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Types of Outsourcing Providers

Invensis

Outsourcing refers to a non-core activity that a business will have an external party perform rather than the company performing it itself. It is the process of acquiring skilled resources through third-party businesses. The growth of outsourcing has resulted in a wide range of services available today. Aside from knowing and understanding what outsourcing is […].

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Working with an offshore development company vs freelancers

The Scalers

CONTENTS Choosing a partner you can count on Building a long-term relationship Leveraging software development expertise Protecting intellectual property and data Offering quality assurance Scaling your business on demand Offshore development company vs freelancers: which to choose? When developing software overseas an organisation often has a few choices — to work with an offshore development company , an outsourcing vendor, or sometimes freelancers hired via an external party.

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The Pros And Cons Of Connected Devices

Forrester Digital Transformation

In May 2022, Business Insider reported that Russian troops stole nearly $5 million worth of farm equipment from a John Deere dealership in Melitopol, Ukraine. The stolen equipment was located by remote GPS and locked, preventing it from being used. This story opens many questions around IoT security and is a path of research that […].

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Global Tech Takes On the World

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/ipopba Attractive startup ecosystems for top tech talent are blossoming across the globe. In the last year alone, AngelList Talent has had nearly 500K international candidates look for jobs on their platform. If an up-and-coming ecosystem sounds like the place you want to be, check out their recommendations for hot places to work in tech in 2022.

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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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Top 8 reasons why you should choose Vietnam software outsourcing

Groove Technology

In recent years, software outsourcing services have recently increased in popularity. Entrepreneurs have used these services to save time and resources, as well as for a range of purposes. A number of new regions in the world, including Vietnam, are taking shape as rising stars in the information technology outsourcing market. With large investment from major technology firms in the development of a highly skilled workforce, Vietnam is emerging as a promising destination for technology in genera

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What Is IT Process Automation & How Does It Help?

31 West

Are you worried about a sudden drop in the strength and speed of your personnel? Is your workforce struggling to be 100% efficient like never before? This plummeting efficiency is a warning sign for you to check the workload dumped upon your employees in order to meet the beastly pace of the ever-growing business world. Before you think about investing your resources in expanding your workforce, you must consider a much easier and advanced way of delegating the tasks internally.

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Bain Offers a Sampling of Their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/krblokhin Sustained progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) means taking a fresh look at every aspect of how Bain runs their organization. They have devoted significant resources to a wide range of local, regional, and global efforts and are testing and learning from multiple ideas, interventions, and new ways of working designed to ensure that all Bainies thrive.

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Hire remote Python developers

Groove Technology

Python is not the most popular web language, but it is rapidly expanding, particularly in startup environments where time and budget are typically limited. It is an aspect-oriented language, which means it has modules with varying functionality. In recent years, remote Python developers have been in high demand – not only because the language is so popular and widely used, but since Python has become a solution in many different areas.

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What is IT Compliance & Why You Need it?

31 West

As stated in the survey conducted by Deloitte , 87% of the executives reported that the damage to the company’s reputation is more important than other strategic risks, and the absence of IT compliance can be the prime trigger. The cost of implementing IT compliance is low compared to the severe hit to a company’s brand image and the penalty due to non-compliance.

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The Convergence Of APIs And EDA: Roche Sets An Example

Forrester Digital Transformation

A digital business is one with technology at the core of its business model, meaning that software is the expression of the business. A truly digital business quickly implements and continuously improves all its policies, processes, and procedures in software. It is widespread knowledge that APIs are key to becoming digital by building a platform […].

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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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Today in Global Small Business: Happy 4th of July to All Americans

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Happy 4th of July to all Americans. What does the growing opposition portend for the future of globalization? Listen to the Harvard University podcast. Economic globalization after Ukraine. Globalization is alive, well, and changing.

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Perficient Peddlers Bike for a Cause

Perficient Digital Transformation

Our Denver team has been prepping their bikes and making their way to Westminster, CO for their annual tradition of participating in Bike MS: Colorado. In late June, the Perficient Peddlers, as they call themselves, participated in a two-day ride throughout the foothills of Colorado. While doing so, they were raising money for a great cause. Benjamin Lieberman , Patrick Stapleton , and Bob Dattilio raised $3,100 so far while riding nearly 400 miles as a team.

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How To Retain Top Talent? 10 Secrets from Successful Leaders

31 West

“On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.”. – Marilyn Carlson, former CEO of Carlson Companies. Are you facing the most pressing and appalling issue of today’s workforce, which turns out to be a blatant lack of employee retention ? Trust us, you are not alone! Can you believe that each month in the US, 3 to 4.5 million employees quit their job according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)?

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Exercise Executive Empathy To Get Stakeholders Excited About CX

Forrester Digital Transformation

How can CX leaders gain funding? Develop executive empathy: Determine stakeholder priorities, connect CX to these existing priorities, and communicate the value of CX.

