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The pros and cons of hiring vs. outsourcing

Influx

When it comes to expanding a business or taking on new projects, there’s a decision that companies often need to make: whether to hire new employees or outsource the work to an external company. Before making a decision, it’s essential to carefully consider your specific business needs and goals and then weigh the pros and cons of each option. We’ll cover the benefits and disadvantages in simple, digestible bullet points to help you make an informed decision that aligns with your expectations.

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Where to Start with Nearshoring to Mexico

Ivemsa

Nearshoring to Mexico has been a key strategy for decades as U.S. and other foreign operators search for ways to reduce manufacturing costs. However, for those considering expansion for the first time, getting started may feel overwhelming. That’s why it’s beneficial to employ the help of a shelter company in Mexico. They can help break down the process step by step and tackle the administrative responsibilities necessary for launch so you can solely focus on production.

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Five Innovative Organizational Concepts Can Help Tech Execs Become Future Fit By Design

Forrester Digital Transformation

Changing business landscapes have prompted IT organizations to explore creative and innovative ways of structuring their business and operating models. Five key organizational concepts have emerged as particularly promising approaches: fractal organization, distributed autonomous organization, ecosystem organization, boundaryless organization, and adaptive organization.

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Overseas Markets Offer Fantastic Growth Prospects

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/small smiles While it is true that many businesses can achieve the aim of international expansion, it is still not the simplest of undertakings. Yet by going global, you can broaden your network of business partners while also enhancing how everyone else around the world views your company. Internationalization comes with expenses and risks, but with careful planning and a well-thought-out export strategy, overseas markets offer fantastic growth prospects.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

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.

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China Labor Laws: A Complete Guide for Global Companies

Velocity Global

International companies seeking to hire talent in the People’s Republic of China must understand and abide by its labor laws. Employment law in China is complex, and maintaining compliance is an overwhelming undertaking for foreign companies that aren’t up to date on current legal and labor requirements in the country. This guide provides an overview of China labor laws to know before building a team in the country, as well as how to simplify and ensure compliance with the right global partner.

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5 Challenges When Implementing MuleSoft Integration Architecture

Groove Technology

Introduction MuleSoft integration architecture has become a popular solution among businesses for its limitless power in bridging disparate systems and applications. However, implementing this powerful platform comes with its own set of challenges. In this article, we’ll explore five common obstacles organizations may face. By understanding and addressing these challenges, businesses can optimize their MuleSoft integration and achieve their desired outcomes.

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Remote Desktop Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Data

31 West

Businesses saw the biggest transformation during and post-pandemic. Some companies had to embrace hybrid working culture for employees, while others dealt with a sudden increase in remote connections. Most companies using Windows paid editions have enabled remote desktops for employees working from home. IT help desk providers also establish remote desktop connections to access devices remotely.

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What is business transformation?

McKinsey and Company

Business transformations are designed to boost overall performance through increased revenue, lower operating costs, and better customer satisfaction and workforce productivity.

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The Metaverse: Reports of ‘meh’ are greatly exaggerated

Horses for Sources

Recent headlines such as those in the WSJ (The Metaverse is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse ), and similar in the FT , remind us of such classics as ‘Internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it’ from the year 2000 edition of the UK’s treasure trove of fact, The Daily Mail. Such black-and-white premature pronouncements are typical of headline hunters.

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Where to start with insights-driven strategy?

Forrester Digital Transformation

“Follow the yellow brick road!” Silly Dorothy. She had it so easy. Dorothy had a magical guide that popped up when she needed help the most. For many executives getting started with forming a data team and insights strategy, the road forward is not so clear.

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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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How To Integrate SharePoint With Microsoft Teams?

31 West

Microsoft Teams is a workspace where your team can experience real-time cooperation and communication, content sharing, meetings, etc. You can obtain all these advantages in one place, which is accessible to all you allow. MS Teams provides multi-level authentication, ensuring complete safety for your files and documents. Both individual sign-in and data encryption by SharePoint encryption, where data is stored, provide the ultimate security.

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ISO 20022: Are your payment systems ready?

IBM Services

ISO 20022 is a global standard for financial messaging that aims to standardize electronic data interchange between financial institutions. It provides a structured way of exchanging data for financial transactions, including payments, securities and trade services. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed the standard, which is being adopted by countries and financial institutions worldwide.

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Cracking the code on digital talent

McKinsey and Company

Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s important to understand what they want (hint: it’s not just compensation).

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The Emerging Role Of The Field Sales Coach: A Success Story

Forrester Digital Transformation

Who doesn’t love a success story? Every year at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America, our sales research team presents new and exciting research, topped off with a captivating B2B Program Of The Year Award presented in a fireside chat with a Forrester analyst.

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The Secret to Building a Winning Hybrid Culture

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.

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How To Access Remote Desktop On Mac?

31 West

A remote desktop is an advanced program that gives users remote access to a specific computer and its software and hardware components. The software captures the keyboard, mouse, screen, and other features of the device and transfers it to another device operated remotely. The system comes in handy for IT help desk providers that need remote access to the client’s system for troubleshooting technical issues.

