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The 10 biggest issues IT faces today

CIO

CIOs are used to rapid change. New technologies hit the market, existing ones evolve, business needs change on a dime, staff comes and goes. All that together, though, is nothing compared to the turbulence that CIOs are seeing today. IT leaders are now contending with continued pandemic-related disruptions, geopolitical instability, and economic volatility — on top of those usual factors.

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How to Write Your Positioning Statement In 4 Steps

Crayon

Even the greatest product will be overlooked if it lacks a captivating message that resonates with its target customer in a way that no competitor can match. Doing this isn’t easy. It requires consistency. Each member of your organization, across the entire customer lifecycle, needs to be in lockstep. When a prospect hits your homepage, clicks an ad, or opens their inbox, your communication should ooze the same values, using the same diction and syntax.

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How Understanding Data Can Improve Your Marketing Efforts

Smart Data Collective

Global companies spent over $2.83 billion on marketing analytics in 2020. This figure certainly increased in light of the pandemic, as digitization accelerated. Marketing has always been about numbers. Now, those numbers are highly refined, narrowed by algorithms and databases, and processed by people with advanced degrees. Indeed, data and marketing are a match made in heaven, taking much of the guesswork out of a profession that once was as much about luck as it was about creativity.

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Amazon Announces Prime Day Dates [How To Prepare]

Tinuiti

Today, Amazon formally announced via Twitter that Prime Day 2022 will be held on July 12th and 13th. Last year, Prime Day brought in nearly $11 billion in total ecommerce sales, making it the biggest day for digital sales in 2021 — and Prime Day 2022, could be even bigger. This year is a crucial time to […].

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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17 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes

mention

Statista reports that 11 million households scanned at least one QR code in 2020 in the US. That’s a massive increase from 9.76 million QR code scans in 2018. Nowadays, QR codes are used for anything from marketing campaigns to contactless payments. There are endless possibilities for what you can do with QR codes. This article will explore some of the most creative ways people use QR codes.

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How Deep Learning Technology Improves the Efficiency of Parking Management Systems

Smart Data Collective

Parking Systems and The Current Crisis . The current world is undergoing a rapid transformation as a direct result of the many scientific breakthroughs and technological advancements enabling the production of an abundance of intelligent gadgets, appliances, and systems. Such intelligent devices, gadgets, and systems encompass automation, smart sensor networks, communication systems, and various other gadgets.

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Two Years Later, 10 Lessons From Taking ZoomInfo Public

Zoominfo

It’s been two years since ZoomInfo went public. Two years in a pandemic, and two years of chaos, excitement, learning, and adjusting. And two years of feeling really proud of the things my team continues to accomplish. From the outside looking in, ZoomInfo’s success may seem like a cakewalk — we were at the right place at the right time and everything just came together.

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Rank #1 On Google With This On-Page SEO Checklist

mention

You want to rank #1 on Google, but you’re not sure how or what to do. Discover the 12 steps On-Page SEO checklist on how to get ranked higher on Google. The problem is that there are so many SEO experts out there who offer conflicting advice and it’s hard to know what works best. Some say keyword density is important while others say it doesn’t matter at all.

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New Data: Battlecard Benchmarks & Best Practices (2022)

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Sadly, the impact of good product marketing is often obscured.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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How can CIOs Build Business Value with Business Analytics?

Smart Data Collective

Analytics is becoming more important than ever in the world of business. Over 70% of global businesses use some form of analytics. This figure will rise as globalization, supply chain challenges and other factors increase competitiveness. This is an important year for enterprises keeping in view that most global industries are recovering from the pandemic horror, and the era of web 3.0 is at the doorstep.

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ZI Labs: Building the Future of Go-to-Market Ops

Zoominfo

During the past 15 years, the B2B software ecosystem has exploded. Billions of dollars have been invested in software promising to transform how sales and marketing teams reach new audiences. Sales and marketing tech stacks have swollen, with dozens of conflicting tools promising greater efficiency, accelerated growth, and higher revenue. The message was clear: those who embraced these new tools would gain a crucial competitive advantage over those that did not.

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Booz Allen Hamilton: Get smart on their changes…or else

FedSavvy

We last examined Booz Allen Hamilton in August 2020. At the time, the company was experiencing steady business growth (which we also noted in our August 2018 blog) and continues to maintain that steady growth now. The company announced at the end of its fiscal year 2022 that it earned $8.4 billion in revenue, up 6.4% from fiscal year 2021, and increased its headcount to more than 29,000 employees worldwide.

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How The “Maximum Connections Per Data Source” Property On Power BI DirectQuery Datasets Can Affect Report Performance

Chris Webb BI

If you’re working with DirectQuery in Power BI then one of the most important properties you can set on your dataset is the “Maximum connections per data source” property. You can find it on the Published Dataset Settings tab in the Options dialog in Power BI Desktop: The description of what it does in the guidance documentation is pretty comprehensive: You can set the maximum number of connections DirectQuery opens for each underlying data source.

