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Managing Technology’s Impact On Society Will Require A Responsible And Ethical Tech Organization

Forrester Digital Transformation

Digital acceleration means all companies need to understand their technological and social impacts to build customer trust. Responsible and ethical tech efforts will need to be coordinated across the enterprise.

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Small Things Matter When You Run a Global Business

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/lemono According to Lilly Partin, the majority of the difficulties associated with establishing a global small business stem from failing to accomplish the small things correctly. The basics will lead you to the top, and if you don't follow the basics, well, let's just say you'll end up at the bottom. If you’re thinking of starting a global small business, make sure you follow these 10 small business rules.

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T?t ?oàn viên cùng Groove

Groove Technology

T?t ?oàn viên cùng Groove. Nh?ng ngày cu?i cùng c?a n?m 2021 ?ã ??n r?t g?n. Dù Groovers ?ang ? n?i ?âu, ?ang làm gì thì Groove bi?t r?ng các b?n ??u ?ã và ?ang làm r?t tuy?t v?i. Tr??c th?m n?m m?i, chúng tôi hi v?ng r?ng nh?ng món quà này s? giúp Groove chuy?n ??n các Groovers thân th??ng l?i c?m ?n chân thành, ghi nh?n nh?ng c?ng hi?n c?a m?i ng??

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[Podcast] What if the key to digital success is getting back to basics? An Interview With Alan Hart.

Perficient Digital Transformation

In this episode, Kim talks with Alan Hart, creator, and host of “Marketing Today with Alan Hart,” about why he thinks marketing teams need to be blown up, re-organized, and get back to basics to succeed in today’s environment. Subscribe Where You Listen. Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Google | Stitcher. Meet our Guest. Alan Hart is the creator and host of “Marketing Today with Alan Hart,” a weekly podcast where he interviews leading global marketing professionals and business leaders.

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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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To Ensure Your Tech Has a Positive Impact On Society, Build A Responsible And Ethical Tech Org

Forrester Digital Transformation

Digital acceleration means all companies need to understand their technological and social impacts to build customer trust. Responsible and ethical tech efforts will need to be coordinated across the enterprise.

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90% of Everything is Crap

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Greeek One of my favorite thought leaders, Marc Andreessen says, “I had heard of this, aha, Sturgeon’s law!” Theodore Sturgeon (1918-85) was a science-fiction author annoyed that people were saying all sci-fi was bad and wanted to stand up for the 10% that was good, saying, “90% of everything is crap.” Mr. Andreessen says “90% of music is crap.

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Top 5 Compliance Mistakes Companies Make When Hiring Internationally

Globalization Partners

When a company expands into a new country, there are key areas where potential disruption and mistakes can occur. One of these crucial areas is compliance — companies must possess the appropriate knowledge and legal expertise to successfully hire internationally in accordance with local laws. Aside from the financial repercussions, noncompliance can damage a company’s reputation and trigger distrust among stakeholders, investors, and customers.

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The Definition Of Modern Zero Trust

Forrester Digital Transformation

At the beginning of 2022, Zero Trust faces a bizarre dichotomy; it’s on the verge of becoming the de facto cybersecurity approach while simultaneously having many security practitioners decry it as “just a marketing ploy.” How did we, as the security community, arrive at such a precarious perch? Part of the problem, according to John […].

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Proud to Be Gay

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." – Tim Cook.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Customer Experience in the Age of Digital Insurance

Perficient Digital Transformation

As customer expectations around how to purchase insurance online evolve, it’s crucial for insurance carriers to create online purchasing experiences that exceed expectations and drive revenue and growth opportunities for their organizations. To do this the right way, insurance carriers will need to evaluate their current ecommerce strategy to ensure they’re meeting both business goals and customer needs.

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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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Plug and Play: The New Name of the RPA Game

Automation Anywhere

Gartner has jumpstarted some interesting conversations regarding hyperautomation and what happens as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) matures, most notably about the interoperability of automation tools. Gartner defines hyperautomation as: “A business-driven, disciplined approach that organizations use to rapidly identify, vet, and automate as many business and IT processes as possible.

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The Future of CRM: A Forrester Perspective

Forrester Digital Transformation

CRM strengthens customer relationships, drives company revenue, and as such becomes a C-level priority. CRM technology expands into adjacent tech areas as it broadens its mandate. It bleeds into the mid-office, encroaches on core contact center operations, and supports core employee workflows. Insights from CRM uplevel customer and employee engagement, driving operational excellence.

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Today in Global Small Business: Where's My Order?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/ipopba What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: With e-commerce booming, consumers increasingly want to know, “Where’s my order?” Three-year-old package tracking firm Route aims to answer that question in real time with its AI-driven software. Route cofounder and CEO Evan Walker tells Forbes that the startup is now worth $1.25 billion, following a $200 million fundraise.

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Perficient Launches Knowledge Sharing Community for Colleagues

Perficient Digital Transformation

Lance Bruner, director. In 2021, Perficient continued launching new resource groups for colleagues to find connections and community while building their skills. In addition to the Giving ERG and Agile Community , Lance Bruner , director, took the reigns to formalize a group that had been providing information on consulting best practices to our localized GEO teams so that more people could participate and enjoy learning and sharing content.

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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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Bias busters: A better way to brainstorm

McKinsey and Company

Structured conversation during brainstorming sessions removes some of the risks that can thwart honest discussion.

