The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

©iStock/CHOLTICHA KRANJUMNONG What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The ethical issues of AI ; imitation isn't enough. Fears of trade protectionism are overdone. The fallout of Red Sea disruptions for global trade and inflation. Quote of the week: "The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides for economic progress and peace among nations.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 29, 2024

We’ve all heard of servant leadership. The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. However, many organizations fall short, with those at the top of the hierarchy viewing employees as interchangeable cogs in the corporate machine. Instead of diving deep into the theories, practices, and benefits of servant leadership, I will focus on a specific, related principle or mind-set: being unobtrusive.

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Redial

APRIL 25, 2024

Nearshoring offers businesses proximity and cost savings, access to skilled professionals, streamlined legal compliance, operational flexibility, and enhanced customer satisfaction. These benefits make nearshoring a compelling option for optimizing operations and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Proximity and Cost Savings By outsourcing operations to nearby countries with lower labor costs, businesses can enjoy easier communication, travel, and collaboration while reducing overall ex

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Eclaro

APRIL 26, 2024

The 2024 NFL Draft is providing great theater, as it does every year, a mix of drama and dreams come true, franchise-quarterback picks and head-scratching selections, gigantic cheers and profane jeers we can’t repeat here fill every round from the first pick through Mr. Irrelevant. Amid the entertainment, the NFL Draft is, at its core, an exercise in finding the Right People.

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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

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IBM Services

APRIL 25, 2024

In today’s dynamic and uncertain landscape, commerce strategy—what we might formerly have referred to as ecommerce strategy—is so much more than it once was. Commerce is a complex journey in which the moment of truth—conversion—takes place. This reality means that every brand in every industry with every business model needs to optimize the commerce experience, and thus the customer experience , to drive conversion rates and revenues.

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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

©iStock/Galeanu Mihai International tax laws on e-commerce may change the industry and global trade — perhaps not for the better, resulting in higher consumer prices. E-commerce has enjoyed such a meteoric rise over the past decade that ordering pretty much anything online and receiving it within a few days is now routine for consumers all over the world.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 24, 2024

Uncovering the Challenge: Relying on Spreadsheets for Portfolio Analysis A leading wealth and asset management firm recently sought our financial services expertise for a critical challenge. Relying on complex spreadsheets for portfolio analysis, the firm faced operational hurdles due to immense computing demands. The Perficient Approach: Transforming Operations through Strategic Consulting Our team embraced the challenge, conducting a meticulous two-week analysis to uncover the root issue: a cu

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Zinnov

APRIL 30, 2024

India’s emergence as a global DeepTech hub is a remarkable growth story. However, amidst this rapid progress lies a critical blind spot – the glaring lack of equal gender representation and participation of women in the tech workforce. The statistics paint a stark picture. Only 70% of Indian women have access to primary education and a mere 3% reach senior leadership roles in the corporate world.

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IBM Services

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.

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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

©iStock/SweetBunFactory Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 transformation has already brought change and growth to the nation's economy and society, with technology, tourism, and sports gaining global attention. Now Saudi Arabia has set its intentions on advanced manufacturing, and one company, Alat (Arabic for "machine"), is taking the lead to make the country a new global center for advanced and sustainable industry.

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Grow your startup beyond borders and boundaries. Global expansion is the ultimate goal for many startup founders. However, to successfully enter new markets and grow internationally, you need a sound and scalable global recruitment strategy. In this eBook, you’ll discover how you can gain a competitive edge over your business rivals through the latest technology, harnessing global contractors, and using a global employment platform.

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Everest Group

APRIL 26, 2024

Life sciences enterprises are undergoing a generational shift, transitioning from outdated legacy customer relationship management (CRM) systems to modern Customer Experience Platforms (CXP). Discover the three emerging customer engagement layers in these platforms, the readiness of enterprises to adopt the latest solutions, and the factors to consider when selecting customer engagement technology in this blog.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 29, 2024

Imagine a world where we can skip Extract and Load, just do our data Transformations connecting directly to sources no matter what data platform you use? Salesforce has taken significant steps over the last 2 years with Data Cloud to streamline how you get data in and out of their platform and we’re excited to see other vendors follow their lead. They’ve gone to the next level today by announcing their more comprehensive Zero Copy Partner Network.

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Influx

APRIL 30, 2024

The challenge A growing healthcare marketplace platform struggles to keep up with increased support inquiries and unpredictable spikes in volume. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare platform experienced tremendous growth (6-15% per month), resulting in a high support volume that strained their internal, 50 support agent team. These additional ticket fluctuations made it challenging to allocate resources efficiently and maintain consistent service levels.

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IBM Services

APRIL 29, 2024

VeloxCon 2024 , the premier developer conference that is dedicated to the Velox open-source project, brought together industry leaders, engineers, and enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and collaborative efforts shaping the future of data management. Hosted by IBM® in partnership with Meta, VeloxCon showcased the latest innovation in Velox including project roadmap, Prestissimo (Presto-on-Velox), Gluten (Spark-on-Velox), hardware acceleration, and much more.

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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.

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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

©iStock/Adrian Vidal This report, " Top Global Artificial Intelligence Markets ," presents a brief overview of top Al global hubs outside the United States. Each country includes an Al ecosystem overview, government incentives and policies, education and research institutions, leading events, and industry groups. The initial markets for this report were selected based on global rankings, the highest number of Al companies concentrated there, venture capital, and related research institutions.

