The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the ever-growing and competitive landscape of small businesses, lead generation is vital to your sustainable growth. Effective lead generation enables small businesses to expand their reach and build robust, loyal customer bases. The events will increase your brand visibility and generate leads for your business.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

B2B (business-to-business) lead generation strategies are designed to identify and attract potential business customers or clients. The idea is to help your business find qualified leads and convert them into paying customers by building a robust lead pipeline. Lead generation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 21, 2022

Lead Generation for Supply Chain: 5 Ways to Get Prospects! The new era of tech-supported sales is here, and tons of software tools are being introduced that enlarge the boundaries of sales teams and make them more efficient through improved B2B lead generation. Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2021

Lead generation article and permission to publish here provided by Kseniia Burko. Interested in finding a dependable source of warm and high-quality leads to fuel your sales pipeline? Lead generation is a pivotal process for business growth in any industry, including supply chain and logistics. Get Our EBook here.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 6, 2024

Leading Education Institution Negotiation Course (Traditional Online Format) This leading institution’s Negotiation Course is a 100% online course offered on the university’s own platform. Some industry experts indicate that negotiating or renegotiating contracts lead to savings of between 5% to 25%.

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The Thomas Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Inbound and outbound lead generation are two distinct approaches to acquiring potential customers. Knowing the differences between inbound and outbound lead generation is essential, regardless of whether your goal is to get quick leads through direct communication or to establish trust through instructional content.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 1, 2024

In the age of digital transformation, the integration of advanced technologies like generative artificial intelligence brings a new era of innovation and optimization. Generative AI, with its ability to autonomously generate solutions to complex problems, will revolutionize every aspect of the supply chain landscape.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

In particular, women are leading the way every day toward a new era of unprecedented global innovation in the field of generative AI. Many have been doing this by leading the charge on responsible AI innovation, centered on ethics and transparency, throughout their entire careers.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Generative AI ( artificial intelligence ) promises a similar leap in productivity and the emergence of new modes of working and creating. Generative AI represents a significant advancement in deep learning and AI development, with some suggesting it’s a move towards developing “ strong AI.”

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lead generation. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com/Photon photo Lead generation is a crucial part of any successful marketing strategy. These potential clients are called “leads,” and your task is to nurture them until they become paying customers. Remember that effective lead generation requires quality content.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the field of digital marketing, demand generation, and growth marketing are two distinct but related tactics. Demand generation, on the other hand, seeks to generate leads for the sales funnel by raising awareness and interest in your offerings. What Is Demand Generation?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

There is even more help on the horizon with the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models, combined with traditional AI, to exert greater control over complex asset environments. They can generate responses like text and images, while simultaneously interpreting and manipulating existing data.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 14, 2023

to “lead in manufacturing next-generation battery technology.” Sila said that it sees the partnership with Panasonic as an opportunity for the U.S.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lead prospecting refers to the process of identifying and qualifying potential customers or clients who are likely to be interested in a product or service. The goal of lead prospecting is to generate a list of potential customers who can be targeted for marketing and sales efforts. Lead prospecting.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This, in turn, leads to the following challenges: Duplicative or overlapping capabilities offered by multiple IT systems/components create sticky dependencies and proliferations, which impact productivity and speed to market. Let us explore the Generative AI possibilities across these lifecycle areas.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is powering a new world of creative, customized communications, allowing marketing teams to deliver greater personalization at scale and meet today’s high customer expectations. Enterprise marketing teams stand to benefit greatly from generative AI, yet introduction of this capability will require new skills and processes.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Local lead generation describes methods and processes for attracting and/or retaining the attention of potential customers/clients who are geographically co-located with the business. Local lead generation. Local lead generation offers various advantages including: a targeted approach, better ROI, and brand awareness.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

About 85% of execs say generative AI will be interacting directly with customers in the next two years. Those who implement self-service search into their sites and tools can become exponentially more powerful with generative AI. Generative AI can learn from vast datasets and can produce nuanced and personalized replies.

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Procurement Tactics

APRIL 11, 2023

Sustainability, at its core, is about meeting our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Thus, it aims to prevent the depletion of finite resources so that they will remain available for the next generations to come. However, it is also logical that these resources are finite.

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ivalua

JANUARY 18, 2022

Redwood City, CA January 18, 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions , and Optis Consulting , a trusted implementation partner, today announced that Parkland Corporation has deployed Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay suite. We are excited to celebrate our deployment of another leading brand in Canada.

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Procurement Heads

MARCH 15, 2023

I have had the opportunity to lead the commercial function of £12bn+ organisations, establishing green field functions, and leading high-impact, cross-sector social value programmes. Our operations have an impact on the environment from the resources we consume to the waste that we generate.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 22, 2024

A leading provider in the contract markup segment, LexCheck has an established reputation for its strong pre-configured playbooks and has recently made advancements in AI, including generative AI. To potential buyers — LexCheck’s use of AI streamlines review processes, and the provider is exploring further generative AI capabilities.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI and large language models are poised to impact how we all access and use information. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS joined us at TechXchange, where they illustrated how our generative AI technologies can be complementary and highlighted the availability of watsonx.data on the AWS marketplace. Integrating watsonx.ai

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 12, 2023

Since the time of the Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the industrial powerhouses of Europe, leading in the manufacturing sector. Thus, this provided thousands of jobs and generated significant revenues for the Scottish economy culminating in the growth and investment of other sectors.

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Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s a question I’ve been asking candidates for my recently retained Category Lead – Energy role at Alliance Healthcare. Investment in on-site generation is becoming more and more popular with companies exploring the use of solar PV or wind power on their premises which reduces reliance on the external grid.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

AI can be a force for good, but it might also lead to environmental and sustainability concerns. Some of our leading clients are bringing this requirement into their enterprise AI governance frameworks.” Last year, IBM SkillsBuild® added a new selection of generative AI courses as part of our new AI training commitment.

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Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

DPR Construction's Kali Bonnell said they are seeing long lead times for transformers, generators and select wiring and tubing.

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The Thomas Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Lead scoring is a strategy used to rank prospects according to their potential to become customers. It involves assigning numerical scores to each lead based on various attributes, including: demographic information, engagement with the brand's digital presence, and other behaviors indicative of their interest. What Is Lead Scoring?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

While still in its early stages, generative AI can provide powerful optimization capabilities to manufacturers in the areas that matter most to them: productivity, product quality, efficiency, worker safety and regulatory compliance. With generative AI, there are fewer “misreads” and overall better-quality assessments.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Renewable energy, sometimes called green energy, refers to energy generated from natural resources such as sun, wind, rain, geothermal heat and ocean tides. For larger-scale uses, the concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) method uses mirrors to collect sunlight for fluid-filled receivers, which generate thermal energy for power.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Simulation and measurement: Generate embedded business cases for value realization, including cost, time, resource and bottleneck impact. Infusing latest technology trends: In an era where mere stability is not enough, relentless innovation takes the lead. Comparison and enrichment: Compare to industry best practices.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

GenAI will offer procurement a springboard to leap ahead in various strategic domains There’s no discussing procurement tech (or indeed procurement) in 2024 without discussing generative AI. As with all business functions, generative AI will be a game-changer for procurement. Take team structures.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

To proceed to the next level of “Competence”, APM capabilities take the lead. APM and AIP combine in the “Excellence” stage, and predictive generative AI creates intelligent processes. The introduction of (generative) AI models in the asset management domain has brought a full toolbox of new optimization tools.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) leads the charge in breaking down barriers between businesses and their audiences. Natural language generation (NLG) complements this by enabling AI to generate human-like responses. DL, a subset of ML, excels at understanding context and generating human-like responses.

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