Wed.Mar 08, 2023

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The Key To Insights-Driven Decisions Is Curiosity Velocity

Forrester Digital Transformation

Organizations are being flooded with data and there's more coming every day. Discover how to untangle the knots within your data culture by identifying places where curiosity velocity is blocked or bottlenecked.

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The World Is Your Market For Talent

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Kateryna Onyshchuk Those who want to stay on the bleeding edge need to look for ways to capitalize on (rather than minimize) the remote work experience. One of these ways is by expanding beyond traditional talent pools and recruiting from across the world. Here are a few reasons why there has never been a better time to build a global workforce.

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Value Stream Management: What, Why, And How To Pick A Platform

Forrester Digital Transformation

Value Stream Management Works Our research is clear: Value stream management (VSM) delivers real results. We’ve spent the last year learning how organizations have applied VSM to their business, mapping the solution landscape, assessing the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and evaluating the vendors that define the market.

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ServiceNow Updates And Roadmap: What’s Coming In The Future?

31 West

ServiceNow’s advanced built-in capabilities and robust user interface have enabled IT specialists to adapt to the digitized workflow seamlessly. The digital transformation, especially the shift from the manual workforce to remote employees, has become much easier with this AI-powered ITSM tool. For those who have heard this name for the first time, ServiceNow is an IT management software application that serves as an all-in-one platform for all IT-related operations.

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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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The Pay Gap Isn’t The Only Problem For Women In CISO Roles

Forrester Digital Transformation

Last week, we published Forrester’s third CISO Career Paths report. This research involved an analysis of the career paths of Fortune 500 CISOs, looking into their education, tenures, and prior experiences of security leaders at some of the world’s largest companies.

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Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion

McKinsey and Company

While still nascent, generative AI has the potential to help fashion businesses become more productive, get to market faster, and serve customers better. The time to explore the technology is now.

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Digital transformation to achieve operational excellence

McKinsey and Company

Using principles of operational excellence, empowering workforces, and adding digital processes to production can help companies achieve new levels of performance.

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Beyond Continuous Improvement: Deming and Goldratt together

Intelligent Management Inc.

Many companies are being managed the same way as ten years ago, and with the same kind of organizational structure. It’s hardly surprising that there are so many challenges when it’s clear to everyone that our reality has moved on, even if we haven’t. Trying to succeed with the same old recipes for business and management won’t cut it. Neither will simply talking about leadership, as if it were a substitute for actual management.

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Building purpose-led businesses: An interview with Ingrid Johnson

McKinsey and Company

For Ingrid Johnson, president of Sun Life Asia, helping clients achieve financial security starts with building businesses under a common purpose.

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What Is the Software Development Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Guide

Bydrec

Software development is a complex process that involves several stages, and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is a framework that outlines the entire process. The SDLC is a process that helps software developers build high-quality software that meets the needs of users. In this blog post, we will discuss the software development life cycle and its various stages.

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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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What is generative AI, what are foundation models, and why do they matter?

IBM Services

Part one of a three-part series exploring how generative AI like ChatGPT is already transforming businesses Since its launch in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has captured the imagination of both consumers and enterprise leaders by demonstrating the potential generative AI has to dramatically transform the ways we live and work. As the scope of its impact on society continues to unfold, business and government organizations are still racing to react, creating policies about employee use o

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The IT leader’s report to overcoming the software skills crunch

The Scalers

As technology continues to play a critical role in the success of businesses, software development has become an increasingly important aspect of IT. However, some countries are struggling with a shortage of skilled software professionals , making it challenging to attract developers, driving up salaries, and costs of operations. To address this issue, various solutions have been proposed, such as outsourcing, hiring remote team members, partnering with offshore development companies, or establi

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Equity. Equality. Empowerment. Celebrate International Women’s Day today and every day

Eclaro

Equity. Equality. Empowerment. There are any number of words to put at the forefront of a celebration of International Women’s Day, but the particular power of these three continued to resonate at Eclaro through our offices, phone calls, Zooms, you name it, as we spoke about the impact of IWD and its many messages—and not only on March 8.

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Principles of Web Accessibility

Perficient Digital Transformation

What is Accessibility? Accessibility is the practice of making your website usable for everyone. If the technology is accessible , each user can interact with it in ways that work best for them. The standard guidelines for web content accessibility are organized around four principles The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are organized by four main principles, These four principles are known by the acronym POUR for Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust.

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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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8 Trends That Will Shape The Intelligent Automation Landscape in 2023

Zinnov

Automation proved to be an effective tool during the pandemic helping companies become and remain resilient. In the current macroeconomic environment that is clouded by the looming recession, companies are once again leaning on Automation technologies to help them unlock efficiencies and enhance the experience of their key stakeholders – customers, employees, and partners.

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Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3)

Perficient Digital Transformation

Your firm has, whether it was an individual or collective organization, violated the first component of the Hippocratic Oath – “first, do no harm” (or “primum non nocere,” the original Latin translation from the Greeks) while interacting with a client. Some combination of your conscience and your lawyers make you want to “make things right,” however that may be defined.

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From bench to bedside: Transforming R&D labs through automation

McKinsey and Company

Laboratory technology has been a steady runner in the world of pharmaceuticals, rather than a racing star—until now. A series of innovations points toward exponential gains in R&D productivity.

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How Can Financial Services Institutions Better Support Women? – An International Women’s Day Blog

Perficient Digital Transformation

Throughout history and across cultures, women have been forbidden from opening bank accounts, owning property, and taking out loans. Fortunately, most societies today don’t legally bar women from partaking in these tasks, but the ancient history of shutting doors on women seeking greater financial control has left an undeniable gender gap in the world of financial services and a lingering, detrimental attitude that money management is a man’s job.

