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Radically Transform the World

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." – Angela Davis.

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Predictions 2022: Anywhere-Commerce Will Unlock Massive Investments In Technology

Forrester Digital Transformation

In 2022, “anywhere commerce” will be the mantra as brands invest in tech to meet buyers in every possible shopping moment.

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Why micromobility is here to stay

McKinsey and Company

A new McKinsey survey suggests that consumers are open to micromobility solutions, but uptake will vary by country.

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Top Reasons to Consider Cloud Storage for Your Business

31 West

There are many people these days that decide to go into business for themselves whether this is on a full-time basis or part-time while still working for an employer. If this is something that you have decided to do, it is important to ensure you are prepared and have all the necessary tools, services, and solutions to get your business off the ground.

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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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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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Unknown Equals Unused: Fix Findability To Increase Content Usage

Forrester Digital Transformation

Buyers and sellers alike want immediate, relevant content, but often miss valuable but non-standard content that could advance the sale. Marketing and sales enablement can increase content usage by making sure file names convey unique value.

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How to Choose an LMS platform: 5-Step Comprehensive Guide

Groove Technology

The market for e-learning platforms is thriving and constantly evolving. In this forest of other tools and software, an LMS (Learning Management System) allows you to manage your training content and learners. However, it is still challenging to make a choice, as the range of LMS platform offerings is wide, and the decision to purchase a training platform will have an impact on your entire organization.

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Why Did Sweden Need a New Prime Minister?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/WDnet Within a week, Sweden's parliament has voted Magdalena Andersson in as its first woman prime minister, watched her resign seven hours later amidst political turmoil and waved her back into the job after a second vote. Why it all unfolded, and what could happen next, has highlighted the complexities of eight-party coalition politics in a divided nation.

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Unknown Equals Unused: Fix Findability to Increase Content Usage

Forrester Digital Transformation

Buyers and sellers alike want immediate, relevant content, but often miss valuable but non-standard content that could advance the sale. Marketing and sales enablement can increase content usage by making sure file names convey unique value.

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Deactivate your digital-marketing autopilot

McKinsey and Company

Relying on agencies and aggregators to manage your digital spend may trade competitive advantage for convenience. Companies like KFC are taking a different approach.

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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 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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Today in Global Small Business: Workers Tell It Like It Is on the Global Supply Chain Crisis

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/welcomia What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Workers telling it like it is on the global supply chain crisis. Worth of a read and an appreciation of what these folks are handling. So very sad to see that Chicago-based hair-care firm founder Chris-Tia Donaldson died November 13, 2021. She was a fireball of talent.

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How To Ensure Your Organization’s TEI Gets The Most Mileage

Forrester Digital Transformation

Make sure your TEI is meeting your organization where it’s currently at. The main objectives should be in-line with your organization’s strategy today, not tomorrow.

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Protecting workers through award-winning design

McKinsey and Company

3M and McKinsey Design have partnered to create a welding helmet that has transformed the daily lives of welders around the world. The product has won nearly a dozen international awards, including a 2021 “Best of the Best” Red Dot Award.

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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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Dallas High School Students Complete Inaugural Perficient-Hosted Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient Colleagues Volunteer to Train Aspiring Technology Enthusiasts. What happens when an interest is fueled by ambition and mentorship? For a group of Dallas high school students, it became a passion. Perficient recently wrapped our first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bootcamp with the Mark Cuban Foundation where Dallas area high school students learned the fundamentals of AI and machine learning.

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Buckle Up

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/AntonioGuillem Economists around the world are closely watching a resurgence of coronavirus cases across Europe for signs of what may be to come this winter. The global recovery from the pandemic remains intact. Consumer spending is still elevated as shoppers tap pent-up savings. But more than 20 months into the pandemic, reading the direction of the economy remains a difficult task, making it essential to keep close watch on fresh numbers.

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Auto Manufacturers, Love Them Or Hate Them – Human Touchpoints Aren’t Going Away

Forrester Digital Transformation

With Zaklina Ber, Senior Research Associate, Forrester In 2021, we surveyed customers in five European countries about their experiences with auto manufacturers during both the purchase and service experience. To understand and ultimately improve the quality of their customer experience (CX), auto manufacturers need to understand why the industry ranks the way it does.

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Author Talks: What happens to Americans when they lose their jobs?

McKinsey and Company

A new book shines a light on race, class, and American values and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social-justice movements.

