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5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand

Partners Preceptors

5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand. By Rachel Luoma, MS, CAE. . If you have read any of my previous blogs, then you may see a theme amongst many of them – financials. Since I was a little kid, numbers just made sense to me. There was a correct answer and an incorrect answer and, more importantly, a reason why the correct answer was the correct answer.

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Rethinking the costs of partnerships

Stellar Partnerships

The economist Adam Smith believed that free markets were the best way to create an efficient economy. Our individual self-interest, with everyone working to serve themselves will ensure that we all have the goods we need. But the ‘invisible hand’ of the marketplace is imperfect. There are always hidden costs. In Katrine Marcal’s book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?

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Stop Yelling 'Get off my lawn' to Partners

Partner Path

How to Update Your Program for the Next Generation of Partner Leaders. We speak so much about the next generation of partner programs, but what about the next generation of leaders inside the partner organisations? You know who I’m talking about. ( Whisper: millennials.) Who are they? What do they need from vendor partner programs? Are they a changing force to be considered alongside customer buying trends and the transformation of partner engagement?

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Making Humanitarian Operations More Sustainable

INSEAD Knowledge

Do good intentions always lead to good outcomes? Experience shows that the lack of coordinated response can lead to future humanitarian and sustainability challenges.

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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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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Julia DiBenigno

Thinkers 50

Julia DiBenigno is an associate professor at Yale, and an organizational field researcher and ethnographer whose work has advanced our understanding of topics related to the sociology of work. Julia addresses pressing organizational problems through qualitative, ethnographic methodologies, immersing herself in the social worlds of those she studies.

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Made to Stand Out: 5 Unique Ways Entrepreneurs Differ from Employees in Their Approach to Life and Work

Aepiphanni

What makes an entrepreneur different than his or her employee counterparts? An entrepreneur approaches his or her life and work with a unique mindset.

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Organising in the Metaverse: Five FAQs for Managers

INSEAD Knowledge

An explainer on how social interaction in all its forms might take place in the virtual universe.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Hilke Plassmann

Thinkers 50

Hilke Plassmann is a pioneer in the field of decision and consumer neuroscience. She holds a PhD on Decision Neuroscience from Münster University and has been a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford and Caltech. Now she is the Octapharma Chaired Professor of Decision Neuroscience at INSEAD. Her research has focused on consumer decision-making and how our neurobiology affects our response to marketing cues.

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5 Successful Partner Relationship Management Strategies

Magnetrix

Does your company’s go-to-market strategy rely on value added resellers (VARs), technology integrators or other developers/manufacturers that compliment your products? A cloud-based partner relationship management (PRM) portal can help you to effectively communicate, collaborate, and educate your channel. We’ve compiled five ways PRM portal software can help generate predictable revenue streams.

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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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Studying AI Explanations to Improve Healthcare for Underserved Communities?

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Explainable AI in Practice. Studying AI Explanations to Improve Healthcare for Underserved Communities?. Ana Lucic. June 14, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. Today, machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes domains, including healthcare, to make predictions.

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Building Momentum in the Energy Transition: Key Insights from Davos and Beyond

INSEAD Knowledge

If the nascent energy transformation is to take off, business and government must work together to promote circular systems.

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How MSPs and MSSPs Can Attract Talent Despite IT Skills Shortage

Channel Insider

It wasn’t long ago that when a job vacancy came up, you placed an ad in a newspaper or industry magazine, received a bunch of résumés, interviewed the best candidates, and hired someone—all within a few weeks. These days, it is not so simple. Job sites and job apps are everywhere. Far from making things easier, all this help has made the hiring scene more complex.

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How to Create and Best Leverage Strategic Channel Partnerships

Magnetrix

Listen to the podcast with guest speaker: Manuel Rivera of Constella Intelligence. Aired on June 14, 2022. Table of contents: Introduction. Benefits of a well-thought out channel partner strategy. Understand the value of your product. Include the initial assessment in your channel strategy. Ensure alignment with partners. Start by selecting the right partners.

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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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Born to Be a Boss: 8 Elements that Prove Successful Entrepreneurs are Both Born and Made

Aepiphanni

How can an entrepreneur be both born and made? At first glance, it seems like a contradiction. Many people are born with a propensity towards entrepreneurial leadership.

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Local Newsrooms Should Adopt AI Ethics as They Adopt AI: 5 Recommendations?

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Local News. Local Newsrooms Should Adopt AI Ethics as They Adopt AI: 5 Recommendations?. Claire Leibowicz, Adriana Stephan. June 16, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. The post Local Newsrooms Should Adopt AI Ethics as They Adopt AI: 5 Recommendations? appeared first on Partnership on AI.

