Tue.Feb 21, 2023

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The Future Of Banking Requires Tech-Driven Innovation

Forrester Digital Transformation

Over three quarters of banks are increasing their spending on emerging technologies, creating the potential for hype and fear of missing out. Forrester identified nine emerging technologies that should be on the list of every bank, either now or later. We then organized them according to when firms can expect return on investment and provided details about the technologies and their use cases.

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Grow From Hard-Earned Lessons

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/jacoblund Even though the four leaders referenced in the article below are from different sectors, there are a variety of similarities in what they’ve gone through over the past two years. They were all tasked with more responsibility and accountability than ever before, and yet they all saw opportunities to grow from those hard-earned lessons.

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Align Around Your Customers To Power Growth In Today’s Economic Climate

Forrester Digital Transformation

Outdated, short-term growth strategies that focus on extracting value from customers will fail. To succeed, companies must build, run, and continually optimize a customer-obsessed growth engine.

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From Data Swamp to Data Lake: Data Quality

Perficient Digital Transformation

This is the third blog in a series that explains how organizations can prevent their Data Lake from becoming a Data Swamp, with insights and strategy from Perficient’s Senior Data Strategist and Solutions Architect, Dr. Chuck Brooks. Read the previous blog, here. In the First article in this series, I explained the five components necessary to prevent a Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp.

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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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Navigating The Economic Headwinds Of 2023

Forrester Digital Transformation

It seems that every other news headline is warning us of impending economic doom in 2023. The peculiar thing about sales is that there really are no acceptable excuses for nonperformance. I knew of sales leaders who were put on performance improvement plans during the pandemic.

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Winning the SMB tech market in a challenging economy

McKinsey and Company

The small-and-midsize-business market has huge potential, but it’s also highly competitive and fragmented. Tech providers must understand the unique, evolving needs and preferences of small companies.

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Asana Rebel case study: 100% customer support in 6 languages across 7 platforms

Influx

About Asana Rebel Asana Rebel is a healthy lifestyle app built for anyone who wants to get in shape by offering hundreds of workouts as well as sleep assistance, music for focus and meditation, healthy lifestyle tips, and more. With over 44,000 Apple store reviews at 4.7-stars, Asana Rebel is one of the most popular and highly-rated wellness apps in the app store.

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Amazon Sales And Profit Analysis For 2022: Top 10 Insights

Forrester Digital Transformation

Last year, Amazon’s total net sales surpassed the half-trillion-dollar mark. To understand the drivers behind Amazon’s sales and profits performance, we analyzed the company’s sales and profits by product groups, countries, and business segments. Following are the top 10 insights from our analysis.

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Corporate commitments to racial justice: An update

McKinsey and Company

In the two years since McKinsey first analyzed corporate pledges to fight racial injustice, companies have continued to pledge money—but how it’s being spent remains unclear.

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A Zero Trust Paradox: Which Comes First, Microsegmentation Or Microperimeter?

Forrester Digital Transformation

The common trope, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question about origins and paradoxical relationships. Security and risk conversations about microsegmentation and microperimeters suffer from a similar dilemma. These two concepts are heavily emphasized in Zero Trust conversations as key components to advance maturity.

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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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Martin Miles Values People, Travel, and the Future of Sitecore

Perficient Digital Transformation

Sitecore recently announced six Perficient colleagues have been awarded Sitecore MVP status for 2023. The MVP program is now in its 17 th year and recognizes the most active Sitecore individuals from around the globe who share their knowledge with various Sitecore partners and customers. Martin Miles is one of our six 2023 Sitecore MVPs. This is his seventh consecutive year being awarded as a Technology MVP.

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Five Reasons Why CISOs Should Report To CEOs

Forrester Digital Transformation

For this research, we examined Forrester data on CISO reporting and organizational structures: CEO- and board-aligned; IT-aligned; and risk-aligned.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Questionable Logic | No. 116

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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A Senior Consultant’s Reflection on Marketo’s Dynamic Chat Customer Lighthouse Program

Perficient Digital Transformation

Since April 2022, Perficient’s Marketing Automation Team has been part of a select group of Adobe Partners participating in the Dynamic Chat Customer Lighthouse Program. As someone on the digital proving ground of marketing automation, I volunteered to take the lead on this initiative on behalf of Perficient. It’s been an exciting journey to watch the evolution of this product, and this blog intends to amplify those insights for others.

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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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What is environmental sustainability?

McKinsey and Company

Environmental sustainability is the practice of ensuring responsible stewardship of our planet.

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Introduction To Axe Tool in Accessibility Testing

Perficient Digital Transformation

What is Accessibility Testing? Accessibility Testing is system testing intended to discover whether system users with disabilities can use it. It is done to ensure that people with disabilities like color blindness, aging, and hearing may use the application. Objectives: To serve to market for people with disability. To abide by accessibility legislation.

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Hire Node.js Developers in 2023: Everything You Need To Know

SPD Load

With the increasing complexity of web and mobile applications, more organizations are turning to Node.js developers to develop, deploy, and maintain applications.

