November, 2021

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The Leaves Grow Old

The Global Small Business Blog

©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." – John Burroughs.

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The President’s New Management Agenda Has A Clear Approach To Strengthen Customer Experience (CX)

Forrester Digital Transformation

The new PMA has three priorities: employee experience, customer experience, and managing the business of government. In this blog post I evaluate the CX priority and offer advice to implement it.

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15 Ways to Increase E-commerce Conversion Rate

Groove Technology

E-commerce conversions are recorded when someone takes the desired action on your website. This is usually a sale, although sometimes this can mean adding an item to your wish list, shopping cart, or subscribing to your newsletter. So, your e-commerce conversion rate is the process of optimizing your website for more purchases, cart items, etc. In addition, consumers sometimes see online shopping sites as a place to gather information rather than buy.

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RPA in action: How non-developers are using bots to improve processes

Hyland

... The post RPA in action: How non-developers are using bots to improve processes appeared first on The Hyland Blog.

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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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Building value-chain resilience with AI

McKinsey and Company

Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges.

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Is Your Company Confusing Work at Home with Remote Work?

Globalization Partners

Did you know that your team members who work at home are not working remotely? In a world where companies had to quickly transition to work outside of the office, understanding remote work environments can present a challenge if want to set a clear remote work policy. Many companies think of remote work as an all-encompassing term that is directly related to working from home.

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Will Your B2B Content Meet Buyer Expectations In 2022?

Forrester Digital Transformation

It’s nearly the end of the year, so it’s the perfect time to reflect on your accomplishments while planning ahead. Now is also a good time to review the content you published during 2021 and ask some key questions about it. Does your content include data and tech expertise that buyers want? Was it created […].

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When The Dedicated Development Team Model is Worth Considered

Groove Technology

Nowadays, outsourcing is considered the best option for all types of businesses to register new digital ideas or modernize existing technology solutions. Businesses worldwide are now realizing the importance of adapting to rapid changes in the technology sector. As a result, many businesses have adopted the model of hiring dedicated and remote developers as a way to scale projects with new technology initiatives.

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Perficient Lands a Spot on Chicago Tribune’s 2021 Top Workplaces List

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient is pleased to announce that we have landed a spot on the Chicago Tribune’s 2021 Top Workplaces list! This is the third time our Chicago team has won this distinction. It’s also their second award win of the year (check out their Best & Brightest award )! Behind the Awards. The Top Workplace list is based solely on employee feedback.

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IoT value set to accelerate through 2030: Where and how to capture it

McKinsey and Company

New research shows that the Internet of Things offers significant economic value potential, particularly in standardized production settings, but companies must achieve scale to capture it.

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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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How to save money with a Call Center in Mexico?

Redial

Don’t worry anymore about the large investment of a call center, outsourcing in Mexico can reduce costs by 50% per year. If you are considering outsourcing services to reduce operating costs or optimize your administration efforts, you are in the right place. Besides helping expand your business to provide a seamless customer experience, outsourcing a call center can have many advantages.

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Going Global: Best Practices For Reaching Key Stakeholders with Pamela Passman, APCO New York

The Global Small Business Blog

©2021 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. How do you identify, align and prioritize the most critical issues—including business, regulatory and reputational opportunities and threats at your business? How do you identify and prioritize the stakeholders, decision makers and influencers that have the power to affect those issues, and therefore influence your operations and growth?

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Weekly Usage Of TikTok Surpasses Instagram Among US Gen Z Youth

Forrester Digital Transformation

Instagram is becoming cheugy for Gen Z youth. Forrester just got data back from its Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® US Youth Survey, 2021, which shows a 13-point year-over-year increase in weekly usage of TikTok (from 50% to 63%) among US Gen Z youth (ages 12–17). For that same audience base, Instagram weekly usage declined 4 […].

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How Learning and Development Teams Can Leverage an eLearning Solutions Provider

Groove Technology

The benefits of eLearning today go far beyond referrals, knowledge transfer, and compliance training – it can be a powerful tool for attracting and retaining your best staff and for developing new skills. The larger the organization, the more disparate the staff, and the more competitive the business landscape, the greater the need to seek every possible competitive advantage.

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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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Industry Slant // Bo Berg Talks Giant Schnauzers, DJing, Financial Services

Perficient Digital Transformation

Bo Berg is a director in Perficient’s financial services practice. He has more than 20 years of experience leading digital transformation initiatives for financial institutions. Bo Berg joins Eugene Sefanov and Madeline McDermott for a Microsoft Teams chat . Denmark, Dogs, & DJing. Madeline McDermott: First things first. Where were you born? Bo Berg: Copenhagen.

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The economic impact of ageism

McKinsey and Company

New research quantifies the struggles that midcareer workers—those 45 and over—worldwide face and suggests possible interventions to level the playing field.

