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5 Success Factors in Change Management Efforts

PLM Alliances

As a business leader or consultant, you’ll likely be involved in a number of game-changing, broad-scale initiatives — such as a sales organization restructuring, a partner program redesign, or a company-wide ERP roll-out. These efforts share some common characteristics: massive organizational change across multiple groups, redefinition of key business processes, significant resource requirements, and high executive visibility.

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Partnering is Personal

Partner Path

Partner Relationships Need a Personalized Touch, Even When You’re Not In-Person. In our recent channel chief virtual roundtable, we asked leading technology channel executives what was keeping them up at night. Surprisingly, it wasn’t partner sales, additional enablement, driving customer adoption or even the plethora of small solution providers teetering on the edge of a pandemic-fueled extinction.

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Improving Channel ROI With A Comprehensive Partner Enablement Platform

Mindmatrix

Prioritizing partner sales enablement is critical to driving the success of channel programs. As B2B buyer authority shifts to extremely discerning decision-makers in business units, partner sales agents must be supported with channel tools that provide easy, on-demand access to the information they need. It’s equally important that vendors invest in comprehensive solutions that optimize coordination among channel management, sales and marketing teams to identify and support eager-to-engage part

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Top Podcast Production Companies & Services in 2021

Jake Jorgovan

With so many moving parts involved in producing a high-quality podcast, it makes sense for businesses or individuals to outsource part or most of their podcast production to a team of experts. Depending on your unique situation and available resources, you can choose to work with a full-service agency or more of a low-cost solution to handle the basics.

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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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Ensure a Three-Way Value Proposition

Peter Simoons

Tip 4: Ensure a Three-Way Value Proposition. In an ideal world, altruism or selflessness – the capacity for doing something without expectation of anything in return except for the sheer pleasure of being able to serve others – is a good virtue to possess. Being selfless makes us akin to angels. We don’t live in an ideal world, however, and it is only natural for us to expect something in return whenever we do a good deed, even if it is only the sheer pleasure that comes with service.

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3 Trends for Working Virtually and Selling More Together in 2021

CoSell

We’re in the early days of 2021, and already three key trends are shaping the year. While many of our business worlds are still shaping in new and unknown ways, we are getting a sense of broader trends that are helping us up to our game. If you’ve been focusing on the granular changes, such as return to work policies, daily pandemic numbers, and fluctuations in the market…now is the time to get a grasp of the bigger trends.

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Top Podcast Production Companies / Agencies in 2021

Jake Jorgovan

With so many moving parts involved in producing a high-quality podcast, it makes sense for businesses or individuals to outsource part or most of their podcast production to a team of experts. Depending on your unique situation and available resources, you can choose to work with a full-service agency or more of a low-cost solution to handle the basics.

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The Importance of Perspective in Partnerships

Stellar Partnerships

When my kids were small, we had a weekend stopover in Amsterdam. It broke up the butt-numbing monotony of a long- haul flight to the UK in economy class. I excitedly showed them the canals, the architecture and the glorious Van Gogh museum. When I asked my son what he liked best about the trip, what did he say? “Mum, they served hot chips in a cone, with mayonnaise instead of tomato sauce!

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Cooking Up a Creative Community

INSEAD Knowledge

A recipe based on INSEAD research.

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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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13 Secrets Why Sales Leaders Love Co Selling

CoSell

The practice of co-selling is about deploying your resources to sell more together. It’s a way to achieve your sales goals, build an agile organization, and respond to ever-changing developments in the marketplace. While we often think about co-selling as the software features, there’s much more to the entire concept. Let’s look at 13 secrets about co-selling you may not have known, or at least have not deeply thought about.

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Movers & Shakers Interview with Jan Gupta, President, Modis Adecco and Ian James, Team Principal, Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team

Frost & Sullivan

And one needs to look no further for corroboration than the partnership between Modis and the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team. The Official Engineering Partner teams have geared up their joint objective of engineering a smarter future together. To learn more about how the collaboration between Modis and the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team approaches talent and leadership to achieve a smart, sustainable tomorrow, while never losing sight of the ultimate goal – winning – Frost & Sullivan’s S

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Top Business Coaches in The World – Who Are They?

TRG Blog

Coaching is a powerful tool to empower employees. However, it is often underutilised. When implemented effectively, coaching can make an impact on an individual's life and career. Leaders that apply coaching techniques can unlock individuals' potential and maximise their capabilities, thus, creating a more productive, engaged, and satisfied workforce.

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A Post-Mortem on Product Management

INSEAD Knowledge

Treating product management as a role, rather than a culture all its own, deadens its meaning and impact.