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9 Tips to Help MSPs and MSSPs Scale Successfully

Channel Insider

Cybersecurity is one of the top IT spending priorities right now. According to a recent survey, 69% of organizations plan to spend more on cybersecurity this year than last, placing ahead of the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Established vendors and a wave of startups are bringing new security technologies to market as well as updating and improving existing solutions.

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Drive Innovation and Focus on Strategic Outcomes that Matter 

Planview Blog

To create interconnected products and services that move a company forward, business leaders must continually assess and evolve capabilities while directing cross-organizational coordination between strategy, work, people, technology, and outcomes. To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Enterprise One ® , which enables strategy execution, project portfolio management, lean portfolio m

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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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Why you need content commerce…now!

Impact

The post Why you need content commerce…now! appeared first on impact.com.

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2022 A/E Compensation Survey Shows Significantly Different Increases for Staff and Management Positions

PSMJ Resources Blog

PSMJ’s A/E Compensation Benchmark Suite data reveals huge pay and bonus bumps for key architecture and engineering firm professionals, but it all depends on what you do and how long you’ve been doing it.

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MSP Clients Are Unhappy. Here’s Why and What To Do.

Channel Insider

The overwhelming majority of MSP customers are so frustrated with their managed service provider (MSP) that they’re looking to replace them within the next year, according to a new report from CloudBolt Software. With 80% of companies shopping for a new MSP, the report cited two trends for the widespread dissatisfaction: Organizations are building increasingly complex and chaotic multi-cloud architectures that they cannot internally maintain.

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Enabling direct and indirect sales for success in the modern sales environment

Mindmatrix

The buyer’s journey has changed so drastically over the years that sellers hardly have any control over the sales process until much later. A recent research by Forrester pointed out that up to 70 percent of B2B buyers first come across a product or service through their own research, usually, online. This means, the buyers have probably gathered all the information that’s freely available online about your products/services.

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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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The New Order for Software Buying

Tackle.io

[link] Amanda Malko: A bit for her. John Jahnke: Yeah, I know Jamie, the CRO a full story. We used to work together. I don’t know if you know Jamie. I know Atlanta is a small tech town. Amanda Malko: It is. Yeah. John Jahnke: All right. I see people filtering in. We’ll get started in a couple minutes. Thanks everybody for joining. Great to see you all virtually.

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Automotive Aftermarket Looks to 4Rs and Closed Loop Ecosystem for Sustainable End-of-Life Battery Management

Frost & Sullivan

Electromobility is gaining momentum with improving charging infrastructure, expanding manufacturing capacity, policy support, and purchase incentives. Vehicle electrification is spearheading the transition to environment-friendly low-carbon transport. Paradoxically, this push to clean mobility is throwing up serious sustainability concerns related to a critical component of electric vehicles (EV) – the battery.

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How to Further Your Business Intelligence and Leadership in 2022

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Business intelligence is a combination of learned skills and intuition. Though you can certainly have a knack for leadership and many great ideas on how to take a business to the next level, there will always be a need to further your business intelligence and knowledge. The world is quite simply moving at too fast a pace, and data is driving it. With more powerful machines and more data than ever before in history, all at the click of a button, there is no time to make mistakes and learn as you

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Customer Engagement Platform

ITA Group

Customer Engagement Platform. aschuman. Mon, 06/13/2022 - 10:46. Foster Stronger Relationships With A Customer Engagement Platform. Engage customers using personalized communications, experiences, events and awards on a customizable platform. Our platform enables brands and partners to jointly nurture strong customer relationships. A mix of digital and tangible surprise-and-delight touchpoints shows your appreciation, and drives brand loyalty and affinity.

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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 New Order for Software Buying

Tackle.io

[link] Amanda Malko: A bit for her. John Jahnke: Yeah, I know Jamie, the CRO a full story. We used to work together. I don’t know if you know Jamie. I know Atlanta is a small tech town. Amanda Malko: It is. Yeah. John Jahnke: All right. I see people filtering in. We’ll get started in a couple minutes. Thanks everybody for joining. Great to see you all virtually.

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EU Sets 100% Reduction Target in Vehicle CO2 Emissions from 2035 Onward

Frost & Sullivan

The vote will force original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to find technological solutions fast. Solutions could range from electric to hydrogen vehicles to become fully sustainable. Dr. Jose Pereira, Director, Automotive & Transportation at Frost & Sullivan, said the new target also signals to EU member states that they must prioritize their electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Do you know why you need a Repeatable Delivery Model?

Phoenix Consulting Group

Getting to scale means creating repeatability in the business and for your partners. In our continuing Partner-Ready Series, my colleague, Gary Lam and I have repeatedly underscored the importance of creating a repeatable sales model. Here, we give you more in-depth information on the impact of a repeatable delivery model for your software. We also share actionable insights that would further help you define your sales and delivery models to drive business growth.