November, 2020

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How to Adjust Your Legal Practice to the New Normal

Magellan Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, and continues to affect us all. Now, we are living in a new kind of normal. And everyone, including law firms must adjust accordingly. But any change can fill us with uncertainties. You might ask yourself: what exactly are these changes? And how deep are its effects on me and my business? Most of all, how do you ensure success despite this new predicament?

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Identifying Automation Opportunities for Life Sciences

Automation Anywhere

Life sciences companies began the year 2020 with significant challenges, including COVID-19. The virus created an instant demand to fast-track products without sacrificing quality and profitability and to ensure continuity of medical supplies. Add to that challenge the increasing pressure on life sciences companies from generics. Development and manufacturing costs were increasing, along with customer expectations.

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What is Ecommerce and How Can it Enhance your Business

Jonajo Blog

Did you know that by 2040, 95% of all purchases are expected to be via ecommerce? Ecommerce is one of the fastest growing revenue streams for businesses. As of 2017 China (the world’s fastest-growing ecommerce market) had an estimated value of $672 billion. Sounds like a huge opportunity that you don’t want to miss out on, doesn’t it? But what is it?

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Top Benefits of a Vendor Neutral Managed Services Provider (MSP)

https://www.hcmworks.com/blog

When procurement departments first got involved with managing an increasingly growing contingent workforce , they were often tasked by executive teams to reduce costs. The initial premise was that procuring people, with specific skills and intellectual capital, was not unlike procuring any other needed resource. Procurement traditionally concentrated on cost, risk, and measurement, and this competency was extended to staffing contingent workers.

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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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Mastering Human and Business Development

RampRate

Join us on LinkedIn - Facebook - Twitter - Google Plus. Intros that Elevate the Universe’s Energy: The Checklist As a kid in Minnesota, I introduced my friends to the best stuff: the 7-Eleven with the slushiest Slurpee, the shiniest guitar picks, and the finest baseball gloves. So I’m not surprised to find that, today, I have considered a walking trusted resource for all kinds of… Read More » Mastering Human and Business Development.

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What really lies in the Future of Risk Management?

Risk Guide

By Horst Simon, The Risk Culture Builder. Maybe the time has come to finally take the people side out of Risk Management—let us change the Basle definition and say Operational Risk is just systems, processes and external events, that is anyway the perception that was followed by most in the world. Even after the publication of the IRM’s Guidance papers on Risk Culture and the later study by the London School of Economics, the whole world is still adjusting to the people thing at a snail’s pace.

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How to Boost your Business with Data Engineers

Automation Anywhere

It’s no secret that businesses search far and wide for ways to gain an edge over the competition. Sometimes, getting that advantage is a matter of making the right hire—namely, in this case, a data engineer. What is data engineering? The role of the data engineer is to mine data. They use their skillset to build architectures such as databases and processing systems to extract value from the data, which can then can be used to add value to a business.

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You Need to Use Social Media for Your Business

Jonajo Blog

Is it just me or does it seem like everyone and their mother is interested in marketing some product or service on social media? From the constant self-promotion of multi-level marketing companies to the viral tweets of fast-food chains, all levels, sizes and types of businesses are taking advantage of social media. But why? How come some businesses thrive on social media while others flop?

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5 Common Contingent Workforce Management Mistakes, and How to Fix Them

https://www.hcmworks.com/blog

Are you responsible for managing your organization's. contingent workforce ? If so, you'll no doubt be continuously trying to maximize efficiencies and cut costs in order to increase profitability. To do this successfully, you need to address some common contingent workforce challenges. In this blog, HCMWorks will take a look at the five most common contingent workforce challenges that are wasting money for your business - and what you can do to fix those issues and become more profitable.

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Is It Time to Move on From GDP? Here’s Why Some Experts Say Yes

Velocity Global

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global economies and changes how companies think about everything from remote work to international supply chains. As countries around the world reconsider their business processes, some experts challenge another long-accepted practice: using GDP (gross domestic product) as the primary metric for assessing international economies.

