Intelligent Sourcing
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Search engines are integrating it. Some writers are striking because of it. Recently, few topics have garnered as much attention as artificial intelligence. With the introduction of new AI platforms, many people are worried about how this technology will affect their jobs. In fact, some are even wondering if AI will eventually replace ALL human-led […] The post AI will destroy outsourcing…or will it?
IBM Business Partners
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
This is part four in a five-part series on mainframe modernization. The secret to mainstreaming the mainframe into today’s modern, cloud-centric IT environments is to make the experience of working with the mainframe like the experience of working off the mainframe—especially the developer experience (DX). Historically, working on the mainframe was an entirely different experience from the distributed world.
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McKinsey and Company
MARCH 1, 2023
New data regulations from the European Union require organizational attention, and three key steps can help navigate the data privacy landscape.
Perficient Digital Transformation
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
For several years now I have heard people that wanted to slow the progress of companies becoming data-driven use the term “Data Swamp”, usually without much understanding of what a Data Swamp is. In this series of blogs, I will define what a Data Swamp really is and why it may not be a bad thing. More importantly, I will explain how straightforward it is to keep a data lake from becoming a Data Swamp or how to turn your Data Swamp into a data lake.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
McKinsey and Company
JANUARY 23, 2023
Just like the world at large, the world of work shifts and changes over time. The future of work refers to an informed perspective on what businesses and other organizations need to know about how work could shift (given digitization and other trends), plus how workforces and workplaces can prepare for those changes, big and small.
Intelligent Sourcing
DECEMBER 14, 2023
In the fast-paced world of global commerce, ‘outsourcing’ has often been synonymous with cost-cutting and efficiency—sometimes at the expense of ethical considerations and long-term sustainability. However, a new paradigm is emerging: Ethical Outsourcing. This progressive approach intertwines moral responsibility with business processes, ensuring that the work outsourced contributes positively to the workforce and communities involved. […] The post Ethical Outsourcing and a Regenerative Ec
Global Sourcing Brief brings together the best content for outsourcing professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
3Pillar Global
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has long been part of the cultural conversation, often as a theme for science fiction. However, AI has truly reached a tipping point recently with the accessibility and widespread adoption of applications like ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, Midjourney, and DALL-E. As these platforms catch on with consumers, many businesses are wondering how they can leverage AI within their strategies.
The Global Small Business Blog
JUNE 16, 2023
©iStock/CherriesJD Just by clicking buttons, thousands of small businesses are daring to go global with their wares through e-commerce and this has all been brought on by the pandemic. According to the ‘Amazon Seller Report 2022’ by Payoneer a FinTech company and SellerApp, the year 2022, approximately 63% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are present on global marketplaces, contributing to nearly 60% of their overall retail sales.
Everest Group
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Collectively, these AI technology providers have raised over US$50 billion in total lifetime private funding, showcasing huge investor trust and growing importance of the technology. DALLAS, November 16, 2023 — Everest Group today released the inaugural edition of the “Everest Group Artificial Intelligence Top 50 ” (AI Top 50), a list of the world’s largest AI technology providers.
Intelligent Management Inc.
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
A lot of confusion has arisen about the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and people publish the strangest things about it. Just this week, an entrepreneur in the USA is quoted as saying that his company “applies the theory of constraints to help identify the most pressing factors that stand in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically acts to remove or lessen the constraint to minimize its impact.
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Zinnov
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Digital Transformation 2.0 (DT 2.0) is an extension of the first wave of digital transformation, which was primarily focused on automating existing business processes and enhancing customer experiences. DT 2.0 pertains to utilizing emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to create innovative business models, streamline operations, and derive valuable insights from data.
Airswift
MARCH 16, 2023
Source: AlexLMX/Shutterstock With over 1 million vacancies in the sector, Brazil is one of the largest job creators in renewable energy, and the opportunities in the segment are increasing. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the country is only behind China in the number of jobs added. These include jobs related to biofuels, hydroelectric, wind and solar energy, as well as biomass and biogas.
The Hackett Group
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Miami, FL — September 28, 2023 — Human resources (HR) operating costs increased significantly in 2023, with key contributors being wage inflation and high turnover rates, according to new Digital World Class ® HR research from The Hackett Group , Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT). Our elite HR performers – Digital World Class – continue to spend significantly less than their peers, while operating with fewer HR staff and delivering far more resiliency, employee productivity, greater business value, and improv
Perficient Digital Transformation
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Have you ever wondered about having a local Sitecore instance on a local deployment of k8s? I was curious and decided to dive headfirst into the unknown world of k8s virtualization on a local setup. In this blog series I will be sharing the details my journey, my findings the mistakes/successes, and the final state of my discovery. The Idea Having experience with developing/deploying Sitecore with Docker Containers, I was curious as to the possibility of doing the same using Kubernetes.
Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst
Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.
McKinsey and Company
JANUARY 19, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. Recent new breakthroughs in the field have the potential to drastically change the way we approach content creation.
IBM Business Partners
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
In the simplest sense, a cybersecurity threat, or cyberthreat, is an indication that a hacker or malicious actor is attempting to gain unauthorized access to a network for the purpose of launching a cyberattack. Cyberthreats can range from the obvious, such as an email from a foreign potentate offering a small fortune if you’ll just provide your bank account number, to the deviously stealthy, such as a line of malicious code that sneaks past cyberdefenses and lives on the network for month
IBM Services
MAY 9, 2023
We stand on the frontier of an AI revolution. Over the past decade, deep learning arose from a seismic collision of data availability and sheer compute power, enabling a host of impressive AI capabilities. But we’ve faced a paradoxical challenge: automation is labor intensive. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not, as anyone who has tried to solve business problems with AI may know.
