Sat.Dec 03, 2022 - Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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Top five countries to outsource software development

Microsourcing

Outsourcing software development is nothing new. For many years companies have looked beyond their own four walls for partners to help enhance their digital transformations, all the more so in a business environment that sees the International Data Corporation predicting that global spending on such technologies and services will reach an estimated $6.8 trillion between 2020 and 2023 1.

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The future is now: Unlocking the promise of AI in industrials

McKinsey and Company

Five proven use cases show how artificial intelligence is creating value for advanced industrial companies.

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What Is Cyber Insurance And How Does It Work?

31 West

Cyberattacks are on the rise at a global level. Some of the biggest companies in the technology space, like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Dropbox, have either thwarted major security attacks or have fallen victim to data breach issues. Cybercriminals are getting sophisticated with their attacks. Cybersecurity measures are your first line of defense against these attacks.

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Slowing Global Demand and a Strong Dollar Pushed U.S.A. Goods Exports to a Seven-Month Low

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/cbies Slowing global demand and a strong dollar pushed goods exports to a seven-month low, suggesting that trade could be a drag on economic growth this quarter (fourth quarter 2022) if the trend persists. The recent report from the Commerce Department, which followed on the heels of recent upbeat news on the economy ranging from consumer spending, the labor market to the services industry, did not change perceptions that the economy had got off to a solid start in the fourth quarter.

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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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Hiring Employees in Italy: A Guide to Building Your Global Team

Velocity Global

Italy is an attractive market for global entities looking to expand into Europe. After having one of the weakest European economies in the 1950s, the country now has the third-largest economy in the European Union and the eighth-largest GDP in the world. Additionally, one-third of Italy’s workforce is bilingual with Italian and English. However, hiring employees in Italy is complicated and nuanced.

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VSM Enables All Teams To Become Elite

Forrester Digital Transformation

Value Stream Management is not value stream mapping and it’s not a DevOps tool, but it plays a crucial role in helping teams optimize software delivery and tracking value across their software delivery life cycle, even when a team is not operating in a “DevOps” mode. VSM tools “connect” into your software delivery process, ingest […].

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What's Holding Businesses Back on Sustainability? (wegginar® 12/7/22)

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. Devry Boughner Vorwerk is a well-known global C-suite food executive and corporate officer, having served as Chief Communications Officer and Global Head of Corporate Affairs at Cargill and as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Grubhub. More importantly, she is also a sustainability global entrepreneur, founding DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, her own strategy and advisory company; serving on the Advisory Board of Culinary Sciences, In

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What are the biggest challenges for the Fintech Industry?

Redial

Considered one of the most innovative & demanded industries internationally, the fintech industry has offered modern financial solutions through technology and digital tools for the last decade. . Understood as a combination of the terms “financial” and “technology,” refers to businesses that use technology to enhance or automate financial services and processes.

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Designers Are Your Anchor In An Uncertain Economy

Forrester Digital Transformation

As we head into another year of economic uncertainty, panic and fear seem to be gripping many organizations. From mass layoffs in the tech sector to hiring freezes, the world of CX has a right to be concerned. However, given the shifts in design awareness and transitions over the last decade from “what it looks like” to “how it works” we predict that designers and the experience design community will be more important than ever.

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What Are The 5 Stages Of ITIL?

31 West

In today’s world of IT-enabled businesses, ITIL is a vital procedure. It helps IT service desk outsourcing companies provide efficient and uninterrupted support to their clients. The newest version of this IT infrastructure is ITILv4 which ensures cost-effective and quality IT services for all kinds of businesses. ITIL means Information Technology Infrastructure Library consisting of a set of IT best practices.

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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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Global Small Businesses Are Essential to American Supply Chains

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/ipopba Global small businesses are essential to American supply chains, but they lag in productivity and technology adoption. If government and industry can help these smaller supply chain firms upgrade their technology, it would make supply chains significantly more resilient by enabling data-sharing and collaboration. Read more about how global small businesses play a big role in supply-chain resilience.

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What is blockchain?

McKinsey and Company

Blockchain is a secure database shared across a network of participants, where up-to-date information is available to all participants at the same time.

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Beware of “Coherent Nonsense” When Implementing Generative AI

Forrester Digital Transformation

Generative AI —using machine learning or other models (e.g., large language models) for creating novel text, images, sounds, etc. — is firmly in the spotlight as one the fastest-developing areas of technology today, especially with the recent release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Over the past week, we’ve seen thousands of people experimenting with prompts and questions […].

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IoT Platforms Comparison: AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Cisco

31 West

IoT (Internet of Things) can be defined as the technology that connects devices or rather “things” to the internet. These things can be air conditioners, headphones, refrigerators, washing machines, smartphones, cars, televisions, and almost everything else we use in our day-to-day lives at home and in the office. The adoption of these devices has been boosted by IT service desk outsourcing.

