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Middle Market Smart – Episode 5

In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Ken Powell, who shares how middle-market sales leaders can build a healthier pipeline, qualify the right opportunities, and create forecasts they can actually trust.

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Middle Market Smart – Episode 4

In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Mark Livingston, who shares how finance leaders can stop fearing AI and start using it to augment the people they already have, automating routine, rules-based work so their team can finally focus on analysis, forecasting, and strategy.

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CXO Partners Announces Expanded Supply Chain Management Practice, Delivering Integrated Solutions for Middle-Market Growth

CXO Partners Supply Chain Management Practice unites supply chain operations with finance and technology to transform middle-market performance.

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Middle Market Smart – Episode 3 (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2 of this conversation on Middle Market Smart, Mark Ianni and Mark Beliczky of CXO Partners return to break down what experienced operators actually do differently after the deal closes.

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Middle Market Smart – Episode 3 (Part 1 of 2)

In this episode of Middle Market Smart, our team sat down with Mark Ianni and Mark Beliczky of CXO Partners, two executives with decades of experience on both sides of the deal table.

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AI Won’t Fix a Strategy Problem

Mid-market companies are under more pressure than ever to adopt AI and modernize their technology. Most are going about it backwards. Here is a practical framework for getting it right.

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Middle Market Smart – Episode 2

In this episode of Middle Market Smart, we sit down with Tracy Deuell and shares how leaders can stop chasing every new tool and instead focus on building capabilities that drive real business outcomes.

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The Great Divergence: Why the Middle Market Is Splitting

The U.S. middle market is undergoing a quiet but powerful transformation. Long viewed as the economic engine of American business, the middle market is now experiencing something different: fragmentation.

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Middle Market Smart – Episode 1

In this episode of Middle Market Smart, Mike Casey, Co-Founder of CXO Partners, breaks down how private equity, AI, and digital transformation are reshaping the lower, core, and upper middle market.

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The Middle Market Exit Imperative

Middle Market companies are more attractive than ever to the PE market. Here’s what to do about it.

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5 Critical Questions CEOs, CFOs and CIOs Must Ask Before Locking in 2026 IT Budgets

As CIOs begin assembling their 2026 budgets, CEOs and CFOs play a crucial role not only in approving line items but also in ensuring that the right priorities are funded and the wrong ones are not.

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The Right Interim CIO

You wouldn’t hire a CFO without understanding your financial strategy, so why is it that many companies hire an Interim CIO without knowing exactly what kind of tech leader they need?

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