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How virtual work is accelerating innovation

McKinsey and Company

The age of assuming that innovation requires physical proximity is over. Innovators are embracing a new model.

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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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Cybersecurity Must Haves for Business

V-Soft Consulting

As more companies are shifting toward hybrid work and adopting cloud-based frameworks, cyber security requires regular updates. Security breaches in business are not uncommon, and every year, many businesses are the subject of such attacks. Not to mention the new and unexpected cyber security landscape brought on by COVID-19. Cyber Security threats can also increase due to geopolitical conflicts, such as the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

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DWS Raided For Greenwashing. Who’s Next?

Forrester Digital Transformation

Law and order is coming to the wild west that has been investment ESG. Last week, agents from the German financial supervisory authority raided DWS – Deutsche Bank’s asset management subsidiary, on suspicion of greenwashing. Other asset management companies should not rest easy, either; both regulators and enforcement bodies are cracking down on over-optimistic labels, […].

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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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Outsourcing and Offshoring Software Development: Which Is The Best Choice For Your Project?

Groove Technology

While larger corporations have an in-house IT department that can design and modify any software as needed, most small businesses and start-ups lack such capabilities. In other words, small and medium-sized enterprises lack the vision and financial resources to fund the hiring, training, and rewarding of new employees. As a result, most companies will choose software development outsourcing or offshoring because of a lack of staff.

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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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The Metaverse Must Be Deeply Human-Centric

Forrester Digital Transformation

At Augmented World Expo 2022, amid the existential debate about the metaverse, there was an increased focus on ensuring its UX is humane, and communal.

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Team Augmentation For A Payment App Development

Groove Technology

Customer. Our customer is a Danish Fintech company providing a payment solution for merchants and shoppers. Challenge. The customer asked Groove Technology to assist them in developing their payment solution on mobile apps. They need our help to build the MVP for the mobile application and to upgrade some features. Technologies. React Native,NET, Azure.

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Today in Global Small Business: The iOS App Economy

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Blue Planet Studio What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Smaller and emerging developers find global success on the App Store – showing the iOS app economy continues to grow. How to build resilience in emerging economies ? Support global small businesses. Staying global: 3 steps. Quote of the week: “I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

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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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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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Invest In The Right Technologies To Improve Your Customers’ Financial Well-Being

Forrester Digital Transformation

The Forrester Financial Well-Being Tech Tide™ report presents an analysis of the maturity and business value of the 18 technology categories that support financial well-being. Financial services executives should read this report to shape their firm’s investment approach to these technologies.

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Mobile App Developments Services

Groove Technology

The global mobile application market was worth USD 154.05 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a 11.5 percent CAGR from 2020 to 2027. It’s expected that the demand for mobile app development will rise in the next few years because more people have smartphones and use the internet, and more apps are being made that use machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Creating a Sense of Community

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/time99lek “It’s not just about being comfortable, but about creating a sense of community,” Bruno Paneghini, CEO and president of B Corp Reti , explains in Italian, via a translator. To that end, Reti organizes events centered around books, food, and art, not just for staff but for locals; it held 14 such events in 2021. The idea of an on-site restaurant and food education facility is in the works, too.

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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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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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Apple iOS 16: My Takeaways

Forrester Digital Transformation

Apple continues to strive to make experiences easy, secure, and private for its customers. I’ll focus on the aspects of “easy” here, and what popped for me in Apple's keynote at WWDC 2022 earlier this week.

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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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Who Could Not Be Happy

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J, Delaney. All rights reserved. "With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy." – Oscar Wilde and the photo is of a Little Free Library.

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Black representation in the beauty industry

McKinsey and Company

Black beauty consumers and brands face deep challenges when it comes to equity. Removing those barriers can lead to greater opportunity for everyone in the industry.

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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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WWDC 2022 Keynote – All About Worldwide, Not So Much Developer 

Forrester Digital Transformation

Apple brought us their latest vision of the future at the 2022 Worldwide Developer Conference. Although the rest of the conference is aimed squarely at developers, the keynote treats development as subordinate. Instead, it’s a way to feature Apple’s latest and from time to time we’ll hear, “And for developers, there’s an API.” This year […].

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Colleagues Rally to Support the Cheatham Family and Create a Home at Perficient

Perficient Digital Transformation

My family experienced a terrible tragedy on the morning of Friday, April 8. The incredible outpouring of support from my Perficient colleagues helped to lift us back up, so much so, that I felt compelled to share our story. The following excerpt is my first-hand account of the tragic events that we shared via a GoFundMe started with the support of my Perficient team.

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Globalization Is Alive and Well

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/lukbar Even as its justifications and the global economy change, the current skepticism toward free trade and globalization remains misguided. Yes, free trade is under greater attack today than it has been in decades, especially in the United States. Despite continued public support for foreign trade and globalization generally (even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic), a bipartisan cadre of American politicians and pundits is increasingly skeptical of, or downright hostile to, t

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Committed innovators: How masters of essentials outperform

McKinsey and Company

New research shows that innovation leaders are rapidly ascending beyond their peers by comprehensively committing themselves to delivering net new growth at scale.

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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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Der Weg zum Wachstum: Wichtige Einblicke und B2B-CMO-Trends 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

Die Forrester-Marketing-Umfrage 2022 bietet – neben den sechs CMO-Trends – weitere Einblicke in die Chancen und Herausforderungen, die B2B-Marketer angehen müssen, um erfolgreich zu sein.

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Perficient and DAMSR Partner to Improve the Patient Journey

Perficient Digital Transformation

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Deepak Rao with DAMSR . All of us can relate to the scenario where a patient spends two hours in a clinic for a 30-minute appointment where the actual time spent with the provider was 10 minutes or less. The patient experience in clinics is not optimal and there is a lot of room for improvement. Here are some common pain points for both patients and providers: Delays in overall access to care due to scheduling availability.

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How Technology Can Help South Korea-Based Companies Find the Best Tech Talent

Globalization Partners

With the rapid acceleration of digitization, the demand for skilled tech talent in South Korea has been on the rise across various industries. Employers are doubling down their efforts to bolster digital transformation initiatives to respond to the ever-changing business landscape and adapt to today’s talent market. In fact, a 2022 Robert Walters Salary Survey revealed that the most sought-after professionals in South Korea are software engineers, machine learning engineers, and product owners

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Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth

McKinsey and Company

Resilience should be seen as the ability to deal with adversity, withstand shocks, and continuously adapt and accelerate as disruptions and crises arise over time.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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The US Customer Experience Index, 2022, Shows That Brands Struggled During The Past Year

Forrester Digital Transformation

Forrester’s Customer Experience Benchmark Survey, US Consumers, 2022, reveals that CX quality in the US has fallen back to early-2020 levels, reversing gains made in 2021.

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10 Ways an IT Development Company Can Help You Succeed

Bydrec

It takes more than just a great idea to make your business thrive. If you want to succeed, you need a team that can assist you with everything from finding suppliers and IT solutions to staying organized and on top of project deadlines. Everything needs to be thought through and planned from initial business plans to operational procedures. This article gives you some great insights into how an IT development company can help you succeed.

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How to Register Your Company in Australia

Globalization Partners

How to Register Your Company in Australia. If you’re looking to grow your business in another country, pay attention to Australia. With its diverse population and growing economy, it’s no surprise that Australia placed 14th in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 survey for ease of doing business. The following is a guide to expanding your business to Australia as an international company.

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, May 2022

McKinsey and Company

Central banks move against inflation; US industry expands while China’s economy contracts amid COVID-19 measures; supply challenges persist.

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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.