Peter Simoons

DECEMBER 19, 2021

“ Sit down, hands on your thighs and breathe ”, those were the final instructions I received and then I sat down and relaxed. Well, I tried to relax. Earlier that freezing cold Saturday morning I arrived with 14 others for a weekend that would leave a lasting impression on me. The location was filled with a remarkable collection of different things, consisting of a sauna, a campfire pit, a rock of about 4 metres high with a pool underneath it, a jacuzzi and a bath that had vague similarities to

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Be Partner Ready

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Former BePartnerReady.com® student the Heart Foundation signed up a new partnership with Coles in 2020. Together, their goal was to support Australians’ aspirations to become healthier and more active. Coles launched the Coles Health Hub , a one-stop online portal offering practical information & solutions around exercise, diet & nutrition, mental health and most importantly, motivation.

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Partners Preceptors

DECEMBER 21, 2021

By John Ricco. It’s that time of year. Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is here and we wonder where the year went. Over the coming weeks many of us will take stock of our year assessing what went well, what did not and what we may want to change in the New Year – – revamping our vision for our personal and/or professional lives. The sports world is full of examples of athletes and coaches working to thrive, succeed and achieve a vision.

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INSEAD Knowledge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The current recycling capacity for solar panels can’t cope with an influx of customers prematurely discarding their existing panels for cheaper, more efficient models.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

Stellar Partnerships

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It’s two weeks to Christmas and everyone I know is looking a bit stressed. If you’ve got kids, then you’re probably juggling all of the concerts, prize-givings, valedictories and performances that we couldn’t fit in during lockdown. It feels like you’ve got Heathrow air traffic control in your head and you’re worried that you’ll crash one of the planes at any minute.

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Peter Simoons

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Tip 25: Measure Alliance Performance on Leading Indicators. Once you’ve got your alliance or partnership formed and running, how then do you determine if your endeavor is headed towards success or not? Do you measure the success of your alliance or partnership based on the revenue it generates, or do you consider other factors showing its success?

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Channel Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the last year, cybersecurity has moved to the forefront of IT concerns, led by disasters such as the SolarWinds hack, the Colonial Pipeline and Kaseya ransomware attacks, and now the Apache Log4j vulnerability that the world is scrambling to patch. As we head into 2020, channel partners can be sure of one thing: The cybersecurity woes are not going to lessen anytime soon.

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Planview Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. If you’ve gotten approval from leadership to embark on an Agile transformation, you may be gaining momentum from Agile teams embracing new ways of working and benefits like faster delivery, better quality, and improved morale.

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INSEAD Knowledge

DECEMBER 5, 2021

People who see their work as a calling tend to be regarded as better employees, with unintended consequences for co-workers as well as their organisation.

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Tackle.io

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It has been an amazingly fun and fast five years since we got started at Tackle. Over the last 18 months, we have raised our Series A , Series B and now a pre-emptive C, all with the focus around helping software sellers scale revenue more efficiently through the Cloud Marketplaces. We have been aggressively scaling our team, tripling in size this year, to meet the demands of our customers, partners, and the market.

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ClearPoint Strategy

DECEMBER 2, 2021

KPIs are a much talked-about but frequently underutilized business tool; few companies implement them with the level of rigor required to produce good results. Choosing the right KPIs and implementing a KPI tracking process requires dedication and commitment on everyone’s part. We put together this guide to help organizations like yours get more out of their KPIs.

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Peter Simoons

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Trust is one of the cornerstones in successful alliances and partnerships. We build trust in many ways, for instance, we observe people’s behaviour and unconsciously it helps us to answer the question “Can I trust this person?” Similarly, we keep an unconscious eye on things like how one performs actions, lives up to commitments, and we assess if body language tells us the same as a person’s verbal language.

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Channel Insider

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud migrations are expensive undertakings, with the average server costing between $1,000 and $3,000 to move. And complicated migrations can cost up to $15,000 per server. MSPs looking to add cloud migrations to their list of services need a way to cut down on that cost to be competitive. Cloud and application migration tools can help MSPs lower costs while also improving the migration experience for their clients.