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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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Today in Global Small Business: Scaling Up For Global

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/kieferpix What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Scaling up for global. When and how to scale up your startup internationally. Quote of the week: "Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things." – Fred Ehrsam Scale and innovation keeps Amazon Web Services humming. How to scale sustainably into a global brand.

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The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review

McKinsey and Company

The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on AI show the expansion of the technology’s use since we began tracking it five years ago, but with a nuanced picture underneath.

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Watch Out For TuringBots: A New Generation Of Software Development

Forrester Digital Transformation

(with Mike Gualtieri and Merve Kandemir) AI has been conquering the digital universe and all its planets. It’s now landed on the software development planet, as well. It already did so a few years ago, but now it’s about to take off. No worries, and let’s be clear, if you are a designer, a developer, […].

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What Are Active Directory Attacks and How To Protect Against Them?

31 West

Securing your Active Directory has become more important now than ever. The AD controls who gets access to your network and what they can do once they are inside it. Failure to authorize the right users or allow unauthorized users to access your network can result in severe data breaches and prolonged downtime. That’s why companies are outsourcing IT help desk companies to maintain their Active Directory and prevent common attacks.

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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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Perficient is a 2022 Top Workplace in Orange County

Perficient Digital Transformation

For two consecutive years now, our office located in sunny Irvine, California has been recognized as a Top Workplace in The Orange County Register! This comes as no surprise as we’ve also been awarded a Best Place to Work earlier in the year by the Orange County Business Journal. Perficient is 1 of 169 companies in Orange County to be recognized on our commitment to our employees. “People” is one of our core values.

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Velocity Global adds Siddharth Ram as new chief technology officer

Velocity Global

DENVER, December 8, 2022 —. Applies almost three decades of experience in technology leadership roles to scaling a world-class technology organization. Velocity Global , the leading provider of global talent solutions, announced Siddharth Ram as its new chief technology officer. Ram will be responsible for growing and scaling the technology organization.

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Three Competitive-Strategy Actions To Take In 2023

Forrester Digital Transformation

As the holiday season approaches, my thoughts often turn to friends, family, food, and … presents! And buying those presents often brings me to thoughts of COMPETITION. Should I buy the latest and greatest gadget, or should I get the one that can be returned when I make the wrong choice? Yes, every company out […].

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What Is ServiceNow Used For?

31 West

The IT industry is constantly on the lookout for modern tools to optimize business workflow. Although traditional practices are still in use, they can’t automate IT operations. To streamline routine business operations and reduce manual workload, companies are turning to IT help desk companies to handle their technical issues efficiently. They are implementing automation and IT management tools like ServiceNow to ensure a smoother transition to the digital workflow.

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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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African banking: The productivity opportunity

McKinsey and Company

African banks can increase their productivity to enhance competitiveness, build resilience, and deliver new value to customers—even in the face of a tightening global business environment.

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Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks

SEBPO

Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks. BLOG. Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks. In an ever-evolving workforce, Publishers must implement and move forward with strategies that will last. Otherwise, Publishers run the risk of decreasing efficiency and losing profit. Rob Beeler, Founder and CEO of Beeler.Tech, shared his professional insights regarding Publisher strategies that “will stand the test of time” in an AdExchanger article titled, Publishers, Your Top Ops Talent

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‘Tis The Season To Be Messaging

Forrester Digital Transformation

We look at a few ways that retailers can use messaging to support customers through the holidays and beyond.

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What Is ServiceNow ITSM?

31 West

Information Technology Service Management is a set of tools and processes that manage IT services. It enables your IT desk service providers and in-house IT teams to accelerate customer service delivery. ServiceNow ITSM is a robust, all-in-one platform for delivering, managing and optimizing IT operations. According to a report by Manage Engine , 70% of the ITSM experts surveyed said they clearly understood their company’s IT strategy. 60% of respondents mentioned that ITSM would be crucial in a

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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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Designing out of difficult times

McKinsey and Company

Design matters—and not just in good times. CEOs who embrace design can enhance strategy and better navigate this age of volatility.

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Impact of Rugby on software product development.

comeMakeit

RUGBY and SCRUM HISTORY England 1823, 26-year-old William Web Ellis was bored in a football match held at ‘THE RUGBY SCHOOL’. He played mischief by picking up the ball and started running towards the goalpost. All the players ran to stop him and accidentally a new sport was invented. They called it ‘Rugby football’. SCRUM – The evolution One hundred seventy years later, in 1993, Jeff Sutherland introduced the world to an agile process called SCRUM that can be used for any product development com

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The DoD Announces The Winners For Its $9B JWCC Contract

Forrester Digital Transformation

This week, the US Department of Defense put an end to the year-long suspense by announcing the winners for its Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure were the big winners of the $9 billion contract.

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What Are The Differences Between IT Service Desk and Incident Management?

31 West

An IT support team’s purpose is to ensure an organization’s computer systems and networks are running. The team also offers technical support for user issues and queries. Inside this realm of IT support, you may have come across several terms like help desk, IT service desk outsourcing , incident management, and customer support, among others. These terms are often used interchangeably as well.

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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.