The Global Small Business Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

©iStock/mnbb Exports play an important role in the global economy, serving as a catalyst for economic growth, job creation, and international cooperation. Thanks to the evolution of international trade, the effects of globalization, and progress in technology, global trade has increased by around 300% over the last 20 years. And using data obtained from the World Bank, you can see the world's top exporters by country and their top exports, such as petroleum, cars, and medication.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re interested in learning a robust, efficient, and scalable enterprise-level server-side framework, you’ve landed on the right blog ! We’ll start with a quick introduction, and in this post and the ones to follow, we’ll dive straight into the practical part. Together, we’ll build an application that covers various Nest JS fundamental and advanced topics, such as Services, Controllers, Modules, Repository, Pipes, Dependency Injection, and database connectivi

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Blue Ocean

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, you’ve been handed responsibility for investigating the benefits of potentially outsourcing your company’s customer service for the first time. How do you start to compare your in-house apples to those outsourced oranges? What math should go into the business case around call center outsourcing costs? (Or if you’re keen on delegating that chore, skip this read and contact us today for a cost analysis of your center !

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IBM Services

JANUARY 30, 2024

Increasingly, enterprise organizations are adopting a multicloud approach—the use of cloud services from more than one cloud vendor—to optimize performance, control costs and prevent vendor lock-in. According to a recent forecast from Gartner (link resides outside ibm.com) worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023.

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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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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

Aloha Trailblazers, Embarking on the journey into the vast landscape of Salesforce, this blog serves as your guide to understanding and conquering the challenges of Large Data Volumes (LDV). In the dynamic world of Salesforce, businesses encounter the complexities of managing extensive datasets. As organizations grow, navigating and optimizing performance in the face of Large Data Volumes becomes paramount.

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IBM Services

JANUARY 30, 2024

What can your organization achieve with a modern observability solution? Data from a new Forrester Consulting study showed that a composite organization that used the IBM Instana™ Observability platform achieved a 219% ROI over three years. Likewise, it saw a 90% reduction in troubleshooting time by providing high fidelity data to the right people at the right time.

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IBM Services

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the last post , we looked at creating a blueprint for a sustainable data center. Now we’ll look at how to get the most out of a modern data center. We don’t need to re-create the wheel all the time. Sometimes, we can look to others who have gone before us for inspiration and examples to help shape our vision for success. And, when we work with partners that have “been there, done that,” we can accelerate our success, taking our vision to a mission to reality.

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Globalization Partners

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pete Taliakos joined G-P’s Pangeo Perspectives podcast, along with Sara Dhooge of SD Worx, to discuss payroll modernization and why the critical process is primed for a much-needed paradigm shift. You can watch the full episode “Payroll Management: The New Key to Global Growth” here or listen on demand through your podcast platform of choice. The following are four key takeaways from the conversation and some “pro tips” for unlocking the strategy-impacting value potential from your organization’

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Blue Ocean

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, you’ve been handed responsibility for investigating the benefits of potentially outsourcing your company’s customer service for the first time. How do you start to compare your in-house apples to those outsourced oranges? What math should go into the business case around call center outsourcing costs? (Or if you’re keen on delegating that chore, skip this read and contact us today for a cost analysis of your center !

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

In my recent project, I encountered a crucial requirement – the need to seamlessly transmit Sitecore form submissions to Salesforce Pardot. I successfully implemented a custom submit action within Sitecore forms to fulfill this requirement. In this blog post, I will guide you through the step-by-step process, detailing the customization applied to Sitecore for achieving this integration.

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Ivemsa

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cost-effective labor is one of the biggest benefits of manufacturing in Mexico. However, with the recent change in Mexico’s minimum wage, U.S. and other foreign manufacturers may be wondering how this cost increase affects them. For 2024, Mexico has instituted a 20% minimum wage adjustment, increasing from $312.41 pesos to $374.89 pesos in the northern border states and from $207 pesos to $248 pesos per day in the rest of the country.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of Selenium Chrome DevTools integration, we’ve explored simulating mobile browsing and harnessing real-time insights from network responses using Selenium CDP Listeners. Building upon this foundation, our journey now ventures into the realm of intercepting and mocking network/API responses—a crucial skill for comprehensive web testing.

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Ivemsa

JANUARY 30, 2024

Customization continues to be a business buzzword in 2024, and it’s no different for manufacturing. Though more companies are becoming familiar with the benefit of nearshoring to Mexico, not all business leaders know exactly what it entails and if the solution is a right fit for them. For decades, global leaders have found success when manufacturing in Mexico as a way to cut costs and improve operational efficiency.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Live webinar Adapting to Change: Boost Value in Outsourcing and Software Contracts When Uncertainty Persists January 30, 2024 | 9:00 AM CST | 10 AM EST | 3 PM GMT | 8:30 PM IST As we enter 2024, enterprises are under immense pressure to optimize their budgets and uncover potential cost savings. Over the past three years, businesses across the globe have struggled to stay within their budgets.

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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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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

Our success at Perficient emanates from the dedication of our team. We take immense pride in recognizing that our committed individuals propel innovation and drive change within our industry. Every voice within our organization holds significance, none more so than Carolyn Lee , a Project Manager (PM) in our Financial Services business unit and a leader in Perficient’s Risk and Regulatory Center of Excellence (CoE).

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Global Expansion

JANUARY 30, 2024

What is Taxation Without Representation? Taxation Without Representation: The term refers to a “population that is forced to pay taxes to a governing authority” but has no voice in the government's policies. The word “Taxation without representation” derives from the American colonists' motto against their British rulers: Taxation without representation is absolute power.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2024

We often hear from our payer clients that, due to the highly matrixed nature of health insurance organizations, no one group feels that it truly owns the entire experience of its members. As many healthcare leaders know, this fragmentation can negatively impact the care journey, health outcomes, cost management, member attrition, and more. In its recent report, Health Plans Can Reach New Heights (And Connections) In Digital Member Engagement , Forrester states, “If plans use member-facing digita

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Understand the evolving employee needs across decades and distinguish the unique characteristics of the Sentient era from the Stability and Subsistence eras.

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Mercans

JANUARY 30, 2024

Changes in lower & upper earnings limits In accordance with the Third schedule of the NSSF Act No. 45 of 2013, the lower earnings limit and the upper earnings limit shall increase year-on-year as depicted in the table below. Year Lower Earning Limit Upper Earnings Limit 1 (2023) 6,000.00 50% of national average earnings 2 (2024) 7,000.00 1 times national average earnings 3 (2025) 8,000.00 2 times national average earnings 4 (2026) 9,000.00 3 times national average earnings 5 (2027 onwards) A

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Explore how Experience-Level Agreements (XLAs) enhance employee satisfaction and assess the impact of SLA and XLA grades on the overall employee experience.

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Capgemini

JANUARY 30, 2024

Celebrating Google Cloud Partner of the Year Genevieve Chamard Sep 1, 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin What does a powerful partner look like? I believe that a strong partnership adds value and uncovers new opportunities by combining the strengths from each angle, to create a unique, collaborative advantage. This is exactly how I see Capgemini and Google Cloud’s partnership , which is going from strength to strength at a rapid pace.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Learn about the crucial aspects of internal talent mobility and how factors like employee personas and internal opportunities can shape the outcomes.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Explore the benefits of an integrated internal mobility solution, comparing the coaching-led approach with the technology-enabled approach.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Discover the typical challenges encountered in internal mobility programs as outlined in Everest Group's latest talent report.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2024

Learn how organizations can boost overall Employee Satisfaction by starting their XLA journey and adhering to the 3A framework.

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