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ISTO / IEEE

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Contributed by Bill Rubin, Senior Manager ISTO. Every generation gets to interpret its history and its technology advances as it pleases. In the realm of technology, our current generation(s) see the Internet as one of the more transformational technologies that humans have created, with the potential to bring widespread benefits across the globe in terms of peace, mutual economic development and friendship.

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INSEAD Knowledge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Don’t chalk it up to a lack of motivation.

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Stackfield Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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ClearPoint Strategy

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there is some debate, most people agree that SWOT analysis originated from a Stanford University research project in the 1960s-70s. Using data from top companies, the project tried to figure out why corporate planning fails. The original term, “SOFT analysis,” eventually morphed into present-day SWOT, which is an acronym for s trengths, w eaknesses, o pportunities, and t hreats.

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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

Frost & Sullivan

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The commercial trucking industry is gearing up to comply with increasingly stringent fuel efficiency norms and greenhouse gas (GHG)/CO2) emissions regulations. Across major markets, truck OEMs have returned to the drawing board in a bid to move away from their traditional reliance on diesel and transition to alternate powertrains. Simultaneously, efforts to boost fuel efficiency improvements are gaining momentum. .

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Channel Insider

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are many considerations and tools for building an indirect sales program, but perhaps nothing more important than the incentives that motivate partners and drive sales performance. With channel incentive management (CIM) software, organizations can establish and optimize rewards, rebates, promotions, and marketing programs to do just that. Channel incentive management software helps IT vendors and other channel program operators take a strategic approach to deploying incentives in a growin

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TRG Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Infor CPQ is considered a Visionary among Configure Price Quote solutions by this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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INSEAD Knowledge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The incentives that drive PE firms have an interesting by-product: a reduction in income inequalities, such as the gender wage gap.

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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.

The 2112 Group

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Changing Channels host Larry Walsh recounts the highlights of 26 episodes with some of our top guests and industry luminaries. Many people in the world would say that 2021 is not a year they’d want to repeat, given the ongoing pandemic, inflation, and supply-chain disruptions. Suffice it to say that the world is hardly back to normal. But the channel perseveres.

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COO Alliance

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Commonly, the typical PR person likes to write press releases, post them out to newswires, and say a little prayer that your company’s stories will be lucky enough to get in the media. It’s not surprising that’s the preferred method of many PR teams. It’s the path of least resistance. Your PR team doesn’t have to talk to anyone and can, instead, stay hidden safely behind a desk.

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Frost & Sullivan

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – December 15, 2021– Based on its recent analysis of the global SD-WAN vendor market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company , with the 2021 Global SD-WAN Vendor Competitive Strategy Leadership Award. Through its solutions, Aruba enables security policy enforcement and optimizes cloud connectivity.

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Channel Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Qualcomm’s annual analyst event in Hawaii this week had enough good weather and interesting news that I didn’t miss my 49″ monitor too much. And the most interesting news is how Qualcomm and Lenovo plan to give enterprises an alternative to Apple. Lenovo is probably the only company other than perhaps Microsoft that can truly go head-to-head with Apple.

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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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TRG Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year’s re:Invent (29 Nov – 3 Dec) marks the 10th anniversary of AWS’ annual customer conference, where breakthroughs and successes in cloud technologies are celebrated. And it is only appropriate that Infor is honoured at this event for their tireless innovation in SaaS enterprise software solutions with the AWS Industry Solution Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year Award.

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INSEAD Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year's top articles look at adaptation, resilience and how we all manage change.

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ClearPoint Strategy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Most organizations begin their reporting process in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint—and typically don’t consider alternatives until their reporting becomes too robust or complex. They then begin looking for new tools in the marketplace and often find that creating the insightful reports they need will require a best-in-class reporting tool. Companies looking for reporting software need a solution that can handle five major components: Structure.

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