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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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Team Impact takes meaningful steps (2.5 million of them) to honor Black History Month

Impact

In order to leap forward, you need to look back at what history taught you. As part of one company that spans many cultures and countries, Impact’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team knew that we should observe Black History Month (BHM) by doing just that — reflecting on the past. With the obstacles we face with the pandemic, the challenge for the DEI team was figuring out how we could effectively create a reflective and transformative experience without compromising safety.

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Cellwize awarded by Frost & Sullivan for Accelerating innovation with its Cloud-based open CHIME Platform and by that simplifying the 5G journey

Frost & Sullivan

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 25, 2021 — Based on its recent analysis of the global open radio access network (RAN) orchestration market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cellwize with the 2021 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award. With the ability to optimize next generation networks, Cellwize’s vendor-agnostic CHIME platform accelerates turnaround times of 5G deployments.

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California Proposes Law to Regulate Online Fundraising Platforms

Pearlman + Pearlman

What does this mean for charitable solicitation compliance? On February 8 th , California Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin introduced Assembly Bill 488 , which would establish a new statutory framework for the ever-evolving world of online charitable fundraising platforms. [1]. The proposed bill for “charitable fundraising platforms” and “platform charities” would require: (1) “charitable fundraising platforms” and “platform charities” to register and provide reports to the California Attorney Genera

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Gen Z’s Approach to Shopping and Retail

Market Source Inc

At one time, retailers could build a dedicated following simply by offering lower prices than the competition. All that has changed with the rise of Gen Z. The post Gen Z’s Approach to Shopping and Retail appeared first on MarketSource.

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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 To Look For In a Planning and Budgeting Solution?

TRG Blog

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The Decade Ahead for the Global Power Sector

Frost & Sullivan

Renewable energy will dominate the next decade, having already built strong momentum in the late 2010s. Frost & Sullivan forecasts that $2.72 trillion will be invested in wind and solar over the course of the next decade, marking a further significant shift away from fossil fuel-based generation across nearly all regional power markets. The renewable sector is projected to see a continued decline in project costs and constant improvements in operational efficiency.

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Monthly recurring revenue and the MSP sales cycle

Channel Insider

Monthly recurring revenue (MRR). To hear most IT managed service provider (MSP) gurus tell it, this is the holy grail. The ultimate goal. Yeah, not so much.

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How to Encourage Exponential Thinking

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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Find productive partners faster with Impact’s Discover experience

Impact

Identifying and recruiting the right publishers, creators, and businesses for your partnerships program is essential. But it can also be daunting — for many managers, discovery and recruitment is the stage of the partnership life cycle where they’re asked to make some of their highest impact decisions with the least information. To compensate, they pour a lot of time and manual work into the endeavor.

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Frost & Sullivan Highlights 8 Key Predictions Shaping the Construction Materials Market in 2021

Frost & Sullivan

Sustainability, modular construction methods and machines are expected to usher in a new era of construction automation. Santa Clara, Calif. – February 23, 2021 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Key Architectural Trends Determining Construction Materials Usage, Outlook 2021 , identifies eight predictions for the global construction materials market.

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Why Should Brands Care About Customer Habits?

ITA Group

Why Should Brands Care About Customer Habits? Habits are weird. So are humans. Why are we so prone to forming habits? One reason people are creatures of habit is that habits are efficient: People can perform useful behaviors without wasting time and energy deliberating about what to do. Especially when we are assaulted with choices. For those who are working through their own habit of skimming , here’s the TL;DR wrap up of an NPR article : “Neuroscientists have traced our habit-making behaviors

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5 Partnership Challenges Agencies Face (And How to Tackle Them Head-On)

Crossbeam Blog

As an agency partner manager, you’ve got a lot of relationships to support.

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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 Importance of Sharing Your Vivid Vision

COO Alliance

Sharing your Vivid Vision is just as important as writing it, but why? It’s easy to avoid sharing your work, especially something you’ve spent so much time on that it almost feels like a part of you. There are two main reasons that you might fear sharing your Vivid Vision. The first one is simple, you fear criticism. The second one is, that you fear that by sharing ideas others will act on them first and take all the credit.

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Total Airport Management to Enhance Airport Operations across the Value Chain: Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan

Total airport management market to reach $1.20 billion by 2030. Santa Clara, Calif. – February 23, 2021 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Data Integration to Drive Global Total Airport Management (TAM) Market Growth, 2030 , finds that total airport management (TAM) aims to address multiple challenges faced by airports across various operational categories, including passenger processing, airside operations, safety and security, facilities management, and landside operations.

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Considerations for Deciding When to Return to Live Events

ITA Group

Considerations for Deciding When to Return to Live Events. As we embark on 2021 with the hope of a vaccine, it’s getting easier to envision a future where we meet again. Many of us in the event industry have been diligently working and using this past year to develop scenarios and contingency plans for what those first events might look like—how testing will be handled, what new safety protocols need to be followed, and the best ways to communicate this information have been thought through in d