Thu.May 11, 2023

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What Is An Export Trading Company?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/krblokhin An export trading company is an independent company that provides support services for firms engaged in exporting. This may include warehousing, shipping, insuring, and billing on behalf of the client. Find out what else an Export Trading Company can help with. Learn how Warren Buffet is investing in Japanese Trading Companies.

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What HR Leaders Told Us Keeps Them Up At Night

Forrester Digital Transformation

HR Executives Gather to Discuss the Future of Work at UNLEASH US In April, I joined with my colleagues Betsy Summer and Katy Tynan at the UNLEASH US 2023 event held in Las Vegas.

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What every CEO should know about generative AI

McKinsey and Company

Generative AI is evolving at record speed while CEOs are still learning the technology’s business value and risks. Here, we offer some of the generative AI essentials.

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What Does It Take To Successfully Execute A Marketing Transformation?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketing transformation, which is a significant shift in an organisation’s marketing approach, often becomes necessary for companies striving to remain relevant and competitive in today’s rapidly changing market landscape. From evolving customer needs and preferences to emerging technologies and channels, businesses must continuously adapt their marketing capabilities to drive revenue growth and increase customer engagement.

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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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AI-powered marketing and sales reach new heights with generative AI

McKinsey and Company

AI technology has revolutionized marketing and sales; now, generative AI promises to disrupt the way B2B and B2C players think about customer experience, productivity, and growth.

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The What, Why, and How of Values-Driven Marketing

Forrester Digital Transformation

In the upcoming CX APAC 2023, I’m going to present on How To Embed Values-Driven Marketing In Customer Journeys. I’m excited to lay out the key concept of values-driven marketing and share a sneak peak of the new model and framework. But before we talk about values-driven marketing, let’s start with values-motivated consumers.

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What’s Driving The $2 Trillion Technology Services Market?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Co-innovation is driving the $2 trillion technology services market — 48% of the $4.2 trillion tech economy. And it has been growing faster than GDP for decades. Why? Simple: Companies and organizations run on technology. They turn to services providers to help them translate technology’s potential into customer and business outcomes.

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How to Manage your Organization as a Complex System

Intelligent Management Inc.

The Intelligent Management team is coming out with a new book to be published by Springer! It’s called ‘From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management’ We’ll be highlighting some of the content in the coming months. Today’s post is by Dr. Giovanni Siepe. Over the last 25 years there has been a great deal of talk about Complexity and Organizations.

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Who Do B2B Buyers Trust?

Forrester Digital Transformation

It’s human nature to want to be trusted and to trust in return. This explains why “trust” is such a ubiquitous component of corporate messaging across industries and cultures. Business leaders understand that cultivating trust among buyers is necessary for winning business, sustaining long-term relationships, and building a strong brand.

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PAWS for a Cause: Our Colleagues Give Back to an Atlanta Animal Shelter

Perficient Digital Transformation

It’s no secret that our colleagues at Perficient are incredibly generous, thoughtful, and intentional on building a better future for the next generation. We’re united under a common goal to make the world just a little brighter, and we do this by spreading small acts of kindness to those who need it. In honor of the recent National Volunteer Week, our team in Atlanta stepped up and got their hands dirty volunteering at PAWS Atlanta , a no-kill shelter for cats and dogs.

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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 Build a Minimum Viable Product: A Guide for ISVs and Startups

comeMakeit

Launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to test ideas is not new. MVPs validate business hypotheses, reduce risk, and get customers to open up to new products. Ever since Frank Robinson coined the term in 2001, and Eric Ries popularized it through his book, Lean Startup, many product teams have given their ideas a preliminary shape through MVPs. But are MVPs only for startups?

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Keelvar Unveils First of its Kind Autonomous Sourcing Solution, for Transformed Outcomes Across Strategic, Tactical and Tail Spend

Future of Sourcing

Intelligent Sourcing Pioneer Combines No-Code Automation Solution with Optimization Platform to Power Sourcing Revolution Across Full Spend Lifecycle CORK, Ireland – May 2, 2023 – Keelvar , a global pioneer of intelligent sourcing optimization and automation solutions, today launched the next-generation of its Autonomous Sourcing solution, which combined with its Sourcing Optimization platform, fuels a revolutionary approach to sourcing.

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Building or scaling a customer support team

Influx

Building or scaling customer support is a critical endeavor for businesses aiming to provide exceptional customer service. As a business grows, customer support needs to grow in tandem to ensure that customers continue to receive the same level of service and attention. Whether you’re starting from scratch or expanding an existing support system , we have the answers!

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The complete guide to outsourcing employees

Microsourcing

In the late 1700s, American statesman Benjamin Franklin uttered the immortal line that nothing was certain in life except death and taxes. More than 200 years later, he may well have been inclined to add a third certainty to his list – the popularity of outsourcing.

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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 Hire Faster Using Our Enhanced Onboarding Process

Velocity Global

In today’s global economy, fast-growing companies cross borders to rapidly scale their workforces. But savvy HR leaders know that speed-to-market is only half the battle when it comes to going global. Companies must also provide a top-tier employee experience that helps them retain and attract top talent. Offering a world-class employee experience starts with onboarding.

