June, 2022

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Put Your Computer Vision Models In “The Matrix” With Synthetic Data

Forrester Digital Transformation

As artificial intelligence charges forward on many fronts, computer vision continues to be one of, if not the most, critical method of connecting the real and digital worlds. Computer vision is now well out of niche implementations and use-cases and has mass-market appeal across industries and applications. Despite its usefulness, computer vision is hamstrung by […].

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Factors to Consider When Scaling to a Global Workforce

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Vadym Pastukh As Davis Nordell, technology senior analyst with RSM US LLP, writes, "The globalized economy and the possibilities of remote work mean companies are considering building international workforces. But you need to plan carefully for any international expansion. Despite the current problems plaguing supply chains, tech companies — especially those outside of the hardware sector — have limited exposure to or concern for supply chain risk.

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How the Digital Workforce Supports Accounting

Automation Anywhere

Finance and accounting is one of the many corporate functions that is undergoing a digital transformation. Intelligent automation in the form of a Digital Workforce is not only enhancing the productivity and efficiency of finance professionals but also improving accuracy and increasing cash flow. Today, a significant amount of time is occupied by simply processing data in manual spreadsheets.

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The next frontier for AI in China could add $600 billion to its economy

McKinsey and Company

By 2030, AI could disrupt transportation and other key sectors in China, adding significant economic value—but only if strategic cooperation and capability building occur across multiple dimensions.

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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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Azure Databricks – Capacity Planning for optimum Spark Cluster

Perficient Digital Transformation

Overview: Today the terminology “Data Analytics” becomes a buzz across all industries & enterprises. Every organization strongly believes Data Analytics greatly helps to get insight & accelerate the business strategies in order to grow & lead in their fast and ever-changing markets. Azure Databricks: Azure Databricks is a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform.

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How to Make the Best Decisions for Your Company and Measure What Matters

Intelligent Management Inc.

In the previous post we looked at interdependencies and establishing the goal of the system. In order to steer our system in the right direction we have to know how to make the right decisions. To do this it is essential that we be capable of assessing to what extent our system is achieving its goal. In other words, we have to be able to measure the system.

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Overcommunicating Is Essential in Our World

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/metamorworks In March, Global Business Fellows (GBF) students presented their final consulting report to executives at Uber in Madrid, Spain, as part of their Global Business Experience course (GBE). “My biggest takeaway from working with a foreign client was that sometimes overcommunicating is essential,” said [Lindsay (SFS’22) Bing [a member of a student team that consulted for Uber on three different business challenges in the areas of commercial partnerships and customer experience].

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Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Connection to Automation

Automation Anywhere

Since the term “Internet of Things” was coined in 1999, there’s been a lot of noise around it and its impact on our personal and business lives. From the way we shop and travel to the way manufacturers monitor and manage inventory to the way farmers keep track of their livestock, IoT has transformed life in many areas and gone from just a crazy vision to an essential reality.

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How technology is shaping learning in higher education

McKinsey and Company

New McKinsey research shows that students and faculty are eager to continue using new classroom learning technologies adopted during the pandemic, but institutions could do more to support the shift.

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Sitecore Infrastructure in Multiple Regions

Perficient Digital Transformation

Sitecore is capable of serving traffic from multiple regions from your cloud provider of choice. Why bother though? It’s a good question because Sitecore in multiple regions is more complex, more expensive to host and more work to maintain. If your organization is using Sitecore XP to its fullest (although there are other options today), you can’t cache HTML at the edge using a CDN.

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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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How to Retain Relocating Talent

Globalization Partners

Companies invest a significant amount of money and time recruiting and onboarding top talent for key positions. Therefore, it makes sense to invest in retaining valuable employees, particularly during a time when the job market is in the hands of the employee versus the employer. With the onset of remote work and an increase in international job opportunities, professionals’ job searches are no longer limited to the local area — borders are no longer boundaries to finding work.

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Actionable Insights and Metrics That Unlock Channel Sales Growth

Forrester Digital Transformation

Importance Of Channel Sales Metrics Today, actionable insights are the backbone of channel sales organizations. Collecting the right data and transforming it into actionable insights enables channel sales leaders to spot risks, find opportunities for growth, and make smarter decisions. In other words, tracking the right metrics could mean the difference between hitting your channel […].

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Entertaining Diversions

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/DisobeyArt Although evolution has hard-wired us to be negative, we have the ability to change by adopting new thought patterns and "entertaining diversions" that can help us to accentuate the positive. How do we define happiness and can we actively make ourselves happy? The happiest people benefit from close social connections and resilience against life's complications, according to scientists and researchers on the subject, and there are clear steps we can take to improve our chances o

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How Do AI and RPA Work Together?

Automation Anywhere

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have a lot in common. They’re both increasingly popular technologies, with enterprise installations accelerating year after year. They both promise to revolutionize companies striving for digital transformation. And they both, until now, have been relegated to silos within organizations, requiring highly skilled — yet scarce — practitioners to successfully deploy them.

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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 importance of purpose: An interview with Acha Leke

McKinsey and Company

A senior partner in McKinsey’s Johannesburg office and chairman of the firm’s Africa region shares his views on purpose, untraditional paths, and why people must be not only good mentors but also good protégés.