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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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8 Ways Successful Online Business Leverage Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is disrupting almost every industry in the modern economy. Global businesses are projected to spend over $103 billion on big data by 2027. While many industries benefit from the growing use of big data, online businesses are among those most affected. There are many practical benefits of using big data to grow your online business.

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Marketers: Beware of These B2B Display Advertising Mistakes

Zoominfo

Marketing mistakes are costly. If you get one variable wrong — the audience, the content offer, or even the channel — you can waste thousands of dollars. Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Luckily for you, we’ve run the trials, talked to the experts, and are sharing some of the most common mistakes, so you never have to make them again.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

CXL

Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. You only have to look at top brands to see this in action: Apple’s sleekness, Coca-Cola’s playfulness, Disney’s magic. Consistency is equally critical for startups. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. Being consistent earns trust and cements brand status—qualities that add 10–20% to your overall growth, according to LucidPress research.

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Hybrid Research Explained: What It Is & How to Use It

Netbasequid

Picture it: A business has spent a vast amount of resources developing a product that isn’t moving as expected. It offers significant cost savings for the buyer and still falls short. To solve this puzzle, the business should find answers in its research – something that just isn’t connecting as planned. If their hybrid research is solid, they will be able to pivot and capture the market.

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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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9 Ways Location Data Can Help You Excel in Retail

Smart Data Collective

Consumers today want retailers they do dealings with, to provide them with simplified and personalized services. If you fail to meet their standards for an effective and focused product offering, most of them will quickly take their money elsewhere. One of the secrets to attracting and retaining customers is to become more data-centric. The retail industry is expanding all the time.

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What’s New: Engage, Chorus, TalentOS, and Global Team Updates

Zoominfo

This month, we’ve got fresh updates across our sales and recruiting platforms and a couple of exciting announcements worth highlighting. In this video, Caroline Thompson walks through our expanded features within Engage, Chorus’ new Momentum Signals, and details of our Comparably acquisition. Comparably & TalentOS Big news! We’ve acquired Comparably , a leading employee review website — and the only platform showcasing workplace culture, salary, and corporate brand reputation data.

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Operational Data Analytics Extends Finance’s Value

Dataversity

Futuristic films, such as the new “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” are a fun look into what the future might hold. But outside the cinema, we’re seeing shifts in what’s possible?right now. By leveraging operational data that’s collected throughout their very own organization, finance leaders are transforming the finance function and extending the […].

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Tracking Consumer Interests During Pride Month

Netbasequid

Public perception makes all the difference to brands, as does understanding intent. It’s important to get to the heart of topical conversations, particularly when they take over an entire month. And we’re going to show you how, as there may be some nuanced conversations that brands are missing this Pride month, as they make assumptions about messaging that may not be on point.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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7 Ways to End Dead Digital Weight on Your Website with Analytics

Smart Data Collective

Businesses have been using websites to reach customers for nearly 30 years. The first websites predated modern analytics technology. Google Analytics wasn’t launched until 2005. However, advances in analytics over the past decade have made it easier for companies to create quality websites. This has in turn increased the demands of customers using modern websites.

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Pretty Big Deal with Brittney Castro: ‘It’ll Work if You Don’t Give Up’

Zoominfo

Brittney Castro learned the importance of patience when looking to sell her own business. As an entrepreneur and financial planner, she added saleswoman to her list of titles as she tackled numerous negotiations and potential deals. After rejecting a failing negotiation, she feared a deal might not happen and began shifting her focus back to running her company.

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4 Key Approaches to Using Data Analytics for Social Determinants of Health

Dataversity

Every day customers are calling health care call centers, providing visibility into their daily reality – without even being asked. Whether or not you’re listening, customers are sharing details about the social factors impacting their health care decisions within every interaction. These factors, both positive and negative, are called social determinants of health (SDOH) and include: Access to […].

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Destroy Silos with Continuous Intelligence

Netbasequid

Consumer and market intelligence is a life saver for businesses of all sizes. But with so many different data sources available within different departments of a company, that it can feel like a game of telephone where you cross your fingers and hope that the intel is being relayed correctly. And these silos inevitably endanger companies in many ways.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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Artificial Intelligence is Essential to the Future of Cryopreservation

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has become a very important technological development in the life sciences. Michel L. Leite and his colleagues at Universidade Católica de Brasília addressed this phenomenon in their study Artificial intelligence and the future of life sciences. AI is helping advance the life sciences in many ways, which include improving the outcomes of clinical trials and making certain features more accessible to both researchers and patients.

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Data Mining Use Cases

TDAN BI

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine,” says Peter Sondergaard, former Global Head of Research at Gartner. And he has a point. Given that the global big data market is forecast to be valued at $103 billion in 2027, it’s worth noticing. As the amount of data generated […].

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Data Governance at the Edge of the Cloud

Dataversity

We are living in turbulent times. Online security has always been an area of concern; however, with recent global events, the world we now live in has become increasingly cloud-centric. With that, I’ve long believed that for most large cloud platform providers offering managed services, such as document editing and storage, email services and calendar […].