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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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Customize Sirion Forms and Workflows: No Code Required

SirionLabs

The average cycle time for building custom software usually ranges between 4-12 months from requirement capture to testing and final deployment. The timeline could stretch either way depending on how complex the build is. But in the era of SaaS, custom software development is quickly becoming a thing of past with developers building, testing, and deploying new enhancements in the cloud every couple of weeks or so.

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Why should software engineers think about product development in 2021?

comeMakeit

2020 has changed the scope and scale of many businesses. To sustain the pandemic, many local and diverse businesses are shifting online. They are looking for new collaborations as they change their traditional working styles. With Software enterprises increasingly productizing their services, software products either become a web platform or a part of a platform.

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Identifying Automation Opportunities for Human Resources

Automation Anywhere

Human resources (HR) departments are fast-rising stars when it comes to successfully deploying Robotic Process Automation ( RPA ). A case in point: RPA deployments for HR shot up by 50 percent between 2019 and 2020, according to the 2019-2020 Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey. On the demand side, HR organizations are hungry for automation. HR has many standardized manual processes that are slow and cumbersome to perform and delay providing services for employees.

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Rich Functionality, Expanded Marketplaces, Boosting Adoption of CRM Suites

Avasant

Press Releases. Rich Functionality, Expanded Marketplaces, Boosting Adoption of CRM Suites. LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 23, 2020. The CRM market is changing. Today most CRM suite vendors are offering modular sales, customer service, and marketing functions, enabling organizations to pick solutions that are best tailored to meet their needs. They are also expanding their offerings with plug-and-play apps, which enables enterprises to customize and extend the functionality of CRM suites.

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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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The Best Practices to Attract and Retain Legal Clients

Magellan Solutions

Law firms are also businesses. They need to attract and retain clients. But just like in any other business, these tasks are often challenging. Strengthening your legal marketing strategy is an option. But this would need a lot of effort. And it can also affect your focus on core activities. So, how do you remedy this? How can you attract and retain clients without sacrificing your operations?

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Are Financial Services Reaching for the Cloud?

3Pillar Global

Financial services firms have a long-standing reputation for being laggards when it comes to embracing digital technologies. Historically, that hesitation comes from the unique challenges of operating in a tightly-regulated space with a whole host of security risks–and the high cost of failing to meet the demands that come with the territory. However, attitudes are changing, and cloud computing in banking and financial services is the “new normal,” thanks to a few key drivers shaking up th

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Portfolio Company Pitfalls: Common Global Expansion Obstacles that Delay or Inhibit Venture Capital ROI

Velocity Global

For venture capital firms, one of the most effective ways to drive the value of your portfolio companies (portcos) is through international expansion. Doing so compliantly, however, requires extensive due diligence and a strategy to support sustainable growth. As an investor that recognizes the rare potential in entrepreneurs and strives to help them build iconic brands, it’s critical for you to be actively involved in their global growth approach.

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How can you secure your applications with Keycloak

comeMakeit

Information Technology firms use many applications and service providers while developing software products or while providing various software services. An Identity and access management (IAM) Framework is essential in every firm to ensure only authorized users, programs, and devices access critical applications. By using dependable and easy IAM frameworks like Keycloak companies can secure their applications and manage users across the organization.

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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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How AI Is Changing the Landscape of Business Process Automation

Automation Anywhere

The complexity of business processes today consumes the valuable time of most business professionals. With the help of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), organizations are automating manual business processes at a record pace to ensure that professionals are spending more time doing value-added tasks and less time on repetitive work. But for RPA bots to truly augment the human workforce, they need to think, read, and act like humans—basically mimicking human behavior.

