Tue.Oct 05, 2021

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Build Or Buy A Sales Methodology? What You Need To Know Before You Decide

Forrester Digital Transformation

When confronted with the price tag for implementing a commercial sales methodology, many B2B sales and sales enablement leaders consider the option of building one in-house. The reasoning being: We are completely unique, and no off-the-shelf methodology would work here; plus we know our customers, we know our sales process, and we have sales learning […].

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Building Unity on a Remote International Team (wegginar)

The Global Small Business Blog

©2021 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global. All rights reserved. Wonder how to find great candidates from around the world? How to implement a communication and diverse work culture that keeps international employees engaged? What tools and technology make it all work? Look no further because all of these questions and more will be addressed during our next wegginar®, " From Chicago to Cairo: Building Unity on a Remote International Team ," on Wednesday, October 6th at 11AM CT by founder and CEO Dr.

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Participate In A Forrester Research Report On Infrastructure-As-Code

Forrester Digital Transformation

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) isn’t the latest but a prime and pertinent technology topic that gets more eyeballs every passing day. App developers, infrastructure owners, and enterprise architects alike expect IaC to be a liberating technology. I’m excited, as I am kicking off a new research report that’s focused on all IaC vendors — offerings, problems it […].

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From tech tool to business asset: How banks are using B2B APIs to fuel growth

McKinsey and Company

Banks can use APIs to generate income growth from corporate customer segments, improve customer experience, and fuel innovation.

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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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We Played Minecraft At Work – Here’s How It Went

Forrester Digital Transformation

Here at Forrester, over the past 18 months, we’ve been helping customers build and operate more effectively in hybrid working and remote working environments. However, there’s remained a gap – teambuilding. One of the inevitable side-effects of remote work is loss of emergent and informal interactions. So, we’ve been looking for ways to help remedy […].

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Author Talks: Parag Khanna on the forces creating a new geography of opportunity

McKinsey and Company

Parag Khanna provides a vision of the next phase of human civilization—one that is both mobile and sustainable.

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Accelerating pandemic response efforts: An interview with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

McKinsey and Company

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations explains his five-year strategy that includes reducing vaccine timelines.

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The Five Things Your Mobile Development Team Needs To Know About The Ecosystem

Forrester Digital Transformation

A few years ago, you had a big system if you had a thousand simultaneous users. Today, it means you have a moderately successful app or website. Your users place additional demands on your ecosystem now — in large part due to the limitations of the mobile devices they have. What does this mean for […].

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[Podcast] What If You Could Reinvent Retail…Again? An Interview With John Gregory.

Perficient Digital Transformation

In this episode, Kim talks with John Gregory, Global Head of Industry – Retail at Spotify, about how traditional retailers can get unstuck and how the key to staying ahead is a lot more than digital adoption. Listen Now. Subscribe Where You Listen. Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Google | Stitcher. Meet our Guest. John Gregory is the Global Retail Category Development Officer at Spotify where he leads the retail vertical that supports efforts with key strategic partners in this industry sector.

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The Five Things Your Mobile Development Team Needs To Know About Devices

Forrester Digital Transformation

Mobile devices aren’t just computers you can carry around. They’re extensions of your personality. For some people, they’re the only entry point to their digital lives. Seasoned vets of the mobile space must learn: The device your customer has is not the one you tested. It doesn’t matter how many devices you decided to use […].

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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 Tapas] Moving Into the Future With Confident Business Decisions

Perficient Digital Transformation

Technology Tapas has been created to provide small, quickly digestible amounts of technical information geared toward the business user who may run across the topics in a business setting and want to have a base foundation of understanding. Tapas topics will take no more than 10 minutes to consume, and we will include Topic Discussion and Business Application, as well as an area for replies & requests, upcoming topics, and a link for those wishing to follow up with a subject matter expert.

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Sales Enablement Leaders Must Emphasize Role-Specific Enablement In 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

Buyers expect sellers to partner with them and not only demonstrate a deep understanding of their market, industry, and role — but also to anticipate their next steps. Sales enablement leaders need to ensure that reps have the content, credibility, competency, and confidence to deliver.

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Bank, Credit Unions, and Other Credit Providers Must Get Ready To Prevent Loan Losses

Perficient Digital Transformation

The last 18 months surprised the collections industry as it relates to forecasting future losses for respective loan portfolios. Many banks, credit unions, and credit providers were left asking themselves, “when do we expect this to turn?”. In speaking with many industry leaders in the collection space during the pandemic, they stated it was a “blind target they struggled to predict.

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Product Management Leaders Should Make 2022 The Year Of Customer Value

Forrester Digital Transformation

There will be KPIs to achieve and roadmap goals to hit, but customer-centric approaches will be critical to product management leaders' success.

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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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[Podcast] Future of Data and AI

Perficient Digital Transformation

The worlds of data and artificial intelligence (AI) are evolving. For organizations to be data driven it’s important to have insight on the most up-to-date trends. In season 2 episode 9 of the Intelligent Data Podcast , host Arvind Murali and his guest Bruno Aziz, head of data and analytics, Google Cloud, discuss five trends in the data and analytics space, the importance of culture within a data-driven organization, and much more.

