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2021 In Review: A Recap Of The Shifts That Every Sales Leader Should Know About

Forrester Digital Transformation

2021 brought monumental shifts to the B2B sales world. Throughout the year, Forrester’s B2B Sales Executives service published key research on how sales leaders should address these changes, and we’ve highlighted that research below. B2B Buying Is Changing, And Sales Needs To Quickly Adapt Many changes in B2B selling are a result of shifts in […].

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Global Small Businesses Are Feeling the Squeeze With the Global Supply Chain Crisis

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Tryaging The timing couldn’t be worse. With the winter holiday in full swing, late shipments and bare shelves could be disastrous for the busiest sales season of the year for global small businesses. The outcome could be even more grim for companies that were counting on this period to help them rebound from COVID-19 closures and even stave off bankruptcy.

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Staff Augmentation VS Dedicated Team – Which is Better for Your Company?

Groove Technology

In an uncertain and dynamically changing business environment, the demand for specialist IT services is constantly increasing. However, the lack of skilled software developers is a reality that today’s market has to face and adapt to. Fortunately, IT outsourcing has come to the rescue. With its myriad benefits – optimizing project time and costs, tapping into the knowledge base of a skilled IT partner, increasing operational efficiency, you will be able to focus on your core business.

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The economic state of Latinos in America: The American dream deferred

McKinsey and Company

Addressing the barriers preventing Latinos from full economic participation could have a multitrillion-dollar impact, further unleashing their entrepreneurial spirit, creating millions of jobs, driving consumer spending, and building intergenerational wealth.

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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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B2B Marketers: It’s Time To Ditch Sourcing Metrics

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketing sourcing metrics aren't meeting the needs of B2B marketing organizations and continue to fall out of favor. Here's why to ditch them and move on to something better.

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Why Aren't More Women Exporting?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/metamorworks As I [Laurel Delaney] wrote for Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®, women hold up half the sky and according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Entrepreneurship report, they also are involved in a whole heck of a lot of startups – to the tune of more than 274 million women worldwide. Yet according to the GEM report: Women entrepreneurs are much less likely than men to report exports to over 25% of their customers in every country in this region, with t

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The CEO: Architect of the new operations agenda

McKinsey and Company

To thrive in a volatile and unpredictable postpandemic economy, companies need smarter, faster, more agile operations. That requires big changes—and commitment from the very top of the organization.

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Anywhere Work

Forrester Digital Transformation

Pictured to the left is the entrance to Forrester’s US headquarters in Cambridge, MA. The building can hold over 600 employees, but there have not been more than 150 people there on any given day in over 21 months. As a company, we are lucky — while 40% of jobs in the US require employees […].

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Today in Global Small Business: What You Need to Know About Social Commerce

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Urupong What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Happy Holidays! Comcast RISE grants returns ! Why ecommerce is so important to Indonesia's small businesses. What you need to know about social commerce. Quote of the week: "Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." – Pietro Aretino The 10 best podcasts in 2021, according to The New York Times.

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Digital Transformation Experts Explain Key Strategies to be Successful in the DXP Space

Perficient Digital Transformation

HCL recently hosted DX Transform 2021 featuring industry leaders in the DXP space including our very own Dave Torres! Liz Miller, Principal Analyst from Constellation Research moderated the three-day virtual event in Malibu, California. Industry leaders shared stories about real, tangible change taking place in different industries because of digital transformation.

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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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Hyland and TECH CORPS partner to expand interest and access to computer science education

Hyland

... The post Hyland and TECH CORPS partner to expand interest and access to computer science education appeared first on The Hyland Blog.

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The Cybersecurity Incident Response Market Abounds With Choice — But Please Choose Before You’re Hit!

Forrester Digital Transformation

Last week, we released the Forrester Now Tech: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, Q4 2021. This research provides a comprehensive overview of the service provider landscape. In the report, we define and describe the vendor segments and then classify each of the 36 vendors into the appropriate segment based on functionality. We also provide information on key industries the vendors support and any reference customers they […].

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December Tips for Peppy Content Marketing

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Michall_Petrov-96 Content marketing for December 2021 should be useful, informative, or entertaining, and it should help a business attract, engage, and retain an audience of customers and prospects. Here are a couple of ideas – from industry forecasts, holiday how-to articles, to New Year’s resolutions.

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Perficient Academy: A One-Stop Shop for Career Growth

Perficient Digital Transformation

Ask many colleagues, and they will cite career growth as one of the primary drivers of their satisfaction and success at Perficient. It’s no surprise that Perficient takes career growth seriously, as evidenced by programs like Growth for Everyone , our People Promise , and the Career Growth Panels sponsored by the Women In Tech ERG (employee resource group).

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.

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How can healthcare unlock the power of data connectivity?

McKinsey and Company

The pandemic has shown that de-identifying data for shared research is essential to address some of the biggest health issues. How can data fragmentation be balanced with value-based healthcare?

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Take The Confusion Out Of Data Mesh

Forrester Digital Transformation

Confused by data mesh? You’re not alone. While the domain-centric and data-governance-by-design principles feel simple and intuitive, the big question is, “How do you execute on data mesh?” OK, breathe. Data mesh principles are not new. Organizations already model data, stand up data warehouses, master their data, and ensure data quality. Data governance artifacts to […].

