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Are Alliance Managers Just “Born” That Way – Or Are They Moulded?

Peter Simoons

Recently I presented to Dr. Brian Tjemkes’ Alliances, Mergers and Networks Program at the VU University in Amsterdam. In good 2020 style, this presentation was fully online. Nevertheless it was highly interactive. Over 100 students participated and they asked many questions. One hour wasn’t enough for their questions so at the end of the presentation I invited the students to reach out to me on LinkedIn to continue the conversation.

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Drive More Revenue with Automated Account Mapping

PartnerTap

According to a study by Forbes , on average, sales reps only spend 35% of their time selling. The other 65% is spent on everything else. That is way too much time spent doing other activities! Automated account mapping allows reps to uncover opportunities and get in front of prospects and customers more frequently. Having your sales teams spend more time selling to qualified buyers will drive more revenue for the business.

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Is There a Scientific Formula For Start-up Success?

INSEAD Knowledge

Founders make fewer mistakes and pivot in the right direction when they learn to challenge their own assumptions and experiment continuously.

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How To Build A Marketing Strategy

CoSell

Building a marketing strategy can feel like navigating in an ocean of highs and lows. For both new entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals, strategy skills help to maintain balance, refine focus, and achieve results—through all the waves of possibilities. Discovering what works best to identify, refine, focus, and track potential clients can help you take smart actions to achieve the best results from your marketing approach.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Focus On … Something

Ground Floor Partners

If everything is a top priority, then nothing is a priority, and nothing will get done. This is a tough lesson, but all successful business owners eventually learn it. Many startups are particularly susceptible to the idea that they can serve this market, and that market, and those people over there, and these groups over here, until their message and brand become so confused that nobody knows what they stand for or who they actually serve.

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Doing Good: Where Sustainable Investing Gets It Wrong

INSEAD Knowledge

A high sustainability rating does not necessarily equate to real sustainability impact (and profit).

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What are Kanban Board Swimlanes? And How to Use Them

Planview Blog

Kanban board swimlanes are horizontal lanes on your kanban board that help to separate and further define your workflow. These lanes allow teams to surface or highlight related work items or tasks that follow a similar process. Your team might utilize swimlanes to keep track of tasks for different products or cross-team dependencies, for example. It allows you to easily spot issues or bottlenecks and identify exactly where they’re coming from so that you can keep work flowing.

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Why Threat Intelligence is the Next Big Thing in Cybersecurity?

Frost & Sullivan

As known attacks fade away, Threat Intelligence remains one of the top three investment priorities in IT security for Indian companies. Over the last few years and specifically during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises have constantly been bombarded with advanced and unknown threats that they are not equipped to deal with. Suddenly, employees had to be shifted to work-from-home due to a nation-wide lockdown.

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6 Innovation Leaders Share What Inspired Them in 2020

Hype

This year has been tough. We've experienced some highs and some profound lows. Some of us were able to find silver-linings throughout the last nine months as our commutes vanished, and we all got a lot more use of our homes. Maybe you realized you had more time to read. Maybe you started a new hobby, like baking. Or maybe you spent time working on new ways to connect with your team (as well as loved ones) virtually.

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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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How Operations Can Stop Labour Violations Before They Happen

INSEAD Knowledge

Three business characteristics can serve as leading indicators of possible human-rights abuses in the making.

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Crucial Yet Overlooked: Why We Must Reconcile Legal and Technical Approaches to Algorithmic Bias

Partnership on AI

If we’re not careful, existing law may lead to a world where our efforts in the machine learning community to mitigate algorithmic bias are deemed illegal. . Algorithmic tools are not new technology. Credit scores, which use data to predict a person’s likelihood of paying their debts, have been used in the United States since the 1960s. . What is distinct, however, is the extent to which algorithms have proliferated, increasingly affecting a wide variety of important decisions.

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How to Coach Effectively as a Chief Operating Officer

COO Alliance

Coaching and developing people is core to any leader’s role, especially for a Chief Operating Officer. Believe it or not, a great portion of CEO, CFO, and COO training seminars are about how individuals in those roles go about training the employees that report to them. Support Your Employees. The phrase, “The ability to get people promoted is the best sign of a great leader,” could not be more accurate, especially for Chief Operating Officers.

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Managing Risks with ROAM in Agile

Planview Blog

Effective risk management is critical to the success of any project, but SAFe® doesn’t offer a clear-cut solution for how to go about it in a scaled Agile environment. Here’s how ROAM risk management can help ensure that you’re effectively managing risks at every level of your Agile organization. Why Risk Management? The importance of effectively, proactively identifying and managing risks cannot be overstated.

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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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Focus On … Something

Ground Floor Partners

If everything is a top priority, then nothing is a priority, and nothing will get done. This is a tough lesson, but all successful business owners eventually learn it. Many startups are particularly susceptible to the idea that they can serve this market, and that market, and those people over there, and these groups over here, until their message and brand become so confused that nobody knows what they stand for or who they actually serve.

