Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 3, 2022

This is the second post in my series focused on individuals and teams. In this blog I will share how working agreements help a group of disparate individuals become a team. A team is a group of individuals who come together to work towards a common goal. But a group of individuals doesn’t become a high-performing team overnight. There are many activities we can do that help us build relationships with our teams but working agreements have a different focus.

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Globalization Partners

MAY 4, 2022

What is employee retention? Employee retention refers to a company’s ability to keep their valuable talent. Replacing a position can cost up to twice the employee’s annual salary, emphasizing the importance of investing in employee retention strategies. According to SHRM, in November of last year, resignation statistics rose to 4.5 million in the U.S. alone.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 3, 2022

Let’s Compare Agile And ITSM Thinking We all know that pushing every change – no matter how big or how small – through a change management process is not only bureaucratic but also introduces delays that most development teams can neither afford nor tolerate. As you begin pursuing improving change management, it is important to […].

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 3, 2022

©iStock/metamorworks Serial entrepreneur Somdutta Singh aimed to carve out a profession of her liking. Born to doctor parents from Kolkata, the first-generation entrepreneur has launched several ventures over the years. “At a very early age, I had decided this was not the life and future I would want for myself. I wanted freedom of choice. I wanted to travel the world and have a better work-life balance.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Groove Technology

MAY 3, 2022

Groove t? ch?c l?p ?ào t?o nhà qu?n lý cho nhân viên 2022. Tu?n tr??c, Groove ?ã k?t h?p v?i HSM Academy ?? t? ch?c khoá ?ào ??o “Nhà qu?n lý hi?u su?t cao” cho Groovers. T?i Groove Technology, chúng tôi h??ng ??n vi?c xây d?ng m?t n?i làm vi?c chuyên nghi?p và giúp nhân viên phát tri?n ti?m n?ng c?a h?. Chúng tôi hi v?ng r?ng các Groovers ?ã có m?t tr?

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McKinsey and Company

MAY 2, 2022

As technological innovation accelerates, fashion companies have an opportunity to serve customers better while also creating a more efficient, responsive, and responsible business.

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 6, 2022

©iStock/Nattakorn Maneerat Finding global brand desirability, according to Lisa Shiqi Yu, Genlab CEO and former digital transformation head of L’Oreal China and Elijah Whaley, VP of Marketing at Gainfluence, comes from combining superior product quality with defining your brand purpose, delivered through extraordinary customer experiences. When it comes to long-term brand building, the local beauty brands can learn a lot from foreign brands.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2022

Congratulations to our Chicago team for being recognized as one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®. This is our fifth consecutive year being recognized for this award. This adds to our growing list of awards and recognitions! “I’m consistently amazed by what my Chicago Perficient colleagues are able to accomplish. The team not only delivers their work with pride and care across many different business units and customers, but also ensures they are supporting each other and ou

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McKinsey and Company

MAY 3, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women have had bigger workloads—and have burned out in greater numbers. Government leaders can use proven approaches to address these issues and build better workplaces.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2022

Wow! We officially launched Forrester’s Global Technology Awards on April 27th and we have already received tons of interest from firms across the globe! Exciting! Over the past couple of weeks, I have addressed questions from some these organizations and I wanted to summarize the key answers below: What are these awards about? Couple of important […].

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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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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection – charm." – Monty Don.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2022

Nestled away in a quiet neighborhood of the bustling Chennai Metropolis, you’re greeted by the sight of a modest board next to a neat alley proclaiming in a cheerful tone – “Blue Cross of India – Madras”. Proceeding in, the colorful murals stand out on the walls of the shelter, with a large gate in the familiar blue of the famous shelter. Visitors to the campus are immediately welcomed by a half dozen friendly shelter dogs, tails wagging as they bark hopefully for treats.

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Accounting Management 119

McKinsey and Company

MAY 5, 2022

The US government has a goal: net-zero emissions by 2050. Our analysis maps out a pathway to this net-zero frontier—and the growth opportunities that $27 trillion of capital spending could create.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2022

In April, global privacy professionals met in person in Washington, DC, for the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit (GPS). Speakers revealed how the lack of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the US globally impacts constituents, marketers, and companies alike. To recap the conference and key takeaways for marketers, I’ll hand […].

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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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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 5, 2022

©iStock/KanawatTH Mentally replace the phrase “the metaverse” in a sentence with “cyberspace.” That's what the folks at Wired magazine wants you to do. Ninety percent of the time, the meaning won't substantially change. That's because the term doesn't really refer to any one specific type of technology, but rather a broad (and often speculative) shift in how we interact with technology.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 2, 2022

Last week, we introduced our blog series on insurance commerce. We discussed the need to consider all the commerce activities that take place before the customer engages in a purchase. First, You’ll Need a Strategy. There are many versions of the famous quote that says, “Strategy without execution is a dream, and execution without strategy is a nightmare,” but the intent is clear – a sound strategy is required to achieve expected results.

