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Three Techniques To Better Manage Digital Disruption To The Enterprise

Forrester Digital Transformation

When disaster strikes, how organizations respond is critical to minimizing the impact.

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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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An Introduction to human resource outsourcing

Airswift

Source: Panchenko Vladimir/Shutterstock.

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Be Like a Train

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan.

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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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Data Into Dollars: Can You Turn Your Data Into Revenue?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Every organization desires a positive return on its investments in data. Forrester data shows that advanced insights-driven businesses (IDBs) are 8.5 times more likely than beginners to report at least 20% revenue growth in 2021. It pays off to become an insights-driven business. Vendors and the media trumpet the success stories of companies that build […].

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Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?

McKinsey and Company

Employers have invested unprecedented resources in employee mental health and well-being. With burnout at all-time highs, leaders wonder if they can make a difference. Our research suggests they can.

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Presented by John Yunker: Web Globalization Tips for Small Businesses (wegginar® on 6/1/22)

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. There is no one who knows web globalization better than Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global's next wegginar® presenter John Yunker, co-founder of Byte Level Research. John is back by popular demand! Yes! Let me challenge you a bit to see what you know before I entice you to register for our (free of charge) wegginar, " Think Big; Think Global: Web Globalization Tips for Small Businesses ," taking place on tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1st LIVE

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B2B Companies Take Action, To A Point, In Response To The War In Ukraine

Forrester Digital Transformation

On February 28, 2022, BP withdrew from a $25 billion investment in the Russian oil company Rosneft. This decision was an abrupt U-turn from a mere two weeks earlier, when the CEO of BP, Bernard Looney, confidently stated that the company would “continue the business of business” in the country, even as Russian troops massed […].

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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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How to Create a RESTful API for Your Mobile Application?

Groove Technology

APIs have become essential parts of mobile applications and offer a variety of useful functions. Therefore, custom RESTful APIs for unique and inventive purposes are becoming increasingly popular. Top application developers eventually strive to understand and study API development. If you do not have much experience with API development, building one may appear to be a daunting task.

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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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Oh Everything Is Messed Up Right Now: War, China Covid Curbs, Shootings, Global Supply Chain Woes, Inflation and Rising Interest Rates

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/natrot Manufacturing growth slowed last month in economies as diverse as France, Japan to Malaysia, business surveys showed recently, illustrating the challenge policymakers face in trying to combat inflation and a whole heck of a lot of other things while not stifling anaemic economic activity. Global growth in factory activity slowed in May as China's strict coronavirus curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted supply chains and dampened demand, adding to woes for businesses alr

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye … Get Your New AIOps Reports Here!

Forrester Digital Transformation

It’s been a long time coming, at least in mind anyway, but I’ve finally got some great news to announce. We have just published four AIOps-related reports that I’m really excited for you all to finally read and provide feedback on. Read on below to get a synopsis of the three reports. The fourth report […].

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How to be a great 21st-century CEO

McKinsey and Company

What do CEOs do? Why do they do it that way? And what matters most?

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M?ng ngày qu?c t? thi?u nhi

Groove Technology

?ã ??n lúc dành cho nh?ng món quà ??y màu s?c và ni?m vui vì hôm nay là Ngày qu?c t? Thi?u nhi. Cùng v?i món quà nh? này, Groove chúc cho tình yêu th??ng và ti?ng c??i luôn hi?n di?n trên khuôn m?t c?a m?i b?n nh?! Hãy cùng bi?n th? gi?i này tr? thành m?t n?i an toàn và thú v? cho nh?ng ??a tr? c?a chúng ta – nh?ng ng??i xây d?ng t??ng lai.

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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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Today in Global Small Business: Remembering and Honoring Those Who Have Served

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/vitalik19111992 What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: What is Memorial Day 2022 and what is the real meaning? Memorial Day. Originally called Decoration Day , the Memorial Day holiday honors all soldiers who died during service to the nation. Quote of the week: “Let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.” – Abraham Lincol

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Your Buyers Are Evolving, And You Should Follow

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketers need to understand how their buyers are changing and enable their buyer-facing roles with key insights to gain competitive advantage and drive growth.