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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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Procurement Magazine (UK), “Procurement strategies for 2023 amid economic uncertainty,”

The Hackett Group

Insights from The Hackett Group’s 2023 Key Issues report outline procurement priorities amidst economic uncertainty, pointing to digital transformation. The post Procurement Magazine (UK), “Procurement strategies for 2023 amid economic uncertainty,” appeared first on The Hackett Group.

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Coveo Named Champion in 2023 Enterprise Search Data Quadrant

Perficient Digital Transformation

Coveo Named Top Performer in Key Categories Coveo has received recognition as a champion in the 2023 Enterprise Search Data Quadrant by SoftwareReviews , a division of IT research and consulting. This recognition is a testament to Coveo’s commitment to customer success and delivering strong ROI for its customers. Based on real customer feedback, the composite satisfaction score given to Coveo was 8.9.

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Why we should turn the tide on open data skills in Europe’s public sector

Capgemini

Why we should turn the tide on open data skills in Europe’s public sector Giulia Carsaniga 9 Mar 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Literacy used to refer simply to reading, writing and, occasionally, numeracy. Nowadays, however, digital literacy is viewed by many to be equally – if not more – important for economic growth and social inclusivity. With digital literacy comes a need for the data skills that will ensure the EU’s Digital Decade goal of ‘a digitally skilled population and highly skilled

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Is Your Postman Delivering Too Much? Postman Alternatives

Perficient Digital Transformation

I’ve been a long-time user of Postman, and I’ve seen it grow throughout the years. All I need from Postman is a REST client to check my API endpoints. Recently though, as I opened Postman and had to click through three offers for services I will never use, I started thinking that I should take a survey of alternatives with less bloat and take them for a test drive.

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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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Innocens BV leverages IBM Technology to develop an AI solution to help detect potential sepsis events in high-risk newborns

IBM Services

From the moment of birth to discharge, healthcare professionals can collect so much data about an infant’s vitals—for instance, heartbeat frequency or every rise and drop in blood oxygen level. Although medicine continues to advance further, there’s still much to be done to help reduce the number of premature births and infant mortality.

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Three Foreseen Payer Changes Due to Price Transparency Legislation

Perficient Digital Transformation

The final step in the CMS price transparency legislation is due January 2024 and requires that health plans ensure that their members have access to accurate cost of care tools that show total procedure costs for an episode of care. These 3 major shifts will happen operationally due to price transparency: The “ Plan Design + Network Design = Product ” equation will become an even more critical player in the payer go-to-market landscape, particularly in commercial business.

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Exploring generative AI to maximize experiences, decision-making and business value

IBM Services

In the first part of this three-part series, generative AI and how it works were described. IBM Consulting sees tangible business value in augmenting existing enterprise AI deployments with generative AI to improve performance and accelerate time to value. There are four categories of dramatically enhanced capabilities these models deliver: Summarization as seen in examples like call center interactions, documents such as financial reports, analyst articles, emails, news and media trends.

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Know Your Customer, Grow Your Business: The Significance of Customer Strategy and Segmentation in Retail

Perficient Digital Transformation

Despite surviving both the Great Depression and the Great Recession, not even enduring luxury retail giant Nieman Marcus could escape COVID-19’s interruption of indoor shopping. When Neiman Marcus emerged from bankruptcy after a tumultuous 2020, the company smartly pivoted towards a new plan for targeting consumers. The 115-year-old luxury retailer would laser-focus on their most profitable market: millionaires.

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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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How IBM Consulting brings a valuable and responsible approach to AI

IBM Services

In the first and second part of this three-part series, we looked at definitions and use cases of generative AI. We’ll now explore the approach IBM Consulting takes when embarking upon AI projects. As business leaders investigate the best way to apply generative AI to their enterprise at scale, they need to consider trusted vendors and partners with expertise in data, machine learning and AI, data and AI governance, and proven capabilities of scaling applied AI within enterprises across in

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Cross Connect Forum 2023: The Case for a Diverse and Flexible Global Workforce Strategy

Everest Group

EVENT Cross Connect Forum 2023: The Case for a Diverse and Flexible Global Workforce Strategy March 8, 2023 | 11:00 AM GMT Rohitashwa Aggarwal , Partner (Global Sourcing), Everest Group, will be a keynote power panel speaker for the Cross Connect Forum 2023: The Case for a Diverse and Flexible Global Workforce Strategy in London, England. The resources and delivery capabilities of knowledge services partners are being scrutinized like never before.

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Managing the uncertainty and complexity in Software Development – Flags and Lessons (part 3/3)

Perficient Digital Transformation

This is the third post of a blog series which summarizes the lessons I learned during a technological migration with high uncertainty and complexity. In the previous post, I talked about how I faced the problem. In this post, I’ll summarize the flags and lessons. Content Part 1: Discovering the problem Part 2: Facing the problem Part 3: Flags and Lessons I can conclude that no matter how hard a project with high uncertainty and complexity is, most of the time it can be solved.

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IBM leads in data science and MLOps

IBM Services

Imagine a team of explorers venturing into uncharted territory. To accomplish their objectives safely and efficiently, the team needs a leader. Their leader must be trustworthy, resourceful, adaptable and proficient with their tools: maps, compasses and other navigational instruments used to chart their course through the unknown. The rest of the team is responsible for working together to support the leader by using their unique skills and areas of subject matter expertise.

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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.