March, 2022

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Don Corleone’s Guide to a Strong Network

Partners Preceptors

By John Ricco, MPA, CAE. Convention season is about to kick into high gear. Now that in-person meetings are a “thing” again, many of us will attend events where we hope to create and cultivate relationships. You owe it to yourself and your organization to do so, but let’s face it, many of us are not good at growing and maintaining a mutually beneficial network of colleagues — you may want to go to the mafia for help.

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The Benefits of a Collaborative Culture

Peter Simoons

When we talk about alliances, we tend to focus on the external component: collaborating with other organisations. By itself that is correct, after all alliances are collaborations between two or more organisations to accomplish a goal that one of the organisations cannot achieve on its own. So we do need external parties! However, alliances have a strong internal component as well and that is about internal collaboration, or in broader terms, it’s very much also about a company’s culture. .

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10 wishes for International Women’s Day

Stellar Partnerships

I like pink. Some of my favourite clothes are pink. But when I opened Shutterstock to search for International Women’s Day pictures there was a sea of pink with flowers and hearts. It looked more like commercials for a beauty product or a florist. Is that the best way to depict one of the biggest struggles for human rights across the world? On International Women’s Day 2022 I wonder how many women out there have been busy organising events for their organisation?

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LESSONS FROM A POP TART

Be Partner Ready

One of the things I’m most passionate about is helping changemakers prepare for success. For many entrepreneurial non-profits, the idea of preparation and planning is just plain boring, they want to get out there and get results RIGHT NOW. The reality is, it simply doesn’t happen that way. As Steve Jobs once said, "if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time” Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian, was hailed an ‘overnight sensation’ Love him or

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Top Podcast Equipment, Gear, and Microphones in 2022

Jake Jorgovan

Podcasting is exploding—I see it in my own podcast marketing company Content Allies —and PodNews reports that as of 8 February 2022, the number of channels in Apple Podcasts amounts to 1,375 channels with 14,154 shows. The array of podcasting equipment and gear choices is growing at the same explosive rate. While choice is good, sometimes there is too much of it, leading to overwhelm.

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Sales Numbers Are Up? It May Only Be Inflation

INSEAD Knowledge

Managers need proper information systems to decipher the real causes of any bump in sales revenue and decide whether investments are required.

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Partner Assessment (or will you just make it work?)

Peter Simoons

In a conversation with an alliance executive from a pharma company recently, the exec said to me “ We don’t do partner assessment, we’ll just make it work ”. His motivation for this remark was that he couldn’t afford to disqualify a partner if some of their skills were a good fit. Sometimes a partner has that unique element that the respective alliance needs and so they just need to try and make the partnership work.

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Avoiding the burnt chop

Stellar Partnerships

Shortly after my wedding, my lovely mother-in-law gave me a novel piece of advice. “Avoid the burnt chop” she said. I was baffled, thinking she was giving me well-meaning cooking advice, but it turned out to be a common Australian syndrome. It’s a reference to mothers commonly allowing everyone else to have what they want and making do with what’s left.

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TIME FOR A CHANGE

Be Partner Ready

And just like that – Autumn is upon us. It’s my favourite season. Harvest festivals, a crisp orange carpet on my driveway, cooler temperatures, shorter days, cosy nights in front of the fire sipping a Pinot. As the leaves start to change colour and fall, nature is showing us the beauty of letting go, and the opportunity to embrace the new.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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Top Native Mobile App Development Companies & Agencies

Jake Jorgovan

Businesses choose to launch a mobile app for a variety of reasons. These include bringing more value to their customers, boosting growth, solving a specific business problem, and increasing customer engagement. However, to accomplish these goals, mobile apps need to be built with scalability in mind. Though there are various development approaches, native mobile app development reigns supreme when it comes to functionality, scalability, performance, and security.

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PAI Developing Ethical Guidelines for Synthetic Media

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Synthetic and Manipulated Content. PAI Developing Ethical Guidelines for Synthetic Media. Claire Leibowicz. March 10, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. The technologies that make synthetic forms of media like deepfakes possible can and will be used to manipulate, harass, and misinform.

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Venture Capital Crucial to Push for ‘Ethical’ AI and Tech Standards

INSEAD Knowledge

Venture capitalists’ role as funding source and mentor of tech start-ups makes them uniquely placed to press for more responsible use of technology.

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Strategic Disruption That Works

Thinkers 50

Jonathan Brill is a globally recognized advisor and speaker on successful innovation under uncertainty. The author of Rogue Waves: Future–Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit From Radical Change (McGraw-Hill, 2021), he was the Global Futurist at HP and the managing partner of innovation firms that generated $27 billion in new revenue for clients.

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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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Corporate partner or charity competitor?

Stellar Partnerships

Change has a way of sneaking up on you before you realise it. Last weekend I cleaned out a big cupboard and found in its deep recesses an antique gem: a Sony Walkman. Back in the 1980s and 1990s it was the height of fashion, kickstarting a whole new era of walking for exercise. Sony thought they owned the market- until 2001 when Apple launched the iPod.

