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The trap of playing favourites

Stellar Partnerships

When you open your wardrobe do you have your favourites? I find myself reaching for things that I know are predictable, comfortable and safe. When Sharon moved house recently, she discovered a treasure trove of items that had languished unnoticed for ages. After the cursing and effort to pack everything up, I wonder if she’s discovered some hidden gems?

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What MSPs Need to Know to Offer Compliance Services

Channel Insider

Compliance is a key part of most businesses, but not all organizations can afford a full-time compliance expert. In fact, 34 percent of businesses outsource at least part of their compliance needs. Because of this growing need, many managed services providers (MSPs) are considering the addition of compliance-as-a-service (CaaS) to their current offerings.

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Which Four Bubbles Does Global Peer Collaboration Burst?

EGA

Innovation has top of corporate agendas for over a decade – often with limited results despite leadership training programs, the establishment of innovation hubs, joint ventures, and hackathons for inspiration and insight. While companies invested $358 billion in corporate training in 2020, with $3.5 billion going to leadership training and solutions alone, only 21% of executives are confident that they have the expertise, resources, and commitment to pursue new growth successfully.

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How AI Conferences Can Foster a Responsible Research Culture

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Publication Norms for Responsible AI. How AI Conferences Can Foster a Responsible Research Culture. PAI Staff. August 3, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. As AI becomes more widespread, so, too, does awareness of this technology’s potential harms. Whether through unintended or malicious use, accidents, or inappropriate application, AI research can have negative downstream consequences for the environm

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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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Why you need individual login credentials and two-factor authentication at impact.com

Impact

The number of stolen usernames and passwords has exponentially increased in the past several years. To best protect your data, impact.com has implemented new authentication and login policies. Here’s what you need to know. In this day and age, the average person uses close to 200 services requiring login credentials. It’s no wonder many of us default to the same password for multiple accounts.

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Technology Solutions to Boost Employee Experience and Improve Patient Outcomes

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio – August 3, 2022 – Healthcare providers may find that supporting their care team and managing the larger healthcare workforce is challenging, particularly during times of high stress and peak demand. Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Pipeline Company TM , has published a panel-based Think Tank to explore these challenges and discuss how to focus efforts on improving the care team’s work-life balance and well-being.

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Do Value-Added Resellers (VARs) Still Exist?

Channel Insider

When computers were new and IBM and Apple were the only real players in the game, they sold their products through resellers. Because these resellers were competing for business while selling products at the same price, many started adding free services to entice customers to buy from them instead of their competitors, birthing the business model of the value-added reseller (VAR).

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PSMJ Resources Announces the Top-Performing Architecture and Engineering Firms for 2022

PSMJ Resources Blog

PSMJ’s exclusive Circle of Excellence highlights firms that demonstrate outstanding business achievement in the architecture and engineering industry.

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Corporate VC is Booming, but Is It What Your Start-Up Needs?

INSEAD Knowledge

A guide to choosing the right corporate investment for entrepreneurs.

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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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Keep your business afloat in today’s economic storm & what to do if you can’t!

Better Business for Good Company

Keep your business afloat in today’s economic storm & what to do if you can’t! Government financial aid has dried up exposing your profitability and potential insolvency. We de-mystify this “I” word, what it means to be insolvent and give you clear solutions so you can sleep well at night and get your mojo back to focus on your business. Pick up valuable tips to protect your business and personal assets in a volatile and increasingly adverse business environment.

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Patch Management: An Important Service for MSPs and MSSPs

Channel Insider

Businesses these days have a strong need to simplify and automate patch management, and some managed service providers (MSPs) see an opportunity to help. Vulnerabilities are a big opening for hackers to gain entry into critical systems, and thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered all the time. But if only about 800 of these vulnerabilities really matter , MSPs and managed security service providers (MSSPs) have a big opportunity to help clients protect what really matters.

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Cybersecurity for AEC Firms

PSMJ Resources Blog

With news headlines filled with reports of cyberattacks shutting down everything from fuel pipelines, to food distribution, to internet services, it is not unthinkable that your architectural firm, engineering firm, or construction company could become the next victim.

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How sales enablement platforms can help sales and channel partners engage in value selling?

Mindmatrix

Value selling is one of the most successful sales techniques that is widely used in the industry by both direct and indirect sales channels. This blog explains what value selling is and discusses the role of sales enablement platforms in helping channel partners and salespeople engage in value selling effectively. What is value selling? Value selling is a sales technique that attempts to convert a lead into sale by leveraging the value the product or service provides to the prospect.

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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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How to start a partnership marketing program

Impact

With no clear action plan for development, many of the world’s iconic buildings, like the Sydney Opera House or the Empire State Building, would have remained a mere thought. Similarly, once you’ve decided to invest in partnership marketing , the next big step is determining how to start a program within your enterprise. No roadmap fits every type of business, but you can take some essential steps to launch a successful partnership marketing program: Identify the right time to start.

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Blurring Your Employee’s Skill Gaps and Unlock Their Potential

TRG Blog

Skill gaps appear when your employees lack the skills needed to achieve a specific goal, preventing them from succeeding. In other words, the term stands for when the employees cannot fulfil the needs/requirements of their employers because they don’t have the right knowledge, skills, or abilities.

