The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

©iStock/Rawpixel What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Eight essential international business skills. Master international growth with these winning strategies. Quote of the week: “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran and Russia.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.

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NoonDalton

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Labor shortages, productivity concerns, and the rise of remote work are pushing companies to explore external help more than ever. According to recent studies, the labor market is strained, with millions missing from the workforce since the pandemic. Business leaders are struggling to manage workloads and maintain productivity, leading many to turn to outsourcing or managed services.

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Paysquare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Payroll automation has become an essential component for modern organizations looking to enhance their efficiency and accuracy. By automating various payroll processes, companies can significantly reduce the administrative burden, minimize errors, and ensure timely and compliant payroll operations. This not only streamlines the workflow but also boosts employee satisfaction by ensuring consistent and accurate payment.

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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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V-Soft Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Mobile apps are a daily part of everyone's lives. We use them to get where we need to go, connect with people we love, and keep up-to-date on what's happening in the world. For a business owner, mobile apps can also be powerful tools within the professional sector. We have compiled a list of some of the best mobile apps for businesses in 2017 below.

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Mattsen Kumar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

US-based luxury furniture manufacturer Value City Furniture was experiencing sleepless nights. Heavy investment with no traction left them vulnerable, while the trepidation of getting things moving enticed them to try new things. The giant furniture manufacturer created a platform named Easy Pass. The platform bridged the data gap between online carts and physical stores.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Capital Markets IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment The capital markets industry is transforming to enhance operational efficiencies and reduce costs. Firms are streamlining operations by automating processes, integrating new technologies, and outsourcing non-core activities such as IT management and back-office functions. There is a significant shift toward emerging technologies.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For more than a decade, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has championed the concept of shoshin —a “beginner’s mind” that allows for continuous innovation and reinvention. As the company now embarks on its “hard pivot” to Agentforce , this philosophy takes on new relevance. Agentforce isn’t just an extension of Salesforce’s AI capabilities—it’s a reimagining of what AI can do for business.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In an era of rapid digital transformation, organizations are increasingly turning to Change Management (CM) platforms to navigate complex transitions, however are many of these efforts meeting expectations? According to Everest Group’s research with over 180 chief experience officers (CXOs) and business heads, 68% of enterprises have not realized the envisioned value from their digital transformation initiatives.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, company culture has become a keystone of a successful organization. It’s not just about the perks or the office decor; it’s about creating an environment where employees feel valued, connected, and motivated. Lisa Mudge- Talent Acquisition Specialist and Katie Burwell- Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist have partnered to highlight why company culture is so important.

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Vilmate

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A leader’s primary responsibilities include building effective communication, motivating the team, and managing people. These leadership skills are directly connected to the leader’s emotional intelligence. What is emotional intelligence, why is it important for management roles, and how can it be developed? Alexandra Tolokneeva , Vilmate’s Project Manager Understanding Emotional Intelligence: The Foundation of Leadership Emotional intelligence (or Emotional Quotient, EQ) is the ability to recog

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As the Delivery Director for Perficient’s Salesforce practice, Chelsea Monda has seen firsthand the challenges companies face in their digital transformation journeys. With Dreamforce 2024 just around the corner, she shares her top session picks that will provide valuable insights for businesses looking to optimize their Salesforce implementation and drive growth: Accelerating Dealer Onboarding and Support with Salesforce This session highlights how a leading blinds manufacturer transformed thei

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Job Title : Lead UI/UX Designer Location City : US/UK – Remote Industry : Research and Advisory Services Company : Everest Group About Everest Group Everest Group is a leading research firm helping business leaders make confident decisions. We guide clients through today’s market challenges and strengthen their strategies by applying contextualized problem-solving to their unique situations.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Design patterns are pivotal in crafting application solutions that are both maintainable and scalable. The Strategy Design Pattern is ideal for scenarios that require runtime selection among various available algorithms. In this blog, we’ll cover how to implement the Strategy Design Pattern in an AEM OSGi service, boosting your code’s flexibility and manageability.

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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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Go4Customer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In the fast-growing and very competitive business environment, call center outsourcing has become a strategic solution to improve customer relations while cutting costs. The call center outsourcing industry on the global front is expected to be valued at $496 billion by the year 2027 and will be growing at an accelerated rate of 5 % CAGR. 1% from the year 2020 to 2027; in fact, it indicates that outsourcing is gaining more and more popu.

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