UnaTerra

MARCH 23, 2023

Cut costs. Improve compliance. Increase reliability, consistency and security. Discover more about the advantages of outsourcing your international payroll! 1. Improve compliance There’s a school of thought that says an outsourced international payroll solution can never truly offer the right solution, because there’s such a great difference between HR, tax and data compliance standards around […] The post 6 Advantages of Outsourcing Your International Payroll appeared first on Unaterra.

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Payroll Outsourcing 52

Intelligent Sourcing

MARCH 22, 2023

Impact sourcing is the new business lingo. Companies are touting their approach to impact sourcing and showcasing their civic-mindedness. In many cases, they genuinely believe in the concept and have solid strategies and implementation plans for achieving real benefits that impact society. The goal, however, should be to achieve long-lasting change for individuals and communities. […] The post Impact Cultivating: A Cornerstone for Impact Sourcing appeared first on Intelligent Sourcing.

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Impact Sourcing Sourcing 52

The Global Small Business Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

©iStock/Wirestock Last year, footwear brand Skechers's margins were clipped by high supply chain costs, despite its attempt to raise prices. This year Skechers expects supply chain costs to normalize as shipping prices come down, developments that will ease margin pressure and propel the brand to its goal of $10 billion in annual sales by 2026, the company’s CFO John Vandemore said at the UBS Consumer and Retail Conference on Wednesday.

Retail 65

Retail Sales 65

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 22, 2023

“Let’s stop putting our heads in the sand like ostriches, pretending that problems don’t exist,” says an economist noted for his early warning about the global financial crisis. “If you don’t address them individually and collectively, eventually they will overwhelm us.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

Sales

UnaTerra

MARCH 23, 2023

Managing every team became more challenging in the past few years as remote or hybrid working become the default for many organisations. And nowhere is remote management more challenging than in an international organisation, where your workforce may be separated by time zones, language barriers and culture as well as geography. So how do you […] The post 7 Ways to Manage a Remote International Workforce appeared first on Unaterra.

Management 95

Management 95

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2023

Generative AI — where AI generates novel content in response to a user’s natural-language request — is about to get baked into our collaboration tools. On March 16, Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot, which injects generative AI directly into the company’s productivity suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and more).

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Collaborations 246

Groove Technology

MARCH 22, 2023

1. Introduction to API Management APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are becoming increasingly important for businesses to integrate digital services and streamline operations. However, managing multiple APIs can be complex and challenging. As businesses adopt an API-led approach to digital integration, effective API management is crucial in ensuring successful implementation and innovation.

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Management Streamline Operations Efficiency Design 130

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 21, 2023

Nuclear power can be an important part of the energy transition. Scaling the industry to meet increasing electricity demand will require leaders to mobilize quickly and efficiently.

Efficiency 129

Efficiency 129

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 19, 2023

At the recent NASSCOM event in Mumbai, I had some great conversations with CMOs from many B2B organisations. In those discussions, few topics bubbled up to the top more often than others. The unpredictability of the business landscape and changing buyer behaviours challenged every organisation. It did not matter what growth goals they were pursuing.

Marketing 245

Marketing 245

31 West

MARCH 21, 2023

Are you looking to improve internal communication? Or do you want to make knowledge sharing easier? Or do you want to deliver a quality customer experience? One way you achieve these goals is through effective business communication. For example, resolving support tickets quickly is not enough on its own. It would help if you also were mindful of how you communicate with the user.

Collaborations 130

Collaborations Cybersecurity Labor Costs Software 130

Advertiser: G-P

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.

Global Hiring

Redial

MARCH 21, 2023

It has been fascinating keeping up with the constantly evolving world of technology, media, and telecom , with new trends and innovations emerging yearly. As we keep moving into 2023, several trends are shaping the industry and creating exciting opportunities for businesses of all sizes. One of the biggest trends in the industry right now is the rise of nearshore call centers and their technology, which has enhanced many processes and keeps becoming more popular among investors due to internal f

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Nearshoring Outsourcing Call Center Labor Costs 100

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 20, 2023

Generation Z comprises people born between 1996 and 2010. This generation’s identity has been shaped by the digital age, climate anxiety, a shifting financial landscape, and COVID-19.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s news to no one that the past few years have been tough. Having only just found some stability post-pandemic, companies are now thrust into a new economic crisis. In times like these, customer service teams are often pressured to cut costs – at all costs.

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Customer Service Service 236

Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 24, 2023

The St. Louis Business Journal has officially identified Perficient as a 2023 Best Place to Work in its annual awards program. Earlier in the year, Perficient was named a finalist by the Business Journal. Now, they have announced the full list of winners in a special publication. We’re proud to once again be recognized for our commitment to cultivating an award-winning culture for our Perficient colleagues.

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Administrative Banking Management 116

Speaker: Jaime Krause & Dave Wilkin

Join talent leader, Jaime Krause, Director of Talent Inclusion & Learning at BMO, and Dave Wilkin, CEO & Co-Founder of 10KC, where they'll discuss how BMO is using 10KC’s all-in-one platform across 30K+ global employees to mobilize their winning culture across geographies & departments. Reserve your spot today for November 17th at 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM EST.

TMS

MARCH 24, 2023

English is tricky in many ways, and one of them refers to the multiple meaning of words. Synonyms can induce people to error sometimes. That is the case with accelerators and incubators. Even though these terms are usually related to both cars and chickens, this article will relate to entrepreneurship and business startups. The accelerator vs incubator battle is even more complex than the meaning of these words alone.

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Finance Collaborations Service Accounting 98

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 24, 2023

Resilience means understanding the criticality of a business process, the capability of the underlying technology, the business impact if the technology fails, and the organization’s risk tolerance.

