Thu.Oct 07, 2021

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The Two Pillars Of Successful Annual Sales Planning

Forrester Digital Transformation

Many factors go into effective sales annual planning. Yet without close revenue engine alignment and use of data-driven insights, your plan may be doomed to failure.

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How to Manage Your Finances While Working Remotely Overseas

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Lauren Verhoeven Thinking about pushing the envelope of “working remotely” by actually working abroad? Many people have opted to do this, especially during the pandemic. Banking and investing though can all be more of a challenge when you’re living in a foreign country. Here’s what you need to know – from which destinations still offer visas to which banks are best for working remotely – about handling your finances while working remotely overseas to make sure you’re prepared.

Finance 172
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What’s Next In B2B Content? Five Important Focus Areas For 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

Content is the backbone of the buyer's journey and the customer experience. Keep it strong with these five best practices.

Marketing 189
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Can Japan finally become a start-up power?

McKinsey and Company

Long viewed as a relative laggard, Japan’s start-up ecosystem is beginning to come into its own. Investor Paul McInerney sheds light on the evolving environment for entrepreneurs.

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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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Moving From A Lead-Centric To A Buying-Group Focus Is Key To Demand And ABM Success

Forrester Digital Transformation

As demand and account-based marketing (ABM) leaders look to lay new foundations in 2022, a focus on buying groups and intuitive, highly contextualized experiences will be critical.

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Does your team see the big picture?

Perficient Digital Transformation

If I were to ask one of your team members “what are you building?”, what are they more likely to answer? I’m adding a couple of check boxes to the “Subscriptions” page. I’m working on a feature that allows us to learn how and when a customer wants to hear from us. This will allow us to send them timely, targeted messages.

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How the CIO Plays a Critical Role in Bringing Order to Global Payroll

Immedus

Today on the blog, we have a guest contributor, Brent Skinner, HCM Subject Matter Expert | Co-Founder of 3Sixty Insights | Host of the #HRTechChat Video Podcast. . It is not a surprise that getting global payroll right is a mission-critical activity. What might surprise you is that a significant share of the responsibility for ensuring that an organization successfully accomplishes this falls on the CIO.

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Could internal talent marketplaces help us fix talent mobility?

Forrester Digital Transformation

One of the top drivers of employee experience is having opportunities to advance at work (this is easy to find in Forrester’s EX research). In the age of shorter tenures and flatter organizations, leaders look to talent mobility to increase opportunities for growth and advancement, instead of promotions. And talent mobility has big benefits for […].

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Why your company needs accounts payable services and how does it function?

Max BPO

What are accounts payable services? The challenges that come with handling your accounts payable process in-house might stifle your company’s growth as it increases. If your company manages sensitive financial data, a poorly performing accounts payable procedure can even become a liability. It has the potential to become a barrier, slowing everything down.

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Workload Affinity Expands Edge Computing Opportunities In 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

In 2022, CIOs and technology executives should prepare for evolving edge computing environments which run software wherever that software best fits the need – a concept Forrester calls workload affinity. We have identified four edge environments to support a range of workload affinity requirements: the enterprise edge, the operations edge, the engagement edge, and the […].

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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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Best Free Vector and Stock Photo Websites for UX/UI Designers

WebCreek

Have you ever found the perfect image only to realize it is subject to copyright? Yes? Me too. The real bummer is when you cannot find another one as perfect as that one. However, there is a way for you to get an even better-looking image — for free! Many designers prefer to use royalty-free images, videos, and music — nobody wants to get embroiled in a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Demand Programs – Using Rules to Design Program Flows

Forrester Digital Transformation

Demand marketers need a scalable and repeatable process to support buying group needs while in a demand program. Demand programs have program objectives, with corresponding program plays, to get and move opportunities with connected buying group members through the B2B Revenue Waterfall. Demand program plays are different types of programs to support demand program objectives of Activate, […].

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Is the Theory of Constraints Systems Thinking?

Intelligent Management Inc.

Someone reading our business novel ‘ The Human Constraint’ asked us if the Theory of Constraints is different from Systems Thinking so we would like to address that in this post. It is a particularly relevant question this week when an Italian physicist, Giorgio Parisi, was awarded the Noble Prize for his work on complex systems. Two of our partners, Dr.

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Demand Program Plays: Get and Move Buying Group Members Through the Waterfall

Forrester Digital Transformation

Traditional acquisition and nurture programs have ignored the reality of how buyers work together. Buyers work as a group to make a unified decision. As organizations embrace the reality of buying groups, demand programs must change from focusing on individuals to opportunities. The new B2B Revenue Waterfall needs demand programs to get new opportunities into […].

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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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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, September 2021

McKinsey and Company

Rapid growth and strong demand bump against pandemic-related disruptions; energy prices surge, but long-term inflation expectations remain moderate.

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Holiday 2021: Three Holiday Tips For Retail Media Networks

Forrester Digital Transformation

The holiday season matters a lot to retailers, but it is also a busy and important time for media businesses. Most advertisers spend a significant portion of their ad dollars in the last quarter of the year. So, retailers with a media network should be ready to compete for ad dollars during the holiday season.