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Perficient Named a 2022 Top Workplace in St. Louis

Perficient Digital Transformation

We are honored to announce that Perficient has once again been named a Top Workplace by the St. Louis Post Dispatch ! It is with integrity, pride, and a driven team of colleagues that we are able to call ourselves a Top Workplace. “It’s an honor to be recognized as a Top Workplace again in 2022. Our team’s selfless nature and dedication is truly inspirational and something I’m that I am honored to be a part of.” Brian Conway, St.

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How to Create a Positive Customer Service Experience for Your Brand

Influx

Gone are the days of long wait times, incomplete answers, and mediocre resolutions. Well, at least that’s the way it needs to be if you want your brand to succeed in this era of customer experience. After all, it only takes a few bad reviews or negative customer experiences to cause some serious damage to your company’s reputation. . Estimates of poor customer service cost companies between $75 billion to $1.6 trillion annually (NewVoiceMedia).

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What’s New In EMEA Mobile Banking

Forrester Digital Transformation

Mobile banking apps are a crucial component of the overall banking experience. To identify mobile banking best practices, we reviewed the mobile apps of 13 EMEA banking brands in March and April of 2022 for both functionality and user experience.

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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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Ryan Heath Says Globalization Isn’t Over, It’s Just Outgrowing the World Economic Forum

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Peach_iStock As Ryan Heath, Editorial Director of Global Growth for Politico says, "Once upon a time globalization was mostly about economics: intensifying trade, falling tariffs, outsourcing and the rise of multinational brands." He goes on to say, "No longer. Today political risk is multiplying and power is decentralizing, changing globalization with it.

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10 European offshore wind projects to watch

Airswift

Source: MR1805/iStock. Europe can top 4GW for the first time and more than double offshore wind capacity additions seen in 2021, the best year ever for the global offshore wind industry. The ‘old continent’ is the world’s most mature region in the sector and has been a pioneer over the last decade. The region was responsible for 50.4% of total cumulative global offshore wind installations, followed by Asia with 49.5% market share.

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Fear factor: Overcoming human barriers to innovation

McKinsey and Company

Worries about failure, criticism, and career impact hold back many people from embracing innovation. Here’s how to create a culture that accounts for the human side of innovation.

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Optimizely CMS 12 – Dependency Injection(DI) – StructureMap vs ASP.Net Core

Perficient Digital Transformation

If you are upgrading to Optimizely CMS 12, one of the breaking changes to consider is the change to the Dependency Injection(DI) framework. Earlier versions of Optimizely CMS had their own DI hosting framework that supported other concrete DI implementations, like StructureMap. With CMS 12 and ASP.Net Core, DI framework is built into the system. We can still register and use other third party implementations, but the recommendation is to use the built in DI framework.

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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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Six lessons from Xander Schauffele’s sixth career PGA Tour title

Hyland

Xander Schauffele is one of the best golfers in the world. His resume — which in the last year has added an Olympic gold medal, a Ryder Cup championship and yet another top-five finish in the FedEx Cup — speaks for itself. The Hyland brand ambassador didn’t need to win the Travelers Championship to establish himself as one of the elite players on the PGA Tour.

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Three Ideas To Make Your Messaging A Hit With Buyers

Forrester Digital Transformation

Enticing plot, captivating characters, and spellbinding world-building are all examples of what may come to mind when thinking about what we love most in a good television show. These elements are carefully crafted by screenwriters in the writer’s room, who meet and brainstorm how to deliver the most engaging experience. B2B marketers could learn a thing or two from these writers, especially when it comes to building and enabling effective messaging.

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A Bicycle Ride Around the World

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke." – Scott Stoll, a Community Professor who travelled around the world on his bicycle.

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4 Reasons Why Global Payroll is the bedrock of EOR

Neeyamo

Recent analysis indicates that remote work is here to stay. By the end of 2022, 25% of all professional positions in North America will be remote , and opportunities for remote work will continue to increase through 2023. With the increase in remote work , accurate reporting and local labor law compliance are among the many aspects that factor into payroll calculations.

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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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Sustainable and inclusive growth: A weekly briefing

McKinsey and Company

A new era is possible—one that sees growth and societal benefits as complementary goals that reinforce each other. Our weekly digest of McKinsey insights explores the topic.

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4 Common Application Modernization Myths

Perficient Digital Transformation

In my last post on the Application Modernization Journey , we discussed the three questions organizations should ask before starting App Modernization Programs: the “Why, How, and What” App Modernization Programs help us to realize the benefits when they are executed well keeping the “Why” in target during every phase of the program.

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What is low-code app development? We break it down for you

Hyland

In this piece: What is low-code app development? Low-code vs. pro-code: A head-to-head comparison. Key features of low-code apps. Low-code use cases. Agility is the key to smart, strategic growth, especially in uncertain times. You’ve likely heard or read variations of this line multiple times, but how do you achieve this almost mythical agility? The short answer: With a low-code platform.

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If you can say it, you can see it: Dall-E and You

Forrester Digital Transformation

Or, “How a natural-language image generation AI used as a meme generator by social media may impact your business.” Welcome to the future, it’s got AI-generated art. Let’s play a quick game – which of the below images were made by an AI system generating images based on word prompts? Let’s pretend you guessed […].

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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.