McKinsey & Company

MAY 6, 2025

National productivity growth is a matter of few firms taking bold strategic action rather than millions of firms raising efficiency.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 8, 2025

Can a PIM Make Your Data AI-Ready? Yes, a PIM can help get your data ready for AIbut only if it’s set up the right way. If you’re managing product info across channels, you already know that bad data means bad results. And if you’re thinking of adding AIlike auto-tagging, personalization, or predictive toolsyour product data needs to be spot-on.

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Planergy Software

MAY 8, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Planergy Software

MAY 8, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Speaker: Ron Fish, Global Talent Acquisition Executive

As companies rethink global recruiting strategies, nearshore staffing is emerging as a smarter, more strategic alternative to traditional offshoring models. Join this new webinar with industry leader Ron Fish to learn how nearshore models help organizations scale faster, operate more flexibly, and build globally aligned teams—without the common pitfalls and misalignment of offshoring strategies!

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inDinero

MAY 8, 2025

Lets just say it: bookkeeping isnt fun, sexy, or rewardingunless youre the kind of person who gets excited about bank reconciliations and proper expense categorization. (If so, congrats. Youre rare.) For most business owners, bookkeeping is an afterthought. A chore. Something you do when tax time rolls around, or when your accountant starts panicking.

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Everest Group

MAY 9, 2025

Matters requiring immediate attention from GBS/GCC leaders: In 2022, I examined how geopolitical flashpoints, like Russias invasion of Ukraine, can ripple through the global services industry in ways were often unprepared for. Back then I also flagged IndiaPakistan as another region to watch. That piece is worth revisiting: Will Ukraines Invasion Have a Domino Effect on Other Geopolitical Equations?

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 7, 2025

CEOs sit at the nexus of strategy, finance, and operations, making them uniquely positioned to build resilience that can protect their companies fromand take advantage ofdisruption.

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Obobo

MAY 7, 2025

Vendor risk assessment is an essential process for businesses aiming to ensure operational continuity and mitigate potential disruptions caused by third-party vendors. This process evaluates the risks associated with suppliers, from compliance and financial stability to operational performance. Through structured assessments, businesses can make informed decisions, safeguard their supply chains, and build stronger vendor relationships.

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Groove Technology

MAY 9, 2025

In the world of modern automation, workflows are only as powerful as the data they can access and manage. n8n, the open-source workflow automation tool, shines in this area by integrating with a wide range of services and when paired with a robust database like PostgreSQL, it becomes a true powerhouse for building scalable, reliable, and intelligent workflows.

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2025

skip to main | skip to sidebar Thursday, May 08, 2025 The Best of Sting (Music) Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: best of Sting , music , Sting Posted by Laurel Delaney at 5/08/2025 07:10:00 AM No comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ABOUT GSBB The Global Small Business Blog (GSBB) was founded on July 20, 2004 by Laurel Delaney (pictured above) for the purpose of helping entrepreneurs and small businesse

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 5, 2025

CIOs need to apply a much broader view of possible failure modes, where their assets are, and where the people who manage the assets are working.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 6, 2025

In this post, Ive listed the most commonly used Sitecore PowerShell commands for content migration. This blog continues from my earlier post: Sitecore XM Cloud Content Migration: Plan and Strategy. During migration, we created several PowerShell scripts to extract data from the legacy database to CSVs. We then used those CSVs to import content into XM Cloud instances.

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Groove Technology

MAY 9, 2025

A dedicated software development team is a flexible outsourcing model in which businesses partner with a specialized team of developers to focus solely on long-term projects. This ensures efficient, scalable, and targeted software solutions. Hiring a dedicated team brings key advantages: substantial cost savings over in-house hiring, rapid scalability, and specialized expertise that might be missing internally.

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Intugo

MAY 8, 2025

Companies across North America are facing growing challenges in finding the right people. Concurrently, hiring today demands more time, people, and resources than ever. In 2024, the U.S. faced approximately 8.2 million job openings and only 7.2 million unemployed individuals available to fill them, resulting in just 93 workers for every 100 job openings.

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 7, 2025

Renowned business leader John Chambers says AI disruption is this generations internet revolution.

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WebCreek

MAY 6, 2025

In recent years, Mexico has emerged as a leading destination for nearshore software development, attracting an increasing number of U.S. companies in search of cost-effective, high-quality tech solutions According to the HackerRank Developer Skills 2024 Report, Mexican software engineers are recognized as some of the top talents in EMEA and LATAM. This skilled workforce has […].

