December, 2022

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Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks

SEBPO

Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks. BLOG. Outsourcing & Ops: Removing Repetitive Tasks. In an ever-evolving workforce, Publishers must implement and move forward with strategies that will last. Otherwise, Publishers run the risk of decreasing efficiency and losing profit. Rob Beeler, Founder and CEO of Beeler.Tech, shared his professional insights regarding Publisher strategies that “will stand the test of time” in an AdExchanger article titled, Publishers, Your Top Ops Talent

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How to Avoid the Risks of Independent Contractor Misclassification

Velocity Global

Hiring contractors overseas has many benefits and offers more flexibility in global expansion. Employers can engage contractors for specialized projects, save time and money that would otherwise go toward hiring full-time employees, and test a new workforce in an international market. However, hiring contractors comes with misclassification risks. Contractor misclassification leads to fines, employee entitlement back pay, and legal headaches.

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'Tis the Season To Global Travel

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Nestea06 AAA estimates 112.7 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home from December 23 to January 2. That’s an increase of 3.6 million people over last year and closing in on pre-pandemic numbers. 2022 is expected to be the third busiest year for holiday travel since AAA began tracking in 2000. For purposes of a forecast, the year-end holiday travel period is defined as the 11-day period from Friday, December 23 to Monday, January 2.

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7 Popular Business Process Outsourcing Trends

Pure Moderation

Business process outsourcing, or BPO, continues to become a lucrative industry. In 2021, its market value was USD 245.9 billion , and it is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.1% from 2022 to 2030. Much of the drivers of the business process outsourcing industry’s economic success has to do with organisations putting a primer on improving efficiency, lowering operational costs, and becoming more scalable and agile.

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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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Delivering More Value Through Empowered Teams

Forrester Digital Transformation

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! For much of the 20th century, a top-down, command-and-control style of management was favored, with a […].

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Generative AI is here: How tools like ChatGPT could change your business

McKinsey and Company

Generative AI and other foundation models are changing the AI game, taking assistive technology to a new level, reducing application development time, and bringing powerful capabilities to nontechnical users.

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Velocity Global Announces New Entity in Ukraine

Velocity Global

DENVER, December 28, 2022 —. Removes barriers for companies to hire in-country; helps provide stability and opportunities for local workforce. Velocity Global , the leading provider of global talent solutions, today announced a new entity in Ukraine, which will allow employers the opportunity to recruit and retain employees locally. With its 57th entity, Velocity Global is providing an opportunity for individuals within the country to maintain their income and support their families even in time

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What's Holding Businesses Back on Sustainability? (wegginar® 12/7/22)

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. Devry Boughner Vorwerk is a well-known global C-suite food executive and corporate officer, having served as Chief Communications Officer and Global Head of Corporate Affairs at Cargill and as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Grubhub. More importantly, she is also a sustainability global entrepreneur, founding DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, her own strategy and advisory company; serving on the Advisory Board of Culinary Sciences, In

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Give Joy!

.orgSource

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating new things.” Antione de Saint Exupery. If you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for a colleague, consider joy. Most of us don’t begin the workday expecting anything joyful. In fact, according to Gallup about 85 percent of people in the global workplace are either not engaged or disengaged.

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Update Your Knowledge Management Practice With Three Agile Principles

Forrester Digital Transformation

Long-standing “waterfall” knowledge management (KM) practices are failing to meet the needs of the modern enterprise, and technology leaders must reassess their approach. Agile principles transform knowledge management within the enterprise from lengthy, delay-laden processes to lean practices that seek to make sharing knowledge easy and adaptable. For the same reasons that agile principles have […].

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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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The secret to great health? Escaping the healthcare matrix

McKinsey and Company

The blueprint to achieve a lifetime of great health is increasingly clear and within our control. But unlocking it requires challenging the orthodoxies currently guiding individuals and institutions.

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Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management – Part 3

Perficient Digital Transformation

Introduction. In part I of our Kubernetes multi-cluster management series, we’ve talked about the basics of GitOps and explained why you should really consider GitOps as a central tenet of your Kubernetes management strategy. In part II , we looked at a reference implementation of GitOps using ArgoCD, and how to organize your GitOps repositories for security and release management.

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Velocity Global Announces New Entity in Argentina

Velocity Global

DENVER, December 28, 2022 —. As the demand for a global workforce increases, hiring, managing, and paying top talent in Argentina has never been easier. Velocity Global , the leading provider of global talent solutions, today announced Argentina as its 58th global entity. With a significant rise in its labor force participation rate, global companies looking to capitalize on Argentina’s favorable remote work policies and growing talent pool can now do so seamlessly.

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Embrace the New Way to Work Globally

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/gorodenkoff Technology has enabled collaboration across borders and time zones, and workers and companies alike are embracing remote work like never before. In fact, according to Gartner, by the end of 2022, 31% of all workers worldwide will be fully remote or hybrid. The U.S. is leading the way, with remote employees accounting for 53% of the U.S. workforce.

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Challenges and Solutions in High-Volume, High-Stakes Hiring

Facing a hiring surge that feels like conducting a complex orchestra? Our guide is your roadmap to harmonious high-volume hiring. In it, you’ll learn: Strategies to maintain quality while hiring at scale The real math behind agency vs. in-house recruiting Secrets to a stellar candidate experience during hiring spikes Resource optimization techniques for stretched TA teams Don't let resource constraints or market pressures derail your hiring goals.

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Demystifying platforms

comeMakeit

Back during my business school days, my professors used to say that this school is a good platform to jumpstart your management experience. I would often wonder what exactly they meant by a platform. Later someone explained to me that students from all walks of life, be they freshers or experienced folks looking to take a break from their jobs to go back to school or executives from companies wanting to learn the management part of the business, would come to the school to learn.

