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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A report issued Monday by private investment company Bain Capital indicated that, despite the numerous disruptions to the technology industry—including a global supply chain crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—most IT decision makers foresee either stable budgets or increases for the coming year. Over the past two years, the pandemic’s effects on that figure have been noticeable—at the onset, less than half of those polled said that they expected anything but a decrease in their budget for t

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In an economy driven by rapid growth and rapid change, companies that sit still are falling behind. For revenue operations leaders, that means a foundation of high-quality data is only a starting point. To ensure your company can grow and thrive in an unpredictable economy, you need go-to-market data that changes as fast as your total addressable market.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Customer centricity can be defined many ways, but for today’s IT, it’s no longer about just the quality of the product or service being provided. It’s the total experience, says Pratibha Salwan, co-leader of consumer services at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Customer centricity is how you make customers feel at every touch point in their journey with your brand, from initial consideration, through purchase, and after the product or service is delivered, Salwan explains.

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Alpha Sense BI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Covid pandemic ushered in and accelerated many areas of technology. Transactions, services, and our general way of life had to quickly adapt to the contactless (read: online) mode of things. Technologies such as video conferencing became the new norm and made life smoother despite the friction created by the pandemic. E-commerce saw an inevitable sharp rise, and more opportunities for growth and innovation presented themselves.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By Clayton Donley, Vice President & General Manager, Identity Management Security, Broadcom Software. (This article was originally published in Dark Reading by Clayton Donley.). Although analysts have predicted the death of passwords for many years, passwords are still the predominant authentication credential used for many applications and IT systems.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Dow is reaping the benefits of a year-long program to roll out new digital technologies to one of its largest manufacturing sites, resulting in improvements in performance, reliability, and employee experience. It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow.

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IBI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes. Gathering accurate and time-sensitive enterprise data is a daily challenge for most big businesses. Their data sources are siloed and disparate, making the retrieval and interpretation of these insights difficult and delayed. With data virtualization solutions, such as TIBCO ® Data Virtualization software, different data types can be transformed and integrated before being published to user-facing analytics tools and applications—thus unifying data sources and enabling u

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Commerce Commission Chief Information Officer Suzanne Pullman on taking on the role of CIO just as NZ went into lockdown, why she favours servant leadership, and the challenge of getting more women to consider IT as a career.

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Domo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A Problem statement: How to exclude weeks and months from the Flex Table card that are not yet complete so users don’t think the period over period numbers are soft? A Solution Statement: This secret sauce allows for a true week over week or month over month comparison by excluding the current week or month that hasn’t yet completed. Demo: Use a beast mode to dynamically limit your data to exclude the current week or month from the Flex Table card.

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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Benjamin Mann, CTO of foodpanda, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live in ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Benjamin talks through foodpanda’s technology journey and how innovation at scale can only be achieved by a commitment to data and experience. Product enhancements aside, Benjamin also outlines how foodpanda is helping communities grow by prioritising digital inclusion, in addition to people-centric initiatives such as tech hubs in Taiwan and Singapore.

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Vable

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Proving the value of the library and information team to management is an ongoing challenge. How can information people who work in legal, commercial or financial industries move beyond the immediate logistical challenges, and use their considerable library management skills to innovate, demonstrate value and continue to make an impact in a brave new world?

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Dataversity

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If your business is focused on data-driven, fact-based decisions, your business users may be leveraging an analytics solution to gather, find, and analyze data. Business goals include improving results and productivity and getting the best results out of your data, as well as gaining meaningful insight into data. But, you certainly want to accomplish all […].

