Sat.Mar 19, 2022 - Fri.Mar 25, 2022

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Outsourcing These 7 Business Functions to Increase Productivity

Groove Technology

Outsourcing is a commercial practice in which you engage someone from outside your organization to undertake specific tasks. These are typically functions that your personnel do not specialize in, or the process takes too long. By outsourcing such operations, you provide your team with more time and energy to dedicate to the things in which they excel.

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Prioritizing technology transformations to win

McKinsey and Company

Our latest IT survey confirms the accelerating pace of at-scale core technology transformations. The road map for success reflects the practices and capabilities of leading companies.

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Planning a B2B hybrid event this year? Seven critical considerations

Forrester Digital Transformation

Hybrid is very much in vogue as marketing leaders look to develop an event mix which delivers audience flexibility, digital insight and improved engagement. Indeed, in a survey we ran late last year, 58% of respondents agreed that all flagship events would be hybrid within 24 months. But while there are many compelling reasons to […].

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The Beginning of Work As We Would Like It

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Chinnapong Lately, we’ve seen a proliferation of discussions about the end of work as we know it. But what about the beginning of work as we would like it? In this third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are burned out, quitting their jobs in record numbers, and reconsidering the place of work in their lives. As The Atlantic article proclaims : If the American theocracy of work is to be dismantled, it won’t happen by just changing jobs or attitudes.

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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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Chuy?n ?i ?áng nh? c?a Groove ??n Phan Thi?t

Groove Technology

Chuy?n ?i ?áng nh? c?a Groove ??n Phan Thi?t. Cu?i tu?n v?a qua, Groovers ?ã có th?i gian ngh? d??ng tuy?t v?i cùng nhau trên bãi bi?n xinh ??p. Sau m?t th?i gian dài, th?t t?t khi chúng ta có th? ?i ch?i cùng nhau và b? l?i nh?ng mu?n phi?n phía sau. #GrooveTechnology #CompanyTrip #AmazingTeam #ForAmazingYou .

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Forecasting the future of stores

McKinsey and Company

Shoppers’ behaviors and expectations have changed dramatically—and continue to evolve. If retailers want to keep their physical stores relevant, here are five things they’ll need to get right.

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Imagine a City Where Graffiti Wasn’t Illegal

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business.

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People of Perficient: Meet Kristina Kaufmann, Senior Business Consultant

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient’s healthcare practice offers deep industry expertise to payers and providers. The healthcare team includes many experts who’ve gained this expertise in the same professions as the clients we support. Kristina Kaufmann, senior business consultant, is one of these experts. I recently connected with her to discuss what it’s like to serve Perficient’s healthcare clients and how her background as a registered nurse impacts this service.

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The next frontier of care delivery in healthcare

McKinsey and Company

McKinsey explores the latest evolution in healthcare and key changes facing US organizations around care delivery.

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Three Steps To Build B2B Digital Marketing Capabilities

Forrester Digital Transformation

For B2B marketing leaders looking to improve their organization's digital capabilities, it's important to know precisely what you're trying to achieve and to break down the endeavor in smaller, defined steps.

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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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Today in Global Small Business: Uncertainty Weighs Heavily in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Bulat Silvia What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: As uncertainty weighs on decision making concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, scenarios can provide guidance. Act global, look local. With Tably , your cat's wellbeing is always at your fingertips. Quote of the week: “The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth.” — Abraham-Hicks Get your foreign

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OneStream Splash 2022 Here We Come!

Perficient Digital Transformation

OneStream’s annual User Conference and Partner Summit known as Splash, is just around the corner – May 23-26 in San Antonio, Texas! Attendees can expect four days of best practices, product updates, networking and hands-on workshops with finance and industry experts from around the globe. If you are unable to attend Splash in person, OneStream has a virtual experience just for you.

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Return to the Office Causes Angst in the Philippines

Transparent BPO Outsourcing

Redundancy plan necessary to limit exposure By Scott Newman, CEO, Transparent BPO An innocent-sounding decision to help local businesses in the Philippines risks upending the BPO industry here. As with all government decisions, some background is helpful. During the height of the pandemic, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) announced that business process outsourcing (BPO) […].

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Open Data Exposes An Uncomfortable Truth: Matters Of Gender Diversity And Inclusivity Remain Performative

Forrester Digital Transformation

Felisa H. Batacan, Filipino journalist, and crime writer once wrote: “Some things are better dealt within the cleansing light of transparency and openness rather than in the darkness of secrecy.” Her words resonated with me during last week’s International Women Day (#IWD2022). Posts ‘celebrating’ #IWD2022 exploded across social media. But as the day progressed, my […].

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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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Who Do You Know Is A Woman of Influence?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/DGLimages Now is your chance. Who do you consider a voice of today? Visionary of tomorrow? 50 women who pioneer change, revolutionize industries and shape lives. They are difference-makers, life-changers and powerhouse leaders. They are women we know, women we trust and women we aspire to be. Submit your nomination for someone you know who transforms lives and transcends boundaries.