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McKinsey and Company

MAY 3, 2022

Four irreversible trends are redefining excellence in service operations. For today’s leaders, they could be a transformational opportunity—or an existential threat.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 5, 2022

On March 31, Microsoft and Minit announced that the former was acquiring the latter. This is, by Forrester’s count, the eighth time a major automation vendor has purchased a process optimization vendor since 2020. Why are some of the biggest software companies in the world so eager to grab a slice of the relatively small […].

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 4, 2022

©iStock/zimmytws A woman has a right to choose. I have a right to choose. Simple is that. Yet, the Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he [Alito] writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 3, 2022

First of all, I want to mention that EPiServer Find (now known as Optimizely Search and Navigation) is a great tool to search for content on an Optimizely site, whether its CMS or Commerce. It comes with a range of options to customize and with filtering and boosting ability to get the best results. Often times, the out of the box indexing and searching works just fine.

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Zinnov

MAY 4, 2022

by Mohammed Faraz Khan, Partner, Zinnov; Hani Mukhey, Director, Zinnov; Rakhi Deshpande, Director- Talent Acquisition, Zinnov; Saroj Joseph, GCOE Branding Head, Zinnov; Lahari K.V., Associate – Marketing & Communications, Zinnov. With the Great Resignation, or the Great Reshuffle as it is being called today that was set off by the pandemic , companies have been aggressively relooking at their talent procurement and talent retention strategies.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 3, 2022

3 conference attendees walk into a bar… First one sits down and goes, “I just re-launched my company’s ecommerce site. I’m psyched. I put AEM in front of ATG and I’ve got my FED’s crushing GMV growth. I do headless commerce.” Second one sits down and goes, “I sell software. I blew away my quota. […].

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The Global Small Business Blog

MAY 2, 2022

©iStock/fizkes What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Work remotely forever, that's what Airbnb tells its employees. Wearable medical devices are on the rise. Managing an international team. Quote of the week: “I can’t tell you the number of CEOs I talked to who are thinking, ‘I have to solve the diversity challenge in my business, and remote work is one of the key tools… We have to let go of this very office-centric culture and incorporate people

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Globalization Partners

MAY 2, 2022

The technology sector has benefited tremendously from the developments and adoption of remote-friendly environments. Dispersed teams and asynchronous work settings are changing how tech companies hire and find talent. According to a 2022 ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey , 40 percent of employers in the IT and technology sector are currently looking to hire new talent.

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Intelligent Management Inc.

MAY 5, 2022

Every human activity aimed at producing a result, whether it’s a product or a service requires collaboration. And collaboration and cooperation are increasingly stressed in the workplace today. It’s not just a feel good thing, it actually makes evolutionary sense. The success of our species depends on it. The problem is, organizations can create situations of “a world gone collaboration mad” (see “The Collaboration Curse” ).

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 2, 2022

If you hadn’t thought about web application firewalls (WAFs) in a while, you might think they were an anachronism, a tool of the past that modern application environments don’t bother with. You’d be wrong. While traditional WAF appliances are still popular in data centers and with legacy applications, the WAF market has evolved with the […].

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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.

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Bydrec

MAY 4, 2022

Need to build a new piece of software? Not sure where to begin? You're not alone! Today, many businesses struggle to keep up with the rapidly evolving digital landscape. The good news is that you don't have to be left behind. Outsourcing to a custom software development company could be the perfect solution to get your business back on track. Outsourcing your custom software development needs is becoming increasingly popular due to a variety of factors.

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Zinnov

MAY 4, 2022

by Mohammed Faraz Khan, Partner, Zinnov; Hani Mukhey, Director, Zinnov; Rakhi Deshpande, Director- Talent Acquisition, Zinnov; Saroj Joseph, GCOE Branding Head, Zinnov; Lahari K.V., Associate – Marketing & Communications, Zinnov. With the Great Resignation, or the Great Reshuffle as it is being called today that was set off by the pandemic, companies have been aggressively relooking at their talent procurement and retainment strategies.

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The Scalers

MAY 4, 2022

CONTENTS Quality first, powered by people Never being afraid to try something new The Scalers speak on people centricity Overcoming obstacles the smarter way The positives of working remotely Learning lessons from history Wrapping it up. We’re a super-ambitious business and we’re well set for a phenomenal period of expansion — with our plan to grow 10x within the next five years.

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Provana

MAY 4, 2022

Even though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its updates to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) under Regulation F (Reg F) last year, many lenders are still evaluating the impact of the latest rules on their business. Given lenders often outsource their collection practices to third parties, any Reg F non-compliance detected in their network can put their brand reputation at risk as well.

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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.

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