The Global Small Business Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

©2024 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. There are woman business owners and then there are global women business owners. Congratulations to Debra Dudley, Founder, Oscarware, Inc. for receiving the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Global Exemplary Leadership® 2024! Read on to discover what the award is about and why Debra earned it.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

If you were to pop open any social media platform or news app right now and scroll through a couple dozen posts, you’ll easily get the feeling that everything is #%&$ falling apart. Everyone is mad at something. We now use the term “doomscrolling.” In the past we had Yellow Journalism and we are there once again. As humans we tend to get addicted to outrage and drama.

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IBM Services

MARCH 21, 2024

5G technology isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution that can enable digital transformation at the touch of a button. There are three kinds of 5G, each with its own specific use cases and capabilities, that business leaders need to understand. 5G wireless is broken down into three types—low, mid and high band—named for the spectrum of radio frequencies they support.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

In an era where automation plays a pivotal role in reshaping businesses, selecting the right partner for automation fabric services is critical. Forrester’s report, The Automation Fabric Services Landscape, Q1 2024, offers insights into the evolving landscape and recognizes notable providers in the industry. Perficient is listed among these notable providers as a large automation fabric consultancy, with an industry focus in financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing/production of c

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In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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IBM Services

MARCH 21, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries by enabling advanced analytics, automation and personalized experiences. Enterprises have reported a 30% productivity gain in application modernization after implementing Gen AI. However, the success of AI initiatives heavily depends on the underlying infrastructure’s ability to support demanding workloads efficiently.

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Eclaro

MARCH 21, 2024

If you’ve filled out a March Madness bracket, you’ve seen that Long Beach State drew a 15 seed in the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament this year, its first appearance in the tournament since 2012. Maybe you even picked them as a Cinderella story. Stranger things have happened.

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Global Help Desk Services

MARCH 21, 2024

When used correctly, AI can be a huge help. An AI chatbot can quickly tell you your co-pay before you head to a doctor’s appointment or point you to the correct aisle to get a flathead screwdriver on your way to the hardware store. But AI can also be less than helpful. (That same health insurance chatbot could suggest you reduce your stress by recycling your old VCR.

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Globalization Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

Leading a high-performing global team is a task that goes far beyond simply keeping an eye on projects and daily to-dos — just because you've grown a global team doesn't mean it will bear fruit. In fact, setting up the team is just the first step.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 21, 2024

Have you ever wondered why data accuracy is essential? One mistake can ruin plans. Imagine leaving a US$3.1 trillion pile of cash on the table—that’s essentially what businesses across America do annually by tolerating inaccurate data. Faulty data is a critical error that no company can overlook. It leads to confusion, waste, risks, and disaster.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

In Bootstrap, the embed-responsive and embed-responsive-item classes create responsive embeds for videos, maps, or any other embedded content. These classes ensure the embedded content scales properly and maintain its aspect ratio across different screen sizes. Let’s explore how to use these classes for responsive embeds. Responsive Video Embed Bootstrap provides a simple and effective way to embed responsive videos using the embed-responsive and embed-responsive-item classes.

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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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inDinero

MARCH 21, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions, such as when two massive conglomerates combine, sometimes make headlines. However, businesses of all sizes go through the merger and acquisition process every day. If you’re a business owner planning to buy, merge, or sell, it’s essential to have a merger and acquisition strategy in place. We’ll help you get started by answering common questions about M&A and showing you examples of strategies that leave all parties satisfied.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

Whether you are attending in person or virtually, another exciting Adobe Summit is coming our way. As Adobe continues to expand its footprint across all of Marketing Technology, Garett Meznarich (Director of Digital Marketing) and I (Technical Architect, Marketing Automation Team) thought it would be helpful to give you a Marketing Operations perspective on what sessions we are excited about this year.

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Global Expansion

MARCH 21, 2024

Know about what is immigration & how the immigration system works. Explore policies, visas, and processes governing migration globally.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

Flutter is great framework for cross platform development. It allows you to make pixel perfect apps that are generated into native code, but what happens if you need to use existing code in iOS or Android directly? For situations like these, Flutter allows you to use platform channels. Platform channels give you access to platform-specific APIs in a language that works directly with those APIs.

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HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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Zinnov

MARCH 21, 2024

As the year 2023 neared its end, India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs) sector adeptly steered through a challenging economic environment. The sector faced a global backdrop shadowed by potential recessions, rising interest rates, and persistent inflation, which naturally tempered growth expectations. However, India’s GCCs displayed a formidable resilience amidst these trials.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

If you follow the release news from Sitecore, you’ve already noted the release of highly awaited XM Cloud Forms, which however did not have a feature of adding conditional logic. Until now. The good news is that now we can do it, and here’s how. See it in action Imagine you have a registration form and want to ask if your clients want to receive the email.

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Zinnov

MARCH 21, 2024

The last two years saw unprecedented churn in the global talent landscape. From the Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffle in the year 2022 to the global hiring freezes and big layoffs in 2023 – talent leaders are struggling to adapt to these seismic shifts. In response, talent is prioritizing job security, leading to a trend coined as “ the Big Stay ,” where employees are hitting pause on adventurous career changes.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

Welcome to the inaugural post of my Mobile Apps Accessibility Series! In this series, we’ll delve into the world of simple and intuitive design principles aimed at promoting universal accessibility in mobile apps. We begin by focusing on the crucial aspect of user-friendly navigation, a fundamental element that sets the tone for an inclusive app experience.

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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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Capgemini

MARCH 21, 2024

The Future of Talent Management Sylvia Preuschl 5 May 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin How to unlock workforce agility with AI-based Talent Marketplaces Digitalization, automation, augmentation, robotics, advanced analytics – we are all part of the fourth industrial revolution as it introduces new ways of working and challenges current business models.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

Welcome back to our Mobile Apps Accessibility Series! In this second installment, we’ll delve into the importance of clear and concise layouts for enhancing accessibility in mobile apps. Building upon the foundation laid in our previous discussion on user-friendly navigation, we’ll explore how a well-organized and clutter-free layout can significantly improve usability for all users.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

We’re all about opening doors for consumers, members and patients in the healthcare space. We shared a three-part series on the digital front door designed to help healthcare organizations (HCOs) create cohesive experiences that are welcoming to consumers. But having a digital front door implies that a digital back door exists. And therein lies the problem.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

Welcome back to our Mobile Apps Accessibility Series! In this third installment, we’ll focus on the importance of accessible touch targets for enhancing accessibility in mobile apps. Building upon the foundation laid in our previous discussions on user-friendly navigation and clear layouts, we’ll explore how well-designed touch targets can significantly improve usability for all users, including those with disabilities.

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HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

JavaScript is a central pillar in web development, elevating user engagement and imbuing websites with dynamic capabilities. Among its intriguing components are Web APIs, which facilitate access to diverse browser functionalities. In this segment, we’ll explore these APIs, starting with Part 1: Web Forms API. Let’s commence our exploration of these fundamental tools for web development.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

MARCH 21, 2024

At Perficient, one significant benefit of being a premier partner with elite cloud providers the likes of Google, AWS, and Azure, is the early adopter access granted to level up SMEs (subject matter experts) so that partner engagements between Perficient and its customers are meaningful, profitable, and repeatable. In this initial blog post from Josh Hull, an awe-struck fan of the point-in-time intersection of technology and humans, we’ll examine the success goal of: an arguably weak engineerin

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