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The New Yorker: Looking Back on 2021 Through Images

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/SafakOguz From a daytime-talk-show legend, to a remarkably expressive cat, to the lawless rage that would come to define January 6th, here's a look at The Year in New Yorker Photography 2021.

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The Great Resignation and the Cost of Confusing EX and CX

Perficient Digital Transformation

Amid the disruption wrought by the Great Resignation (the informal name for the widespread trend of a significant number of workers leaving their jobs during COVID-19) and the chorus of companies yearning for “normalcy” to return, this change management professional would suggest “normal” was a trigger for the exodus, to begin with. In fact, forget “normal.

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Building A Superstar Global Workforce: What We Aren’t Talking About Enough

Companies are turning inclusive by breaking conventional hiring practices and expanding their talent pools. But there are important questions that still are not being addressed. Read this eBook to understand how taking the following seriously can help you build a superstar global workforce: The importance of the new-age manager. Maintaining social capital.

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Navigating the labor mismatch in US logistics and supply chains

McKinsey and Company

Structural shifts in the labor market have left companies struggling to recruit and retain workers. But a set of concrete actions can help address this imbalance across value chains.

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EDR: Only Mostly Dead?

Forrester Digital Transformation

What comes up in conversations on endpoint detection and response (EDR) lately? A slightly different *DR. It’s impossible to deny that extended detection and response (XDR) has taken hold of the security market as the successor to EDR. In the debut Forrester report on XDR, we even described EDR as “dead” — but perhaps a better phrase […].

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Details

The Global Small Business Blog

©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "God is in the details." – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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6 Key Cloud Computing Trends of 2022: Become Sustainable and Agile

Amzur

Reading Time: 6 minutes. Data is currency. Over the past decade, this phrase has gotten a lot of attention across industries. With the rapid adoption of technology and increased customer expectations, businesses are heading toward adopting digital solutions that ensure real-time and insightful data. The cloud is more than an efficient storage solution—it’s a unique platform for generating data and innovative solutions to leverage that data.

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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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Scaling from start-up to blue-chip company: Lessons from Delivery Hero

McKinsey and Company

Delivery Hero was able to scale rapidly by delegating authority, promoting accountability, and executing new business efforts quickly.

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New Forrester Data Shows Wide Disparities In US Federal Customer Experience (CX) Quality Despite Overall Gains

Forrester Digital Transformation

Average Federal CX Ekes Out A New High, Still Trailing The Private Sector It’s a new White House priority to provide “excellent, equitable, and secure federal services and customer experience.” To help understand the state of the federal CX, Forrester has published a US Federal CX Index (CX IndexTM) report since 2015. This year, in […].

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Effective and Supportive Teamwork through Trust, Respect, and Communication

AS White Global

Adapting to working on a different time zone has its share of challenges. But as an offshore Finance & Operations team from ASW Vietnam has shown, the spirit of teamwork helps them to succeed. Read more about how they perform their duties diligently and deliver great results. 1. Hi Team! Please introduce yourselves and tell us about your work and what do you enjoy outside work?

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Reach your goals faster with a 24-Hour Software Development Cycle

Unosquare

Successful businesses have to satisfy market needs. For some, especially those that serve people across the globe, that means having a productive workforce all day. However, putting that into practice isn't an easy feat. Adopting a follow-the-sun support model can help you meet this goal. Here's what you need to know about the model, how to implement it, and the impact it will have on your organization.

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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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Supply-chain resilience: Is there a holy grail?

McKinsey and Company

Supply-chain disruptions cost the average organization 45 percent of one year’s profits over the course of a decade. How can businesses manage risk and plan for a more resilient future?

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A Recap of Website Promotions on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

Forrester Digital Transformation

To get a closer look at what retailers did online during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we reviewed 75 retailer and brand home pages, spanning several product categories. Here are the highlights.

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Future-Proof Your Company in 2022 With Expert Tips for Compliant Payroll Management

Globalization Partners

Navigating c ompliant payroll management is tricky terrain — filled with ever-changing laws differing by jurisdiction and country. Failure to adequately comply can lead to punitive fines, reputational damages, and even legal repercussions. According to a 2021 survey by ADP, 82 percent of the companies polled said the ongoing pandemic posed exceptional challenges in reliability and accessibility of payroll systems, accuracy, and timeliness of employee pay.

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How Form and Document Processing Speed up Healthcare Industry

Offshore India Data Entry

Healthcare workers need to process their documents as quickly as possible. Not like any other industry, the healthcare service department has more relevance in today’s world. But when unexpected events like pandemic outbreaks, increased lifestyle health issues, environmental changes all create hurdles for the smooth functioning of in-house operations in the healthcare sector, why can’t we use the facilities of document processing services?

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A Deep Dive Into Supply Chain Strategy: Why Yours Isn't Working

Speaker: Michelle Meyer, Founder and CEO of MatterProviders

Michelle Meyer is the Founder and CEO of MatterProviders, and a supply chain professional of over 30 years. Fortunately, she's here to walk you through the future of supply chain strategy and why your current approach is probably not working. In this exclusive webinar, she will explore ways to develop and perfect your new, innovative supply chain design in this post-pandemic era of economic uncertainty.