Risk Management 104

Risk Management Risk Management Cybersecurity Management 104

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 24, 2023

To help you reach a future fit IT organization, Forrester has identified the six key steps to understanding IT operating model customers and stakeholders — if you do this, you can put them at the center of design, build, deliver, and serve.

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Design Information Technology 231

Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 22, 2023

Recent headlines have highlighted the failure of SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). To help both current and future clients, using publicly available financial records of SVB, including the last two annual reports and every 10-Ks and 10-Q filed this decade, a team of Perficient team members from around the world have gone beyond the headlines to analyze what the root cause of the run on the bank was, and what our clients and us can both learn from the mistake

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Regulations Banking Management Sales 111

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.

Supply Chain Management

TMS

MARCH 23, 2023

Books are the key to becoming brighter and successful from all point of view. They can make you a better person, they can give you other perspectives and offer you powerful insight. Whenever you have the chance to read, you should do it. We follow this at TMS Outsource and we’ve grown a lot in the past years. Do you know that most CEOs read around five books per month?

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Out-Tasking Design Management Finance 98

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 23, 2023

Cyberattacks on operational technology systems have been on the rise since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their huge impact on industrial operations means that organizations must find answers—quickly.

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Cybersecurity Risk Management Risk Management Management 99

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 24, 2023

Learn how to cut through the noise and build compelling business cases using Forrester's proven Total Economic Impact™ methodology — the same methodology we use to help our clients demonstrate a consistent, proven, and repeatable way to justify technology investments.

Marketing 130

Marketing 130

Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 22, 2023

For the scenario of independent deployment of your NextJs static site, say in an automated deployment, one missing piece is a way to push the SSG site into Vercel. Here I provided a simple deployment script using the Vercel CLI of the static site in the XM Cloud project. Code: # Set up variables with your Vercel project and Sitecore XM Cloud environment details $VercelProjectName = "POC Project" $VercelToken = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" # Set up the path to the Next.js project subfolder $nextjsSubfolderP

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Automation Accounting Sourcing Software 111

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

Marketing

Everest Group

MARCH 23, 2023

Capital Markets Operations – Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment The capital markets operations landscape is rapidly evolving as enterprises strive to meet the demands of a new generation of customers, reduce cost pressures in a recessionary environment, and adhere to regulatory changes. They are also building operational resiliency in the post-pandemic environment by formulating transformation strategies that create a digitally-enabled value chain, including the retirement of legacy platforms, clo

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Service Marketing Robotics Process Automation Insurance 98

The Hackett Group

MARCH 23, 2023

MIAMI & LONDON, March 23, 2022 – There’s a troubling disconnect between human resources (HR) organizations’ priorities for 2023 and their ability to make improvements, according to new HR Key Issues research from The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT). Six of the 10 top HR priorities represent business and enterprise goals related to human capital, indicating that HR remains focused on its role in enabling the success of the overall enterprise.

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Research Global Business Services Efficiency Analytics 98

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 24, 2023

This week, the Forrester Wave: Content Platforms, Q1 2023 went live! We looked at 13 key vendors and evaluated them on 26 criteria. This resulted in 3 Leaders, 7 Strong Performers, 2 Contender, and 1 Challenger.

Marketing 130

Marketing 130

Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 22, 2023

There’s been a lot of reporting on the healthcare moves that retail giants like CVS , Walmart , Best Buy, and Walgreens have made of late. For the average healthcare consumer, this is welcome news — the locations are nearby, it is easy to make an appointment (and can be faster too), and the pharmacy is right there. No need for a second stop to pick up a prescription, bandages, mobility aids, or even a gallon of milk.

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Retail Healthcare Right-Sizing Sales 110

Advertiser: G-P

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.

Payroll

McKinsey and Company

MARCH 22, 2023

The ability to improve cost savings, sustainability, and consumer benefits has proven skinny design packaging to be a powerful tool to maximize product volume and performance.

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Design Retail 93

V-Soft Consulting

MARCH 21, 2023

As an increasing number of organizations adopt cloud technology, the management of multiple clouds has become widespread. Organizations are adopting multicloud environments to leverage the advantages of multiple cloud providers. According to a forecast by International Data Corporation (IDC) , the worldwide spending on cloud services will exceed $1.3 trillion by 2025.

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Management Service 92

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 23, 2023

We found that agnosia quite nicely describes what is happening with companies’ efforts around experience. Their inability to identify you as the same individual after having repeatedly interacted with them as a customer and user and employee over a period of time, might cause you to question your sanity when interacting with them.

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Information Technology Design Management 130

Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

What is the Best Way to Analyze Call Center Performance? Analyzing call center performance is best done through data and analytics. Several visualization techniques can be used to achieve this. By using this type of analysis, call centers can identify trends that point to issues inside their departments with less dependence on intuition or bias. Another effective way to analyze call center performance is by conducting surveys and interviews.

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Call Center Outsourcing Customer Service Service 87

Speaker: Soula Courlas, Interim Chief People Officer, PwC & Sara Blanchard, Director & National Culture Lead, Workforce of the Future, PwC

Join top HR Leaders Soula Courlas, PwC’s Interim Chief People Officer, Sara Blanchard, Director & National Culture Lead at PwC, and Dave Wilkin, CEO and Co-Founder of 10KC, to learn why organizations and people leaders need to create intentional connectivity with their in-office, hybrid, and remote-first teams. We’ll discuss how PwC has leveraged innovative strategies and 10KC’s technology to create a connected and engaged company that is developing leaders and creating a top talent experiences