The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He's the expert of all so-called experts on this topic. ©iStock/metamorworks I've been a fan of John Yunker's for more than two decades. No one knows web globalization like John does. Check out some past post about John here.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And the topics Forrester clients ask about often reveal emerging trends. I created a list of the top five topics revenue leaders asked me about in my first […]. Talking with sellers is like measuring weather patterns; you find out quickly which way the wind is blowing. So what’s top of mind for B2B sales teams?

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 19, 2023

In those discussions, few topics bubbled up to the top more often than others. At the recent NASSCOM event in Mumbai, I had some great conversations with CMOs from many B2B organisations. The unpredictability of the business landscape and changing buyer behaviours challenged every organisation.

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Marketing 245

Forrester Digital Transformation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Command, Control, And The Changing Workplace Organizational and people management has perennially been a favorite topic of writers and researchers. Even the Bible tells a story of how Moses’ father-in-law gave him advice about management and delegation of tasks!

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Perficient Digital Transformation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After attending this year’s Healthcare Internet Conference (HCIC) in Las Vegas, the impact that COVID-19 pandemic has had on healthcare organizations is clear — especially in how digital engagement with patient-consumers has changed now and perhaps permanently. Consumer Preference for Virtual Ease Is Here to Stay.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MAY 17, 2024

We do this through the use of personalized email subject lines that line up with our newsletter topics and promoting or hosting events that are fun or educational. Jennifer is a board-certified behavior analyst from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jennifer was wonderful.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

AUGUST 25, 2022

What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? Some areas and topics that I hope to explore include: How to optimize workforce […]. I am very excited to be covering identity and access management (IAM), with a focus on the workforce environment (business to employee).

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve been diving deep into a number of topics that financial services executives and their teams care about (or should care about). Here are just five of the topics we find particularly interesting: Embedded finance.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JULY 22, 2022

Another hot topic in the Viva world was the June-announced seller experience app, Viva Sales. Viva Topics. What’s new: Integration to Teams chat (can attach topic cards). Topic highlights in Outlook on the web. Enhanced topic management dashboard. What to look forward to: Topics integration with Yammer GA.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

APRIL 7, 2023

It was the topic of the opening keynote, the closing keynote, and many sessions in between, including debates […] This week, I attended the Global Privacy Summit, hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. This is my fourth time attending, and the shortest way to recap the event is: AI is so hot right now.

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Marketing 130

Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 28, 2023

Imagine spending the most of your time during the peak of a New England winter researching for a Forrester Wave™ evaluation on a topic (Infrastructure Automation) that is hotter than ever. Is it a coincidence or did we time it precisely to publish the report at the onset of Spring? I think the latter. ? […]

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m analyzing topics that meet three criteria: 1) They’re in the news; 2) they’re frequently misunderstood; and 3) CEOs need to understand them. This is the third entry in my “Tech for CEOs” series. My two previous posts are on AI and blockchain. Now, as promised, cryptocurrency… What It Is And How It Works Cryptocurrency […]

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Forrester Digital Transformation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It seems like you can’t read a technology news article or talk to a technology vendor or a consultant without AI finding its way into the topic or the conversation. This is especially true for all topics around business intelligence (BI).

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 12, 2023

I published my latest Wave on this topic last fall, along with a bunch of tactics on how to get started. I’ve been focusing a lot of my time on two key cloud management conversations: Cost optimization and operationalizing cloud. Over the past three years, I’ve been tracking the cloud cost optimization space closely.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

New analyst joins Forrester's Stockholm office to cover Digital Business & Strategy (DB&S) and focus on topics such as digital strategy and metrics across industries.

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The Global Small Business Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Delaney wrote the best-selling book on this topic. For more information on what you should or shouldn't be doing relative to taking a business global, please visit: Exporting Guide.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here, we answer audience questions on common CX topics. We were thrilled with the response to our 2023 CX Predictions webinar.

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The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Oh, and check out his books – truly an international scholar on this topic. To know more about Hofstede , see his biography. Better yet, see the online exhibition about his life and work.