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Tokens: Marketo’s Efficiency Superpower

Perficient Digital Transformation

A new year is often a great time to examine your program structures from the previous year and look for ways to gain efficiencies and consistency in your build structure and production processes. Any time you can gain efficiencies within your processes and eliminate the possibility for errors simultaneously, you should. Tokens are an excellent tool for doing just that.

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Seven steps to help protect your ERP system against cyberattacks

McKinsey and Company

Many companies’ enterprise resource planning systems, which house their most valuable data, are still too vulnerable.

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Five Findings From FinovateEurope 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

Read the key findings from FinovateEurope 2022, including thoughts on what's hot in fintech, sustainable finance, open finance, and digital transformation.

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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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An Authoritarian's Worldview

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Artfully79 An authoritarian, take for example Vladimir Putin, lives in a world. pictured by him as a sort of jungle, in which the whole world is conceived of as dangerous, threatening, or at least challenging, and in which human beings are conceived of as primarily selfish or evil or stupid, says Edward Hoffman , Ph.D., who teaches psychology at Yeshiva University.

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Goldman Sachs is WRONG About Managing Remote Work

Intelligent Management Inc.

Goldman Sachs wants its people back on the office five days a week. Thank you Janet Granger for sharing the article with us: [link]. The CEO of Goldman Sachs even considers remote work an “aberration” and said “I do think for a business like ours which is an innovative, collaborative apprenticeship culture, this is not ideal for us and it’s not a new normal…” This sounds a lot like fear of not being able to control the way people think and behave.

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What are the biotech industry trends right now?

Airswift

Source: Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock. With a Year-over-Year (2020-2021) increase in funding by 39.6%, the biotech market is growing with some trending companies leading the way. The biotechnology market has caused great expectations among investors, workers and consumers. This is partly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which motivated the acceleration in investments in the sector so commonly characterized by its long-term results.

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Introducing Experience Architecture: An Ecosystem Approach To Customer Obsession

Forrester Digital Transformation

Experience Architecture Is Fundamental To Customer Obsession Delivering the right customer experience is the number one priority for any business.

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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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2022/23 UK Income Tax and National Insurance Rates

Immedus

April 6, 2022, sees the start of the 2022/23 UK tax year. UK employers must operate PAYE in real-time to collect income tax (IT) and national insurance contributions (NICs) from their employees as part of their payroll obligations. Employers need to be aware that there are changes to these amounts. What are the tax rates for the 2022/23 tax year? Income Tax for England, Wales & Northern Ireland.

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Make room for alternative proteins: What it takes to build a new sector

McKinsey and Company

Alternative proteins have the potential to dramatically slow climate change. This interview with three leaders in the field reveals the strategies and insights needed to unlock that potential.

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Top ASEAN Countries for Companies Based in the Netherlands

Globalization Partners

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) offers plenty of business opportunities for companies from the Netherlands. Here’s what you need to know about this growing region and how it can help your company establish a new foothold in the global market. What makes Southeast Asia a good place for companies based in the Netherlands? Solid economic agreements and market developments have shifted Southeast Asia’s position into one prime for growth.

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The Insights Beat: Time To Spring Into Action, Clean Up Your Data, And Make It Blossom!

Forrester Digital Transformation

As the leaves start to grow again and the weather warms up, what better time than now to do some much-needed spring cleaning of your data and insights practices? In this edition of the Insights Beat, we dive into our Q1 research in data, analytics, and AI that highlights the best approach to get more […].

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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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Nearshoring in Peru

WebCreek

5/5 - (1 vote). Nearshoring in Peru has grown significantly in recent years. There are now many outsourcing companies in Peru, which has increased job opportunities. There is a rapid growth of business opportunities in the country that you may not know about. So, this article will explain in more detail how nearshoring is applied in Peru. . Also read: Nearshoring in Latin America.

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Taking the first steps toward net-zero emissions

McKinsey and Company

The path to net-zero emissions is full of challenges. Leadership must understand the risks and commit to change now—or face an even thornier transition down the road.

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W-9 Tax Forms: What They Are and How to Fill One Out

Globalization Partners

You’re probably familiar with the process of onboarding new employees in the United States. After salary negotiations have come to a close and the candidates have agreed to work for your company, they fill out a Form W-4, providing copies of their identification and proof of the right to work in the U.S. With independent contractors or self-employed individuals, it’s a different process.

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Nearshore And Onshore Services Take Priority In 2022 — Here’s Why

Forrester Digital Transformation

Technology execs are keeping their partners close in both working hours and proximity. In our recent survey of 1,550 services decision-makers from North American and European enterprises, we asked how they expect their service provider delivery models — where the staffs are located — to change in 2022. They report increases across the board but […].

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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.