July, 2022

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Working with an offshore development company vs freelancers

The Scalers

CONTENTS Choosing a partner you can count on Building a long-term relationship Leveraging software development expertise Protecting intellectual property and data Offering quality assurance Scaling your business on demand Offshore development company vs freelancers: which to choose? When developing software overseas an organisation often has a few choices — to work with an offshore development company , an outsourcing vendor, or sometimes freelancers hired via an external party.

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Pieces of Advice on How to Outsource Your Recruitment Program

Outsource Workers

Remote work might be on everyone’s lips right now, but it’s not a new concept by all means. Ever since the 1970s and the rise of telecommuting, we’ve had one or another form of remote work present in the world. Today, all a worker needs to have a stable job is an internet connection and a way to look for employment. This phenomenon motivated companies to start hiring people from all over the world since the restrictions of geography were no longer important.

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Port In The Storm: Takeaways From Amazon’s Q2 2022 Earnings

Forrester Digital Transformation

After years of spending lavishly on growth, Amazon cut costs in Q2 2022, reducing headcount by 6% and, according to CEO Andy Jassy, “improving the productivity of [its] fulfillment network.” As a result, Amazon reported a $2 billion loss, marking the business’s second consecutive quarterly loss, which hasn’t happened since 2014. Amazon’s revenue rose 7.2% […].

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Freight Rates Decline, But Not By Much

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/SHansche Yes, you read that right. Freight rates decline as demand wavers. Shippers are trying to reset contract agreements to cut expenses, but costs remain several times higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic. The reduction in transportation costs is good news for manufacturers and retailers after two years of rapidly rising expenses. It also suggests the contribution of the freight sector to inflation is at least leveling off.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

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

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5 BIG IDEAS: What’s driving CommunityLIVE 2022?

Hyland

We’re building the CommunityLIVE event experience around the topics that support your digital evolution. Join the Hyland community in Nashville, September 11 – 15, for this once-a-year opportunity to get exclusive updates and insight as you take your organization to the next level. Quick links for CommunityLIVE: Register for CommunityLIVE. Agenda | Session Finder.

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The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

McKinsey and Company

People keep quitting at record levels, yet companies are still trying to attract and retain them the same old ways. New research identifies five types of workers that employers can reach to fill jobs.

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22 Unique Employee Benefits To Attract Global Talent

Velocity Global

Talented employees look for more than the traditional benefits package. Now that remote work has put the entire world at their fingertips, applicants have more options. Aflac reported that 38% of employees think that a comprehensive benefits package shows that their employer cares. So, to stay competitive, you’ll need to offer creative employee benefits that other employers aren’t.

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These 5 Universal Truths About CX Have Lasted 22 Years And Counting

Forrester Digital Transformation

Recently I looked back ten years to the publication of Outside In, a comprehensive take on customer experience that I co-authored with Kerry Bodine. The book was based on a dozen years of research conducted by Forrester’s CX research team up to that time. Although a lot has changed in the last 22 years, I […].

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Global Small Businesses Should Become Future Ready

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/gustavofrazao Olivier M. Schwab, Managing Director, World Economic Forum says : SMEs - small- and medium-sized enterprises- represent about 90% of all firms globally and about 70% of employment and of GDP, according to some estimates. So at an aggregate level, these businesses play a significant role in enabling and shaping the nature of growth, innovation and sustainability of our global, regional and local economies.

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Hire a Dedicated Web Development Team: A Detailed Guide

Groove Technology

The software and services sector has historically had a number of quick-moving innovations, and IT companies are constantly working to keep up with or even get ahead of their rivals in this market. And in that race, hiring a professional dedicated web development team from the outside has always been a viable alternative that many businesses worldwide favor as a cost-effective fix.

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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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Best of both worlds: Balancing digital and physical channels in retail banking

McKinsey and Company

Banking distribution needs to account for the evolving interdependencies between channels. Accelerating digital and upgrading the physical experience to “phygital” offers a viable solution.

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Top 5 Enterprise Firewalls CTOs Trust

31 West

Can you guess what might be the prime concern of today’s CTOs? Reportedly, over the past 10 years, there have been 300 network and data breaches involving the theft of 100,000 or more records. And that’s our answer! Managing network and information security, if failed, has the potential to put one in a dicey situation. Ending up as a fiasco. So, what is Enterprise Firewall and how can it help?

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Introduction to Google Analytics – A Guide for Beginners

Perficient Digital Transformation

A guide towards an entry to Google Analytics with Naeem Sheikh. What is Google Analytics? Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that will help in tracking website traffic and generate an easy understandable report to analyze the performance of your website. It is basically divided into five major report i.e. Realtime report Audience report, Acquisition report, Behavior report and Conversion report.

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Is Your Data Culture Future Fit Or Foolish?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Learn how to create a scalable data culture in your organization in this sneak peek of our upcoming Technology & Innovation North America event.

