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.
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.
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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.
Transperfect
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The travel industry has arguably been one of the worst affected industries during the pandemic. But now, things are looking up for businesses as more and more people start to travel. Businesses will need to shift their digital marketing strategies in response to these new trends. Here are the top three digital marketing trends in the travel industry and how to respond to them strategically.
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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.
.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.
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The Global Small Business Blog
AUGUST 28, 2021
©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to.” – Richard Russo, author and screenwriter.
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
AUGUST 6, 2021
Deloitte calls them “superteams.” A combination of people and intelligent software robots (“bots”) that together, the teams tackle business challenges, provide insight, and deliver real value to enterprises. This is the true vision for intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Deloitte argues—augmenting existing workforces with tools to drive competitive, agile edges in difficult markets.
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.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
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
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.
Perficient Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Giving back to the communities in which we live and work is important to Perficient. We even formalized our commitment to giving back by forming a philanthropy based ERG – Perficient Giving. Our Chicago team recently embodied the giving back spirit by gathering at the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) to pack meals for individuals facing food insecurity.
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.
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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.
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.
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McKinsey and Company
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Over the next decade, the fully tech-enabled insurer will bear little resemblance to today’s organization. Five trends, individually and in combination, will have a seismic impact.
Automation Anywhere
OCTOBER 22, 2021
You’ve heard through the office grapevine that employees are discontent, disengaged, burnt-out? Worried that a significant number of them are preparing to walk? You’re not alone. More than 15 million U.S. workers have left their jobs since April, and 40% of employees asked in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Singapore are “somewhat likely” to quit in the next three to six months, according to McKinsey.
Immedus
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Today on the blog, we have a guest contributor, Brent Skinner, HCM Subject Matter Expert | Co-Founder of 3Sixty Insights | Host of the #HRTechChat Video Podcast. . It is not a surprise that getting global payroll right is a mission-critical activity. What might surprise you is that a significant share of the responsibility for ensuring that an organization successfully accomplishes this falls on the CIO.
Designveloper
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Web designers are versatile. They need to have a diverse skill set that helps them develop websites for any purpose. However, many web designers specialize in a particular field, such as web development or UX design. Web developers are responsible for the logical aspects of website design. They create the code that makes everything work together seamlessly to produce an aesthetically pleasing design, which is what you see on screen.
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Customer Serv Outsource Smarter
AUGUST 31, 2021
Demand for outsourced call centers is becoming increasingly relevant. In 2020, brands, organizations, and government agencies quickly learned that they were ill-equipped to manage the dramatic impact of COVID-19 on their call centers. During the height of the pandemic, frustrated and highly emotional customers experienced average hold times that suddenly inflated from minutes to hours in some sectors.
Perficient Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 16, 2021
We are proud to announce Perficient has been awarded HCL Commerce’s 2021 Partner of the Year award! This is the first time HCL has awarded this designation following their acquisition of IBM Websphere Commerce three years ago. The HCL Commerce 2021 Partner of the Year Award represents our unique collaboration with HCL Commerce from sales, delivery, and marketing.
Transparent BPO Outsourcing
JULY 29, 2021
Customer care providers should focus on clients, customers, and employees to achieve the right balance. By Jason Sterns, Vice President of Business Development, Transparent BPO The customer care industry has lost sight of a ‘service-first view of digital transformation.’ Too often, providers mention the term to prospective clients and then cloak it with rhetoric and […].
Akorbi
OCTOBER 13, 2021
It is easy to assume that American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) would be similar, but they are actually two completely different languages. . Only about 30% of the signs are the same, even though they are based on the same spoken language. In today’s blog post, Akorbi helps highlight the differences between the two. Sign Language is Different Than its Spoken Language.
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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