Sat.May 07, 2022 - Fri.May 13, 2022

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Top 6 Costly Mistakes in Software Development Outsourcing

Groove Technology

Software development outsourcing is becoming a more popular method within businesses of all sizes, and it is viewed as a key strategy for enhancing competitiveness and profitability. Outsourcing IT or software means looking for a third party that can provide solutions such as development, advice, quality management, connectivity, etc. Suppose a company decides to adopt this strategic plan.

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Is Your Business Export Ready?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/lemono Want to grow your business beyond borders? Here's a sample of how Michigan Small Business Development Center determines if a business is ready for export. We provide an early export online assessment to determine where your company is in starting the export journey. We've developed an online training module packed with resources to help businesses explore and get a better grasp of what's involved in getting their company involved in exporting.

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The importance of background checks on potential hires

Airswift

Source: Grapestock/Shutterstock. Background checks help businesses verify candidates during the hiring process. Every time a business hires a new employee, it is an investment in time, resources, and money. In an ideal situation, we want to have all the information we need to assure us that we have made the right decision. Most companies have their own unique set of requirements for conducting background checks but the primary goal is to have the most accurate overview of a candidate before the

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Strategic Considerations You Should Make Before Outsourcing Software Development

Groove Technology

As technology advances at a breakneck pace, outsourcing software development has become one of the most frequently discussed business strategies. Businesses are becoming more productive than they ever have. Most entrepreneurs aim to increase the amount of work they outsource for software development. However, this action plan could mean the difference between success and failure.

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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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MSFT: Launches MDR And Hops On The Everything-As-A-Service Bandwagon

Forrester Digital Transformation

Everything-eventually-becomes-a-service which Microsoft demonstrates by launching its own version of managed detection & response. We discuss what CISOs need to know, how it will impact the market, and what to look for next.

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Meet 300 Visionaries Who Have Transformed Business and Society

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Helin Loik-Tomson While the ongoing global pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have taken a toll on the European market, these 300 honorees remain positive : Some 80% of listees believe the European economy is ripe for entrepreneurship, and collectively they’ve raised more than $2 billion in funding for their ventures—more than double the amount raised by last year’s honorees.

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All about the offshore dedicated development team

Groove Technology

There is a growing trend in content development companies to hire developers. That is, after all, the best option. With minimal effort, the highly skilled extract the best of the content. Hire offshore dedicated developers to assist the company in forming an easy workflow layout in order to create a perfect product or content. These offshore dedicated development teams make it possible for them to easily manage the work.

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Creativity In The Workplace — Six Months In, And I Love This Place

Forrester Digital Transformation

Back in 1998, I was a support manager working at the National Institutes of Health at the Clinical Center. I was a young parent, a manager for the first time, and I was full of ideas on how to make the work environment a better place. Back then, our biggest threat was viruses coming in […].

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Today in Global Small Business: 9 Translation Books You Never Heard About

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/FabrikaCr What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: 9 translation books you never heard about. Mother-daughter duo Pratiksha and Vama Sangoi building a global soap brand , as well as the journeys of other small businesses. From a national business to a global success. Quote of the week: “Words travel worlds.

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Optimizely Page Publish Options – Do’s and Dont’s

Perficient Digital Transformation

Page Publish is the most basic feature of a CMS. This is what makes our content visible to the world. Episerver CMS (now known as Optimizely Content Cloud) too has the feature and some more flexibility built around it to aid our content authors. There’s the usual page publish, where you hit a button and its out there. And there is also capability to schedule a page publish so its open to the world at a specific time in future, without needing manual intervention.

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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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A Complete Guide to Hiring Remote Software Developer

Groove Technology

Today’s job market is far from ideal. Any recruiter will tell you that they use a lot of creative thinking to bridge the supply-demand gap. However, this disparity is nowhere near as wide as it is in the IT industry. Even when the world is your oyster, finding an excellent remote software developer is one of the most difficult challenges for any startup or established company.

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A Path To Growth: Key Insights And 2022 Trends For B2B CMOs

Forrester Digital Transformation

Forrester’s Marketing Survey, 2022, revealed insights that can help B2B marketing leaders strengthen their marketing strategy. CMOs are currently confronted with a challenging environment, rapidly evolving requirements, and the need for change, which impacts organizations’ growth strategy and operating business. Most companies are already in the midst of or have planned an entire transformation process […].

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Just Like That: Open a US Bank Account, Remotely, From Any Continent, With No US Social Security Number Required

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Blue Planet Studio What if you could find a banking product for your global business that will allow you, as the founder, to open a US bank account, remotely, from any continent, with no US Social Security Number required? Discover fintech company doola , which does just that. This is a new banking product that supports founders on every continent, with no US SSN required, and no visit to the US required.

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Five Perficient Colleagues Recognized as 2022 CRN Women of the Channel

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient is a dynamic, driven organization that challenges, champions, and celebrates our people. Today, we are excited to announce that CRN® , a brand of The Channel Company, has named five Perficient colleagues to its esteemed 2022 Women of the Channel list. Liza Sisler, partner marketing and alliances director. Lynn Brading, global alliance director.