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Blended Customer Service Offers More

Working Solutions Outsourcing

In our COVID-19 world, customer service shouldn’t be an either-or proposition—onsite or virtual. Rather, given the circumstances, exceptional service requires blending physical capabilities with virtual resources for optimal outcomes in a hybrid model. That’s the point made by chief executive Kim Houlne of Working Solutions in her Retail Touchpoints viewpoint, “Rethinking Retail Customer Service for […].

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How to Improve the Legal Research Quality in Your Firm

Magellan Solutions

When an ordinary person thinks about what law firms do, research is not what they have in mind. And yet, legal research is integral in any legal practice. It’s necessary for litigation support, and strengthening a case. But, it’s not a core activity, so it’s often taken for granted. So, how do you improve the research quality of your legal practice?

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On-Prem to Cloud: Don’t Forget about the People

3Pillar Global

Co-authored by Aaron Rivera, Jeff Powers, and Angel Almada. Cloud computing is here to stay. Fundamental services such as email, single sign-on authentication, and folder / file storage have broadly migrated to the cloud in recent years. Providers of commercial ERP, CRM, and people management solutions are focusing major enhancements within their cloud versions, triggering a migration upon next major upgrades.

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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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Four Reasons for Economic Optimism in the UK After Brexit

Velocity Global

Brexit created much uncertainty in the business world after it passed in 2016. Though the United Kingdom (UK) officially left the European Union (EU) in January of 2020, the two entities are now in an official transition period while attempting to reach a trade deal to take effect on January 1, 2021. It is unclear whether the two sides will agree on a deal before the transition period ends.

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How to Manage Your Independent Contractor Payroll

https://www.hcmworks.com/blog

Today’s businesses need to be more flexible than ever. With increased competition and rapidly changing market conditions, organizations across the world are focusing on creating agile workforces made up of both employee and non-employee workers.

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Top 5 Questions Answered About RPA Security and Use for Government

Automation Anywhere

The general benefits of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are well known at this point. RPA reduces costs, boosts efficiency, shifts repetitive, tedious work to software robots ("bots"), and promotes employees from doing manual, low-value tasks to high-value work. To add to this list, according to Deloitte, global organizations are achieving ROI within 12 short months.

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Why Empathetic Care is Vital for Successful Telehealth Interactions

Working Solutions Outsourcing

As client service professionals, we know creating a successful customer journey is imperative to achieving positive business outcomes, yet in a constantly changing world, it’s challenging. As the telehealth industry accelerates change during a worldwide pandemic, interacting with patients in a supportive, empathetic way is key to authentic customer/provider relationships.

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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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Video – International hiring: understanding risk with independent contractors and alternatives

UnaTerra

Recorded on 15th September 2020. (UnaTerra regularly hosts webinars on. Read more. The post Video – International hiring: understanding risk with independent contractors and alternatives appeared first on UnaTerra.

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Avasant is Proud to Sponsor Innovate@UCLA Distinguished Executive Leadership Awards

Avasant

Press Releases. Avasant is Proud to Sponsor Innovate@UCLA Distinguished Executive Leadership Awards. November 10, 2020. Innovate@UCLA , a member-based executive IT leadership organization , announced four honorees today for its annual Executive Leadership Awards in the Public Sector, Community Impact, Corporate Enterprise, and Emerging Tech categories.

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Call Center Vendor Management and Virtual Due Diligence in the Age of COVID-19

Customer Serv Outsource Smarter

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, but it has not slowed down the need for clients to consider their outsourcing options, select new vendors or evaluate in-house vs. outsourced call centers. In fact, in some sectors, the demand to optimize service delivery has fueled new vendor searches.

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Applied AI Primer : Execute AI workloads at Scale

comeMakeit

Overview AI/ML are now essential to businesses to deliver value to customers, optimise decision making and to provide a clear edge in a competitive landscape. As the advances in core AI/ML technology becomes more and more available and consumable it is apparent that organisations need to leverage this for themselves at a faster pace. Today in almost every domain that we can think of AI/ML can help solve some of the intractable issues which couldn’t be solved earlier.

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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.