Wed.Sep 22, 2021

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Promoting Responsibility, Compliance, And Good Judgment Without Fear, Shame, Or Acrimony

Forrester Digital Transformation

I’m very excited to announce my latest research, “Successfully Influencing Employee Cybersecurity Behavior” – Forrester clients can access here. Excited may not be the right word exactly, as this report was born out of disappointment I started feeling when hearing of security leaders and teams implementing disciplinary sanctions for employees who fail phishing simulations, those […].

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A Hackathon to Develop Solutions That Can Help SMBs

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Bohdan Skrypnyk The Good Ideas Exchange, which will take place in October, will bring owners of SMBs together with leaders from companies including American Express, Facebook, Indeed, UPS and Vimeo to take part in a hackathon to develop solutions that can help SMBs respond to the challenges they are facing, and those that are green-lit will be revealed early next year.

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Forrester renforce ses équipes en France

Forrester Digital Transformation

Forrester est l’un des cabinets d’études et de conseil les plus influents au monde. Nous vous accompagnons et aidons à mettre le client au cœur de votre leadership, de votre stratégie et de vos opérations. Créé il y a plus de 35 ans aux Etats-Unis à Boston, Forrester est présent dans de nombreux pays en […].

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Buying into a more sustainable value chain

McKinsey and Company

Two-thirds of the average company’s environment, social, and governance footprint lies with suppliers. Procurement leaders who take bold action can make a decisive difference in sustainability.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Market Remains Hot As We Kick Off Our Next DAM Wave

Forrester Digital Transformation

You should give a DAM about the DAM market and your DAM needs. More than 60% of the users we surveyed already give a DAM. Because of this heat in the market, strong growth and most importantly customer need, we’re kicking off our next Digital Asset Management Wave evaluation in October. The volume of engagement […].

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Ordering in: The rapid evolution of food delivery

McKinsey and Company

Succeeding in the fast-growing food-delivery ecosystem will require understanding how overlapping economic forces affect a complex web of stakeholders.

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Healthcare Patient Experience: Why Digital Can Only Take Your Healthcare Organization So Far

Perficient Digital Transformation

In the first blog article of this series I wrote about my own recent healthcare journey. After undergoing lifesaving lung surgery, there I was: in a hospital bed, grateful to be alive and recently off my ventilator — shades of the film “Alien” if you’ve never had the pleasure. And all I had on my hands was time. Time to think. Time to observe. (Also, time to despise urinal bottles.).

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How Telkomsel transformed to reach digital-first consumers

McKinsey and Company

A 26-year-old incumbent seized an opportunity to reinvent itself—and attract its next generation of customers.

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6 Ways Lead Generation Services Helps You Get a Better Return on Investment

Magellan Solutions

Wondering how Lead Generation Services can help your company’s bottomline? We got some answers! Do you find it difficult to meet your development targets? Have you fallen into the referral trap, where the majority of your development is based on referrals? . If that’s the case, you’re not alone. It’s not a good idea to rely solely on referrals for new business.

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Liem Bui: Passion for Work and Advocacy

AS White Global

At ASW, we appreciate employees who are keen to improve their skills, collaborate well with their colleagues, and even find time to do advocacy work. Liem does this in spades. We had a chat with Liem to talk about his contribution to ASW and to his community. Hi Liem, can you share with us a bit about yourself? I’m Liem Bui and I’m a web developer for Soy Digital , ASW’s full-service digital marketing agency.

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Global Hiring Guide for Startups

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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How to Avoid Outsourcing Problems

NoonDalton

Outsourcing is undeniably a useful option for businesses of every size. Many businesses profit from outsourcing technology management, customer support, and back-office activities, and the outsourcing industry is thriving. However, outsourcing, like any other business endeavor, can be performed successfully or disastrously. . Failing to plan for management changes, inability to manage a team of vendors, excessively ambitious projects, tepid executive buy-in, and failure to recognize the complexi

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Nearshore Software Development: What You Need to Know

Bydrec

As you may know, offshore outsourcing is a method used by businesses to reduce cost and increase efficiency. It is popularly used in Western countries, especially for manufacturing. However, it has its limitations when applied to software development. In order to solve this problem, “nearshore” outsourcing was created as a more sustainable software development model that would ensure better quality and cost control.

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From fighter pilot to robotics pioneer: An interview with Missy Cummings

McKinsey and Company

One of the US Navy’s first female fighter pilots, the engineering and robotics professor talks about the promise and peril of automation in airplanes and cars, predicting a “very distinct shift away from replacing human reasoning to augmenting human reasoning.”.

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Romanian as a Romance Language? Akorbi Explains Why this Ancient Language is So Unique

Akorbi

Like French, Spanish and Italian, the Romanian language is a member of the Romance Languages. But unlike the other three countries, Romania is located in Eastern Europe, docked by Slavic-speaking countries. Because of this, many people think this Romance language is Slavic, but it’s so much more than that. . What is a Romance Language? . According to Brittanica, a Romance Language is a “group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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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Closing the gender gap in Central and Eastern Europe

McKinsey and Company

Empowering women in the workplace could unlock significant economic growth in the region.

