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3 Sales and Marketing Alignment Best Practices

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For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. Yet, in most companies, the two departments operate independently—causing frustration and resentment on both sides. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate.

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Ability awareness: interview with Tom Minich

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While many would consider disabilities a liability, Peckham Inc. embraces employees with disabilities as the key to its success as an organization.

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ElegantJ BI and Smarten Advanced Analytics at The Vibrant Gujarat StartUp & Technology Summit, Oct 11-13, 2018

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI announces its participation in The Vibrant Gujarat StartUp & Technology Summit 2018, October 11 through October 13 at the Helipad Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Clients, partners and technology innovators are invited to visit Stall No 36, in Hall #1 to experience the Smarten approach to advanced analytics. Kartik Patel, CEO of ElegantJ BI says, “The Smarten advanced analytics tools allow business users to leverage augmented analytics that provide machine

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Which is a better approach: customer-centric, product-centric or finance-centric?

MarketCulture

This is a great question that really comes down to a matter of the degree of emphasis put on these different approaches. While the emphasis of some companies maybe product centric what makes those companies really successful is their balance with a customer centric approach. The best example is of course Apple, they build incredible products. At the same time they are incredibly focused on the users of those products.

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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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15+ HR Podcasts for Recruiters and HR Professionals

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In recent months, we’ve featured the subject of podcasting throughout several blog posts—from podcasting best practices to lists of our top podcasts to listen to. To round out this series, we’re shifting away from sales and marketing and moving on to recruiters and HR professionals. We’ve established that podcasts are great tools for professional development and workplace inspiration—and they help pass the time on your long commutes.

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Is BI for Manufacturing an Appropriate Tool?

Elegant BI

What Can Business Intelligence for Manufacturing Do to Help My Business? Manufacturing today is complicated, and gathering and analyzing business intelligence for manufacturing can be a daunting task. Robotics, line management, supplier management, distribution, shipping, purchasing, resource management, anticipating the needs of customers and partners for the coming months and years…it’s a lot!

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The UNE 166002 standard in the Cooperative Research Centres (CIC)

Innguma

We have spent several years listening to the experts in the energy sector talk about new more sustainable forms of production, on the exorbitant consumption in the more "developed" countries and the ways that we have to store this energy. La entrada The UNE 166002 standard in the Cooperative Research Centres (CIC) apareciĂł primero en Innguma.

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What is Data Normalization & Why Should You Care?

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Data normalization. It’s not exactly what gets marketers excited to get out of bed in the morning. But if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI are important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters. A lot. In this blog post, we’ll review why data normalization is so critical to marketing strategies and goals. But first, let’s define what data normalization is.

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Nike, Amazon, and IBM place the customer at the center of the supply chain

DC Velocity

In the opening session of the Council of Supply Chain Management's EDGE Conference, top executives emphasize how they are designing their supply chains to be "customer obsessed.".

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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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Augmented Analytics Benefits are Numerous!

Elegant BI

Is Augmented Analytics Easy Enough for the Average Business User? Augmented Analytics benefits a business, its users and its customers, partners and stakeholders. The advantages of augmented analytics are as numerous, varied and unique as the organization itself but, no matter the industry or type of business, one of the greatest benefits of augmented analytics is the availability and access to sophisticated analytical techniques, algorithms and processes for the average business user – WI

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15+ HR Podcasts for Recruiters and HR Professionals

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In recent months, we’ve featured the subject of podcasting throughout several blog posts—from podcasting best practices to lists of our top podcasts to listen to. To round out this series, we’re shifting away from sales and marketing and moving on to recruiters and HR professionals. We’ve established that podcasts are great tools for professional development and workplace inspiration—and they help pass the time on your long commutes.

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The 26 Best Sales Podcasts for Reps and Leaders

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Not only are podcasts a great source of entertainment, but more professionals use podcasts for professional development, research, and inspiration. Today, we’re sharing our list of the best sales podcasts on the web from some of the biggest sales personalities. So if you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales.

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Freight rate spikes shaking up the C-suite

DC Velocity

According to a panel of shipper executives at CSCMP's EDGE Conference, this year's trucking rate spike has some U.S. companies looking to private fleet, rail options.

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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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Study: operational costs of trucking climbed 6 percent in 2017

DC Velocity

Increase caused by rise in fuel prices, maintenance on more complex vehicles, higher driver wages, ATRI says.

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Amazon opens pop-up parcel delivery site in flooded Wilmington, N.C.

DC Velocity

Retailer aids in Hurricane Florence recovery by handling packages in a van parked at a local Whole Foods Market location, Amazon says.

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Pallet pooling program provides foundation for fruitful collaboration

DC Velocity

Joining a pallet pool helped a watermelon shipper streamline its supply chain. Now it's looking to take the partnership to the next level.

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HighJump rolls out WCS as linchpin in the connected warehouse

DC Velocity

Software leverages Korber portfolio to offer solutions for handling IoT data in the automated DC, firm says.

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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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APICS launches supply chain professionals group

DC Velocity

Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) lands $5 million grant to help improve public health supply chains in Africa.

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E2open acquires TMS vendor Cloud Logistics

DC Velocity

Move builds unified supply chain platform for visibility and collaboration, E2open says.

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Paragon Software opens New Hampshire office

DC Velocity

Truck routing and scheduling solutions have prime importance in densely populated northeast region, firm says.

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Holiday sales forecast calls for increase of 4.3 to 4.8 percent over 2017 levels

DC Velocity

Peak season rise would outpace average annual increase of 3.9 percent, NRF says.

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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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Project44 lands $45 million in venture funds to reinforce growth in API network

DC Velocity

Firm has now collected $90 million for transportation visibility network.

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Takeoff Technologies partners with U.S.-based Hispanic grocer to launch robotic supermarket

DC Velocity

Sedano's Supermakets will soon be able to fulfill orders with AI robots.

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Logistics community steps up to support Hurricane Florence recovery

DC Velocity

ALAN, Norfolk Southern, and UPS announce charitable donations.

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Down to the wire

DC Velocity

New WMS helps military wire and cable supplier fill custom orders fast.

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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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4 Essential Marketing Roles for the Modern Marketing Team

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Let’s face it—it’s not easy to build a perfect marketing team. A comprehensive marketing strategy includes a number of different tactics and initiatives—which means your team must include members with a wide variety of skills. If you work in marketing, you’re already aware of the most common essential roles—social media managers, content specialists, email marketing managers, etc.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Compounding Content

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Modern content creators strive to deliver fast results—and for good reason. We live in a fast-paced, competitive digital landscape, and marketers are under constant pressure to make an immediate impact with every piece of content they create. But when it comes to content marketing success, content marketers must prioritize long-term strategy over short-term gains.

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Throwing out the babies with the bathwater

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President Trump is bent on strong-arming the Chinese on trade, even if it means breaking the arms of those he purports to help.

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