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In The Future, Will You Really Need A CRM?

Forrester Digital Transformation

CRMs are expensive. They cost companies between $1,200 to $3,600 per seller per year. Despite the cost, there is widespread agreement that companies require CRM technology for their sales organization. I conducted a snap poll on LinkedIn, and 82% of respondents said CRM will continue to be important in the years to come. Yet, when […].

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Lookout, Here Comes Route

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/metamorworks Say hello to Route – a kind of e-commerce customer experience platform. It will take the world by storm. Get shipping notifications that give you real-time status updates on any delivery. Connect Route to any email account, and magically watch your orders make their way to your doorstep. You can track everything you order in one place.

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Journey Science : How Journey Science is Transforming Enterprise Data Science and Customer Research

Perficient Digital Transformation

Computer Science: The Beginning. In the beginning, there was Computer Science. As Computer Science evolved, new and different applications for technology spawned real-life innovations. Data Science: The Evolution. From the first spreadsheet application (Visicalc on the Apple II) to Fortran to Peter Naur’s “data science” to statistical analysis and statistics, data science is melding of modern statistical approaches.

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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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The Importance of Nurturing a Global Remote Workplace Culture

Globalization Partners

How do you create the best remote workplace culture for your company? Establishing a strong remote company culture (also known as organizational culture or workplace culture) means addressing many complexities — and building a global remote culture can be even more challenging. One of the biggest mistakes companies make when going global is assuming that what is true locally is also true internationally.

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Marketers Must Mind The Customer Journey Orchestration Gap

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketers — and especially martech vendors — talk a lot about customer journeys and experiences, but they usually mean just the purchase journey as opposed to the entire customer lifecycle. Customer journey orchestration (CJO) platforms enable a more holistic view, and marketers should pay more attention to these adjacent capabilities. As my colleague Joana de […].

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Sporting goods 2022: The new normal is here

McKinsey and Company

The sporting-goods industry continues to evolve amid increased health awareness, shifting channel preferences, and rising sustainability concerns. Sporting-goods players need to adapt to five trends shaping the industry in 2022.

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Oracle Cloud ERP – make a Job available to users from Scheduled Processes

Perficient Digital Transformation

A recent question came to me about how to make a custom OTBI report available so a user can run the custom OTBI report from the Scheduled Processes user interface. From that screen, we want a user to be able to click on the Schedule New Process button and be able to call up the custom OTBI report and submit the job for processing. To achieve this, follow the steps: Confirm the Job is defined so it can be submitted from the Scheduled Processes screen.

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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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Training and Managing Across Time Zones: Top Strategies for Engaging Global Teams

Globalization Partners

Scheduling conflicts, cultural misunderstandings, disengaged employees: These are just some of the many challenges inherent in companies with employees spread around the world. We decided to tackle these issues head-on in our latest webinar, in which 360Learning teamed up with Globalization Partners to help managers and learning and development professionals better master the intricacies of working with global teams.

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AIOps: The Riddle Wrapped In The Mystery Inside The Enigma

Forrester Digital Transformation

It didn’t take long into my tenure with Forrester to realize that there was confusion in the industry regarding AIOps. I touched on this in my “meet your new analyst” blog. Both technology vendors and industry companies openly asked me what the term meant, because they are hearing many variations. They gave me examples of […].

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CIO perspectives on leading agile change

McKinsey and Company

As agility gains ground, CIOs from the banking and telecom industries came together to discuss challenges and lessons learned from leading agile transformations.

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DevOps & CICD

Perficient Digital Transformation

DevOps & CICD. This story is set out not too far, year 2015 in Santa Clara, California. A well-established IT provider was submitting a response to multi-million-dollar RFP. This company was in business for years and had well established waterfall model execution process. There typical delivery model looked very similar to the diagram shown below.

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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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Jesus Morales Jr.: Art with a Heart

AS White Global

At ASW, we strive to cultivate inclusivity and we thrive in the diversity of our employees. Jesus Morales Jr., a graphic designer from ASW Philippines who is also deaf, exemplifies our work culture with his dedication to the team and to the local deaf community. (Writer’s note: Article has been edited for clarity). Hi Jesus! Can you tell us about your role at ASW and your personal background?

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The Future Of Work: Employee Privacy

Forrester Digital Transformation

Written by Enza Iannopollo, PA Written by Heidi Shey, PA Privacy has become a priority for virtually every company regardless of size, vertical, and geography. Privacy regulations have popped up around the world, including Europe, the US, and China. India will soon be added to the list. Rising customers’ and employees’ privacy expectations are also […].

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Always connect, never give up: An interview with Jason Wright

McKinsey and Company

As president of Washington’s football team, Wright is calling on his experiences as an NFL player, business school graduate, and McKinsey partner to change an entrenched culture.

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Industry Slant // Bob Vanek Talks Denver, Reverse Logistics, Baseball

Perficient Digital Transformation

Bob Vanek is the chief strategist for Perficient’s supply chain practice. He has more than 20 years of experience managing project delivery across various industries and consulting environments. Denver & Dentists. Madeline McDermott: Where were you born? Bob Vanek: Fort Dix, New Jersey. MM: Where did you go after? BV: When I was about six months old, we moved to Denver, so I’m almost a native.

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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.