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ChatGPT and the AI (‘Artifical Imperfections’) test

Intelligent Sourcing

One big current idea is AI—artificial intelligence—where we seek to make computers do the sorts of things minds can do. Some of these activities are normally described as ‘intelligent’ e.g., reasoning, others are not e.g., vision. Unfortunately, as you can experience from the latest manifestation—ChatGPT—AI is so over-hyped with fantasies of power that, with AI’s […] The post ChatGPT and the AI (‘Artifical Imperfections’) test appeared first on Intelligent Sourcing.

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Worldwide Employee Wellbeing: Supporting Your Global Teams

UnaTerra

People talk about the world getting smaller, but actually, in the working world, the opportunities keep expanding. More and more, organisations are now operating globally and hiring from a worldwide pool. It’s no longer all about location, location, location because businesses can select their teams from anywhere around the world. Diversity of expertise and cultures […] The post Worldwide Employee Wellbeing: Supporting Your Global Teams appeared first on Cintra Global.

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Coping With Recession: How Healthcare Providers Can Maintain Financial Stability | Blog

Everest Group

To combat a looming recession, healthcare providers will need to take strategic action, including cutting costs, investing in patient experience, embracing digital technologies, and strengthening outsourcing partnerships. Read on to learn about the healthcare provider trends coming and how service partners can help hospitals and health systems overcome the challenges in an economic downturn.

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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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A methodology for enabling large scale migrations on the cloud

Infosys Consulting

Context and objective: Enterprises often have different maturity levels of cloud adoption within their application base. Some of these applications are huge monoliths (i.e., huge server workloads) or are running on virtualized set ups or are already running as containerized microservices. These create enormous datasets and workloads over a period. There are some proven best practices that comes handy for both the Business strategy and technology teams of an Enterprise, and these are discussed h

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Improve Your GBS Employer Brand | Learning from the Best in Poland | LinkedIn Live

Everest Group

LINKEDIN LIVE Improve Your GBS Employer Brand | Learning from the Best in Poland May 11, 2023| 7 a.m. CDT | 1 p.m. BST | 2 p.m. CET | 5:30 p.m. IST Poland has become a powerhouse in Global Business Services (GBS) and a Centre of Excellence for GBS. This is thanks to the competencies in GDPR and software development, accompanied by a healthy pool of STEM talent and multilingual customer service.

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VEERENDRA BALIGERI

Zinnov

Veerendra is the Finance Controller in the Globalization Excellence practice at Zinnov. With over 20 years of experience in the Finance space, he has served in various roles ranging from Managerial to Director. His expertise spans across the complete financial lifecycle, from Business Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, and Budgeting to STPI and SEZ Administration.

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Updating A Third-Party Risk Management Program

SIG Speaks

SIG University Certified Third-Party Risk Management Professional (C3PRMP) program graduate Nathan Coffet discusses the process of updating a Third-Party Risk Management program and the benefits it can have. Large fast growing multinational companies involving multiple mergers & acquisitions will often have many disparate processes in place to manage Third-Party Risk.

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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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Exploring the Prospects of Automating Sales Operation.

Go4Customer

The wise ones know, there are only two business operations - branding and innovation. Sales operation is the backbone of all businesses and companies work on the unique attributes that single them out of the crowd and try to acquire as much attention from the customers as they can possibly. The outbound sales strategy is revised regularly after a set period to ensure the numbers in customer acquisition remain sustainable.

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Effectively Identifying Value Leakage in Existing Outsourcing Relationships/Contracts | Market Insights™

Everest Group

Outsourcing LEARN ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT REVIEW SERVICES

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Unlocking Opportunities in the Indian SMB Ecosystem: Insights and Strategies for Japanese Enterprises

Zinnov

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Satisfaction with Digital Workplace Services | North American Enterprises | Market Insights™

Everest Group

Digital Workplace Services VIEW THE FULL REPORT

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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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IBM IT Automation: Reflections from IBM Think

IBM Services

We have had an amazing week with IBM clients, partners, and stakeholders at our annual Think® Conference in Orlando, Florida. For IBM, Think is a perfect time for us to connect, collaborate and help our clients and partners continue to forge ahead with digital transformation and innovation. As we wrap up Think 2023, we’re excited to recap a few of the exciting new capabilities we are launching in our IT Automation portfolio.

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Satisfaction with Digital Workplace Services | European Enterprises | Market Insights™

Everest Group

Digital Workplace Services VIEW THE FULL REPORT

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Implementing Composable Search for Your Site: Sitecore Search [part 4]

Perficient Digital Transformation

Sitecore Search is a new composable SaaS offering released recently that is based on the acquired product called Reflection, built on top of ElasticSearch. Sitecore Search is impressively fast, with standards set to be under half of a second roundtrip timeline. Almost all interaction with it and configuration is dome from UI, the coding aspect is almost non-existent and mostly relates to front-end integration.

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Enterprises’ Future Technology Priorities | Market Insights™

Everest Group

Technology VIEW THE FULL REPORT

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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.