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Crossing the horizon: North American asset management in the 2020s

McKinsey and Company

The past 18 months have planted multiple seeds of disruption which are setting a dynamic new horizon of growth for the industry in the coming decade.

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Tax Automation Process Tax Links for Avalara

Perficient Digital Transformation

Are you confident your business is sales tax compliant? After the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the state in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., it’s not uncommon for tax compliance to come into question. Our partner, Avalara, provides a cloud-based application which includes functionality to accurately calculate various types of tax including sales, consumer use, and VAT across a majority of the countries throughout the world.

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For Bond Analysts | No. 44

McKinsey and Company

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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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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Holiday CX Best Practices During Seasonal Call Spikes

VXI

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving Sale, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve Sale remind us of one thing: the holidays are coming, and your business’s seasonal call spikes will soon be in full swing. While it is the time to be jolly for customers and businesses, ’tis the season to be busy and overstretched for the BPO industry. Peak season signifies an increase in calls, longer queues, and around-the-clock service in addition to the usual call center volume.

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Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder. How Document Filters handles document extraction with speed and scale

Hyland

... The post Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder. <span style='display: block;font-size: 55em;line-height: 1.3em;font-weight: 100;;'>How Document Filters handles document extraction with speed and scale</span> appeared first on The Hyland Blog.

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Medidata NEXT | Prepare for What’s Next: The Future of Platform-based Clinical Trials and DCTs | Event

Everest Group

Nitish Mittal , Partner at Everest Group, will join Joe Horine, Director, Analyst Relations at Medidata, in a fireside chat to discuss Everest Group’s recently published Clinical Development Platform and Decentralized Clinical Trial Products PEAK Matrix Assessment. Based on extensive research involving interviews with both providers and enablers of clinical development platforms and decentralized clinical trials, this session will help you learn how to prepare your technology infrastructure for

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Finance 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 Finance Performance. MIAMI & LONDON, October 5, 2021 – By fully embracing digital transformation, finance organizations can achieve superior levels of efficiency and effectiveness, including 43% lower cost, improved agility, and enhanced customer experience, according to new Digital World Class ™ finance research from The Hackett Group, Inc.

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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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Readiness of Augmented Analytics for Life Sciences Commercial Teams | Webinar

Everest Group

Nitish Mittal , Partner at Everest Group, will join Ivo Ruff, EMEA Brand Performance Analytics Lead at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Rohit Vashisht, CEO at WhizAI, in this webinar to discuss the multiple industry trends driving the shift from traditional to augmented analytics. They will also explore the value that augmented analytics brings to enterprises, the importance of domain-specific nuances, best practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid, and the future of augmented analytics.

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Effectively Utilizing Global Mobility to Support Growth and Talent Attraction 

Immedus

Global mobility, the movement of employees from one country to another, can bring a host of complexities for international payroll professionals to manage. There are many reasons an organization may decide to send employees to different locations and many benefits that companies may have not initially considered. . What are employee views on relocating, and what should employers consider?

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Intelligent Document Processing in P&C Insurance | Webinar

Everest Group

Join Everest Group Partner, Anil Vijayan , and Singularity Systems for this webinar as they review Everest Group’s report, “Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) in P&C Insurance.” The report provides a detailed view of the current state of the P&C insurance industry. Participants will learn: What IDP’s general capabilities are.

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OSHA Vaccine Mandate: What We Know So Far

Perillion

With the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine fully approved by the FDA, businesses with more than 100 employees will soon be required to ensure that their workers are fully vaccinated or tested weekly. The requirement is part of a comprehensive national strategy announced by the White House on September 9.

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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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Europe’s Global Services Market – Rapid Recovery, New Locations, and Skyrocketing Prices? | Webinar

Everest Group

LIVE WEBINAR. Europe’s Global Services Market – Rapid Recovery, New Locations, and Skyrocketing Prices? October 5, 2021 |. 9 AM CDT | 10 AM EDT | 3 PM BST | 7:30 PM IST. Europe is at the forefront of the global sourcing industry’s rapid evolution, with market nuances emerging from Eastern Europe, the Nordic region, and Western Europe. With this quick pace of change, enterprises run the risk of being blindsided by challenges or missing opportunities, including those related to the increasing and

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Smartly Outsource Your Back Office Services With This Comprehensive Guide

Magellan Solutions

This is your ultimate source of information when you decide to outsource back office services. Back office services continue to improve for the better, thanks to outsourcing. While the media hype that automation and robotics will soon eradicate human factors in a company’s process management, that is not really the case. Automation, AI, and robots will not obliterate your company’s need for human employees.

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October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month

Perillion

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Using an Umbrella Company

Globalization Partners

With the rise of “the gig economy,” many workers are contracting themselves out as freelancers rather than becoming employees of a single company. This model comes with a few vulnerabilities and inconveniences, which is why some contractors choose to partner with an umbrella company. These workers still complete temporary work, often through a recruitment agency, but they are technically classified as employees of the umbrella company.

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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.