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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion.

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AI as a catalyst for ESG: Empowering CIOs to drive sustainable innovation

CIO

The demand for ESG initiatives has become an integral part of a company’s strategy for long-term success, offering a promising future for those who embrace them. This article delves into the transformative potential of AI, genAI and blockchain to drive sustainable innovation.

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Startups must embrace sustainable scaling strategies

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Baris Guzel Contributor Share on X Baris Guzel is an engineer with work experience in top-tier investment banking and venture capital. He is a partner at BMW i Ventures, where he has led investments and supported many companies as a board director/observer.

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Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

TechCrunch

The bottom-up model has a few key benefits: Companies spend dramatically less on sales than their peers, allowing them to invest more in product; they can sustain hypergrowth for longer because they are not as reliant on raw sales headcount to win business; and they tend to be more profitable in the long run, leading to premium valuations.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

CIO

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with. Customer demand is also fueling the trend, Bailkoski says.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO

Customer sentiment, evolving corporate values, and government regulation have converged to make sustainability a strategic priority for nearly every business. 1] Preparing for long-term sustainability has become a fundamental part of future-proofing your organization.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical integration, misaligned expectations, and lack of preparedness.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic. When the dust settles, we have a responsibility to turn our shock and grief into fierce determination and lead the charge of responsible, strategic, and sustainable future growth. Strategically aligning your systems and teams.

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Digital Workplace Experience Conference: Resilience & Agility in Disruptive Times

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Acquire the strategies, tactics, and technologies to build and sustain a more resilient organization and maximize your workforce. Topics will include: Top-Notch Engagement Program Strategies that Create Community & Drive Collaboration. Learn from the leaders at DWX ’22, Aug 3-4.

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business. Save your seat for this exclusive webinar today!

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology. With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity?

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

Lean A3, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) and the Build-Measure-Learn or Think-Make-Check loop (to name a few loops) are all learning models informed by the notion that experimentation is the fastest (and most proven) route to product-market fit and achieving sustainable organic growth.