The Global Small Business Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

©iStock/JaySi One of the best kept secrets in Chicago is the long-standing nonprofit International Trade Association of Greater Chicago (ITA/GC) , which provides a forum for the exchange of up-to-date and practical information on the trends and tools of the ever-changing global marketplace. Established in 1977 (name changed to ITA/GC in 1985) by Richard Paullin who is considered the Mayor of global trade in Chicago.

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Globalization Partners

AUGUST 9, 2022

All savvy business owners know it: To run a successful company, you need to employ the right people. It’s not enough to sell great products, offer quality services, or use the latest and most sophisticated technology — people are the real beating heart of a solid company. This means recruiting the best people for the job is paramount to success. And, if you want to find and secure the best talent, a collaborative hiring strategy is essential.

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McKinsey and Company

AUGUST 9, 2022

Business building is increasingly important for company resilience, and CEOs are uniquely suited for the job. Here are five tasks that CEOs can undertake to build successful new businesses.

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Velocity Global

AUGUST 9, 2022

Get to know Martha Torices, one of our Account Executives based in Mexico City. Five years ago, Martha quit her corporate in-office job. She’d always wanted to make travel a priority, but, as is true for so many of us, life got in the way. “I had been working in that position for eight years. I was tired, and I didn’t feel like I was growing anymore,” she says.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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McKinsey and Company

AUGUST 9, 2022

Sellers typically control what retail marketplaces charge for their products, but retailers have options to keep pricing competitive—and customers loyal.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

As a senior project manager, Emily Lord helps deliver exceptional customer experiences to our clients. Her expertise on our Sitecore team has driven incredible results that make a real difference for our clients and their customers. The hard work and dedication of the colleagues in our Sitecore practice led Perficient to recently be recognized with a 2022 Sitecore Partner Award.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Being a working mom have you ever come across this situation when you forgot to pack something for your kid’s school because you were too busy getting ready for work or kid’s assignment is due at school and you have your work deliverables timelines too. A mom to a 3-year-old son myself, I can say this on behalf of every mom that this is very common and you must also be familiar with that strong emotion that entails such situations which is guilt.

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McKinsey and Company

AUGUST 9, 2022

WeBank CFO Arthur Wang discusses how the company balances innovation, technology, and compliance to move itself forward.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Hadoop Ecosystem . Introduction: Hadoop Ecosystem is a platform or a suite that provides various services to solve big data problems. It includes Apache projects and various commercial tools and solutions. four major elements of Hadoop are HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and Hadoop Common. Hadoop is a framework that enables processing of large data sets which reside in the form of clusters.

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McKinsey and Company

AUGUST 9, 2022

In such a tight hiring market, companies need more emphasis on retaining and developing their own employees, writes McKinsey Global Institute director Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.

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Advertiser: G-P

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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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Finding a new shortcut, such as DIY home projects or driving to a familiar location, is always helpful. Of course, it is nice to be more efficient at work; any tips can help improve your speed. Specifically, the Compensation module for Oracle Cloud HCM has many shortcuts to enhance the user experience. Unfortunately, we continue to repeat the same habits with an insane amount of clicks and end up with sore fingers or boring presentations.

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Everest Group

AUGUST 9, 2022

You may not be able to peek into the future, but predictive network technology can spot and troubleshoot potential problems before they occur. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine language (ML) mathematical models and algorithms, predictive network technology alerts an organization to network issues as early as possible and offers problem-solving solutions. “The technology enables networks to learn from past instances using massive amounts of data through predictive analytics,

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Google Analytics – the linchpin of every digital marketer’s data reporting schema – is set to go through some big changes in the next year. As I detailed earlier this year , Google has announced that in 2023 they will deprecate Universal Analytics (UA), the version of Google Analytics that we have become accustomed to over the last decade. We recently presented a LinkedIn Live webinar to answer some of the most frequent questions we’ve been receiving about the changeover.

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Planergy Software

AUGUST 9, 2022

Clients and results. More Customers. We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY. Cristian Maradiaga. King Ocean. Book a Live Demo. Download a free copy of "Preparing Your AP Department For The Future", to learn: How to transition from paper and excel to eInvoicing.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Businesses thrive on capturing the moment where consumers feel compelled enough to convert or purchase something from their organization. Some of the most efficient organizations have perfected this, and your company can capture this moment too. But how do you align the sequence of events so perfectly that a customer is compelled to act? The short answer is: the experience.

