Executives from Unilever, Caterpillar, and Johnson Controls will be among the speakers heading to Chicago late next month for the second annual B2B Next, which explores the evolution of e-commerce between corporations, partners, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders. According to Mary Wagner, editorial director of live content, the event’s agenda is driven by the growing […]
Today’s Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) face a growing challenge. As businesses grow and expand, more and more spend is happening to support business growth, and a significant portion of this comes in the form of employee spend. CFOs must safeguard the financial health of the business, down to the last dollar, but a lack of […]
This article originally appeared in our newsletter, the B2B Briefing, that is sent once every two weeks. Subscribe via the upper-right form on our site to see this kind of content and more before anyone else. Occasionally you come across chief information and technology officers, or CITOs. Then there are the rare chief marketing and […]
In just a few weeks thousands of marketers will be touching down in Cleveland for the annual Content Marketing World conference. B2BNN is a media sponsor for the second year in a row (use the code “B2BNN” at checkout to get $100 off your pass!), and to help set the stage we asked the Content […]
Eighty per cent of B2B sales reps who help filter information and ease the decision-making process for customers close high-quality, low-regret deals, according to a report from research firm Gartner. Based on a survey of more than 1,000 B2B buyers, the Stamford, Conn.-based company’s report suggested that quantity and even accuracy of information is not […]
Last time we looked at the rise of employee activism in organizations such as Wayfair, Google and Amazon. Dissatisfied with their organization’s actions, inactions or inattention, employees are more often than ever before taking their internal complaints to the streets. As many as 40% of your workers might be activists. Employers, who can no longer control their workers’ […]
People can come to Robert Osborn for two very different, but very complementary, areas of expertise. As the federal CTO for ServiceNow, Osborn spends part of his time talking to public sector organizations about some of the ways they might be able to transform the citizen experience and the processes within government by making use […]
I was sitting in the office of a CIO for a large national bank, and we got to talking about his approach to deciding and prioritizing projects. It became pretty clear, at this point, that much of what got the green light was determined by his boss. This was not the CEO but the CFO, […]
Mid-funnel performance can triple as marketing tactics are automated, despite the fact less than 20 percent of marketers are using technology to do so, according to research from Demand Metric and GetResponse on Wednesday. The two firms held a live webinar to discus the results of the research, dubbed the 2019 Funnel Friction Benchmark Study, […]
The limitations of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Forrester’s Wave and similar market research offerings have inspired Paradigm B2B to launch a series of reports called Combine that break down the merits of e-commerce applications for enterprise and mid-market buyers. Chicago-based Paradigm B2B, which released its first two Combine reports last week, said the research also drew […]
Businesses might consider their digital transformation efforts as an act of pushing boundaries and exploring new frontiers, but the most recent IBM TV commercial is a good reminder that few will ever top the ambitions of NASA during the Apollo 11 mission. In a 30-second spot that consists entirely of archival footage, IBM effectively newsjacks […]
B2B marketers who focus on technology decision makers over-index on the power of conferences, roundtables and other in-person gatherings, according to a survey of more than 1,000 professionals by events software firm Bizzabo. In its 2019 B2B Tech Trends Report, which was published earlier this month, Bizzabo said the majority of leadership (VPs and C-Suite) […]
Effective leadership starts with leading yourself. If you want the best team possible, you must be ready to hold yourself accountable ahead of your staff. What does accountability have to do with leadership? Everything. I’ve supervised all kinds of people, from 16-year-old students to high-performing executives, and the most successful employees always share a positive […]
To all those suggesting “B2B” should morph into “human to human” or that enterprises should market themselves more like consumer brands, the CEO of an agency that works with the likes of IBM, GE and SAS has a counterargument for you. As the founder of Centerline Digital, Charles Long said he’s familiar with an increasingly […]
InsideView on Thursday launched a series of tools designed to position it as the data provider of choice for firms scrambling to replace Salesforce’s soon-to-be-discontinued Data.com service. Companies that have used Data.com’s Clean and Prospector products to fuel their customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other applications have about a year before Salesforce officially retires […]
Pipedrive on Wednesday is launching an updated CRM suite that includes a virtual assist based on artificial intelligence, along with an online education platform and an enterprise plan in a bid to show it can serve larger organizations. Based in New York, Pipedrive’s latest release adds a slew of other features such as the ability […]
School’s been out for well over a month now, but even once kids find themselves back in the classroom, there likely won’t be many telling their teachers about their intentions to become B2B marketers. According to a U.K. agency called Rooster Punk, that’s an issue worth confronting, because the reality of the job could be […]
More than half of B2B marketers surveyed as part of a research project between PAN Communications and Heinz Marketing said their content marketing efforts aren’t being attributed to revenue, which may explain why less than 32 per cent said they feel confident in how they measure such work. Boston-based PAN Communications, which focuses on PR […]
This post was first published in our every-other-week newsletter, The B2B Briefing. Sign up (see fields in the right-hand column) to see this kind of content before anyone else! One of the many things I love about the beach in the summer is letting my kids loose and watching what they’ll do with the sand. […]
The middle of July might not seem the ideal time for an organization to host its first Twitter chat, but G2 seemed to have no problem attracting comments from people who work at major B2B SaaS firms to weigh in at #G2Fireside. As might be expected, the peer-to-peer review platform decided to focus much of […]