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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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10 climate tech companies to watch in 2022

Airswift

Source: Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock. Based in different countries, these startups show how new clean technologies are reshaping the market and working towards decarbonizing the planet by 2050. In the past, we've talked about why the new generation of clean technologies, — also referred to as Cleantech 2.0 or climate tech — are more promising than their predecessors.

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What’s Next For Digital Consumer Behaviors?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Read why you should eschew “new normal” thinking when it comes to consumer behavior. We’re in a deeply unsettled, volatile moment—and change is here to stay.

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Pass Violets Looking For Roses

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J, Delaney. All rights reserved. "We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory." – Bernard Williams.

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Delivering on the promise of federal infrastructure funds in states

McKinsey and Company

Thanks to the combined impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and pandemic-related recovery bills, states and localities could have a meaningful effect on lives and livelihoods.

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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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How to get the most of supply chain technology

Hyland

Alan Pelz-Sharpe is an automation and business modernization expert. He is the founder of the analyst firm Deep Analysis and host of the webinar, Thinking intelligently about automation. Since the pandemic, the global supply chain has come under incredible pressure and scrutiny, taking a rare place on center stage. The challenges of managing an efficient supply chain and remaining profitable in the face of such disruption have never been more significant.

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Introducing Forrester’s Employer Branding Research

Forrester Digital Transformation

“Now is the time … when talent is the number one priority among our leaders.” — Benji Baer, CMO at commercial real estate company CBRE The business news of late has been rife with discussions on whether or not brands should take a position on social issues. Disney’s ongoing tussle with the Florida administration is playing out […].

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The Best Kept Secret For Powering Your Cross-Border Business: Foreign Exchange (wegginar® 5/11/22)

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. Why waste a second? Register immediately: [link]. We'll answer the following questions: Are your sales denominated in foreign currency? Are you purchasing anything abroad in foreign currency? Are you clueless about how to manage foreign currency? We've got your back! At least wegg® does when it comes to their next wegginar®.

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Why is it essential to define your goals before modernizing legacy applications?

comeMakeit

In our previous blogs, we’ve discussed why you should modernize legacy software and how to. Of all the steps outlined in the process of modernization the most important one in my view is this: Start with the goal. The goals, whether related to business or technology, determine the process of and the reasons behind modernization, in other words, the why and the how.

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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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Enabling OpenAPI Specifications for Azure Function

Perficient Digital Transformation

What is an OpenAPI Document ? According to Swagger – OpenAPI Document is a document (or set of documents) that defines or describes an API. An OpenAPI definition uses and conforms to the OpenAPI Specification. “The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection

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Top Five Most Critical CMO Priorities For B2C Brands

Forrester Digital Transformation

Today, we have fresh data from Forrester’s Q2 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022 — a cross-industry survey among 153 US B2C marketing executives, VP and above, at brands with at least 500 employees. We provided a list of 13 trending marketing priorities and asked respondents to indicate the degree to which each is a […].

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Advantages of hiring contractors and what you need to know

Airswift

Source: shisu_ka/Shutterstock. Reducing costs and increasing quality are critical in strategic planning and a healthy workforce is essential to achieving this. In addition to permanent employees, business owners can also benefit from hiring specialized talent to fulfil their short-term needs. COVID-19 compelled companies around the world to explore business models that prioritized flexibility.

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War in Ukraine: Twelve disruptions changing the world

McKinsey and Company

The war is devastating lives and roiling markets. Here we track the disruptions that seem likely to shape lives and livelihoods, beyond the immediate crisis.

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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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Maintaining Morale While Leading Virtual Teams

NoonDalton

To claim that remote work is becoming more popular would be an understatement of epic proportions. In recent years, several of the most successful software companies have gone completely remote, including Github, Hotjar, Invision, Harvest, etc. The use of virtual teams is increasingly becoming the standard. . In the United States, remote workers have increased by 173% since 2005.

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The Connected Car Of The Future Is The One Open To Third Parties

Forrester Digital Transformation

With its revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), Europe aims to make payments safer and increase consumers’ protection, integrating new digital players into its market and requiring financial institutions to open their data and services to third parties. Doing so enables competitors to offer their own clients innovative digital experiences that would radically shake up traditional […].

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Gen Z: The New Workforce Awakens for BPOs and Call Centers

OpenAccess BPO

Let’s start with a few fun facts: Tamagotchi was released in Japan 26 years ago, while “Baby…One More Time,” the song that catapulted Britney Spears into stardom, turns 23 this year. Meanwhile, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, YouTube, the first iPhone, and the Android mobile operating system are also set to join the 20-something train within the […].

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, April 2022

McKinsey and Company

Amidst high inflation and the continuing war in Ukraine, strong demand persists; forecasting institutions trim growth estimates.

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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.