valuable insights that can transform the way you view stock control!

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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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Setting the Standard: Introducing the CHIPS Research and Development Standards Summit

ISTO / IEEE

Standards play a pivotal role in shaping industries and driving progress in a world driven by technology, innovation, and precision. It’s with this understanding that we are excited to introduce the upcoming CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Standards Summit—a dynamic event that promises to be a cornerstone in the evolution of the standards in the semiconductor and microelectronics sector.

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Improving US orthopedic care via patient-centric pathways

McKinsey & Company

Orthopedic care is among the largest categories in US healthcare; improvements could have far-reaching positive effects. We analyze care pathways to spot opportunities for better coordination.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Suki AI with the 2023 North American Technology Leadership Award

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — September 12, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the healthcare voice assistant industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Suki AI with the 2023 North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award. Suki is a leading technology company that provides superior artificial intelligence (AI) based voice solutions for the healthcare sector.

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Embracing cloud-based platforms: Unlocking business advantages in today’s evolving work landscape

Compare The Cloud

Over the past few years, businesses have encountered many unprecedented challenges, prompting them to undergo rapid adaptation and technological evolution. Among the most defining aspects of this modern work landscape has come the emergence of hybrid and remote work models. The importance of embracing technology that enables businesses and their teams to operate seamlessly, regardless of time or location, can simply not be overlooked.

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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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Ubotica partners with IBM for one-click deployment of space AI applications

IBM Business Partners

Space AI leader Ubotica Technologies is partnering with IBM to leverage IBM cloud infrastructure and watsonx.ai components, intending to simplify the process for a developer to get their application running onboard a satellite. With a single click, mutual customers will be able to securely deploy their AI models directly to satellites that use the Ubotica CogniSAT TM platform.

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Tech-powered growth: Three things growth leaders do differently

McKinsey & Company

Growth champions are turning tech innovation into impact by focusing on growth analytics, sales productivity, and omnichannel experiences.

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Leadership Mindset: Adapting Amidst Ambiguity

Vantage Partners

Every leader possesses a particular mindset. That mindset—what and how leaders think and feel about their role, their people, their goals—drives what they say and do. Leaders can’t just be told what to do—“now it’s time to adapt and collaborate!”—or merely instructed to adopt or change any other fundamental behaviors. Such directed behavior changes might last for a while, until people forget and their underlying mindsets retake the reins.

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The Power of Distinct Owners as Value Catalysts

INSEAD Knowledge

In the realm of business myths, one common misbelief stands out: the idea that shareholders are insignificant players, mere cogs within the corporate machinery. This perception, conceptualised in Berle and Means’s influential 1932 work, abstracts away shareholders and positions managers as the true custodians of corporations. However, their narrative largely focuses on a mere fraction of global firms – those publicly listed in the United States.

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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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Powering the future: The synergy of IBM and AWS partnership

IBM Business Partners

We are in the midst of an AI revolution where organizations are seeking to leverage data for business transformation and harness generative AI and foundation models to boost productivity, innovate, enhance customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. IBM and AWS have been working together since 2016 to provide secure, automated solutions for hybrid cloud environments.

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Investors want to hear from companies about the value of sustainability

McKinsey & Company

Investors want companies to sharpen their equity story and clarify the value of their sustainability initiatives. Here’s what company leaders can do.

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Announcing Planview Copilot: Accelerate Transformation and Action Data-Driven Strategic Decision-Making

Planview Blog

AI is further accelerating the pace of disruption and widening the gap between digital leaders and laggards. At Planview, our mission is to build the future of Connected Work, where the world’s organizations can innovate at the speed of a startup. The past decade of digital transformation has made it clear how difficult innovating at speed can be for organizations mired in legacy systems, technical debt, and disconnected decision making.

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How to Choose the Right MSP Vendor Partners in 6 Steps

Channel Insider

A vendor partner is a business that offers products, solutions, or services meant to support and enhance the offerings of a managed service provider (MSP). These partners provide the technological backbone that enables MSPs to deliver impactful services to their clients. However, with many options on the market today, you have to evaluate vendor partners correctly to pinpoint the right one for you.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Data breach prevention: 5 ways attack surface management helps mitigate the risks of costly data breaches

IBM Business Partners

Organizations are wrestling with a pressing concern: the speed at which they respond to and contain data breaches falls short of the escalating security threats they face. An effective attack surface management (ASM) solution can change this. According to the Cost of a Data Breach 2023 Report by IBM, the average cost of a data breach reached a record high of USD 4.45 million this year.

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How medium-size enterprises can better manage sourcing

McKinsey & Company

Small and medium-size enterprises often struggle to find procurement cost savings. Yet there are ways to do it while still pursuing growth and providing a superior customer experience.

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Report Automation: The Associated ROI

ClearPoint Strategy

Still struggling to produce monthly reports? Take a peek into report automation.

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Turning Life’s Lemons into Successful Lemonade

Market Source Inc

District Manager Alexxis Coons understands that good things come to those who wait. “What comes easy won’t last…and what lasts won’t always come easy.” The post Turning Life’s Lemons into Successful Lemonade appeared first on MarketSource.

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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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Companies need help making the dream of digital transformation a reality

IBM Business Partners

The term digital transformation gets so much play these days that it’s almost become a cliché But experts from Frost & Sullivan believe that for most organizations, there’s a sizeable gap between dream and reality. Digital transformation drives many IT investments, with a focus on adapting to new work models and customer expectations, increasing capacity to respond to higher demand, managing growth with fewer resources, enhancing eCommerce capabilities, and supporting securi

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Inclusive infrastructure investment: How to empower communities

McKinsey & Company

With more than $2 trillion in federal funding entering the US economy, three steps can help governments meet the needs of communities previously excluded from federal funding implementation decisions.

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Setting Objectives: How to Define Success in an Online Giveaway Campaign

Binfire Collaboration Blog

In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, hosting an online giveaway campaign has quickly become a powerful strategy to captivate audiences, foster engagement, and amplify brand visibility. These campaigns offer a dynamic way to connect with your target audience and create a buzz around your brand. The allure of an online giveaway lies in its ability to deliver various benefits for brands and businesses.

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