HCL Technologies
MARCH 7, 2023
Meet Harishma Devi: #SheTheFuture abhinay.khandelwal Tue, 03/07/2023 - 11:34 Harishma Devi, a software engineer who is pursuing her B.Sc. Design & Computing offered by BITS, Pilani for TechBees shares her STEM story in this edition of She the Future : “It was love at first sight. The moment I set my eyes on a computer, I knew my life had changed forever.
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The Global Small Business Blog
MARCH 4, 2023
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V-Soft Consulting
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
In the fast-paced world of retail, the industry is leaning towards harnessing the power of data and other related techniques. Why? The retail industry faces an array of challenges from consistent market trends and customer preferences to on-site issues with inventory management and supply chain optimization. There fore, Data L akes have emerged as a powerful tool to overcome the challenges faced by the retail industry.
Everest Group
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Low-code Application Development Platforms As 2024 approaches, the low-code application development platforms market experiences robust growth and significant innovation. Organizations across various industries are increasingly embracing low-code solutions to streamline their application development processes and enhance operational agility. This surge in demand has fueled intense competition among platform providers, resulting in a wide range of specialized low-code tools to meet diverse requir
Zinnov
JANUARY 13, 2023
Tech companies are inching closer towards Digital Transformation 2.0. With social media even more mainstream now than ever before, and business decisions being influenced by data-backed AI and digital twin technologies, technology has evolved multi-fold, since its advent. In this forecast for the tech trends of 2023, we put forth how different technologies will shape up, change industries while benefitting other industries, and how technology will change the way we work.
Speaker: Rosemary Coates - Board Member & Founder at Reshoring Institute, Best-selling Author, Host of the Frictionless Supply Chain podcast
Supply chain disruptions create uncertainty and unpredictability for both businesses and consumers. These disruptions bring to light an organization's supply chain dependencies, which they were often unaware of when everything was running smoothly. Re-shoring is one solution that is gaining popularity as a result of pandemic-related issues. Companies can lower the risk of disruptions by shortening the supply chain and moving manufacturing close to the points of sale to reduce the need for expens
inDinero
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
It is crucial for businesses to stay compliant with regulations, and a significant change is on the horizon. The Corporate Transparency Act, which was passed in 2021, introduces new ownership information reporting requirements for businesses in the US, which will be effective from January 1, 2024. This new regulation is aimed at promoting transparency and combating financial crimes.
SEBPO
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
BLOG Giving Back and Giving Thanks: Global CSR November 15, 2023 As Thanksgiving approaches in the US, we are grateful for a year marked by purposeful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. We celebrate and recognize our people for fostering meaningful connections and positively impacting our business and the communities we call home. Giving Back and Giving Thanks: Global CSR Our teams take a holistic approach to philanthropy, resourcefully employing the three pillars of giving : tim
Perficient Digital Transformation
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
By now, a lot of us have already participated in one or more CMS 12 upgrade projects. The others are still evaluating whether they should do it now or wait some more. Regardless of when you do it, there will definitely be some unique upgrade challenges you will come across, as I and many others did with the projects we worked on. And most of these depend on the actual project and its previous implementations that need more than normal tweaking with upgrade, or sometimes a complete redo as the ex
McKinsey and Company
JANUARY 9, 2023
COVID-19 may no longer be a pandemic, but the disease likely reduced the availability of the US workforce by as much as 2.6 percent in 2022—a burden on productivity that could last for years.
Speaker: Jason Ciment - Get Visible | Mark Wald - SPRCHRGR | Leo Gestetner - Thankz | Michael S. Kraus - Expak Logistics
Remote work has helped future-proof organizations and increased their flexibility. However, sourcing candidates nationally poses new challenges and is proving difficult. The global sourcing industry seems to be in a state of war. DEI, attracting qualified candidates, and physical demographics are just a few of the issues that organizations face. Many companies are failing to win in this new landscape due to the intersectionality of problems in global sourcing.
IBM Business Partners
MAY 25, 2023
IBM Consulting has established a Center of Excellence for generative AI. It stands alongside IBM Consulting’s existing global AI and Automation practice, which includes 21,000 data and AI consultants who have conducted over 40,000 enterprise client engagements. The Center of Excellence (CoE) already has more than 1,000 consultants with specialized generative AI expertise that are engaging with a global set of clients to drive productivity in IT operations and core business processes like H
IBM Services
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Brands that deliver an excellent customer experience (CX) will always be more resilient than those that don’t. Giving our customers personalized support at every stage of their journey is proven to earn their longtime loyalty—and keep them from switching to a competitor. The challenge, however, is that many teams operate in siloes that inhibit them from applying their customer insights in meaningful ways.
The Hackett Group
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
MIAMI, FL (November 7, 2023) – The Hackett Group , Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), a leading benchmarking, executive advisory and strategic consultancy firm that enables organizations to achieve Digital World Class ® performance, today announced its financial results for the third quarter, which ended on September 29, 2023. Financial Highlights Total revenue in the third quarter of 2023 was $75.9 million and revenue before reimbursements was $74.6 million, which was above the high end of our guidance.
Airswift
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Video calls are here to stay whether we like them or not. The technology is getting better, it connects remote workers, and it makes for better business relationships when we see each other’s face.
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