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Everest Group

AUGUST 9, 2022

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR. Sustainable Moderation: The “Impact” of “Sourcing” on Trust & Safety. To ensure Trust and Safety in content moderation, human moderators must sift through egregious and non-egregious content to make sure that online platforms remain safe and suitable for us. With the demand for this skill skyrocketing, it is now imperative that organizations look to emerging geographies to source talent.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Perficient colleagues around the world recently had the opportunity to attend a virtual Get to Know event with Autism Speaks through our Perficient Giving Employee Resource Group. As defined by Autism Speaks , autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), “refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication.”.

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Provana

AUGUST 9, 2022

It is not uncommon for big collection businesses to work with vendor(s) to improve their operations and crunch big collection numbers. It is also not uncommon for vendors to gain access to secure systems and sensitive information, which can expose these collection agencies and their customers to risk. Not to mention, penalties for non-compliance of vendors for any collection business can be substantial.

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Advertiser: G-P

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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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

The financial services industry has made major strides in amping up its overall customer experience game; however, there is still a deficit in the personalization and accessibility of products and services for many Americans. The financial services industry must consider its customer experience game while also grappling with a sense of distrust from many communities due to systematic barriers, maintaining utmost accessibility due to the essentiality of the business, and the lack of financial lit

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Capgemini

AUGUST 9, 2022

Thoughts About Diversity in Careers in Technology Capgemini NA 6 Mar 2017. Awareness if the first step at tackling any problem. This blog was authored by guest blogger, Danielle Jackson. Danielle is a communications leader for Capgemini’s A 3 Employee Resource Group. In this article, Danielle shares her thoughts about diversity in careers in technology.

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Global Help Desk Services

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you manage an IT help desk, you likely never stop thinking about call handling. And for good reason. Call handling is driven by having enough people at the right times. You want to plan for call coverage and know how many calls your agents should be able to handle. And you want to know about anything that hinders their productivity.

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McKinsey and Company

AUGUST 9, 2022

Despite life-threatening circumstances, refugees are some of the most entrepreneurial people in the world. Andrew Leon Hanna knows why.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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SPD Load

AUGUST 9, 2022

So you have come up with a business idea and created some MVP with the most essential features to show to your.

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Go4Customer

AUGUST 9, 2022

While thinking about outsourcing customer support services, what kind of picture comes into your mind? Whether it is a small or tremendously large office space, mouthing the same script over and over into their mics: ?Thanks for calling MNO. How may I help you?? Maybe, you are on the right track. But, over the past decade, call center services were involved significantly.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

Asia Pacific (APAC) is a vast region with enormous diversity in climate, topography, history, culture, ethnicity, and political and economic development. At $30.9 trillion, the region makes up nearly 40% of the world’s GDP and is now covered by the world’s largest free trade agreement with a market 2.5 times larger than that of the […].

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Perficient Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

POWER BI – DRILLTHROUGH FROM ONE REPORT TO ANOTHER REPORT FOR INCREASED SECURITY ( CROSS-REPORT DRILL THROUGH). APPLIES TO: ? Power BI Desktop ? Power BI service. The traditional drill through do not allow to drill through from one report to another report. It is only work in a single report. It is page to page drill through. Cross report drill through allows you to drill through from one report to another report.

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Advertiser: G-P

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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Forrester Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

In our 28-criterion evaluation of B2B advertising solution providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — 6sense, AdDaptive Intelligence, Adobe, Demandbase, Influ2, Jabmo, LinkedIn, Madison Logic, Marin Software, Metadata, RollWorks, StackAdapt, Terminus, and The Trade Desk.

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Anexa

AUGUST 9, 2022

As any business owner knows, navigating a drastically changed, pandemic-impacted economy is a challenge in and of itself before we factor in the constant need to drive business forward. Many companies are trying to identify areas where investments should be made. At no time in history has it been more important to focus on customer experience and its undeniable impact on the bottom line.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2022

President Biden just signed CHIPS for America Act into law, as part of a larger $280B CHIPS and Science Act appropriation. This “CHIPS Act” allocates $54.2 billion in funding to support US domestic technology innovation, primarily aimed at the semiconductor industry. Much of the lobbying that brought this act to reality is focused on national […].

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