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How an inbound call center can save you money

Redial

Today, most of the Sales Call Centers offer Inbound Call Center. Through an Inbound Call Center, support services are handled in real-time; inquiries are attended through multiple channels; This feature helps improve the customer experience through excellent service; allows the expansion of the customer base at a low cost. First of all, we must see that it is a tool and this Company is a very profitable solution and should not be represented as an expense, but as a long-term investment, actually

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Buy It On the Spot

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/AvigatorPhotographer At first glance, you wouldn’t know the impact the global supply chain crisis has had on global small businesses. They are facing delays and high supply chain costs. They’re going up, a lot, and invoices are coming with surprises. Take a look at some of the experiences small businesses are sharing. Their best advice to consumers?

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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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Predictions 2022: Leaders Who Embrace Trust Set The Bar For New Sustainability And AI Goals

Forrester Digital Transformation

Forrester predicts that 2022 will see the rise of the chief trust officer, bias bounties, decentralized digital identities, and the Climate Pledge Initiative.

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Top 8 Key Elements of a Smart Extended Enterprise Learning Solution

Groove Technology

Extended Enterprise Learning (EE) is any training effort aimed at people other than your employees to influence measurable behavior change. Every industry globally uses some form of EE learning, and they all share a fundamental challenge. Extended business users are voluntary users and therefore should be treated differently – better than employees.

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Perficient Chennai & Bangalore: Covid Vaccination Drive

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient India as part of its efforts to support colleagues through the pandemic took the initiative to conduct covid vaccination drives for its colleagues. Colleagues could register and get themselves and their families vaccinated with ease, in a safe and comfortable space. Furthermore, Perficient reimbursed the cost of vaccination, not only for colleagues but for their family too.

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Being transgender at work

McKinsey and Company

Although corporate America has stepped up its public support of LGBTQ+ rights, it still has a long road ahead to foster a truly inclusive environment for transgender employees.

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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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Velocity Global’s 2022 Work In Progress Report: Businesses and talent benefit from distributed work

Velocity Global

DENVER, November 19, 2021 —. 1,000 surveyed tech leaders say distributed work increases productivity and diversity. Most remote talent to remain untethered to an office post-pandemic. Tech leaders desire to increase remote work for themselves. 72% utilize a distributed workforce but face hurdles to expand it. Remote and distributed workforces are here to stay due to the mutual benefits to both businesses and talent according to a new study from Velocity Global, the leading provider of global emp

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Not Many Are Left Unscathed From Global Supply Chain Snags, Especially Global Small Businesses

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Stock photo and footage With much of the world’s supply chain still tied in knots due to lingering effects from the global pandemic, many small business owners are finding they can’t buy the products and supplies they need, period. For smaller retailers in particular, many of which rely on the holiday season for the bulk of their sales, months of worry could result in a bleak November and December.

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Predictions 2022: Software Development Adapts To A New Normal

Forrester Digital Transformation

New expectations call for new processes and tools. Learn how software development will adapt to the new normal in 2022.

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e-Commerce Mobile App Development Cost in 2021

Groove Technology

In the context of increasing online sales, the e-Commerce industry is witnessing the most significant growth of the development of mobile solutions due to the need to satisfy customers’ desires. Consumers demand the freedom to buy goods and services anytime, anywhere, even on the go. As a result, many online shoppers prefer e-commerce mobile apps to websites because they offer high speed, convenience, and adaptability.

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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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Perficient Earns Title of Top Workplace 2021 in Detroit

Perficient Digital Transformation

We are proud to announce that Perficient has once again been named a 2021 Top Workplace in Michigan by The Detroit Free Press. It is an honor to be recognized as a Top Workplace. We believe our culture and dedicated colleagues make Perficient the leading digital consultancy. This is the third year in a row that Perficient has been recognized by The Detroit Free Press with additional awards in both 2019 and 2020.

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From the great attrition to the great adaptation

McKinsey and Company

To keep top talent in the fold, managers must actively change their leadership styles—focusing less on controls and more on culture and connections.

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A Brief Introduction to EWA

Immedus

Earned Wage Access (EWA), also known as real-time pay, on-demand pay, or early wage access, allows employees or contractors to access their pay before the designated pay date. In many ways, it is a leveraging of EY’s estimate that approximately $1 trillion is accrued in employer payroll accounts on any given day. As they see it, paying people before a designated pay date offers employees access to this resource in a way that is cost-efficient.

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Oh Those Black Friday Deals

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Vladyslava Yakovenko The USA Today folks have rounded up the best of the best Black Friday 2021 deals here. Check back often—they'll be adding new deals and updating their list with the latest sales and savings through Cyber Monday. Happy shopping ! And of course anything you buy they might very well receive a commission :-).

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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?