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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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Taking Ownership: A Leader’s Best quality

VXI

Being an exceptional leader means having countless good qualities, but no leadership attribute is as outstanding and malleable to one’s values as ownership. Nowadays, taking ownership means more than being responsible and accountable. Ownership means being resolute, solving problems, withdrawing from liability, and owning the consequences of actions.

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Gentleman Givenchy from House of Givenchy

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/tupungato Gentleman Givenchy is a the newest creation by Nathalie Lorson and Olivier Cresp from House of Givenchy ; the eau de toilette is encompassed in woody floral aromatic notes, with bergamot, basil, and cardamom used to open up the fragrance. Scratch here to smell (wish we could make that happen!). For now, click here to read more.

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Fairness Is In The AI Of The Beholder

Forrester Digital Transformation

At this point, it’s abundantly clear that if we aren’t extremely careful, AI will identify and exploit harmful biases in training data. And AI-based discrimination — even if it’s unintentional — can have dire regulatory, reputational, and revenue impacts. Knowing this, many companies, governments, and NGOs have adopted “fairness” as a core principle for ethical […].

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What CIOs need from their CEOs and boards to make IT digital ready

McKinsey and Company

McKinsey research shows that CIOs need five things from their CEOs and boards to transform IT, but CIOs have an important role themselves in making that happen.

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

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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?

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Want to Boost Quality? Get RPA

Automation Anywhere

Quality has been a buzzword in business for decades. “The quality goes in before the name goes on” was the famous slogan of Zenith, the electronics giant, from the last century. Then, there was TQI (Total Quality Improvement) and, from Japan, Kaisen, and, of course, many other programs—all dedicated to eliminating errors from manufacturing, sales-order entering, inventory, and other corporate processes.

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6 Ways to Improve Process Efficiency With Automation

Frevvo

Your company has dozens or even hundreds of processes. However, these processes can become inefficient or redundant for various reasons — new industry regulations, increased market demands, changing customer expectations, etc. Achieving process efficiency helps your company meet these challenges. So how can you make your processes more efficient? How can you measure workflow performance and track your progress?

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Meet Raluca Alexandru, Forrester’s Newest Data Governance And Data Management Analyst

Forrester Digital Transformation

Tell Us About Yourself I have a mixed academic background in communication and advertising and environmental studies, yet I somehow always end up being attracted to technology. I don’t fully identify with the infamous Millennial label, yet somehow I’m constantly drawn to all things innovation. I have a long list of languages I would like […].

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Reimagining travel: Thailand tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic

McKinsey and Company

International tourism is a major contributor to Thailand’s economy. It was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic—but the country is finding ways to support its travel industry while preparing for the international travel to recover further.

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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.

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Immedis Global Payroll Glossary: Helping Organizations Comply with Employment Regulations

Immedus

I am delighted to announce the rollout of Immedis’ Global Payroll Glossary, which provides key payroll data for more than 137 countries and also includes US states and Canadian provinces. This has been a massive undertaking from many people in the business, so I want to thank them all. What’s in the Glossary? Each country guide provides the essential information needed to process payroll, including minimum wage, payroll cycle, information on the 13 th salary, and much more.

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10 ways to provide a positive candidate experience

Microsourcing

Skip straight to the candidate experience statistics. It’s no longer a “recruiters market” but instead a “job seekers market”. What does this mean? Gone are the days where recruiters and hiring managers had the upper hand in placing job advertisements and having pools of applicants to choose from, eagerly looking for any available work on offer. Instead, job seekers have become more aware and conscious of the businesses they are applying to, looking more for what an organization can offer them i

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Meet Forrester’s New Principal Analyst Covering Media: Kelsey Chickering

Forrester Digital Transformation

With the launch of Forrester Decisions for B2C Marketing Executives last August, we recognized the opportunity to expand our media strategy coverage. One of the most common themes across dozens of CMOs we interviewed this past year is that it’s challenging for marketing leaders to keep up with the constantly changing media and tech landscape. Yet, […].

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The shifting consumer packaged goods market in a diversifying Asia

McKinsey and Company

Rising incomes and shifting consumption patterns are transforming Asia’s consumer packaged goods market. These changes present opportunities for companies that are agile and able to offer a locally relevant presence.

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Foundations of Diversity: Building an Inclusive Company From the Ground Up

Can you guess why top-tier companies place such a high emphasis on diversity? Because a successful business mirrors the world around it. Diverse companies create empowering environments and are 35% more likely to financially outperform their peers. This new guide offers strategic insights to build a vibrant, diverse, and innovative workforce. Learn to assess your current workforce, understand demographics, and identify barriers to inclusivity.