Wed.Apr 19, 2023

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CIO Fletcher Previn on designing the future of work

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It has been three years since COVID sent us into remote work, and we now find ourselves with a new challenge: employees who have never met in person. The hybrid work paradigm has exposed the importance of getting in front of evolving changes in the way employees will work together in the future, accelerating IT leaders’ need not only to address the impact of hybrid work and sharpen their tech strategies to support it , but also to help shape the future workplace culture, in large part through e

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Social Listening: Harnessing Customer Feedback for Business Growth

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Modern marketing is full of inscrutable jargon (what’s an AIDA again?), but social listening is refreshingly self-explanatory. It’s easy to figure out that it involves doing some listening at a social level. To get more specific, it’s the practice of tracking mentions of your brand on social media so that you can figure out what your audience thinks about your offerings.

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The power players of retail transformation: IoT, 5G, and AI/ML on Microsoft Cloud

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Thanks to cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G technologies, every link in the retail supply chain is becoming more tightly integrated. These technologies are also allowing retailers to capture and gather insights from more and more data – with a big assist from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies – to become more efficient and achieve evolving sustainability goals.

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Better Sales Coaching: 7 Effective Sales Coaching Techniques

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Coaching salespeople is not a new idea. Good mentoring is one of the quickest ways to ramp up new employees. It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching.

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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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Top considerations for data modernization initiatives

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Most organizations are already well under way with their digital transformation journeys, particularly data modernization. For most companies, the drive for data modernization is attributed to the massive growth of data and a business goal to harness as much data as possible to unlock its potential in transformative ways. Adopting cloud-based solutions is, perhaps, one of the most popular means of modernizing.

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Cleaning Up Costs: Avaya and Stemmer Distribution

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Stemmer Distribution, the largest French company to provide dental products to healthcare professionals since 1978, was able to reduce costs while improving their customer experience with the help of Avaya. With 250 employees and 14 companies across six sites, Stemmer needed a flexible and fluid communication solution for their customers as the brand experienced a high level of growth over the decades; Avaya was the solutions provider to create the strategy needed to achieve this goal.

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IMF & World Bank Spring 2023 Meetings: Key Takeaways

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​​ This past week, policymakers gathered for the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to discuss a troubling forecast. Kristalina Georgieva, the fund’s managing director, warned that the global economy would expand at an average annual rate of about 3% over the next half-decade—the lowest medium-term prospects since 1990.

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Oracle adds AI, automation capabilities to SCM, HCM Fusion apps

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Oracle on Wednesday said it is adding new AI and automation capabilities to its Fusion Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) suites to help enterprises increase efficiency across divisions. The updates to the SCM suite, which have been made generally available, include an AI-based planning tool, an enhanced quote-to-cash process for Fusion applications, and new rebate management capabilities.

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The Looming Threat of Orphaned Data: How Abandoned Files Could Destroy Your Business

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Employees are leaving their jobs in record numbers – both voluntarily and involuntarily. The amount of employee turnover that occurs each year varies depending on the industry and country. However, layoffs have seemingly become a common occurrence in the business world, with the tech industry being hit particularly hard of late. Layoffs.fyi, a website that […] The post The Looming Threat of Orphaned Data: How Abandoned Files Could Destroy Your Business appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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Will Taiwan be the next supply chain bottleneck for IT?

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Taiwan’s semiconductor factories, the source of many of the chips used in the world’s PCs, servers, and mobile phones, operate under a constant threat of disruption. The threats are both geological (earthquakes frequently force high-tech plants to shut down despite them being built to withstand seismic shocks) and geopolitical: China considers Taiwan to be part of its territory and has repeatedly said it aspires to the “complete reunification of the motherland.

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How Generative AI is Transforming Go-to-Market

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Depending on who you ask, generative AI will either enhance every aspect of life, or usher in the kind of techno-dystopian nightmare that was once the sole province of science fiction movies. But what will generative AI really do? Some believe that generative AI technologies will save the tech industry, insisting that AI can help regain the trust of both the public and investors and solve the sector’s most urgent problems.

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