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IAOP Names SEBPO to The Global Outsourcing 100® List for the Ninth Year in a Row

SEBPO

IAOP Names SEBPO to The Global Outsourcing 100® List for the Ninth Year in a Row NEWS April 18, 2023 IAOP Names SEBPO to The Global Outsourcing 100® List for the Ninth Year in a Row Marlton, NJ – SEBPO, a leading global outsourcing partner, is named to The 2023 Global Outsourcing 100® (GO100) list by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP) in the Rising Star category.

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Green growth: Unlocking sustainability opportunities for retail banks

McKinsey and Company

A recent McKinsey survey shows broad, unmet consumer demand for climate-linked financial products—but will financial institutions provide the education consumers require and the differentiated offerings needed to win this space?

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Are LLMs Poised To Be A Great Business Intelligence Equalizer? Not Yet.

Forrester Digital Transformation

The generative AI boom is fundamentally changing the landscape of vendor offerings. We believe one largely ignored area where generative AI will have a disruptive impact is in enterprise analytics, specifically business intelligence (BI).

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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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ConnectWise Security: Protecting Your Business From Cyber Threats

31 West

Are you looking to offer cybersecurity services as an MSP? One that can help protect critical client assets while reducing costs? If yes, the Cybersecurity Management service by ConnectWise can be of help. The company offers quick launch services that can help you build or expand your cybersecurity practice. Clients can choose to outsource their security needs, or you could offer them customized solutions depending on their existing IT service desk expertise.

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How to Go Paperless for Earth Day with IDP Services

Metasource

With Earth Day around the corner on April 22 nd , now is the perfect time to think about changes your business can make to reduce your environmental impact. While there are many environmentally friendly practices you could implement, there’s one change that will have a positive impact on the environment and your business: going paperless. After all, 50% of waste produced by businesses is made up of paper, with offices in the U.S. using over 12 trillion sheets every year, according to TheWorldCou

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Space launch: Are we heading for oversupply or a shortfall?

McKinsey and Company

As the space economy expands, satellite constellations are proliferating. But launch providers must make tricky decisions on how to ramp up capacity.

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Oh, What A Crisis Can Do!

Forrester Digital Transformation

It’s not proven that Winston Churchill said “Never let a crisis go to waste.” But whoever said it, they could have been talking about chatbot deployments. Our world is littered with unloved chatbots, useless offerings that deliver horrible experiences and are used by no one. Typically, this is the result of trying to boil the ocean, overthink things, and attempt to create the perfect chatbot right out of the gate.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

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.

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H-1B Visa Extension: Key Factors and Eligibility Requirements

Global Expansion

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant (temporary) visa designed for employers seeking to bring foreign professionals to work for them in the U.S. Each year, 85,000 H-1B visas are issued through a lottery system. Sixty-five thousand applicants are selected from the first lottery, while the remaining 20,000 master’s degree or higher level applicants are chosen in the second lottery.

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Boosting Product Engineering with Language Models like ChatGPT

comeMakeit

We published an article on ChatGPT in Dec’22 with the help of the AI tool. Despite numerous ChatGPT blogs and tutorials on the internet, we’ve decided to publish another one, this time written completely by a human and not an AI tool, for two reasons. One, we can still write, and two, we wanted to write on what we think about AI Tools and not on what the AI tool thinks we should think.

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Building more resilient and equitable US public health systems

McKinsey and Company

With billions of dollars in pandemic relief funding still available, state and local public health agencies have an opportunity to improve their performance and prepare themselves for future challenges.

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Keys To Succeeding As A Chief Sustainability Officer

Forrester Digital Transformation

Urgency isn’t enough to drive climate action and improve environmental sustainability practices. Learn several key insights from successful chief sustainability officers.

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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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IBM and Texas A&M AgriLife provide data, technology and expertise to farmers in need

IBM Services

In Texas, 2022 was one of the driest years on record. With failed crops, low yields for farmers and diminished grazing for cattle, the Texas Department of Agriculture identified climate change as a potential threat to the state’s food supply. Smallholder farmers, particularly those in arid and drought-prone regions, struggle to manage their farms because they lack access to guidance on how much water to use for specific crops to ensure a good yield. “We’re in hills, so some are

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8 Secrets to Improving Customer Service in the Insurance Industry with Outsourcing

Magellan Solutions

8 Secrets to Improving Customer Service in the Insurance Industry with Outsourcing If customers do not get satisfactory service, they easily switch to other competitors. In order to keep up with the changing needs, improving customer service in insurance is one of the top priorities of businesses. Customer experience is a key aspect for companies trying to increase sales, satisfaction, and referrals.

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The resilience of steel: Navigating the crossroads

McKinsey and Company

The steel industry’s outlook for the next ten years remains fragile. Company leaders can adopt a strategic approach to ride out uncertainties and mitigate risk while the industry is being reshaped.

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Convincing Customers To Share “More Data”: A CX NA Sneek Peak

Forrester Digital Transformation

“Get more data” isn’t a strategy. A winning marketing data strategy has to be specific and detailed. Learn more in this preview of my CX North America session.

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How HR Can Create A Connected Talent Experience in the New World of Work

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