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The importance of cultural awareness in international business

Airswift

Why is cultural awareness important for international business? Technology and globalisation have made global expansion far more accessible for businesses worldwide over the past decade.

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Understanding Cybercrime-as-a-Service: A Growing Threat in the Digital World

Perficient Digital Transformation

With just a cryptocurrency wallet, cybercriminals can now execute complex cyberattacks without advanced technical knowledge or sophisticated software. This alarming trend is a byproduct of the growing popularity of cloud computing and the “as-a-service” model, where services like infrastructure, recovery, and cybersecurity are now accessible on demand.

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Meet G-P Gia: AI Built for the Next Era of HR

Globalization Partners

Many HR teams simply don’t have the expertise or resources to manage global employment, benefits, legislation, and customs specific to individual countries. But now, G-P Gia makes it fast and easy to hire anyone, anywhere.

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Intelligently Automating Prior Authorization to Build Consumer Trust in Healthcare

Perficient Digital Transformation

Healthcare leaders are engaging us in a variety of discussions to explore intelligent automation’s role for complex business challenges, ranging from efforts to enhance consumer trust and use artificial intelligence (AI) in effective ways, to navigating change that comes with prior authorization mandates. This series shares key insights coming from those discussions.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Hackett: €1.3 Trillion in Untapped Working Capital Opportunity for European Companies

The Hackett Group

Gen AI emerging as key technology to diligently manage working capital performance MIAMI, FL – November 12, 2024 – The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) reports that European companies have encountered critical challenges in managing their working capital in 2024. The latest European Working Capital Survey reveals a €1.3 trillion opportunity in untapped working capital, accentuating the urgency for companies to optimize their working capital management amid ongoing economic uncertainties.

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Outsourcing vs. In-House: Finding the Perfect Fit for Your Accounts Receivables Strategy

Mattsen Kumar

Introduction Efficient Accounts Receivable Management (ARM) is critical for any business, directly impacting cash flow, financial stability, and customer relationships. In today’s increasingly competitive environment, businesses must carefully evaluate their approach to manage accounts receivable. A pivotal decision the organizations often face is whether to outsource these functions or manage them in-house.

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2025 CPO Objectives: Facing Challenges, Achieving Business Goals, and Future Aspirations | Webinar

Everest Group

Live Webinar 2025 CPO Objectives: Facing Challenges, Achieving Business Goals, and Future Aspirations November 12, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. PST | 10:00 a.m. CST | 11:00 a.m. EST | 4:00 p.m. GMT | 9:30 p.m. IST  As global organizations face ongoing challenges like supply chain disruptions and price volatility, procurement functions are becoming more of an asset than ever.

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Understanding Debouncing and Throttling in JavaScript – A Comprehensive Guide

Perficient Digital Transformation

Introduction Throttling and debouncing are two strategies that are essential to optimizing. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the concepts of debouncing and throttling, explore their use cases, and understand how to implement them in JavaScript. Debouncing Explained What is Debouncing? Debouncing is a programming technique used to make sure that time-consuming operations don’t run too frequently, which might cause a web application’s performance to lag.

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AI in Clinical Development: From Hype to Real-world Value | CNS Summit 2024

Everest Group

Conference AI in Clinical Development: From Hype to Real-World Value November 14, 2024 Catch Everest Group Partner Nitish Mittal at the CNS Summit 2024 where he will join Amir Kalali, Chairman and Chief Curator, CNS Summit, for a fireside chat titled, AI in Clinical Development: From Hype to Real-World Value.

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Best Practices for Structuring Redux Applications

Perficient Digital Transformation

Introduction Redux has become a staple in state management for React applications, providing a predictable state container that makes it easier to manage the state of your application. However, as applications grow in the size and complexity, it becomes crucial to adopt best practices for structuring your Redux code. In this guide, we’ll explore these best practices and demonstrate how to implement them with code examples. 1.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Research: Extending corporate life of laptops by just one year can reduce harmful emissions by 25%

Everest Group

Extending the standard refresh cycle of laptops in a corporate environment can significantly reduce a workplace’s carbon footprint, according to new workplace sustainability research. However, challenges in ensuring the older laptops still meet Windows OS requirements, and other cost issues, could offset these environmental gains, experts said. Indeed, organizations are currently facing an important choice as the end of Windows 10 support looms: how do they want to approach either migration to W

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Three Judges, Five Minutes, Global Potential: Highlights from Our Demo Jam Events

Perficient Digital Transformation

At Perficient’s Salesforce team, every day we work with our project teams and clients to bring them the very best work and come up with some pretty creative solutions along the way. We work with our global teams on a project, giving our full attention to our clients. But sometimes, we don’t get the chance to connect with our coworkers on different client projects or see what’s happening internally.

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Meta offers Llama AI to US government for national security

Everest Group

Meta will allow US government agencies and contractors in national security roles to use its Llama AI. The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops and brings Llama ever so slightly closer to the generally accepted definition of open-source AI. However, the benefits are expected to remain largely confined to the US, with limited effect on CIO decisions in other regions, particularly Europe, where stringent regulations mea

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AI Regulations for Financial Services: European Union

Perficient Digital Transformation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to affect every aspect of the world economy and play a significant role in the global financial system, leading financial regulators around the world to take various steps to address the impact of AI on their areas of responsibility. The economic risks of AI to the financial systems include everything from the potential for consumer and institutional fraud to algorithmic discrimination and AI-enabled cybersecurity risks.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Everest Group on intelligent process automation evolution from RPA to agentic AI

Everest Group

As automation technology advances, a new wave of agentic AI is reshaping the landscape. Discussions are increasingly focused on whether to build intelligent automation on top of robotic process automation (RPA) or approach intelligent process automation as a whole. Ten years ago, script-based automation was in focus. Slowly, RPA came into focus, according to Vaibhav Bansal, vice president at Everest Group.

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Is Manufacturing in Cambodia a Good Alternative to China?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/efired The U.S.-China trade war has put billions of dollars worth of tariffs on imports from the country and the prospect of higher tariffs under President-elect Trump has spurred many companies to accelerate their plans to shift where their products are made. These events, along with a trend of rising wages, have made many importers realize that a more diverse supply chain can provide real benefits.

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Engineering graduates need to crack AI code to get hired

Everest Group

Top IT companies are changing their hiring processes for entry-level engineers, shifting from traditional coding tests to tasks like ‘refactoring’ AI-generated code. Yugal Joshi, partner, Everest group, said, “Unlike earlier times where developers were focused more on technical aspects of software development, now other skills such as reviewing AI-generated code, assessing AI-generated documents such as code comments and requirements etc, important as well.