The Global Small Business Blog
AUGUST 24, 2021
©iStock/chuyu The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here's what that means for holiday shopping. More than 18 months into the pandemic, the disruption to global supply chains is getting worse, spurring shortages of consumer products and making it more expensive for companies to ship goods where they're needed. Shipping companies expect the global crunch to continue.
McKinsey and Company
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges.
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Automation Anywhere
AUGUST 19, 2021
You’ve been invited to become a citizen developer in your company. If you go online, you’ll find lots of articles about citizen development. In a nutshell, citizen developers are usually nontechnical employees such as business users or subject matter experts who learn how to build intelligent automation software bots to handle their workflows. Here’s why citizen development is a good thing for you.
Globalization Partners
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Did you know that your team members who work at home are not working remotely? In a world where companies had to quickly transition to work outside of the office, understanding remote work environments can present a challenge if want to set a clear remote work policy. Many companies think of remote work as an all-encompassing term that is directly related to working from home.
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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
Perficient Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool owned by HashiCorp, which allows you to build, deploy, change, and manage infrastructure using code. It helps you define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files and manages your infrastructure’s lifecycle. Code is the instruction written in a human-readable format with extension (.tf) or in (.tf.JSON), which is written in Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL).
Horses for Sources
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Kyndryl: A $19bn business smack-dab in the critical legacy cloud market, with a remarkably puny market cap of $ 3.5 bn. The financial markets have fired warning shots across the bows of Kyndryl’s management. To be more precise, it's more a barrage of artillery fire, as investors obsess with bashing tech firms that sustain the old, as opposed to their hugely inflating the valuations of the shiny new tech stuff.
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Intelligent Management Inc.
DECEMBER 16, 2021
While visiting a plant last month, our Founder, Dr. Domenico Lepore , told the dramatic story of his experience at a German aluminium plant, part of a multi-billion, multi-national business. The General Manager had invited Domenico to give a presentation after hearing him speak at a Theory of Constraints (TOC) conference. In that plant, the hot mill alone was a billion dollar asset operation with 127 people working three shifts.
Immedus
AUGUST 24, 2021
Gartner recently published the 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Multicountry Payroll Solutions and Immedis is thrilled to be recognized as a representative vendor in the report. More about that in a moment. First, I’d like to delve into a number of key takeaways that might be of interest to payroll professionals, their teams, and organizations. . Gartner opens the report with the statement that “Multicountry payroll transformation projects have received significant investment over the last year t
Future of Digital Sourcing Outsourcing
DECEMBER 6, 2021
How Outsourced Maintenance KPIs Deliver In-House Success. Related news: Crafting a KPI Playbook to Enhance Supply Performance Most everyone relies on daily performance indicators to measure the quality of tools and assets, from large-scale business KPIs such as monthly foot traffic to the personal performance results like the battery life of headphones.
Hyland
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
... The post RPA in action: How non-developers are using bots to improve processes appeared first on The Hyland Blog.
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The Global Small Business Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2021
©iStock/Beboy_ltd What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Turning you on to Richard Orlinski's magnificent work (France). How to build brand love. How corporations organize global production is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Quote of the week: "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." – Amy Lowell 10 potential New Year resolutions for global small businesses.
McKinsey and Company
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
New research shows that the Internet of Things offers significant economic value potential, particularly in standardized production settings, but companies must achieve scale to capture it.
Automation Anywhere
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is already entrenched in the federal government and continues to grow in importance. Organizations are using a variety of RPA solutions, from basic, rule-based technology for simple tasks to advanced RPA. The latter form combines machine learning and artificial intelligence, which can include the analysis capabilities of automatic process discovery and process analytics as well as cognitive technologies such as computer vision, natural language processing, and fu
.orgSource
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Is a hacker haunting your future? Or is your data dilemma more like a recurring headache? Data shouldn’t be a challenge. It’s an asset that should work for you. Two-point-five quintillion bytes of data are generated online daily, according to SaaS Scout Research Group. Data is the meta product of every sale. With each transaction, […]. The post Good Governance Makes Data the Asset It Should Be appeared first on.orgSource.
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.
Perficient Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 7, 2021
MuleSoft has various pre-built connectors to connect Mule to different databases and third-party software. The Anypoint Connector for MongoDB (MongoDB Connector) is a closed-source connector that provides a connection between the Mule runtime engine and third-party software on a MongoDB server. MongoDB is similar to the MuleSoft Database Connector , which uses a single interface for every case and allows developers to run SQL operations on their database.
Horses for Sources
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
OneOffice is a mindset where we break down all the silos and barriers that connect customers, employees, and partners. OneOffice is where we have processes that deliver front-to-back dataflows where we can unify our desired outcomes, how we measure success, employee effectiveness, and engage our external partners most effectively. It is how our organizations can function most effectively in today's virtual environment across borders, business ecosystems and complex supply chains.
Transperfect
JUNE 28, 2021
“Businesses that ignore how technology is going to change the way people behave will fail.”. That’s an opening statement from our Vice President of Travel and Digital Solutions, Joel Brandon-Bravo , at Travolution ’s 2020 European Summit. In his presentation, Joel explained the current trends of artificial intelligence (AI), how they’re developing, and why it should be part of every business’s strategy – especially the travel industry.
