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Ten steps for choosing an outsourcing partner

Intugo

Ten steps for choosing an outsourcing partner In the dynamic landscape of today’s business world, choosing an outsourcing partner has become a strategic necessity for companies looking to streamline operations, cut costs, and focus on core competencies. However, successful endeavors hinge on choosing the right partner. Selecting an outsourcing partner is akin to embarking on a complex journey, with various checkpoints and considerations that must be navigated along the way.

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The Future of Outsourcing in BPO Companies in 2024

Magellan Solutions

The future of outsourcing in 2024 has been a topic of much concern lately. The outsourcing industry is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.69% to reach US$0.45 trillion in 2024. This shows the growing demand for business process outsourcing (BPO) services and their potential to completely transform the way businesses operate.

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Next steps towards the total hybrid experience

Capgemini

Next Steps Towards the Total Hybrid Experience Capgemini 2022-02-17 The news that hybrid working is the future of work surely comes as music to the ears of many. For office-based workers, it means a flexible start each morning, or the opportunity to make the most of ‘digital nomad’ visas. Organizations too have benefited, with as many as 70% of them seeing improvements to productivity, reduction in facility management costs.

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Responsive Design and Accessibility: Crafting Inclusive Digital Experiences

Perficient Digital Transformation

In the dynamic landscape of web development, creating websites that adapt seamlessly to various devices and screen sizes is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. However, in this pursuit of responsiveness, the crucial aspect of accessibility often takes a back seat. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into the intricate relationship between responsive design and accessibility, exploring how to ensure inclusivity in responsive web design and test accessibility across diverse devic

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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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Unlocking the power of chatbots: Key benefits for businesses and customers

IBM Services

Chatbots can help your customers and potential clients find or input information quickly by instantly responding to requests that use audio input, text input or a combination of both, eliminating the need for human intervention or manual research. Chatbots are everywhere, providing customer care support and assisting employees who use smart speakers at home, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack and numerous other applications.

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Achieving Sustainable Impact at Scale

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Author In a recent policy brief published by the Dag Hammarsköld Foundation and the United Nations, the common approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been to track progress on a global and country-by-country basis and to argue for policy change, for more investment, and more innovation. These are important elements of a strategy to achieve the SDGs, but what has been missing is to design, fund, and implement investment programs in a way that systematically and

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Educating the Digital Generation: The Importance of Cybersecurity Awareness in College

31 West

Living in a fast-progressing world with constantly appearing new technologies and Internet features requires the user’s maximum caution and awareness about possible cyber dangers. Digitalization has brought plenty of benefits to our everyday life. However, it has given a lot of opportunities to some individuals to use it for particular fraud activities.

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Deep Dive into IBM Sterling Certified Containers and Cloud Solutions

Perficient Digital Transformation

Many retailers are embarking on a digital transformation to modernize and scale their order management system (OMS) solution. Built on a modern architecture, the solution wraps Docker containers around order management business services. This architecture streamlines application management and the release of new functionality. The container technology also supports varying levels of technical acumen, business continuity, security, and compliance.

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Today in Global Small Business: Celebrating the Life of MLK Jr.

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Kirkikis What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Tree of life celebrates MLK with Ebenezer Baptist Church. 9 places where you can walk in MLK Jr.'s footsteps. Celebrating MLK Day in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. Quote of the week: "Everybody can be great. because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

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Unlocking the Power of ServiceNow GRC: Top Use Cases

V-Soft Consulting

GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), is an operational strategy dedicated to handling an organization's governance, risk management, and compliance in alignment with industry and government regulations. GRC often denotes a collection of software capabilities designed for the execution and oversight of enterprise GRC programs.