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Mastering change: The new CFO mandate

McKinsey and Company

New research shows that now is the time for finance leaders to lean into the evolution of their roles and reassert themselves as strategic partners and digital enablers to the business.

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Banks Must Align Strategy And Technology To Succeed With Personalization

Forrester Digital Transformation

Banks need a customer-led strategy to govern cross-functional personalization efforts and to determine the right technology investments.

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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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The Benefits of RPA Analytics

Automation Anywhere

Let’s say you have your first Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software robots (“bots”) up and running. Your first few processes—such as accounts payable, order-to-cash, or customer service notifications—are fully and (intelligently) automated. They’re working well. Employees are delighted to have the dull, repetitive work off their plates and more time to focus on their real jobs.

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The Evolution of Customer Experience in the Travel Industry

Blue Ocean

Few industries are quite like travel. Can you think of any other industry where anxiety is baked into the product or service? Even before the pandemic, customers found themselves faced with myriad rules, restrictions, and bottlenecks to navigate before reaching their destination, leading to many a meltdown at checkpoints and terminals around the world.

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How Taxonomy Connects Healthcare Consumers With Content

Perficient Digital Transformation

We’ve all been spoiled by how easy Amazon and other leading e-commerce leaders have made it for us to find related items when we browse their websites. If I’m searching for a pair of shoes or a blender but not finding the exact item I want, I can often find related items that the site populates in a nearby list. That process works because of taxonomy, the system the organization uses to categorize its various pieces of content.

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Future-proofing the organization the ‘helix’ way

McKinsey and Company

The German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is reinventing a key division. Its head of transformation explains how separating the company’s people leadership from its product lines improves both.

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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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Can Change Management Help Solve the “Hybrid Paradox” Amid the “Great Reshuffle?”

Perficient Digital Transformation

We are all witnesses and participants in the English expression: “May you live in interesting times.”. Eighteen months ago, who could have anticipated the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought an immediate shift for many people to work remotely. During this time, organizations hired many people who had not yet stepped into the office building of their new employer.

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Best Free Vector and Stock Photo Websites for UX/UI Designers

WebCreek

Rate this post. Have you ever found the perfect image only to realize it is subject to copyright? Yes? Me too. The real bummer is when you cannot find another one as perfect as that one. However, there is a way for you to get an even better-looking image — for free! Many designers prefer to use royalty-free images, videos, and music — nobody wants to get embroiled in a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Comparative Analysis of BI Reporting Tools

Perficient Digital Transformation

Business intelligence (BI) reporting tools help an organization gather, consolidate, and derive value out of their raw data. These tools allow users to analyze their data in depth, thereby improving decision making at every level in the organization. There are various BI reporting tools which are about 80-85% similar in terms of functionalities and features.

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Make the most of CommunityLIVE 2021 Get ready for our favorite time of the year!

Hyland

... The post Make the most of CommunityLIVE 2021 <span style='display: block;font-size: 55em;line-height: 1.3em;font-weight: 100;;'>Get ready for our favorite time of the year!</span> appeared first on The Hyland Blog.

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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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The CFPB Regulation F Requirements Take Effect in Less Than 60 Days – What’s Your Plan?

Perficient Digital Transformation

In less than 60 days, the CFPB Regulation F requirements take effect. In simple terms, it means collectors can: Make seven call attempts within a seven-day period. Make one call within a week of speaking with the “right party.”. Strategies must be altered, and creating sequencing that supports your delinquency goals and loss forecast can be challenging.

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Outsourcing in the Great Resignation – What’s Working and What’s Not? | Virtual Roundtable

Everest Group

Virtual Roundtable. Outsourcing in the Great Resignation – What’s Working and What’s Not? October 7, 2021 |. 10 am CDT | 11 am EDT | 4 pm BST | 8:30 pm IST. Please join us for the exclusive virtual roundtable, Outsourcing in the Great Resignation – What’s Working and What’s Not?, on Thursday, October 7, 2021, 11:00 am – 12:30 am EDT. Summary The talent shortage has created staggering attrition numbers for service providers.

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Procurement Organizations Can Achieve Breakthrough Improvements By Embracing Digital Technology

The Hackett Group

The Hackett Group’s New Digital World Class ™ Standards Raise the Bar on Procurement Performance. MIAMI & LONDON, October 7, 2021 – By fully embracing digital transformation, procurement organizations can achieve superior levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and customer experience, including 25% lower cost, 2.5x greater procurement ROI, and more, according to new Digital World Class ™ procurement research from The Hackett Group, Inc.

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The Future of the Retirement Plan Industry: The Answer to Business Challenges Lies in the Cloud | Webinar

Everest Group

Learn how organizations are prioritizing investment in change to evolve business models and drive brand value in this panel discussion, in which Ronak Doshi , Partner at Everest Group, shares his insights. The panel members will discuss: • The business realities driving transformation. • The challenge of funding the change. • The benefits of a modular approach to modernization.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.