Velocity Global
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Globalization is an established part of the modern world, so most of us do not realize the benefits it brings to our everyday lives—such as easy access to a variety of different cuisines or new technologies developed by countries half a world away. Even though globalization makes our lives better, it does bring some challenges as companies start to grow and expand across borders.
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Planergy Software
OCTOBER 4, 2021
What Is Economic Order Quantity? Economic order quantity refers to the number of units a company needs to have in their inventory with every order to minimize their overall cost of inventory. Otherwise known as the EOQ, this figure is used as a part of reviewing the inventory system. The level of inventory is constantly monitored and a fixed quantity is ordered every time the inventory level reaches the specific reorder point.
Provana
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Amid rising compliance costs, dropping profit margins, inconsistent volume, and the current talent crisis, it has become harder for mortgage default servicing firms to sustain profitability and deal with an ever-mounting backlog of cases. However, the right combination of technologies can help firms overcome process-intensive challenges to achieve higher productivity and profit, despite current market and economic roadblocks.
Offshore India Data Entry
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Every image can tell a story about something. In other words, images are the simplest but sharpest tools to pierce into the heart of every viewer. No wonder they are getting used to capture the attention of consumers. It is a skill to make the product images attractive enough to catch the eye, where image retouching services can find a lot of help. It is high time to know about the benefits of product retouching in a business when digital media has revolutionized the modes of production, distrib
The Global Small Business Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
©iStock/dorian2013 Disruptions in global supply chains have generated the phrase "everything shortage." But US imports are at record levels at some ports, and Americans are breaking shopping records, too. Supply-chain professionals plan to alleviate the backlog container by container. What's up? Yet claims that the country is running short on everything miss a key point.
Speaker: Rosemary Coates - Board Member & Founder at Reshoring Institute, Best-selling Author, Host of the Frictionless Supply Chain podcast
Supply chain disruptions create uncertainty and unpredictability for both businesses and consumers. These disruptions bring to light an organization's supply chain dependencies, which they were often unaware of when everything was running smoothly. Re-shoring is one solution that is gaining popularity as a result of pandemic-related issues. Companies can lower the risk of disruptions by shortening the supply chain and moving manufacturing close to the points of sale to reduce the need for expens
McKinsey and Company
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Although corporate America has stepped up its public support of LGBTQ+ rights, it still has a long road ahead to foster a truly inclusive environment for transgender employees.
Automation Anywhere
JULY 21, 2021
In the face of post-pandemic recovery, healthcare organizations need to clear a significant backlog of care and paperwork and do so within tight financial constraints. Intelligent automation, combining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI), offers a solution to that challenge. Intelligent automation software bots can operate as a fourth type of worker, operating in harmony with the other three, permanent, pooled, and interim staff.
Airswift
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Source: Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock. Investment in human augmentation technology is growing fast. It is unanimous: we are in the middle of a new revolution in the technology industry. Apparently, the human augmentation market will be worth approximately 400 billion dollars by 2027, according to Report Ocean. And that shows a huge increase since 2020.
Perficient Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Perficient is pleased to announce that we have landed a spot on the Chicago Tribune’s 2021 Top Workplaces list! This is the third time our Chicago team has won this distinction. It’s also their second award win of the year (check out their Best & Brightest award )! Behind the Awards. The Top Workplace list is based solely on employee feedback.
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Remote work has helped future-proof organizations and increased their flexibility. However, sourcing candidates nationally poses new challenges and is proving difficult. The global sourcing industry seems to be in a state of war. DEI, attracting qualified candidates, and physical demographics are just a few of the issues that organizations face. Many companies are failing to win in this new landscape due to the intersectionality of problems in global sourcing.
Horses for Sources
AUGUST 31, 2021
The days of everyone talking about the “new” culture of working from home are so over. This isn’t new, it’s the way we do business today across all industries and job functions where physical office visits are non-essential. If it gets done over Zoom it stays on Zoom. Most people travel for vacations and personal needs, not business anymore. 18 months in, and we’re not going back – we’re efficient, we’re intense, we get things done in a much faster
The Hackett Group
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Alliance will Help Customers Transcend Siloes and Achieve Alignment In their Financial, Sales and Operational business planning processes. MIAMI & LONDON, December 14, 2021 – The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) and Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN) today jointly announced a strategic alliance that will allow The Hackett Group to deliver finance and supply chain solutions that empower organizations to deliver real-time intelligence to executives, add strategic value to the enterprise, and accele
Velocity Global
DECEMBER 13, 2021
DENVER, December 13, 2021 —. McDonagh built Facebook’s Direct Source global contractor program. Velocity Global, the leading provider of global talent solutions, today announced it welcomed Colin McDonagh as its vice president of Emerging Business. McDonagh applies more than a decade of experience innovating programs to source top contractor talent for global companies.
Hyland
DECEMBER 7, 2021
... The post Hyland and TECH CORPS partner to expand interest and access to computer science education appeared first on The Hyland Blog.
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