Wed.Dec 07, 2022

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Cardinal Health CIO Michelle Greene on simplifying transformation

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Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Greene, who was promoted from SVP of EIT of Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical segment to CIO last August. As technology chief, Greene is now charged with leading IT teams to help the Dublin, Ohio-based distributor and manufacturer of medical and laboratory products innovate new ways to evolve healthcare delivery.

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Crayon Introduces Competitive Performance Insights

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The best competitive intelligence programs are proactive , meaning they identify threats as soon as they begin to emerge and enable their sales teams accordingly.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

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Welcome to the holiday season. Sure, I know the holiday season’s true start date is sometime in September, but I didn’t want to hurt Halloween’s and Thanksgiving’s feelings. Which is why I’ve refused to start my shopping until after the last of the turkey leftovers and Kit Kat Bars are gone. Once upon a time I delayed my holiday shopping until the middle of December for a more practical reason: procrastination.

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Where Are Business Decisions Really Being Made?

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Sales and marketing teams have always sought to understand how target customers work internally. Knowing how and where a customer’s decisions are made can make a world of a difference in how you sell to them, whether it’s prioritizing the right accounts with the right message or pinpointing which contacts to develop relationships with first. But as companies grow, how they work together can shift — and this difference can throw off your sales and marketing teams.

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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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Cardinal Health CIO Michelle Greene on simplifying transformation

CIO

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Greene, who was promoted from SVP of EIT of Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical segment to CIO last August. As technology chief, Greene is now charged with leading IT teams to help the Dublin, Ohio-based distributor and manufacturer of medical and laboratory products innovate new ways to evolve healthcare delivery.

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Van maker BrightDrop builds ERP and business in parallel

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Electric vehicles are sufficiently distinct from their gas-guzzling cousins that auto makers have the chance to toss out decades of legacy manufacturing systems. That can go for their IT infrastructure too. When General Motors named Namo Tiwari CIO of its internal startup BrightDrop, he decided to build an ERP from scratch rather than piggy-back on GM’s existing system.

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What is Price Intelligence – The Complete Guide

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The price of a product is one of the most important considerations in every consumer’s purchasing decision. If you price your product extremely high, you will lose significant sales. Similarly, if you set them extremely low, you will lose valuable profit/revenue that affects the health of your business. Modern technology has enabled buyers to analyze prices from multiple providers and sellers in real- time.

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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success

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When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. But while some organizations undergo a relatively smooth journey, others can find themselves embarked on a bumpy trek fraught with time-wasting detours and lurking money pits – and with that glowing cloud promise still beyond their reach.

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Announcing New Beta Release of BI4Cloud WorkBooks

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We are excited to announce the upcoming Beta release of the new BI4Cloud WorkBooks functionality from 16 Dec. WorkBooks is Reports re-imagined. While we know you rely on the flexibility and depth of our BI4Cloud current reports, presenting that same data, with Graphics and beautiful Charts, will better engage your users, quickly highlight trends and help your team to make better decisions faster.

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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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Finally leverage edge by adopting an as-a-service approach

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A shift toward hybrid IT infrastructure has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, along with an increased demand for ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth networks and, by extension, edge computing. However, many organizations simply don’t have the resources or the expertise to build or manage the complex distributed systems required for effective edge computing delivery, a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.

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? Feature Introduction: Web Components

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Embed as quickly as possible — with Web Components, you easily add ready-to-use components to any web application with minimum effort. It will give you possibilities to rapidly prototype and validate your ideas.

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Episode 5: Customer-centricity: The Great Differentiator

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Customer centricity, or putting the customer’s expectations front and center, is not a new concept. But given the reality of the global pandemic, coupled with uncertain times, delivering on this concept is more important than ever, especially for SMBs. Simply put, delivering genuine value across every customer touchpoint can not only help build resilience but also contribute to long-term success.

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Selecting an IoT Platform

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When COVID-19 threatened to derail the manufacturing industry, it was Industry 4.0 that saved many manufacturers. Notwithstanding the supply chain issues that continue to pose challenges, 94% of respondents in a recent McKinsey survey said that Industry 4.0 helped them keep their operations running during the pandemic. The connective tissue that makes Industry 4.0 is the Internet […].

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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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Add brand security to your workload

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Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. And while we have been banging this drum for quite some time, a new villain has reared its head. In recent weeks, we’ve seen glaring examples of the harm that bad actors have caused to a company’s financial viability and product reputation due to confusion cau

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What Is the Patient Experience? Using Social Intelligence for a Better Understanding

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The patient experience is increasingly being used as a measure of healthcare quality, alongside patient safety and clinical effectiveness. In the US, healthcare organizations are finding ways to deliver “ superior patient experience ” with the metric being weaved into hospital and physician compensation. As the industry shifts towards more patient-centered care, understanding the patient experience is key for healthcare providers (HCPs) across the world.

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London Borough of Camden’s Tariq Khan on using data to improve local services

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Watch the episode: Listen to the episode: CIO Leadership Live.

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Marketing on Discord: Best Practices and How to Get Started

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Internet marketing isn’t new by any stretch. Since its inception, businesses have descended on the online community, creating a crowded advertising atmosphere. Just about every business in the world is engaged in some form of online promotion, and they’re all competing for the attention of the masses 24 hours per day. That’s why when new and exciting online advertising opportunities present themselves, it’s important to jump on them immediately and get in on the ground floor.

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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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Sourced Group an Amdocs Company, empowers the growth of BaaS for Standard Chartered nexus

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Banking as a Service (BaaS) is revolutionising the finance sector. BaaS enables non-financial companies to provide customers with financial products and services such as personal loans, credit cards and digital savings accounts. It leverages the expertise and experience of trusted banks, such as Standard Chartered, so they can offer a wider range of services to existing and new customers.

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CIO Leadership Live / New Zealand with Brian Ferris, Loyalty NZ Chief Data, Analytics and Technology Officer

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Watch the episode: CIO Leadership Live.

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IT leaders weigh the case for innovation in industry clouds

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As companies migrate to the cloud, many providers are serving up industry clouds—cloud services that offer data models and workflows that meet the basic needs of companies in particular industries like banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. By taking care of table stakes requirements, these specialized clouds are saving companies time and money. And perhaps more importantly, they’re freeing up many industry leaders to innovate new services for customers.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

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Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. Gartner predicts 2023 IT spending will grow 5.1% compared to this year, says John-David Lovelock, distinguished VP analyst at the firm.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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IT leaders weigh the case for innovation in industry clouds

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As companies migrate to the cloud, many providers are serving up industry clouds—cloud services that offer data models and workflows that meet the basic needs of companies in particular industries like banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. By taking care of table stakes requirements, these specialized clouds are saving companies time and money. And perhaps more importantly, they’re freeing up many industry leaders to innovate new services for customers.

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7 ways to cope with a C-level rival

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Leadership colleagues who endlessly throw cold water onto your plans, initiatives, proposals, or insights can be a drain on your energy and motivation — and your career. Such rivals can prevent you from receiving sufficient budget, successfully implementing vital business initiatives, and steering your organization in the right direction. They must be dealt with but doing so can be tricky.

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Top Down, Bottom Up or a Bit of Both? Process and Deployment Considerations for AIOps

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AIOps – a must-have rather than a nice to have Where IT is concerned, there’s no longer a valid business case for the old argument of “doing more with less.” The stakes are too high given the tightly connected global economy, the 24/7 speed of business, digital security threats, and their corresponding data protection regulations. On top of that, the shift to hybrid operations has provided valuable flexibility but multiplied potential failure points.

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