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Leaders Must Understand “The Meaning Of Stories” To Create “Meaning From Stories”

Forrester Digital Transformation

“You haven’t defined what story is,” said the voice of experience that afternoon, September 16, 2022. “That’s odd,” I thought. “What am I missing?” We were discussing my first leadership storytelling report, Master Storytelling For Impactful Leadership, intended to explain the “what?” and “why?” of leadership storytelling. In the report, I describe the three-arc structure […].

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‘Future vehicles require future insurance’

McKinsey and Company

In an interview with McKinsey’s Tanguy Catlin, Andrew Rose of OnStar Insurance discusses how telematics data will usher in a new era of auto insurance.

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Perficient’s Houston Giving Team Collects Gifts for Children in Need

Perficient Digital Transformation

It’s safe to say our colleagues around the globe are committed to giving back to the communities in which they live and work. So much so, that we even have a dedicated Perficient Giving Employee Resource Group , which aims to make an individual and collective impact on the world. From volunteering at local food banks , teaching the next generation of AI leaders , or collectively raising over $10,000 for animals in need , you can count on our colleagues to make an impact in their communitie

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Velocity Global adds Siddharth Ram as new chief technology officer

Velocity Global

DENVER, December 8, 2022 —. Applies almost three decades of experience in technology leadership roles to scaling a world-class technology organization. Velocity Global , the leading provider of global talent solutions, announced Siddharth Ram as its new chief technology officer. Ram will be responsible for growing and scaling the technology organization.

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Slowing Global Demand and a Strong Dollar Pushed U.S.A. Goods Exports to a Seven-Month Low

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/cbies Slowing global demand and a strong dollar pushed goods exports to a seven-month low, suggesting that trade could be a drag on economic growth this quarter (fourth quarter 2022) if the trend persists. The recent report from the Commerce Department, which followed on the heels of recent upbeat news on the economy ranging from consumer spending, the labor market to the services industry, did not change perceptions that the economy had got off to a solid start in the fourth quarter.

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The Scalers’ 2022 recap: a year of amazing growth

The Scalers

This has been a remarkable year for The Scalers. We’ve further expanded into the Asia-Pacific region by opening a new office in Sydney, Australia and our partnership network and the number of engineers has grown significantly. Overall, we brought nine new Partners on board — more than ever in our history. In terms of engineers for our Partners, this meant an increase from 190 in 2021 to 309 developers in 2022!

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2022 evaluated 11 vendors on 35 different capabilities. Read the report to see the vendor that came out on top with the highest-ranked capabilities for the broadest set of organizations.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How personalization at scale can invigorate Asian insurers

McKinsey and Company

The surge in digital consumer interactions is making possible a new era of gathering, analyzing, and responding to individual customer data strategically and with precision.

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Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is the G.O.A.T.

Perficient Digital Transformation

Turn Your Visitors into Paying Customers and Boost Your Sales! Businesses LOVE to generate inbound traffic. They run ads, deploy SEO, send out emails, blast on social media, and use paid advertising to drive traffic – To bring MORE visitors! . However, when starting an ecommerce business, many business owners overlook conversion rate optimization, which is not unusual.

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7 pillars of effective ecommerce customer service

Influx

A generation ago, when you wanted to sell something, you open a store and advertise to attract customers. You train your team to provide excellent customer service. And then you follow up with offers in hopes of drawing customers back to you. Today, millions of consumers buy online instead of walking into a store, where numerous digital platforms create a complete ecosystem. .

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Do the Benefits of Globalization Outweigh the Geopolitical Problems It Has Helped Create?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Nuthawut Somsuk Economic Counselor and the Director of Research of the IMF Pierre Olivier Gourinchas’ warning from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook in October 2022 underlined the significant slowdown in the global economy – and the reliance on global trade to function. It raised questions about whether the many benefits of globalization outweigh the geopolitical problems it has helped create.

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Global Hiring Guide for Startups

Grow your startup beyond borders and boundaries. Global expansion is the ultimate goal for many startup founders. However, to successfully enter new markets and grow internationally, you need a sound and scalable global recruitment strategy. In this eBook, you’ll discover how you can gain a competitive edge over your business rivals through the latest technology, harnessing global contractors, and using a global employment platform.

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RampRate is B Certified Corp! The accolade is a clear sign our business is on the right track

RampRate

Join us on LinkedIn - Facebook - Twitter - Google Plus. RampRate is a B Certified Corporation. B Corp Certification is a recognition of the arduous work we’ve been doing to create a better world as one of the top consulting, sourcing, and advising firms in the world. It took us three years to cross the finish line, yet here we are. B Corp certification is… Read More » RampRate is B Certified Corp!

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Designers Are Your Anchor In An Uncertain Economy

Forrester Digital Transformation

As we head into another year of economic uncertainty, panic and fear seem to be gripping many organizations. From mass layoffs in the tech sector to hiring freezes, the world of CX has a right to be concerned. However, given the shifts in design awareness and transitions over the last decade from “what it looks like” to “how it works” we predict that designers and the experience design community will be more important than ever.

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The future of banks: A $20 trillion breakup opportunity

McKinsey and Company

Banking is radically transforming. Many banks can thrive by fundamentally changing the way that financial services are embedded into daily life.

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12 Lessons Learned while Managing Corporate Innovation

Perficient Digital Transformation

The Road to Managing Corporate Innovation. I started out at an ad agency in southern Indiana in 2002. Our clients were interested in technology and our agency helped them find their way. At the same time, I was building the web development and digital strategy team within the agency. We began doing things intentionally with our clients, and it paid off.

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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.