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Groove Technology

MAY 5, 2025

Modern applications are built on data. Whether you're processing user input, synchronizing platforms, or powering analytics, the way you move, transform, and store data is critical. This is where n8n database integration becomes a powerful tool in your automation strategy. By connecting n8n to your database systems, you can design scalable, automated workflows that not only trigger actions across services but also read from and write to structured datasets in real-time.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 6, 2025

Sitecore XM cloud content migration can be approached in various ways. The first thing that comes to mind when working on the Sitecore upgrade project to XM Cloud is content migration. Choosing the right method helps reduce migration time and avoid errors. I will outline the approach that best meets our client’s needs in this blog. We were provided with a master database backup that had all the content.

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Speaker: Liz Charron

From evolving legislation to shifting workforce expectations, background screening is undergoing major transformation, and HR is in the driver’s seat. With new compliance requirements and growing scrutiny, today’s HR leaders must build programs that are not only audit-ready but outcome-driven. HR Management and Employee Relations Expert, Liz Charron, will delve into how HR teams can navigate the latest legal changes, connect screening to workforce ROI, and embed these practices into the very fab

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 9, 2025

Companies globally say they see room for improvement in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), a new McKinsey survey shows. But a few are bucking the trend with smarter, more effective capabilities.

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Zinnov

MAY 7, 2025

In 2024, a global engineering firm integrated AI-driven learning modules into their R&D teams’ workflows, leading to a 20% reduction in product development cycles. Similarly, a leading GCC in the Automotive sector leveraged Generative AI to create real-time knowledge assistants for their engineering teams, resulting in a 15% improvement in first-time-right designs.

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Groove Technology

MAY 3, 2025

In an age where efficiency is everything, businesses are on the lookout for smarter, faster, and more flexible automation solutions. Enter the n8n API a game-changer for developers and tech-savvy teams looking to automate without limits. Unlike traditional automation tools, n8n hands you the keys to a customizable, self-hosted automation powerhouse.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2025

What is GraphQL? GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs that allows clients to request only the data they need. Optimizely leverages GraphQL to serve content to your platform agnostic presentation layer. This approach to headless architecture with Optimizely CMS is gaining traction in the space and developers often encounter new challenges when transitioning from the more common MVC approach.

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 7, 2025

Insights from Global Insurance Report 2025 show unlocking the insurance distribution opportunity is critical to further driving sustainable growth.

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SSON

MAY 6, 2025

Future-proof your business with five essential IT checks that keep your infrastructure agile, secure, and ready for what's next,,,

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HGS Careers

MAY 5, 2025

Why Customer Support Jobs Are Great for Your Career? Thinking of settling for a customer service executive in your career? It’s no lie that this job can be tough, but the rewards you get are second to none. Let us acquaint you with the fact that the customer support jobs in the USA are giving great opportunities to the freshers. But, why do you want to work in customer service?

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 6, 2025

In the second blog post of this three-part Solution Highlight series featuring a proven leader in defense-grade, high assurance cyber security solutions, the topic is Salesforce and Oracle Cloud integration. If you missed the other blog posts in the series, I encourage you to read the Solution Highlight Oracle Revenue Management / SSP Part 1 , authored by my colleague Jeff Davis.

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Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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McKinsey & Company

MAY 8, 2025

A new report, Sporting Goods 2025, explores key themes that will shape the market and highlights consumer trends that could represent paths to growth.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future conceptits a present-day game changer. But while headlines scream about revolutionary AI tools and the promise of automation, theres a critical element that often gets overlooked: AI success isnt about the technology itselfits about how well your organization is prepared to use it.

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NoonDalton

MAY 5, 2025

As businesses undergo wave after wave of technological transformation, one truth remains clear: your people are still your most valuable asset. But amid the rapid rise of AI and increased operational pressure, many organizations are overlooking a critical question: Is your employee experience evolving as fast as your technology? At Noon Dalton, weve seen firsthand how businesses can unlock productivity, loyalty, and innovation not just by implementing smarter tools, but by putting humans at the

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Horses for Sources

MAY 5, 2025

If you’re an enterprise leader staring down ballooning tech debt, rising pressure for AI transformation, and daily new product drops that all scream “innovate now or be left behind,” stop. Take a breath—and read this wide-ranging Q&A between Cognizant CTO for AI, Babak Hodjat , and HFS Executive Research Leader David Cushman. Babak has agentic AI cred in spades and has been operating in this space for three decades.

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