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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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Use Feedback to Drive You Further

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Kenstocker Co-founder, Screwball Whiskey , Brittany Merrill Peng says, “Each person faces unique challenges as an entrepreneur. I have heard comments that could have gotten me down, but instead I try to use them to drive me further,” said Merrill Yeng. “I may not be able to change the world but hopefully I can change the minds of some of the people I interact with.

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Outsourcing vs. Outstaffing IT Models: What’s The Difference?

Groove Technology

IT outsourcing and outstaffing models have developed to service businesses worldwide. While both strategies essentially work in the same way—remote developers employed by a different (non-your) organization assist you with the jobs your in-house team is unable to complete—they are not the same. Discerning the right strategy for your projects can be aided by understanding the distinctions between outsourcing and outstaffing models.

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US summer travel 2022

McKinsey and Company

McKinsey’s recent US travel survey shows that leisure travel is booming, and this summer many people are planning to take their vacations “no matter what”.

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Top 6 IT Challenges in Hospitality Business

31 West

Once upon a time, there was a renowned Lodging Services Corporation. It lost its customers’ credit or debit cards, card numbers and their security codes to a data breach! The End. What you just read might sound like a story but it’s not! Hospitality Industry has been a constant target to the cybercriminals for its vast potential for revenue. It’s just “mo’ money, mo’ problems”.

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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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Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using Blue Prism

Perficient Digital Transformation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Robotics is nothing but computers that imitate human actions, the process is a series of steps which mainly lead to some meaningful task, Automation means any task which is done without human intervention is known to be automated. Some common RPA examples and use cases we encounter include automation of data entry, data extraction, and invoice processing.

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Blockchain For CEOs

Forrester Digital Transformation

CEOs often ask me: “What is blockchain, and what impact will it have?” After tapping into Forrester’s research, here’s my answer.

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Global Tech Takes On the World

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/ipopba Attractive startup ecosystems for top tech talent are blossoming across the globe. In the last year alone, AngelList Talent has had nearly 500K international candidates look for jobs on their platform. If an up-and-coming ecosystem sounds like the place you want to be, check out their recommendations for hot places to work in tech in 2022.

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Hire remote Node.JS developer

Groove Technology

People have gradually recognized the benefits of remote working for more than a decade. Startups and large corporations are hiring employees through this new state of employment, particularly since the appearance of COVID-19. According to a recent Deloitte study, businesses must make work portable because of these rapid changes. Node.JS has grown in popularity among developers, resulting in remote Node.JS developer jobs.

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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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Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh

McKinsey and Company

The leader of a cutting-edge institute talks about innovative new materials that “eat” carbon and may enable cotton growing without irrigation, as well as the potential for building the world’s shortest supply chain in two 40-foot containers.

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What Is A Phishing Attack, And How To Prevent It?

31 West

A phishing attack involves social engineering where the attackers dupe people to steal confidential data. The hostiles mainly aim for credit card details and login credentials. In this type of cyber-attack , the enemies pretend to be a trusted body. They mislead victims to open an email or text message that carries malware. As soon as the recipient clicks the malicious link, the installation of malware starts.

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How to Implement Row Level Security in Power BI- Static RLS

Perficient Digital Transformation

What is RLS? . RLS is Row Level security means restriction of data accessing for a particular user. Filters restrict the data at a row level. We can configure RLS for a dataset that we have imported into the Power BI desktop and can configure RLS in Power BI Service by defining the roles in the Power BI desktop. If you have a fixed list of users and a static number of dimensions then the Static RLS method will work.

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Exercise Executive Empathy To Get Stakeholders Excited About CX

Forrester Digital Transformation

How can CX leaders gain funding? Develop executive empathy: Determine stakeholder priorities, connect CX to these existing priorities, and communicate the value of CX.

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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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Strengthening Global Small Businesses

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/KikeArnaiz A total of $1 million in grant funds was awarded by the Strive Community to enterprises developing innovative, scalable solutions to strengthen small businesses' digital capabilities. The eight awardees are from across the globe. Learn who they are here.

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How can offshoring JavaScript Development benefit your business?

Groove Technology

Did you know that JavaScript is the most used language for developing online applications? It is, in fact, supported by all major browsers and has a plethora of integration options. Create applications tailored to your needs using sophisticated JavaScript technologies. You may use it to make your website more interactive, user-friendly, and visually appealing.

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Building decarbonization: How electric heat pumps could help reduce emissions today and going forward

McKinsey and Company

The electrification of heating systems could play a significant role in the transition to net zero—and heat pumps are emerging as a solution.

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5 Biggest Cyber-Attacks & How Much Did It Cost Companies?

31 West

If we study history, the relationship between crime and technology is old. The hardware used to implement new technological developments has changed over time. Still, the basic principles of crime remain the same, especially where technology is embedded in the chain of trust. The cat-and-mouse game between the offender and the investigator is ongoing.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

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?