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Mocking in test-driven development (TDD) with Java’s EasyMock

Perficient Digital Transformation

In this article, we’ll explore the test-driven development practice of mocking. No, this won’t entail calling your developer teammates silly names! Specifically, we’ll use Java’s EasyMock package to get a sense of the functionality that a typical mocking library provides. Before we learn what mocking is, we first must consider the general scenario in which mocking is useful.

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Outsourced IT Support Services: 10 Steps to Better QA

Global Help Desk Services

Your help desk is the face of your IT. After all, your users cannot always see, let alone appreciate the work your IT team does on your systems and security. In many cases, they are judging all of IT by whether the help desk is responsive, polite and competent. Which means quality assurance (QA) is vital to the reputation of your entire IT organization.

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What Are EFT Payments? Electronic Funds Transfer Definition

Planergy Software

What Are EFT Payments? Electronic Funds Transfer Definition. Over the course of business, you’ll make plenty of payments. You’ll pay employees for their work, vendors, and suppliers for products and services rendered, etc. Having to sit down to write checks to pay all your bills, then send them for authorization and signing is a time-consuming and outdated process.

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Top 7 Global Employment Challenges

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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You Can Still Join the Bot Wars to Uplevel Your Skills

Automation Anywhere

The Automation Anywhere Bot Games 2021 event has concluded. Winners were announced , developer heroes were made, laurels awarded—actually, cash prizes and swag are being delivered. If you participated, thank you. If you wanted to participate but weren’t able to, no problem. You can still participate in what turned out to be the most popular part of the games: Bot Wars, the challenges.

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4 tips for up-and-coming tech leaders 2 C-suite executives share tips for success in leadership and personal growth

Hyland

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5 Ways to Increase Diversity in Medical Product Development

Transperfect

Over the past decade, there has been a critical push for more inclusive clinical trials. Many regulatory bodies, including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), require clinical trial data to ensure a medical product’s safety and efficacy prior to approving new treatments. Now, more than ever, it is important to ensure this data is inclusive of the entire population.

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Digital Engineering At The Forefront of Future-Proofing Businesses

Zinnov

by Sivaram S, Principal, Zinnov; Pranjal Sethi, Consultant, Zinnov; Shreya Ghose, Marketing, Zinnov. Digital Engineering (DE) is a prominent subset of the overall Engineering R&D (ER&D) spend and is top-of-mind for leaders across verticals, now more than ever. Zinnov defines Digital Engineering spend as the investments made in developing new and connected products, new services such as predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics, and leveraging modern technology such as Artificial Intelli

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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What is a Cloud Contact Center?

Balbelforce

A cloud contact center is a customer service operation that uses diverse software solutions to manage customer interactions. This is the main alternative to physical legacy systems which previous generations of contact centers had to purchase and maintain. Modern software solutions are typically hosted in the cloud, deployed across a network of virtual and physical servers.

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6 Educational App Ideas to Watch Out in 2021 [and Beyond]

SPD Load

Do you need educational app ideas to inspire creativity in your Startup? Are you finding it difficult to come up with market-worthy.

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7 Useful Tips For Using E-Commerce Customer Service Outsourcing To Get Ahead Of Your Competition

Mattsen Kumar

Digital natives see technology as an essential component of their everyday lives. The turning to the internet and e-commerce websites for fast satisfaction to replace grocery runs or to get an answer has been ever increasing. As a result, e-commerce websites are exploding in popularity. It is safe to say that the struggle for consumer attention has shifted to the internet.

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An abstract take on the dependency injection pattern

Perficient Digital Transformation

This article will take a relatively abstract look at the structural programming pattern that is called dependency injection or inversion of control. I feel that most articles about dependency injection get too bogged down in the particulars of whatever example is being used to demonstrate the structure. In this article, we’ll present pure abstraction.

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Global Hiring Guide: Top Emerging Fintech Hubs

The fintech industry is growing exponentially — in the first quarter of 2022, the sector saw a 182 percent increase in tech job growth. However, experts are warning that local candidates to fill those roles may become scarce in certain areas. In fact, according to a report from Korn Ferry, by 2030, more than 85 million jobs could go unfilled across three major industries: telecommunications, manufacturing, and technology.

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7 Useful Tips For Using E-Commerce Customer Service Outsourcing To Get Ahead Of Your Competition

Mattsen Kumar

Digital natives see technology as an essential component of their everyday lives. The turning to the internet and e-commerce websites for fast satisfaction to replace grocery runs or to get an answer has been ever increasing. As a result, e-commerce websites are exploding in popularity. It is safe to say that the struggle for consumer attention has shifted to the internet.

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Guide to Hiring in Saudi Arabia

Globalization Partners

With its windswept deserts and fascinating history and culture, Saudi Arabia is a bucket list destination for many travelers. Add in the large workforce, huge petroleum-powered economy, and minimal employer taxes, and the country is also an appealing prospect for international business expansion. Saudi law establishes and maintains strong worker protections, so you’ll need in-depth knowledge of the country’s regulations as you build your teams.