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A10 Networks Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Providing Sophisticated Cybersecurity Multi-Cloud Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO — March 28, 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the Global DDoS Mitigation Industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes A10 Networks with the 2021 Customer Value Leadership Award for delivering secure business applications for multi-cloud environments. A10 Networks provides scalable and secure applications to enable companies and service providers to automate application management, simplify multi-cloud complexity, gain detailed business performance insights, and secure 5G?

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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview Blog

March is Women’s history month. It is a time where we can reflect on all the powerful women who have and continue to advocate for equality and change. At Planview, we believe women in tech are the future and Geetika Gagneja is a part of Planview’s past, present, and future. For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager.

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Emotion, Negotiation, and the ‘Great Resignation’: Vantage Voices

Vantage Partners

How can a tool for managing emotions during negotiations also help retain valued employees amidst “The Great Resignation”? As David Olsen explains in the latest episode of the Vantage Voices podcast series, “People want to feel appreciated. … They want clarity with regard to what their role is. And they want to feel as though their role is important in relation to the company.

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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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Designing a Circular Business Strategy That Works

INSEAD Knowledge

To avoid costly mistakes due to overly optimistic assumptions, a good understanding of the market and the product is needed.

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What is Co-branding?

Mindmatrix

What is Co-branding? Co-branding is the process of leveraging another company or partner’s brand to promote a product or service. This is typically done through joint marketing activities, assets and content. Both, companies and their partners can benefit greatly from co-branding. . How does co-branding help? Co-branding helps companies and partners join forces and use the synergy to market and sell their products/services better.

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Hitting a corporate partner’s hot spots

Stellar Partnerships

My border collie knows how to push my buttons. Whenever I reach for my runners, she waits by the door in the hope that I need a companion for my travels. But she really comes into her own at dinner time. She knows she’s not supposed to scrounge at the dinner table. So she waits until we’re all seated, creeps underneath and puts her nose between my knees.

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Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis on Aviation Supply Chains

Frost & Sullivan

The crisis in Ukraine has turned into a war of attrition. International support for the Ukrainian cause has been humanitarian aid, lethal aid, and financial aid. Economic sanctions and airspace closures to Russian airlines and aircraft have significantly impacted the aviation supply chain. Impact on Supply Chain. The aviation supply chain is highly dependent on raw materials from many countries, including Russia.

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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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The Great Tech Exodus from Russia

The 2112 Group

The list of tech companies leaving Russia is growing by the day. Here’s the latest. By T.C. Doyle. In response to Russia’s illegal and unprovoked attack on the sovereignty and citizenry of Ukraine, U.S. tech companies from all parts of the industry have announced plans to suspend or cease operations in the world’s largest country and 11th largest economy.

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Inforum 2022 - We Speak Your Language

TRG Blog

Inforum is an annual customer event organised by Infor , one of the leading providers of industry-specific enterprise software, serving a multitude of organisations in manufacturing , distribution, healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defence, public sector and more.

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Planview Stands with Ukraine

Planview Blog

Planview Stands with Ukraine. Like many of you, we have been following the events unfolding in Ukraine closely. We are deeply saddened by the escalating humanitarian crisis, and we condemn the acts of violence and stand with those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Planview has initiated an online fundraising campaign to raise money for organizations focused on humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, including Razom and UNICEF.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Modupe Taylor-Pearce

Thinkers 50

Modupe Taylor-Pearce is the founder and CEO of Breakfast Club Africa, a Pan-African organization that supports CEOs with leadership coaching services and knowledge sharing. Modupe has a passion for leadership development that was born out of his experiences as an officer serving in combat in the Sierra Leone Civil War. It continued when he earned his bachelor’s degree at West Point.

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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 Guide to 2022’s Top Incentive Travel Destinations

ITA Group

A Guide to 2022’s Top Incentive Travel Destinations. Incentive travel remains a top motivator, and many reward earners are eager for a new adventure (or just a change of scenery). For some top performers, an upcoming incentive trip could be their first time traveling since the pandemic began—a trip they’ve been dreaming about for ages. Our experts are excited as ever to craft once-in-a-lifetime experiences to make travel dreams a reality, as well as help travelers navigate evolving safety guidel

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Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Embattled Global Automotive Industry Faces New Battles Ahead

Frost & Sullivan

It has been almost a month since Russia invaded Ukraine but we are already seeing the unacceptably high geopolitical, humanitarian, and economic fallout of this conflict. For the automotive industry, the repercussions will be deep and sweeping. Ukraine currently supplies more than 70% of the world’s neon gas, while Russia is the world’s largest producer of palladium and the third-largest supplier of nickel.

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Inside Sales System

Chameleon Sales

The success of any good inside sales system comes from identifying challenges and implementing proven successful practices. Effective sales come from a cycle that remains fluid and adaptable. At Chameleon Group, we embrace adaptability as it leads to greater sales success on behalf of our clients. The nature of inside sales involves its own specific set of challenges.

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