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Top 8 Features to Look for in an Extended Enterprise LMS

Groove Technology

Extended Enterprise (EE) LMS has become more and more popular in all kinds of industry, especially since COVID-19 pandemic occurred. With numerous great benefits, it is considered as the future of corporate e-learning. Let this article walk you through a closer picture of what you need to know about Extended Enterprise LMS. An overview of the extended enterprise LMS.

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Today in Global Small Business: [Go] Easy On Me (Music Video)

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/fightbegin What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: [Go] Easy On Me – Adele's new release ( video ) Take My Breath – The Weeknd ( video ) Love Again – Dua Lipa ( video ) Quote of the week: "Music is life itself." – Louis Armstrong Lost – Maroon 5 ( video ) Up – Cardi B ( video ).

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CISOs And The Next Era Of Security Visibility: Observability

Forrester Digital Transformation

For security leaders and practitioners, it seems like developers and IT teams get all the cool toys, and security pros get stuck with the hand-me-downs. Dev was first to cloud, IT followed, and security warily joined in. IT had patch management while security just scanned to see if the patches weren’t there; and security orchestration, […].

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Setting a new bar for online higher education

McKinsey and Company

Colleges and universities that learn from online education pioneers could improve operations and students’ experiences—and ensure their long-term viability.

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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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A Unified String Theory For Automation: Part 1, Transformation

Forrester Digital Transformation

In June this year, I coined the term “automation fabric” to describe emerging trends in the automation world. I wrote a report about it (see Automation Is The New Fabric For Digital Business). Since then, the trends that I pointed out have only been accelerating. In this two-part blog post, I wanted to outline my […].

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5 Key Takeaways From Our “Optimization Strategies To Improve Collections” Webinar

Perficient Digital Transformation

Financial institutions must prioritize instilling empathy when interacting with their clients. It’s more critical now than ever because of the economic hardships many are facing due to COVID’s impact. In our latest webinar, “Optimization Strategies to Improve Collections,” Scott Albahary, Perficient’s financial services chief strategist, and Byron Gifford, Perficient’s collection transformations lead, shared tangible solutions to the challenges collections and recoveries groups face.

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Industrial-resource productivity and the road to sustainability

McKinsey and Company

As industrial companies—especially in process industries—strive for a zero-carbon future, a time-tested approach shows renewed value in helping reduce carbon by up to one-third in three to five years.

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How European Auto And Home Insurers Can Differentiate On Customer Experience

Forrester Digital Transformation

Forrester surveyed customers of the 32 of the largest and most important auto and home insurance brands in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK about the quality of their experiences as a part of our European Auto And Home Insurers Customer Experience Index, 2021.

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5G use cases in business

Airswift

Source: Alexander Supertramp/Shutterstock. 5G and Business. While the average consumer begins to enjoy the faster speeds of 5G networks in countries that have rolled out commercial 5G, it is businesses that stand to reap the most significant benefit from this new technology. There are six key characteristics of 5G that benefits businesses: First, it has very low latency , so sending and receiving information takes less than ten milliseconds.

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APAC Marketing Planning For 2022: When “New Normal” Morphs Into “Business As Usual”

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketing leaders have had an exciting 18 months, if “exciting” is really the accurate word to use. Some would probably argue that “turbulent” is a more accurate description. But as each month rolls into the next, there is no doubt that some semblance of balance and normality is in place today, even if “normal” means […].

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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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Technology-driven growth in China: An interview with Jiang Xing

McKinsey and Company

The CEO of ZhongAn Insurance says the industry can generate momentum for growth by taking advantage of trends, preparing for future developments, and increasing investments in digital transformation.

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Perficient Sponsors Acquia Engage and Finalist for Engage Awards

Perficient Digital Transformation

As an Acquia Gold partner , we are thrilled to sponsor the virtual Acquia Engage event happening October 26-27, 2021. Our team is continually growing and adding certified innovators to help customers achieve their digital goals. We’re excited for the chance to sponsor Acquia Engage and enjoy the wide variety of sessions that will be available. Join us in registering today!

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The future of federal work

McKinsey and Company

How can the federal government think about remote work and the workplace environment—and communicate changes to its workforce?

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Reflections From HLTH 2021: The Future of Health

Perficient Digital Transformation

I’m lucky enough to attend Boston’s HLTH 2021 event, and there is one major theme that already stands out to me: the conflict between locality and specialty. Monday’s lunchtime keynotes presented both ends of this spectrum. First, Cheryl Pegus, Executive Vice President of Health & Wellness at Walmart , spoke about Walmart’s bet to be “all in on value-based care.

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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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How to Write a Demotion Letter (With a Sample)

Career Minds

There are numerous reasons for an employee to get demoted. Whether it's because of poor performance, a restructuring at the company, or even if the person requests to take on less responsibility, you will always have to conduct the move in the same way, starting with a demotion letter.