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Carbon-neutral Hungary

McKinsey and Company

Hungary’s path to net zero depends on the its ability to take action in seven economic sectors.

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What Should You Know About Outsourcing Python Software Development?

Groove Technology

Python is a high-level programming language that’s mostly used to create web applications, websites, and desktop programs. Other than web development, the general-purpose language is utilized for server-side mobile and web development, big data processing, system scripting, mathematics calculations, advanced analytics, cryptocurrency solutions, and so on.

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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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Tiny Desk Concert: World Renowned Yo-Yo Ma

The Global Small Business Blog

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The ASM Landscape Is Shifting Under Our Feet — As Are The Acronyms

Forrester Digital Transformation

Since publishing my first report on attack surface management (ASM), Find And Cover Your Assets With Attack Surface Management (one of my favorite titles to date), the market has taken off in a number of different directions and developed several flavors — and acronyms. Forrester defines ASM overall as follows: The process of continuously discovering, […].

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Author Talks: Think digital

McKinsey and Company

People have long worried about being replaced by machines, but Tsedal Neeley says the true threat to job security in the digital age is other humans—namely those who know how to use digital tools.

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Integrating Terraform with Jenkins (CI/CD)

Perficient Digital Transformation

Automated Infrastructure (AWS) Setup Using Terraform and Jenkins (Launch EC2 and VPC). In this blog we will discuss how to execute the Terraform code using Jenkins and set up AWS infrastructure such as EC2 and VPC. For those of you are unfamiliar with Jenkins, it is an open-source continuous integration and continuous development automation tool that allows us to implement CI/CD workflows, called pipelines.

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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?

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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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Perspective Is Key To Understanding AIOps

Forrester Digital Transformation

When I joined Forrester last fall, I was immediately asked, by both vendors and clients, “So how are you defining AIOps?” I was caught off guard and a bit surprised at how little guidance existed, especially from a practitioner perspective available in the industry. The prior AIOps NowTech and Forrester Wave™ evaluation were nearly 12 […].

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Failure is not an option: Increasing the chances of achieving net zero

McKinsey and Company

Countries and companies globally are taking action to pursue net-zero emissions, but their plans could easily be derailed by myriad factors. Here are some considerations for helping to keep them on track.

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From BRO to Know- An Adobe Marketo Cinderella Story

Perficient Digital Transformation

This past week Garett Meznarich, Marketo practice director at Perficient, got to sit down and hear from Brandon Ratliff, digital marketing operations leader at Qualcomm and Kalie Nitzsche, Marketo sales manager at Adobe, as they discussed lessons learned throughout their digital experience build-out with Adobe Marketo. Post webinar we were able to further digest some of the major takeaways.

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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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How to Combat the Great Resignation with Outsourced Support

Influx

Businesses around the globe have been affected by an unprecedented churn in the labor market due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread job losses in the first few months of the pandemic gave way to tight labor markets in 2021, in part due to what is known as the Great Resignation. What is the Great Resignation? The Great Resignation is the current economic trend of employees voluntarily resigning from jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021. 4.4 million workers quit their jobs in September 2021 al

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Invest In The Healthcare Data Of The Future Or Flatline

Forrester Digital Transformation

My name is Kyle Rybarczyk, and I recently joined Forrester as an analyst covering data analytics, AI/ML, enterprise health clouds, electronic health records, and the digital front door in the healthcare sector. I have a passion for healthcare, the ever-changing digital world, and how the two will combine to streamline workflows and improve patient outcomes […].

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Author Talks: A new way to think about management

McKinsey and Company

Predicting the future is impossible, but traditional business models try anyway. Roger Martin says management leaders need to revisit the whiteboard.

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What is Digital Asset Management (DAM)?

Hyland

There is an exponential demand for content in today’s digital world, especially rich media assets such as images and video. These assets are no longer just the purview of the marketing organizations either — their use is spreading across the organization internally and externally by helping to deliver a richer and more personalized customer experience.

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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.