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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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Join us at the forefront of AI for business: Think 2024

IBM Services

You want to use AI to accelerate productivity and innovation for your business. You need to move beyond experimentation to scale. You have to move fast. Join us in Boston for Think 2024, a unique and engaging experience that will guide you on your AI for business journey, no matter where you are on the road. From building AI readiness with a thoughtful hybrid cloud approach, to scaling AI across core business functions and industry needs, to embedding AI into the heart of your enterprise strateg

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Generative AI Revolution: A Comparative Analysis

Perficient Digital Transformation

In the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new era of large language models has emerged with the remarkable capabilities. ChatGPT , Gemini , Bard and Copilot have made an impact in the way we interact with mobile device and web technologies. We will perform a comparative analysis to highlight the capabilities of each tool. ChatGPT Gemini Bard Copilot Training Data Web Web Web Web Accuracy 85% 85% 70% 80% Recall 85% 95% 75% 82% Precision 89% 90% 75% 90% F1 Score 91% 92% 75% 84% Mu

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Build a Dream Team, Not a Family

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Mahmudul Hassan As leaders, integrating a "dream team" philosophy means moving beyond the "family" model to a framework where excellence, growth, and respect are more important than unrealistic loyalty and unconditionality. It's about creating an environment where everyone is driven to be their best, supported by the group's collective strength and ambition, understanding that not everyone may be a part of the team forever.

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MXDR: A Revolutionary and Comprehensive Solution Transforming Cybersecurity Detection and Response

Everest Group

Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) has emerged as a game-changer in combating modern cybersecurity threats. Combining managed services with a technology platform, MXDR offers an encompassing, automated, scalable, and cost-effective solution incorporating real-time threat intelligence. Discover how MXDR compares to other cybersecurity offerings, its core components, and pricing models in this blog.

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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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How to build a successful disaster recovery strategy

IBM Services

Whether your industry faces challenges from geopolitical strife, fallout from a global pandemic or rising aggression in the cybersecurity space, the threat vector for modern enterprises is undeniably powerful. Disaster recovery strategies provide the framework for team members to get a business back up and running after an unplanned event. Worldwide, the popularity of disaster recovery strategies is understandably increasing.

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Optimizely CMS – Custom form element with dependencies

Perficient Digital Transformation

Optimizely CMS comes with a package called Episerver.Forms that enables you to incorporate easy to build forms within a CMS website. There is a built in form container that supports standard built in form elements like input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, select lists, buttons etc. And just like any other feature, Episerver Forms also come with the capability to customize, where you can customize existing elements, or create new ones and more.

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The Hackett Group and Civic Initiatives, LLC Announce Strategic Agreement

The Hackett Group

Miami, FL and Austin, TX – January 16, 2024 – The Hackett Group , Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) and Civic Initiatives, LLC, today announced an agreement to foster a collaborative business relationship aimed at driving mutual growth and innovation in the field of public procurement. This agreement establishes a strategic alliance between Civic Initiatives and The Hackett Group ® – two industry leaders known for their expertise in benchmarking, consulting and advisory services.

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Payment Integrity Solutions PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024

Everest Group

Payment Integrity Solutions The payment integrity market is dynamically transforming, continuously adapting and enhancing fundamental capabilities within the healthcare industry. The growing emphasis on ensuring accurate and efficient payment processes is creating various opportunities. Key trends gaining prominence include advances in fraud detection and prevention technologies, using sophisticated data analytics for claims validation, integrating AI to identify irregularities, and implementin

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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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Exploring the hyper-competitive future of customer experience

IBM Services

The future of customer experience (CX) is more : more data, more technology, more surprising and delighting. It’s also more pressure to retain those customers, whether those interactions happen online or in-store. As customer expectations and habits change, so too must the CX that organizations provide. Study after study shows that customer loyalty is decreasing, as customers demand more from the providers of goods and services and show their displeasure by switching brands.