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Splash BI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Upcoming Webinar. Oct 4th, 2022 | 10 AM ET / 3 PM BST. Creating a Winning DE&I Hiring Strategy. Jump to abstract. Webinar Abstract. A robust diversity, equity, and inclusion plan is a must for any organization – no longer just a nice to have. However, building a diverse workforce is impossible without intentional and inclusive talent acquisition strategies.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As the nation’s top expert on life insurance and annuity products, I have spent a great deal of my time over the last couple of decades pouring-over specimen contracts and prospectuses. It’s what I do. It’s why I’m the life of the party. Given that, I am going to admit to you one of the most embarrassing mistakes I have made in my life, as an expert on insurance contracts.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Originally posted February 5, 2011 by Sheryl J. Moore. Most of you know that I am passionate about indexed life insurance and indexed annuities. However, I am passionate about insurance products in general. In fact, one of the things that I am MOST passionate about is growing our distribution! Not so long ago, life insurance and annuities were distributed via a career agent distribution.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The following article is a reprint, originally written July 15, 2013 by Sheryl J. Moore: Throughout the past [20] years of working with universal life (UL) products, one comment in particular has been overheard far too often: “…fund this UL at [X percent] over target.”. This comment is especially popular in the indexed life market, where the product may be new to producers, and a lack of product knowledge may run rampant.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

ADRIAN — Anthony Clark, a 26-year insurance executive and a former Gleaner Life Insurance Society staff member, has returned as its 10th president and CEO. He began work on Aug. 12 after being selected by the fraternal life insurance society’s board of directors. “Gleaner is a great organization,” Clark told employees at his introduction, a news release said.

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ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There is an age old tenet of marketing that life insurance must necessarily be sold in a top-down setting, with an experienced agent guiding the process from start to finish, to ensure that the client doesn’t deviate from what has always been accepted as a proven way to seal the deal. Moreover, traditionally, it was the agent that had to carry the entire load all along the way: from prospecting to outreach while cold calling through a wall of resistance to finally securing a face to face meeting

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It’s September, the time of year all financial advisors look forward to — not because of changing leaves or pumpkin spice lattes, but because it’s Life Insurance Awareness Month. Every September, advisors focus their energy on sharing why their clients need protection. Then, October 1 comes around, and we wait 11 months before once again focusing on this important aspect of advising.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Recession fears and inflation may be on the rise, but millennial and Gen Z “super savers” aren’t backing off their retirement plans. . Click HERE to read the full story via InvestmentNews. The post Millennial, Gen Z ‘super savers’ still bullish on hitting retirement goals appeared first on Wink.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

On July 25, 2022, the Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup of the NAIC’s Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee issued for public comment an exposure draft of proposed actuarial guidelines for index-linked variable annuities (ILVAs). The guidelines are designed to establish standards for the design and operation of ILVAs so that they more clearly constitute “variable annuities” and, as such, are exempt from NAIC Model 805 – Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annui

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Annuities have become a common choice for investors who want to receive a steady income stream in their retirement years. They can be structured to pay income for a set number of years (such as 10 or 20) or for the lifetime of the annuity owner. Further customization is also available for most types of annuities, though fees for such tailored insurance products can get quite high.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The life insurance industry is facing significant headwinds, an S&P Global Ratings’ analyst said this morning, but is strong enough financially to push through 2023. Speaking during the 2022 Insurance Summit organized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Carmi Margalit, life insurance sector lead, said storm clouds are gathering and it starts with the economy. “Economists at S&P, they peg the likelihood of a recession at somewhere around 45%,” Margali

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

RADNOR, Pa.– New research from Lincoln Financial Group finds U.S. consumers surveyed are looking to better understand how to weather the current economic climate, yet few are taking action. During Life Insurance Awareness Month, Lincoln Financial encourages consumers to adopt an “if not now, when?” financial planning mindset, highlighting how the often unknown or misunderstood living benefits of life insurance, which can be accessed during a policyowner’s lifetime, can help address the cha

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It’s easy, and unfair, to think that life insurance is a stodgy old product that hasn’t changed much since its inception eons ago. But an overview this week of current life insurance trends and what leading advisors are doing to maximize the use of life insurance for clients portrayed an industry radically changing to meet consumer needs. And those needs, particularly in these times of economic upheaval, have never been greater. .

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