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How to Create a Component in Site Studio

Perficient Digital Transformation

Site Studio is a Drupal product from Acquia which builds a low-code and component-based website with a simple drag-and-drop interface. So, what is a component? Components are the mini templates to provide a flexible layout system to customize each section on the page as per requirements. This can be used by site builders in pages to create component-based layouts.

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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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Lessons from transformers: How some distributors reset and won

McKinsey and Company

In an exceptionally challenging marketplace, a few distributors are outperforming others by wide margins. Here’s what they do differently.

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Subbing for the Scrum Master to fill a project gap

Perficient Digital Transformation

We often hear the business analyst role described as a “Jack of all trades, master of none.” This is especially true in the consulting realm where this role spans all phases of a project from discovery to development to training and all the crevices in between. So when your project’s Scrum Master has to step away for a period of time, the business analyst may be the role that temporarily steps in to fill the gap.

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FinCEN’s latest UBO rule

Capgemini

FinCEN’s Latest UBO Rule Jeffrey Ingber 22 Feb 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Financial institutions will have limited access to FinCEN’s beneficial ownership information. Gathering and verifying information on ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) is an increasingly vital part of a financial institution’s KYC requirements. As FinCEN’s ultimate beneficial ownership regime continues to unfold regulatorily, it is also developing the IT system that will be used to store beneficial ownership

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How to Make Procurement Easier with Contract Management Systems

Obobo

If you’re looking for ways to streamline your procurement process, a contract management system may be the answer. A contract management system can provide many benefits, including improved negotiation and execution of contracts, as well as better overall visibility into the procurement process. When selecting a contract management system, it’s important to choose one that meets the specific needs of your organization.

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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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Corporate Carve Out, NetSuite & BPO Implementation for Private Equity

Auxis

CLIENT PROFILE Our New York-based client is a sports and active nutrition company that had been recently sold by a well-known, global corporation to a private equity firm specializing in the consumer, services, and industrial sectors. The new ly independent business provided market-leading products in the $16 billion functional snacking industry, including popular protein powders and meal replacement and ready-to-eat protein bars.

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The Yin and Yang of Digital Transformation

Infosys Consulting

‘Digital Transformation’ has become one of the hottest buzz phrases in the business world. Explicably, it’s driven by the rapid evolution of a plethora of modern digital technologies, so much so that organizations now understand digital transformation at times to mean the wholesale deployment of such technologies as the magic bullet for the problems plaguing their businesses.

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Corporate Carve Out, NetSuite & BPO Implementation for Private Equity

Auxis

CLIENT PROFILE Our New York-based client is a sports and active nutrition company that had been recently sold by a well-known, global corporation to a private equity firm specializing in the consumer, services, and industrial sectors. The new ly independent business provided market-leading products in the $16 billion functional snacking industry, including popular protein powders and meal replacement and ready-to-eat protein bars.

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The Hackett Group Announces Fourth Quarter 2022 Results

The Hackett Group

MIAMI, FL (February 21, 2023) – The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), a leading benchmarking, research advisory and strategic consultancy firm that enables organizations to achieve Digital World Class performance, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter, which ended on December 30, 2022. Financial Highlights Total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 was $70.1 million and revenue before reimbursements was $68.8 million, which exceeded the high end of our guidance.

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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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What if the impossible were possible? Understanding the extraordinary potential of quantum technologies

Capgemini

What if …… the impossible were possible? Understanding the extraordinary potential of quantum technologies Julian van Velzen 21 Feb 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Harnessing the immense power of quantum could appear to be a distant fantasy – the stuff of science fiction – a world of potential, but with little clarity of how it could be realistically used.

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A Senior Consultant’s Reflection on Marketo’s Dynamic Chat Customer Lighthouse Program

Perficient Digital Transformation

Since April 2022, Perficient’s Marketing Automation Team has been part of a select group of Adobe Partners participating in the Dynamic Chat Customer Lighthouse Program. As someone on the digital proving ground of marketing automation, I volunteered to take the lead on this initiative on behalf of Perficient. It’s been an exciting journey to watch the evolution of this product, and this blog intends to amplify those insights for others.

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Remote Work, Global Hiring Drive Explosive Growth in ‘Employer of Record’ Partnerships—Everest Group

Everest Group

Employers of Record (EORs) help enterprises hire and retain skilled talent in new countries or regions, use technology to provide a seamless experience to a globally distributed workforce. DALLAS, February 21, 2023 — Everest Group research suggests that 71% of organizations want to improve their geographical footprint; however, global expansion can be a complex and lengthy process, with organizations needing to navigate new legal systems, regulations, taxes, cultures, languages and more.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

.orgSource

Imagine you’re teed up for a jackpot question on Jeopardy. Mike Richards gives you this clue—“It revolves around mission, vision, and values.” An ear-to-ear grin lights your face and you answer, “What is an association?”—That win would be a no-brainer for anyone reading this post. Mission, vision, and values are a fundamental trio in the association playbook.

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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.