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Global Construction and Mining Rental Equipment Market to Reach $273 Billion by 2030 with Growth of Digital Services and Platforms

Frost & Sullivan

Use of telematics and digital services in construction and mining industries is gaining prominence due to operational efficiency and better ROI, says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – December 17, 2020 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Digitization and New Business Models Powering the Global Construction and Mining Equipment Market, 2030 , finds that growth in infrastructure development and urbanization projects, alternate powertrains, and the need for modern, compact, and rent

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How to Coach Effectively as a Chief Operating Officer

COO Alliance

Coaching and developing people is core to any leader’s role, especially for a Chief Operating Officer. Believe it or not, a great portion of CEO, CFO, and COO training seminars are about how individuals in those roles go about training the employees that report to them. Support Your Employees. The phrase, “The ability to get people promoted is the best sign of a great leader,” could not be more accurate, especially for Chief Operating Officers.

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How Many Jobs Will AI Destroy? As Many As We Tell It To.

Partnership on AI

As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes our world — changing the way we live, think, and even dispense justice — technologists, civil society, and policy-makers have started questioning the fairness of these automated systems. Despite this, our better angels seem to have a blindspot when it comes to AI and labor. There is a growing consensus that AI systems shouldn’t increase racial or sexual inequality.

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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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Best practices for successful partner onboarding

Mindmatrix

Recruiting new partners is not easy. You need someone whose enthusiasm for your brand and product/service matches yours. Their core business values should be in line with yours too. Recruiting the partners is tough, but it is even tougher to hold on to the one right ones, keeping them motivated, engaged and helping them drive revenue for themselves and you.

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Covance, LabCorp’s Drug Development Business, Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for Its Unmatched Breadth of Services to Support Clinical Trials

Frost & Sullivan

Based on its recent analysis of the global contract research organization (CRO) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes LabCorp’s drug development business, Covance, with the 2020 Global CRO Company of the Year Award. The company has built technology-enabled solutions to assist clients with drug development across all therapeutic areas. Its robust supply chain and logistical capabilities help scale up and efficiently manage material handling to provide clients with customized solutions, particul

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Channel Mechanics Charity Challenge 2020

Channel Incentive Best Practices

Oranmore software company, Channel Mechanics, were delighted to have Cancer Care West visit the office this week to present the charity with a cheque for €10,801. The presentation highlighting the results of a Channel Mechanics Charity fundraiser which saw the company clock up just over 4,050 kms along with their “ Donate a Day ” campaign. Having initially set a target to raise €2,020 in aid of Cancer Care West, the team blew this out of the water by ultimately raising €10,801.

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The Year of Firsts

Collaboration LLC

Well, what a year 2020 has been! As I look back on our business’ journey this year, I’m grateful for many things, including all of the “firsts” I learned this year. First time I had to operate in a pandemic. Between shelter-in-place orders to economic ambiguities, along with Covid-19 preventive measures and recognizing the inequalities of the impact of Covid-19 on our communities – it truly has been a year of transitions, stress, growth, and learnings.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Ep. 139 – Hint, Inc COO, Theo Goldin

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Hint Inc’s Chief Operating Officer, Theo Goldin. . Theo Goldin manages sales, operations and R&D for Hint Inc. Previously, Theo served as Lead Technology Counsel for Netscape’s online services business and as CEO of ZMedix, an Ai-based medical startup acquired by the Robert Bosch Foundation. His earlier career included work in molecular biology research and IT. .

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Construction Adhesive and Sealant Manufacturers Go Green to Tap into Immense Growth Prospects

Frost & Sullivan

Breakthrough chemistries and application methods expected to help achieve customer satisfaction for adhesive and sealant manufacturers, says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – December 16, 2020 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Sustainability and Circular Economy Transforming Global Construction Adhesives & Sealants Technologies , finds that construction adhesive and sealant manufacturers worldwide focus on developing products that favor a circular economy and promote sustai

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Grasping the Importance of Medical Billing and Accounting Software

TRG Blog

Healthcare is essential. Everyone gets sick and is entitled to adequate healthcare treatment when needed. Serving a wide range of patients of different age and conditions, it is understandable that the healthcare industry offers vast services, complies with complex statutory requirements, and handles stressful environments daily.

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Five World-Changing Projects to Watch in 2021

Project Management Institute

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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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Ep. 139 – Hint, Inc COO, Theo Goldin

COO Alliance

Our guest today is Hint Inc’s Chief Operating Officer, Theo Goldin. . Theo Goldin manages sales, operations and R&D for Hint Inc. Previously, Theo served as Lead Technology Counsel for Netscape’s online services business and as CEO of ZMedix, an Ai-based medical startup acquired by the Robert Bosch Foundation. His earlier career included work in molecular biology research and IT. .

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Retail, Banking, and Technology Sectors Driving Global Holistic Web Protection Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan

Market expected to reach $3.63 billion by 2025 from $1.93 billion in 2020. Santa Clara, Calif. – Dec. 16, 2020 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the Global Holistic Web Protection Market , finds that holistic web protection is rapidly gaining popularity worldwide. Holistic web protection solutions —an emerging category of security solutions— integrates three key security technologies: distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation, web application firewall (WAF), and bot risk manageme

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A Joint Statement from Terah Lyons & PAI Board Chair on Executive Director Transition

Partnership on AI

Leadership Transitions at the Partnership on AI, from PAI Board Chair, Eric Horvitz. It is with both sadness and gratitude that I announce Terah Lyons’s forthcoming departure as Executive Director of the Partnership on AI (PAI), which will be effective January 31, 2021. Since 2017, Terah has played a critical role in the early development, growth, and success of the organization.