These eight charts show how COVID-19 has changed B2B sales forever

With the massive shift to digital resulting from COVID-19, video and live chat have emerged as the predominant channels for interacting and closing sales with B2B customers, while in-person meetings and related sales activities have dropped precipitously.
More than three quarters of buyers and sellers say they now prefer digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions—a sentiment that has steadily intensified even after lockdowns have ended.

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IDV: High Dividend International Equities Offer The Best Of Both Worlds

A Look At The International Dividend Portfolio IDV holds companies from all over the world with banking centers like the United Kingdom and Hong Kong holding high weighting.
The ETF’s sector and country breakdown are shown below: ( iShares – IDV ) Financials hold the highest weighting, particularly because most bank stocks are very cheap today

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7 Traits of Highly Successful Digital Leaders

Kasey Panetta, Senior Content Marketing Manager at Gartner, sits down with Mary Mesaglio , Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, to discuss the seven traits of these highly successful digital leaders and why it’s so important that they be curious about new things, understand the difference between creativity and innovation, and never consider digital to be the outcome.
Digital leaders are clear on where they need to be exponentially better and where they can copy, since that’s not the reason people buy from the organization.

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Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF: In For A Breather

Source: Vanguard Huge pool of securities, well-diversified, reasonably valued, and not top-heavy When you pursue a high-beta space such as small caps, it’s preferable to spread your exposure over a wider horizon, and this ETF facilitates that, giving you access to 2058 stocks, with not a single stock accounting for more than 0.6% of the total holdings.
The benefit of investing in something like a VTWO is that style-wise, it is a blended ETF, where you get exposure to both growth and value stocks, and you’re not faced with the dilemma of attempting to get the timing right with picking one style over the other.

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How to Staff Your AI Team

Organizations face challenges in scaling artificial intelligence (AI) projects because they lack the requisite skills, collaboration, tooling and know-how to create and manage a robust, production-grade AI pipeline.
To successfully operationalize and scale AI initiatives, organizations need to build diverse AI roles and skills

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日鉄興和不動産、移動式で非対面マンションモデルルームに新提案–「スマクラ」実証実験

日鉄興和不動産は、マンションのモデルルームの新たな提案として、移動式マンションサロン「Smart Class」の実証実験を開始する。自宅や職場の付近の駅まで迎えて来てくれ、現地までの移動時間にマンション情報が受け取れ

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Changebridge Launches Two ESG ETFs, CBLS & CBSE

Closing out the week, on Friday, Changebridge Capital, a Boston-based asset manager specializing in active management powered by quantitative and fundamental analysis, announced the launch of its first two ETFs, CBLS and CBSE , which seek to harness quantitative and fundamental analysis for selecting inefficiently priced securities.
The Changebridge Capital Long/Short Equity ETF ( CBLS ) features a concentrated portfolio of long and short positions, aiming for each position in the portfolio generating risk-adjusted alpha.

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Is Augmented Analytics Making the Difference It Advertises?

Although the augmented analytics vendors are continuously adding new capabilities to their products, there are some fundamental things that enterprises need to get right.
Augmented analytics tools also come with pre-built machine learning models to empower any user to do single click forecasts, identify trends and trend reversals, anomalies, outliers — tasks that in the past required involvement from professional data scientists.

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