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Will the flooring materials market continue catering to its consumers with technological innovations?

Frost & Sullivan

The flooring materials market is poised to grow at a CAGR of 5-6%. A number of factors are contributing to this growth in demand, ranging from a rising demand for residential and commercial properties, backed by government initiatives, penetration of green and do-it-yourself (DIY) products, and the work-from-home trend. The buzz around sustainable solutions is growing amongst the Gen Z and millennials.

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3 Types of Business Transformation for Surviving Rapid Change

Planview Blog

How can businesses stay relevant, prepare for future change, and survive in our rapidly changing world? Through transformation. Understanding the three different types of business transformation will help you choose the right transformation for your organization. Although business transformation is complex, its impact isn’t: Research from McKinsey clearly shows that the more transformation actions a company takes, the greater its chances for success financially, culturally, and organizationally.

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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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What is a virtual assistant and what do they do?

Better Business for Good Company

What is a virtual assistant and what do they do? Approx. time to read: 10 minutes. Business process architect Kerry Anne Nelson from Operation Verve explains. What is a virtual assistant? What they do and how they work. The benefits of hiring a virtual assistant. What will it cost you and how are they paid. What kinds of things they can do for you. How to hire a VA.

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Business Growth Strategies: Focusing on Addiction Recovery in the Workplace

Chameleon Sales

As the Great Resignation continues, it’s abundantly clear that recruiting and retaining talent is one of the biggest challenges employers face. What unique business growth strategies can organizations use? At Chameleon Group, we’ve found that focusing on addiction recovery has helped us find and support good people who are ready to work toward a fresh start.

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Will the flooring materials market continue catering to its consumers with technological innovations?

Frost & Sullivan

The flooring materials market is poised to grow at a CAGR of 5-6%. A number of factors are contributing to this growth in demand, ranging from a rising demand for residential and commercial properties, backed by government initiatives, penetration of green and do-it-yourself (DIY) products, and the work-from-home trend. The buzz around sustainable solutions is growing amongst the Gen Z and millennials.

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Grow Your Startup with Microsoft Commercial Marketplace

Tackle.io

[link] Kristin Bourassa: Looks like our attendees are coming in. We’ll give it a few minutes and then we’ll get started. Kristin Bourassa: Hey, Tom. Good to see you. I owe you a follow-up email. Kristin Bourassa: And Jared, you are the only one on my screen, by the way. So it’s just you and me at this point. Jared Prins: Got it. Yeah.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Gap analysis for profit

Managed Services Platform

Apple Podcasts: [link] Spotify: [link] Youtube: [link] When reviewing a gap analysis with a client, we often come off as the person on a terrible first date. Instead of conversing with our clients, we sit down and point out all the wrong or missing things. No one wants a date like that, and your clients are no exception. A poor approach to gap analysis can hurt your business and the relationship you are trying to build with your customers.

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How I met my Wife

Peter Simoons

Once upon a time, many moons ago, on a Saturday afternoon in March, a friend came to visit me and asked me to join him to go to a party that night. It really didn’t appeal to me, as it was a birthday party for someone who I didn’t know. Despite my reservations against going to the party my friend insisted and used the argument that Yvonne would be there too.

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Expel Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling Managed and Automated Threat Detection and Response

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – August 2, 2022– Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the global managed detection and response industry and, based on its analysis, recognizes Expel with the 2022 Global Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Enabling Technology Leadership Award. The company provides cybersecurity solutions that combat alert fatigue from more than 80 security products, in addition to addressing the failure of other security solutions and services to deliver on their promises.

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Grow Your Startup with Microsoft Commercial Marketplace

Tackle.io

[link] Kristin Bourassa: Looks like our attendees are coming in. We’ll give it a few minutes and then we’ll get started. Kristin Bourassa: Hey, Tom. Good to see you. I owe you a follow-up email. Kristin Bourassa: And Jared, you are the only one on my screen, by the way. So it’s just you and me at this point. Jared Prins: Got it. Yeah.

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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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Why did we become corporate fundraisers?

Remarkable Partnerships

We fall into fundraising for a number of different reasons, some by chance, some by fate and some of us are born with it in our blood. Whatever our reasons are, we all have one thing in common, the passion and desire that led us here to make a difference and an impact. We thought we would put a spotlight on 5 amazing fundraisers and ask them ‘Why did they become a corporate fundraiser?

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Future of Mobility to Leverage Innovative Technologies that Advance Smart, Safe, and Sustainable Mobility for All

Frost & Sullivan

The mobility industry is at an inflection point. Connected, autonomous, shared, and electric (C.A.S.E.) trends are transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Meanwhile, intensifying concerns over pollution and congestion push the mobility industry to explore decarbonized, sustainable alternatives. Frost & Sullivan’s 14th annual Intelligent Mobility Summit, slated to be held on September 7-8, 2022, will explore how the industry is transforming “Towards A Sustainable Future.

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Northwest Analytics Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Preventing Institutional Knowledge Loss and Bridging Skills Gaps with NWA Analytics Knowledge Suite™

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – August 2, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan recently researched the North American manufacturing Industry 4.0 and digital transformation analytics market and, based on its findings, recognizes Northwest Analytics (NWA) with the 2022 North American Manufacturing Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation Analytics Technology Innovation Leadership Award.