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Collaborations 184

IBM Services

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Step 5: Create an IBM Cloud Event Notifications topic Next, you will define an IBM Cloud Event Notifications topic that will receive an event from IBM Cloud Secrets Manager. Click Topics. The Topic details panels will open. In the Topic details, enter the following: Enter the Name for your topic (e.g.,

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Forrester Digital Transformation

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Product and platform management were hot topics there, as they’ve been for the last few years. I just got back from the DevOps Enterprise Summit, which, as usual, was one of the best conferences ever. Today, I want to talk about platforms; in particular, there’s been a bit of a flurry lately about “platform engineering.” […].

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Forrester Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What topics will you be covering at Forrester? I’m excited to dive deep into coverage areas revolving around design workflows, tools, and services for the CX function.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Rising energy prices here in Europe help make a sometimes-abstract topic real, local, and immediate. Business and technology leaders are increasingly concerned with reducing their firms’ impact on this planet’s finite resources.

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The Global Small Business Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Hear from top experts on this important topic: Stacy Kahan, Founder and Cara Kahan, CEO, 1706 Advisors and Beka Kohmescher, CEO and Founder, Altair Advisers. Then you are ready for Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global's next wegginar®, Wednesday, 4/12/23 at 11 AM CT: "Commit to Hiring and Retaining the Most Talented People."

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IBM Services

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The run script will: Create an instance in the Secrets Manager and Event Notifications Create a secret in the Secrets Manager Build a Code Engine App (code is already provided) Create same secret in the Code Engine Project Create necessary sources, topics, destination etc., A subscription would be made between the topic and the destination.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

JULY 27, 2022

What Topics Will You Be Covering at Forrester? I am very excited to be covering security and risk for operational technology (OT) environments including the critical infrastructure and manufacturing industries.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

JULY 19, 2022

In this first research report on this topic, clients will discover how closing gaps in communication can ignite insights-driven decision-making. This week, Forrester published Data Communications Will Make Or Break Your Data Literacy Efforts.

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The Global Small Business Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

BoycottMcDonald s had become a trending Twitter topic, and the Golden Arches ultimately decided to fold. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski sent a note to staff yesterday afternoon (3/8/22) saying, “Our values mean we cannot ignore the needless suffering unfolding in Ukraine.” Is it really about McDonald's values?

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V-Soft Consulting

APRIL 1, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in the industry, and chatbots have emerged as indispensable tools for businesses aiming to enhance customer service, streamline operations, and engage with their audience on digital platforms.

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The Global Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

©iStock/SHansche Below is an article I [Laurel Delaney] wrote to tackle the topic of what's needed on an export sale. It goes like this. How do you react to an email from a customer located thousands of miles away who wants to buy your product?

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MAY 11, 2022

What Topics Will You Be Covering at Forrester? I am very excited to be covering vulnerability risk management (VRM) at Forrester, including threat modeling and management and penetration testing.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

APRIL 14, 2022

Our friends know the topics that might get us nerding out and […]. (Or, Why You Should Have A Revenue Operations Data Center Of Excellence) “Nerd” is a term of pride in my household. My kids and I embrace the label for its appreciation of learning, its respect for trivia, and its … well … accuracy.

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Microsourcing

APRIL 18, 2024

Why has data security become a hot outsourcing topic? With 57% of businesses globally relying on outsourcing for some of their core operations 1 , keeping sensitive data safe is an absolute non-negotiable.

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Microsourcing

APRIL 18, 2024

Why has data security become a hot outsourcing topic? With 57% of businesses globally relying on outsourcing for some of their core operations 1 , keeping sensitive data safe is an absolute non-negotiable.

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Outsourcing 52

Redial

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It is important to highlight these benefits because, for a long time, the issue of well-being and especially mental health, was a topic that was not addressed at work. Despite these topics being promoted more frequently, there is still evidence that not all employees build the trust to speak up about their concerns.

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Forrester Digital Transformation

MARCH 22, 2022

Key transformation challenges include technical topics like data and security as well as technology strategy. Malaysian firms’ digital transformation efforts stagnated in 2021, and services decision-makers at these firms are even more cautious with their 2022 plans.

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IBM Services

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of the functions of Kafka is to decouple consuming and producing applications, so that they communicate via a Kafka topic rather than directly. Kafka does not examine the metadata of your messages. What’s next?

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