Sat.Nov 18, 2023 - Fri.Nov 24, 2023

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Enhancing or Replacing? Navigating the Future of Alliance Management with AI

Peter Simoons

Alliance management is a critical function that builds and maintains successful long-term partnerships between organisations. As an Alliance Manager , you juggle multiple tasks, from contract negotiation to cross-team communication and project tracking. Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) be a game-changer in making your job not just easier, but also more effective?

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Top 5 Workday Negotiation Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” – John F. Kennedy This insightful sentiment sets the stage for exploring the pivotal role of Workday negotiation consultants and consulting firms. These entities specialize in navigating the intricate dynamics of workplace negotiations, focusing on creating win-win situations for both employers and employees.

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4 recipes for resilience

Stellar Partnerships

We’re lining up on the runway, getting ready for Christmas take-off. You can feel the building stress in the crazy driving on the roads. We’re dealing with end of year celebrations, school and club events, present buying and holiday planning. That’s on top of nurturing our corporate partners and making sure they’re primed for the next ask. In busy times we try to multi-task, but that’s a misnomer according to author Johann Hari.

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Accounting Best Practices for Logistics and Transportation Companies

TRG Blog

Companies operating in the  logistics and transportation industry  such as airlines, cruise liners, railways and shipping/trucking firms face several accounting and operational challenges that can impact their net earnings. That is why it is critical that good accounting practices are followed to manage their cash flow and liquidity.

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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 to build a successful talent management strategy

IBM Business Partners

Advanced organizations know their greatest assets are their employees. However, keeping employees happy and engaged can be challenging, especially when considering available resources and the need to meet other organizational goals. An organization is only as strong as its talent pool, so organizations have increasingly embraced talent management as a core component of their overarching strategy.

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Ten Ways Boards Need to Transform

INSEAD Knowledge

Boards are left with no option but to evolve. The confluence of macro-economic uncertainties, geopolitical tensions, climate change and digital disruption has led to unpredictable risks, a polarising society and more activist stakeholders. At the recent INSEAD Directors Forum, experts discussed how governance must transform to meet these persistent challenges head-on.In his keynote address, Gilbert Ghostine, Chairman of Sandoz, envisioned a future marked by “more” – more green initiatives, more

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The 6-Step Guide to Developing a Diversity and Inclusion Plan

TRG Blog

In the last two articles, we discussed the advantages of diversity and inclusion in the workplace as well as some obstacles the HR department might face during the process of building a diverse, equal and inclusive environment. In the next step, we are going to sketch out a thorough plan that helps your organisation to achieve this goal.

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Level up your Kafka applications with schemas

IBM Business Partners

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. In this article, developer Michael Burgess provides an insight into the concept of schemas and schema management as a way to add value to your event-driven applications on the fully managed Kafka service, IBM Event Streams on IBM Cloud ® What is a schema?

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Top 6 Microsoft Negotiation Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." – Warren Buffett. When it comes to negotiating with Microsoft, understanding the intricacies of value versus cost is paramount as the right negotiation strategy can make a significant difference in achieving favorable terms and maximizing value. The Value of Expert Microsoft Negotiation Consultants The complex world of Microsoft contracts and agreements requires a level of expertise that goes beyond basic negotiation skills.

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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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Westcon-Comstor Makes Big MSSP Pitch with Check Point

Channel Insider

Managed service providers in Australia can now access the “full suite” of Check Point Software products since distributor Westcon-Comstor is partnering with the security giant. Check Point Software’s suite includes network security to protect enterprises from sophisticated cyber-attacks, cloud security with a unified cloud-native security platform, and user and access security to protect remote users’ devices and access.

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INSEAD Insights: November 2023 Research Picks

INSEAD Knowledge

Fresh research by INSEAD faculty explores various aspects of human behaviour and decision-making, including the universality of puritanism, the dynamics of publication cycles, approaches to incentivising health product manufacturing, the impact of predictive technology on acute care operations, and the effects of sarcasm on perspective-taking.1. Are we all implicit puritans?

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Application modernization overview

IBM Business Partners

Application modernization is the process of updating legacy applications leveraging modern technologies, enhancing performance and making it adaptable to evolving business speeds by infusing cloud native principles like DevOps, Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and so on. Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result.

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Top 12 Healthcare Patient Experience Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

In recent years, patient experience has taken center stage, making the role of specialized consultants and consulting firms more vital than ever. In this rapidly growing field, top consultants bring a blend of expertise, innovation, and empathy to transform patient experiences in healthcare settings. Harnessing Expertise in Healthcare Consulting Professional consultants in the healthcare industry play a pivotal role in enhancing patient experiences.

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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 an MSP Business in 2024

Channel Insider

Starting a managed service provider (MSP) business in 2024 is a venture worth considering given the ever-increasing reliance on technology and the need for specialized IT services. The MSP landscape includes various players, including general MSPs, vertical market MSPs, and managed security service providers (MSSPs) among others. Regardless of the type and scale of MSP you want to build, there’s a process for creating a successful MSP, and best practices to consider.

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Mindmatrix launches Partner Marketing University & Certification Course

Mindmatrix

Mindmatrix’s Partner Marketing University offers an extensive partner marketing course, free of cost, that covers every angle of partner marketing comprehensively Leading PRM & Partner Marketing Software provider, Mindmatrix, has launched a comprehensive partner marketing training course. The partner marketing course offered by Mindmatrix covers every topic associated with partner marketing, right from the very basic terminologies to the most advanced partner marketing strategies.

