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3 methods to forge stronger business partner alliances

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Research from the University of Tennessee (UT) suggests the strongest alliances in business focus on finding collaborative solutions specifically tailored to the needs of each partnership. Here’s why forging stronger alliances matters, and ways to achieve them. Partners value the skills each brings to the alliance.”

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IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions

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This strategic alliance allows businesses in these countries access to IBM’s software products, including data technologies and AI, directly through the AWS Marketplace, IBM said in a statement. Strong synergies are coming out of this partnership,” said Neil Shah, VP for research, and partner at Counterpoint Research.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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PwC integrates ChatGPT Enterprise into its practice, becomes a reseller

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Jennifer Hamel, research director on the IDC Enterprise Intelligence Services team, said that the partnership puts PwC in a good place, competitively. Partnering with OpenAI directly, separate from and in addition to its longstanding alliance with Microsoft, is a way for PwC to offer something different from its competitors.

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Powering the future: How Gen AI and AI illuminate utility companies

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According to market researchers at Gartner 1 , “Utilities are faced with unprecedented challenges.” John Villali, research director for IDC Energy Insights 2 , explains: “Operational segments across the utility value chain have established use cases that have proven to be beneficial to utilities.

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Kyndryl bets on partnerships, consulting arm to redeem itself

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These alliances also help Kyndryl build more capabilities for its open integration platform — Kyndryl Bridge — which was developed to connect to an enterprise’s present IT infrastructure and asses it to help CIOs solve issues in the entire IT system.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

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Scrum master certifications Two well-recognized organizations, Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org , offer Scrum training and certifications. Scrum Alliance, established in 2001, is one of the more influential organizations in the agile community. It is a nonprofit association with more than 500,000 certified practitioners worldwide.

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