2021

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How top tech trends will transform insurance

McKinsey & Company

Over the next decade, the fully tech-enabled insurer will bear little resemblance to today’s organization. Five trends, individually and in combination, will have a seismic impact.

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20 Strategic Planning Models to Consider

ClearPoint Strategy

Strategic planning tools, or models, are designed to help organizations’ develop their action plan to achieve their goals. There are a lot of strategic planning models out there. We know. Which is why we pulled together a list of 20 of the most popular ones and describe the scenario that they are most useful.

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Why Universal Basic Income Should Be President Biden’s Top Priority

INSEAD Knowledge

An updated system of income and taxes would alleviate the worst crises the United States faces, including climate change. What’s more, we’ve got the numbers to prove it can work.

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For a Competitive Edge and a Sustainable Differentiation, Deploy a Superior Tech Stack

Impartner

Business experts have long debated whether the future will belong to those with the brightest management team, the best culture or the most adaptable strategy. Increasingly, it looks like the future will belong to those with the most capable digital implementations. The post For a Competitive Edge and a Sustainable Differentiation, Deploy a Superior Tech Stack appeared first on Impartner PRM.

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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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4 Steps to Get Free Public Relations

COO Alliance

When it comes to public relations, it can seem difficult to think of what stories and messages to get out there. What you must know is that it shouldn’t be that hard. If you’re doing good work, you’ll naturally have good stories to share. Getting them out there is where it becomes a little difficult. One of the best ways to get your company’s stories out – and to build excellent exposure for your company – is to get the media to cover your business for free.

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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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An Inside Look Into Google and HubSpot's GTM Strategy for Their Ads Integration

Crossbeam Blog

Behind every great integration is a successful go-to-market (GTM) story — but it’s hard to know what kind of GTM strategy delivers real results, especially when there are so many moving parts.

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Why Reimagination is The New Execution

Thinkers 50

Are you leading in a perpetual state of beta? The last 18 months has showed that the status quo is fragile, unstable and decaying at a faster rate with $41 trillion dollars of enterprise value at risk from the forces of business, technology and workforce disruption. Now, the only certainty is uncertainty. Leaders must master ambiguous and demanding contexts by focusing not just on business continuity, but on reimagining relevancy across their strategy, culture, talent, operating model and leader

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You Think Your Staff Wants to Go Back to the Office? Think Again.

Project Management Institute

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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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Beyond Engagement: Aligning Algorithmic Recommendations With Prosocial Goals

Partnership on AI

Much of the media we see online — whether from social media, news aggregators, or trending topics — is algorithmically selected and personalized. Content moderation addresses what should not appear on these platforms, such as misinformation and hate speech. But what should we see, out of the thousands or millions of items available? Content selection algorithms are at the core of our modern media infrastructure, so it is essential that we make principled choices about their goals. .

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Building value-chain resilience with AI

McKinsey & Company

Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges.

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The Blue Ocean Strategy Summary (With 4 Examples)

ClearPoint Strategy

Of the many strategic planning models that exist, the Blue Ocean Strategy could be considered the pacifist of the group. Based on an eponymously titled book , this strategy argues that “cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool.” Companies should instead look for new market space and ways to reinvent the industry.

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Strategy and Leadership Lessons From the ‘Notorious RBG’

INSEAD Knowledge

As the business world increasingly strives to be a catalyst for social justice and societal progress, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work provides many valuable lessons for leaders.

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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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Net-zero power: Long-duration energy storage for a renewable grid

McKinsey & Company

As the world transitions to decarbonized energy systems, emerging long-duration energy storage technologies will be critical for supporting the widescale deployment of renewable energy sources.

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Reconceiving the global trade finance ecosystem

McKinsey & Company

Trade finance does not work as well as it could, particularly for the millions of smaller businesses that help fuel the global economy. A new joint report sets out a vision for improving the ecosystem for all players.

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IoT value set to accelerate through 2030: Where and how to capture it

McKinsey & Company

New research shows that the Internet of Things offers significant economic value potential, particularly in standardized production settings, but companies must achieve scale to capture it.

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Closing the gender and race gaps in North American financial services

McKinsey & Company

An updated view into gender and racial diversity in financial services—as well as women’s day-to-day work experiences—reveals some progress. But challenges in building an equitable and inclusive workplace persist.

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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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Protecting workers through award-winning design

McKinsey & Company

3M and McKinsey Design have partnered to create a welding helmet that has transformed the daily lives of welders around the world. The product has won nearly a dozen international awards, including a 2021 “Best of the Best” Red Dot Award.

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Lessons from the rapidly evolving regulation of digital banking

McKinsey & Company

Regulators seeking ways to balance protection of customers’ interests, financial institutions’ risks, and their other policy objectives for digital banking can learn from early regulatory experiences.

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‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours

McKinsey & Company

A record number of employees are quitting or thinking about doing so. Organizations that take the time to learn why—and act thoughtfully—will have an edge in attracting and retaining talent.

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Fast forward: How cloud computing could transform risk management

McKinsey & Company

Cloud-based computing will provide tangible benefits for banking risk management functions, but risk leaders face significant challenges migrating their systems and activities from on-premises to the cloud.

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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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A new look at how corporations impact the economy and households

McKinsey & Company

We map the different ways in which the economic value that large companies create flows to households in OECD economies and examine what has changed in the past quarter-century.

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How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chains

McKinsey & Company

Companies have only partly addressed the weaknesses in global supply chains exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. In the face of new challenges, finishing the job is even more urgent.

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Being transgender at work

McKinsey & Company

Although corporate America has stepped up its public support of LGBTQ+ rights, it still has a long road ahead to foster a truly inclusive environment for transgender employees.

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Buy now, pay later: Five business models to compete

McKinsey & Company

Financing at the point of sale may be a small share of unsecured lending in the United States today, but it’s growing fast. Banks seeking long-term growth should explore market entry, and merchants should reassess their financing offers.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning

McKinsey & Company

US states and districts have the opportunity to not only help students catch up on unfinished learning from the pandemic but also tackle long-standing historical inequities in education.

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An on-demand revolution in customer-experience operations?

McKinsey & Company

Whether relying mainly on in-house or external talent, gig-style staffing models—when managed carefully—could give customer care the horsepower and flexibility it needs for today’s increasingly volatile markets.

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Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work

McKinsey & Company

To future-proof citizens’ ability to work, they will require new skills—but which ones? A survey of 18,000 people in 15 countries suggests those that governments may wish to prioritize.