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Sitemap: The Heart of Marketing Cloud Personalization

Perficient Digital Transformation

Personalization (formerly known as Interaction Studio) is a tool that exists inside the Salesforce Marketing Cloud tenant. It is mostly used to help the customer improve the user experience through web, mobile, and email. The sitemap is the heart of personalization. A good sitemap code implementation can lead you to an understanding of: How the user interacts with your site How much time they spend on different pages Where they are going next Let’s look at this in a more relatable way to s

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How EMR Optimization Reduced Screens & Clicks by 50%

3Pillar Global

Despite the centrality of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) within healthcare, few providers are satisfied with their current solutions. According to a recent whitepaper from Sage Growth Partners: 60% of hospital and healthcare system C-suite executives rank EMR optimization as their top technology initiative Only 24% believe their EMR lives up to their vendor’s promises “very well” Only 17% strongly agree their current EMR will meet their needs going forward The issues facing EMRs and clinical s

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Retail IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024

Everest Group

Retail IT Services Despite unfavorable macroeconomic conditions, retail enterprises are strategically investing in IT modernization initiatives throughout their value chains. These enterprises are focusing on enhancing customer experience through AI and data analytics, optimizing supply chains with technologies such as IoT and automation, and integrating e-commerce seamlessly.

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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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Accelerating sustainable modernization with Green IT Analyzer on AWS

IBM Services

Businesses are increasingly embracing data-intensive workloads, including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These technologies drive innovation on their hybrid, multicloud journeys while focusing on resilience, performance, security and compliance. Companies are also striving to balance this innovation with growing environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations.

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Growing Our Global Delivery and Medtech Software Development Expertise with the SMEDIX Acquisition

Perficient Digital Transformation

For more than 25 years, we’ve grown our presence, our talent, our skills, and our global footprint so that we can continually provide critical Agile software development and delivery services to the world’s biggest brands. Last October, we proudly entered into an agreement to acquire SMEDIX, Inc. , a healthcare and life sciences software engineering firm based in San Diego, California, with European operations located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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AMARESH NAMBURI

Zinnov

Amaresh Namburi is a Principal in the Globalization Excellence Practice at Zinnov. A strategic leader with over 12 years of global experience, Amaresh is a trusted advisor driving organizational success through data-insights and effective decision-making. In this critical role at Zinnov, Amaresh leverages his process orientation and cross-functional leadership abilities to integrate workstreams, program manage activities, and develop strategies to maximize productivity and goal achievement.

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Enterprises Aim to Move Beyond Pilots, Accelerate Consumption of AI in 2024—Everest Group, Yates Ltd.

Everest Group

Despite the global economic turndown, enterprises widely adopted AI in 2023, with generative AI playing a substantial role, according to a survey of CIOs conducted by Everest Group and Yates Ltd. DALLAS, January 18, 2024 — If chief information officers (CIOs) have their way in 2024, expect to see more enterprises making adoption of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) a strategic priority with an aim to move past small pilots to scaled implementations.

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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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Cryptography use cases: From secure communication to data security 

IBM Services

When it comes to data security , the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. Whether shopping online or saving valuable trade secrets to disk, we can thank cryptography for any semblance of privacy we may have.

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How to Analyze Salesforce Survey Responses?

Perficient Digital Transformation

Hello Trailblazers, In the previous parts of this blog, we learned how to create Salesforce Survey forms and how to send your forms to your audiences to get their responses. If you did not read it, you can read them here: Part 1 and Part 2. In this blog, we’ll learn how to analyze the collected Salesforce survey responses respectively. So let’s get started… Importance of Survey Feedback As we all know, analyzing customer feedback is essential as it provides valuable insights into their experien

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Vendor Analysis: What Is It, Process, Types, and Best Practices

Planergy Software

What's Planergy? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with Planergy.

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Everest Group Launches ‘Service Provider Compass’ Research Series with Assessment of Global Services Delivery from Mexico

Everest Group

Everest Group’s Service Provider Compass is designed to help sourcing leaders get an outside-in view of service providers’ market positions in key delivery locations. DALLAS, January 17, 2024 — Everest Group today announced the launch of a new research report series, Service Provider Compass , designed to provide sourcing leaders with a succinct summary of service provider’s market positions in key delivery locations.

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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.