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Pharmacokinetics Advancing the Efficiency of Clinical Studies Across Life Sciences Industry

Perficient Digital Transformation

Our Life Sciences and Data Solutions practices built a new platform to help analyze clinical trials. The rigorous process for developing new drugs and therapies is rigorous, and only one out of every 10 medicines makes it through to the regulatory submission and approval. Non-compartmental analysis (NCA) is an essential activity within the drug development process.

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Inbound Call Center Outsourcing - How It Can Help Your Business in 2021

StaffVirtual

What is an Inbound Call Center? An inbound call center, or contact center, is a business process outsourcing (BPO) company that receives incoming calls from existing customers, or sometimes even potential customers, who are interested in your business. Though managed by humans, they operate as virtual call centers, so the operators aren't required to be in the same place as the company.

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Optimizely Forms – Hide FormContainerBlock

Perficient Digital Transformation

Optimizely Forms includes a FormContainerBlock out of the box. This is the basic block for forms you create, and often this is enough. Sometimes, however, you need more control. You can add new properties or behaviours to Optimizely Forms easily by creating new Form blocks inheriting from the FormContainerBlock. Creating a new block does not prevent editors from being able to use the included one, though.

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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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Here’s what we learned at CommunityLIVE 2021 This year’s event highlighted digital acceleration and the importance of connection

Hyland

... The post Here’s what we learned at CommunityLIVE 2021 <span style='display: block;font-size: 55em;line-height: 1.3em;font-weight: 100;;'>This year’s event highlighted digital acceleration and the importance of connection</span> appeared first on The Hyland Blog.

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Divorcing Virtual Paper

Perficient Digital Transformation

I wanted to expand a little on one of the core themes of a perspective I just published, Demise of the Document , the idea of Virtual Paper. It’s a concept that haunts me even as I’m drafting this post using Microsoft Word… A colleague did point out to me the irony of a think-piece titled Demise of the Document, lamenting our ongoing attachment to Virtual Paper, being distributed as Virtual Paper (a PDF).

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Product Management Is Essential For Increasing IT Productivity And Effectiveness | Blog

Everest Group

The Agile manifesto, created 20 years ago, radically changed the software development process, introducing new principles and emphasizing breaking tasks down into bite-sized pieces to achieve more innovation and greater productivity. Although some companies improve productivity by 100-200% in a year in application development and maintenance, most still complain that their IT teams do not operate quickly enough and fail to meet business needs.

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ScaleHub named FOCUS Growth Champion for 2nd consecutive year

ScaleHub

Once again, ScaleHub is honored to be recognized as a FOCUS Growth Champion for 2022 by FOCUS Magazine and statista. ScaleHub can count itself among the top 500 fastest growing companies in Germany for the second year in a row. 2021 was the first time we received this extraordinary recognition. It’s a pleasure to be counted once again as a key growth player in the economy at large and the data technology industry.

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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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How to Nail Virtual Onboarding for Your Remote Hires

Velocity Global

Imagine: you’ve just hired your dream candidate. But within 12 months, they quit. If you’re asking yourself why, you might want to start by examining your onboarding process, as 64% of employees have left a company within the first year after a negative onboarding experience. . With more companies going remote part- or full-time, the pressure is on to bring onboarding into the digital realm.

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ESG Is Not New — But It’s The New Normal

Perillion

It would be easy to dismiss ESG as just another corporate buzzword like Six Sigma or the open-plan office, but that would be a mistake.

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Finance Digest (UK), “Six Reasons Why Digital World Class Finance Organizations Outperform Peers,”

The Hackett Group

A bylined article by The Hackett Group’s research staff. “The best-performing finance organizations – the Digital World ClassTM – accomplish more while operating at a significantly lower cost than their peers. According to The Hackett Group’s most recent benchmarking research, they also deliver higher quality services, such as more time spent on forward-looking analysis to inform future decisions….

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Practice Director – Pricing Assurance | Current Openings

Everest Group

About Everest Group. Everest Group is a research firm focused exclusively on IT, business process, and engineering services – this specialization results in a depth of expertise that our clients find invaluable when making critical, strategic decisions related to their use and delivery of sourcing services. The Global 1000 – the largest and most complex companies of theworld – use our services to guide their journeys to achieve heightened operational and financial performance, accelerated value

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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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DevOps: A Practical Process for the Modern Developer

Affirma

DevOps has been somewhat of a buzzword on the tip of many developers’ tongues for quite some time. Many job descriptions for software engineers now contain a line about DevOps in some form or fashion. Companies are hiring dedicated DevOps Engineers to meet this need in their workforces. It’s almost certainly a requirement if you want to call yourself a “full-stack” developer these days, and you can’t browse technology blogs or news without stumbling across several articles regarding DevOps.

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Your Guide to Prioritizing Your Employees’ Mental Health

Velocity Global

It’s common to hear a company describe its team as a family. If that’s the case, you don’t want to let a member of yours struggle go unnoticed. . With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic , many workers started to report increased feelings of stress or burnout due to work. A recent report from Indeed showed that 52% of respondents reported feeling burnt out, an almost 10% increase from the same survey conducted before the pandemic. .