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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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Climate impact of plastics

McKinsey and Company

Plastics are frequently criticized for everything from their toxicity to their contributions to ocean pollution, but they play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Co-authoring in PowerApps (Canvas Apps)

Perficient Digital Transformation

As we know, one of the major limitations of PowerApps (Canvas mode) is that it does not allow multiple developers to work at the same time on the same app, but this Software as a Service (SaaS)-based app continues to supply new features and releases every year in April and October. The PowerApps technical team provided the Git version control support in a 2021 release as an experimental feature.

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Employee Spotlight Louisville: Hannah Johnson, Business Development Manager

V-Soft Consulting

This month we are spotlighting Hannah Johnson, a recent success story to our Associate Recruiting Program. Hannah came to us after graduating college and learned the ropes of IT recruiting. With her go-getter attitude and success on the team, she was quickly ready to take on more responsibility and was recently promoted to Business Development Manager.

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Future Fit Manufacturers Evolve Their Platform Strategies To Scale

Forrester Digital Transformation

The launch announcements for Siemens Xcelerator and Horizon Nexus show how platforms are evolving in the manufacturing sector.

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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 state of customer care in 2022

McKinsey and Company

Customer experience is more important than ever—yet it has never been more challenging as companies face a perfect storm of increasing call volumes, talent shortages, and rising customer expectations.

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Cultural Inclusion | How to Build a Global, Multilingual Website on Sitecore Composable DXP

Perficient Digital Transformation

The world and the digital experiences that connect us are more than words and images, zeroes and ones. They’re ideas. Values. Norms. Traditions. Expectations. And all of those have to be properly and appropriately represented by your team to your users. It only takes one jarring or culturally insensitive experience to give a customer the impression that you don’t know them, or worse- you don’t care.

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The Benefits, Processes, And Best Practices Of Supplier Management

Obobo

The Benefits, Processes, And Best Practices Of Supplier Management. Business processes have been dramatically impacted by globalization, which has created a more dynamic, competitive, and complex environment for today’s businesses. As a result, every organization relies on suppliers to provide goods and services in order to successfully operate.

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Assessing The US Youth Smartwatch Market: Is There Room For An Independent Brand?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Children's smartwatch brand Xplora plans to move into the US market - one of many recent additions to a crowded market. This blog explores important lessons that brands should consider when developing a smartwatch and entering a crowded market.

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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 inflation is flipping the economic script

McKinsey and Company

The troubling trend is spilling over into every corner of the global economy, with dramatic effects. McKinsey Global Publishing looks into the stories emerging from the data.

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The Fourth Thing to Know When Looking to Replatform

Perficient Digital Transformation

Peter Drucker said, “ The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” This is often the case when a new leader is hired, whether it’s a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCX0), or any other CxO. When making such a leadership change, the board or CEO is often looking for a change in strategy, direction, execution, or operations.

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Metaverse and ScienceTech: Will These Virtual and Real-World Markets Compete?

Everest Group

Metaverse is the buzz these days. While Metaverse provides an embodied virtual-reality experience, ScienceTech fuses technology and science to solve real problems of humanity. Who will win in the battle for relevance, investments, and talent? To learn more about these virtual and real-world market opportunities and what actions technology and service providers should take, read on.

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Metaverse-Like Experiences: Is Novelty Enough? A Look At ESPN’s Fifty/50 World

Forrester Digital Transformation

ESPN Edge built the interactive, 3D environment Fifty/50 World to celebrate 50 years of Title IX. Learn what a Gen X consumer -and- a sophisticated 13-year-old user of online 3D immersive gaming and entertainment platforms each thought of the experience.

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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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What Does a Software Developer Do? 6 Ways They Help Build Your Dream Business

Bydrec

Do you have a big idea for starting your own business but not the technical skills to build your product? Software developers can help. They are among the most in-demand professionals today, and that is likely to continue growing in coming years. In fact, software developer roles are projected to grow by almost 20% through 2022. But what does a software developer do?

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Pieces of Advice on How to Outsource Your Recruitment Program

Outsource Workers

Remote work might be on everyone’s lips right now, but it’s not a new concept by all means. Ever since the 1970s and the rise of telecommuting, we’ve had one or another form of remote work present in the world. Today, all a worker needs to have a stable job is an internet connection and a way to look for employment. This phenomenon motivated companies to start hiring people from all over the world since the restrictions of geography were no longer important.

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Here's how you can retain staff after closing a foreign business entity

Airswift

The closing of foreign business entities is not uncommon. While this statement may sound bleak, it's not necessarily a bad thing. The business climate we currently occupy favours and highly encourages remote work. Be it in the form of regional remote workers or even a fully-fledged global remote workforce , it is quickly becoming a go-to employee system.

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European Union Ruled: Shady Design Practices Are Illegal

Forrester Digital Transformation

EU adopted a set of regulations that condemn misleading techniques such as dark patterns. The EU sets new standards, catching digital businesses that over-focus on conversion funnels and possibly use deceptive design techniques red-handed. The user experience (UX) community, that has been advocating for ethical design for years without getting a seat at the table, […].

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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.