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Everest Group

APRIL 26, 2024

To combat the technology talent shortage and improve project readiness, technology firms are investing in comprehensive initiatives across the talent management value chain, including learning and development platforms, niche partnerships, and other strategies. Explore how Everest Group’s 3A framework can help firms assess, acquire, and activate project-ready talent at scale.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 29, 2024

In the pursuit of creating inclusive environments, Universal Design principles emphasize the importance of ensuring accessibility for individuals with diverse sensory needs. Audio descriptions and captions play a pivotal role in making audiovisual content accessible to people with visual or hearing impairments, aligning seamlessly with the ethos of Universal Design.

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3Pillar Global

APRIL 30, 2024

FAIRFAX, VA – 3Pillar Global, a leading software strategy, consulting and AI-enabled product development firm and New Port Partners, a premier advisory firm specializing in tech sector business performance improvements, today announced a strategic business and technology relationship. Clients of New Port partners who are undergoing complex business transformations can leverage 3Pillar’s 18-year track record in digital expertise, including custom enterprise software application development, clou

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IBM Services

APRIL 25, 2024

We know that understanding clients’ technical issues is paramount for delivering effective support service. Enterprises demand prompt and accurate solutions to their technical issues, requiring support teams to possess deep technical knowledge and communicate action plans clearly. Product-embedded or online support tools, such as virtual assistants, can drive more informed and efficient support interactions with client self-service.

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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 27, 2024

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Paysquare

APRIL 30, 2024

Introduction of Attendance System A stable and efficient payroll system can provide a lot of amazing benefits to clients. This is because this system consists of a lot of small and big aspects that contribute to making legal and statutory compliance in HR to a great extent. One such amazing, capable system is an integrated attendance system. With the help of integrated attendance systems, employees can handle their daily working records very capably.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 30, 2024

In the realm of accessibility, Universal Design principles advocate for creating environments that are usable and inclusive for individuals of all abilities. Tactile elements serve as vital components in achieving this goal by providing perceptible information through touch. In this blog post, we explore the significance of tactile elements in Universal Design, emphasizing their role in enhancing accessibility and inclusivity for everyone.

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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

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Mercans

APRIL 30, 2024

Understand the concept of Anonymous Payroll with with the comprehensive insights offered in this eBook. Explore the fundamental principles that form the foundation of this innovative system, explore its architectural framework in detail, gain practical guidance on seamless implementation, and uncover a wealth of benefits that businesses can leverage to elevate their payroll processes to new heights of efficiency and success.

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IBM Services

APRIL 24, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) may be the biggest technological breakthrough of the decade. They are also vulnerable to prompt injections , a significant security flaw with no apparent fix. As generative AI applications become increasingly ingrained in enterprise IT environments, organizations must find ways to combat this pernicious cyberattack. While researchers have not yet found a way to completely prevent prompt injections, there are ways of mitigating the risk.

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 1, 2024

©iStock/mesh cube The artificial intelligence (AI) courses Coursera offers are designed to help prepare you for a career in machine learning engineering, intelligent systems design, data science, robotics, and natural language processing, equipping you with cutting-edge skills in this evolving field. Check out which companies are educating the masses.

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Paysquare

APRIL 30, 2024

Introduction of AI-Powered Statutory Compliance Solution Integrating Artificial Intelligence with compliance procedures in a business has revolutionized the way that businesses and government operate – it makes them both effective and efficient. By implementing AI-powered tools like natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, compliance processes have become manageable, precise, and streamlined, and also save resources and time for both.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

APRIL 30, 2024

For the second year in a row, I spent an evening with my colleagues at the University of Michigan’s Ford Robotics Center in Ann Arbor to celebrate MRacing’s unveiling of this year’s EV. It did not disappoint – it was a beauty, designed with the look and feel of a Michigan football helmet, including the blue and maize figured prominently. I spoke to team members from all over the world, and I knew very quickly that these young men and women are the future leaders in engineering and robotics.

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inDinero

APRIL 29, 2024

First thing’s first: What is Bank Reconciliation? Bank reconciliation is the process of aligning internal documentation with the balances shown on your bank statements. Quality record-keeping and attention to detail are the most important aspects of this task. For growing businesses, bank reconciliation can seem complicated, but it has important benefits that could optimize cash-flow management and even prevent fraud.

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Ivemsa

APRIL 29, 2024

Mexico’s cost-effective labor is one of the main advantages for U.S. manufacturers. Finding skilled workers in the U.S. has proven challenging in recent years due to the slowdown of workers interested in entering the manufacturing industry. Furthermore, industrial labor costs are much higher in the U.S. than in Mexico, which is why many are considering nearshoring to Mexico.

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Amzur

APRIL 25, 2024

Introduction As intruders and attackers become more intelligent by embracing AI technologies, CIOs are under immense pressure to confront AI-powered cyberattacks to protect their infrastructure and assets. If you’re one among them, it’s time to reassess and strengthen your cybersecurity strategies to ensure the organization’s security and trust. But why?

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The benefits of expanding internationally are endless, especially if you approach it the right way. However, there are pitfalls along the way that can slow down progress. Global expansion brings many opportunities for companies —business growth, brand-building in new markets, and access to diverse talent pools worldwide. However, international growth can come with challenges.

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