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Integrating healthcare apps and data with FHIR + HL7

IBM Business Partners

Today’s healthcare providers use a wide variety of applications and data across a broad ecosystem of partners to manage their daily workflows. Integrating these applications and data is critical to their success, allowing them to deliver patient care efficiently and effectively. Despite modern data transformation and integration capabilities that made for faster and easier data exchange between applications, the healthcare industry has lagged behind because of the sensitivity and complexit

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Top 9 Healthcare AI Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." – Christian Lous Lange. +Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how healthcare care is delivered, managed, and experienced. The rise of AI in healthcare isn't just a trend; it's a pivotal shift that is redefining the boundaries of medicine and patient care. Healthcare AI consultants and consulting firms stand at the forefront of this transformation.

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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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How to Enhance SEO with Intelligent Chatbot Integration

SEO Magazine

You’re keen on improving your site’s SEO, aren’t you? Consider integrating intelligent chatbots. With artificial intelligence, these tools can significantly boost user engagement. Striking the right balance between AI-driven strategies and traditional SEO practices can improve visibility online. As a result, services can be found faster by potential customers who are browsing through search engines like Google.

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Face Verification: A Powerful Tool for Combating Fraud and Enhancing Safety

Binfire Collaboration Blog

Client face verification system compares and assesses a person’s facial characteristics using biometric technologies to confirm their identity. The face, head, chin, and eyes are used in this situation to access an application system or service to authenticate the identity. Like a face scanner, it operates. The face authentication system is made to work with a wide range of gadgets and mobile programs.

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Your Black Friday observability checklist

IBM Business Partners

Black Friday—and really, the entire Cyber Week—is a time when you want your applications running at peak performance without completely exhausting your operations teams. Observability solutions can help you achieve this goal, whether you’re a small team with a single product or a large team operating complex ecommerce applications.

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Top 9 Healthcare Contact Center/Call Center Consultants and Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

Healthcare contact centers and call centers are vital links between patients, providers and essential services. Recognizing the best consultants and consulting firms is not just about acknowledging expertise; it’s also about understanding their impact on patient care and healthcare efficiency. This article provides an overview of the top healthcare contact center consultants and consulting firms and looks at their roles in enhancing communication, patient satisfaction and operational efficiency

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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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Rising to the Challenge: Exploring Innovations in Climate Technologies and Their Crucial Role in Global Resilience

Frost & Sullivan

The floods in India, the heatwaves in Europe, and the California wildfires can all be attributed to the deteriorating environment and the advance of climate change, which pose an existential threat to humans and nature. Endangered ecosystems can have a devastating impact on human health, biodiversity, and even the economy. The WWF has estimated that the economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems is equivalent to 60% of the global GDP.

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4 types of B2B affiliate-based partnerships [+brands winning in each category]

Impact

Around 50 percent of consumers trust recommendations more than online banner ads, mobile ads, SMS messages, and SEO ads. Today, these recommendations come from referrals, affiliates, and influencers. Partnership marketing is a powerful way to reach your target audience and build trust at the same time. While channel partnerships allow partners to handle sales for you, affiliate-type programs drive performance directly tied to results without giving up control of your brand.

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Winning the cloud game: Phoning the right friend to answer the cloud optimization question

IBM Business Partners

Cloud optimization is essential as organizations look to accelerate business outcomes and unlock the value of their data. At its core, cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. But cloud optimization is also a lifecycle process that balances performance, compliance and cost to achieve efficiency.

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Top 11 Logistics Recruiters, Headhunters, & Executive Search Firms

Jake Jorgovan

"Logistics is the ball of mercury you can't quite hold in your hand." - James K. Batten Securing top talent for your logistics company is a crucial piece of a well running organization. They act as the bridge connecting talented individuals to the organizations that need them most, ensuring that the right skills are in the right place at the right time.

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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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Sustainable Synergy: AI and Digital Twins Spark the Next Industrial Revolution, Propelling Growth and Environmental Responsibility

Frost & Sullivan

In a time where climate change poses an existential threat, the intersection of technology and environmental stewardship has become a focal point for society. The manufacturing sector, accountable for a massive 24% of global CO2 emissions, stands at a crossroads. As we approach COP28, it is more imperative than ever to discuss the role of industrial automation and manufacturing in climate change and explore how innovative technologies are revolutionizing these industries to foster a more sustain

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5 fool-proof tactics to become a top-tier UGC creator and grow your income

Impact

You have a talent for capturing people’s attention through your posts and reels. Maybe you’ve already earned commissions through official brand partnerships and sponsored posts. However, there’s another way content creators can make money that you might not have considered: user-generated content (or UGC). UGC is content created by customers and advocates, not actual brand employees.

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SSD vs. NVMe: What’s the difference?

IBM Business Partners

Recent technological advancements in data storage have prompted businesses and consumers to move away from traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) towards faster, lower-latency solid-state drive (SSD) technology. In this post, we’re going to look at this new technology, as well as the fastest and most popular protocol available to connect it to a computer’s motherboard— non-volatile memory express (NVMe).

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