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Turning Good into Great: 10 Reasons to Outsource Customer Service

Mattsen Kumar

As organizations grow, outsourcing customer service has become necessary to ensure customer satisfaction. The expansion of organizations brings forth new challenges that require the expertise of a skilled customer service team to provide optimal solutions. Third-party vendors and service providers can manage client requests, policies, and brand voices for quality customer satisfaction.

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Business Process Outsourcing in Mexico

Intugo

Business process outsourcing in Mexico What is business process outsourcing in Mexico (BPO)? Business process outsourcing in Mexico (BPO) is a business practice in which an organization hires an external service to perform an essential business task. Typically, an organization first identifies a process necessary for its operations but not part of its core value proposition in the marketplace.

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Three Common Obstacles to Scaling Innovations and Ways to Overcome Them

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/z_wei According to authors for the HBR, innovations — including new products, new HR policies, and new production processes —developed in one part of a business stay there. Other groups that could benefit from them don’t know they exist. This leads to lost revenues and higher costs, since teams around the world often end up duplicating (or triplicating, or quadruplicating) investments in solving common problems.

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Should You Be Looking at Skill-Based Teams as Part of Your Outsourcing Strategy?

Intelligent Sourcing

In every business around the globe, team structures have long been the backbone that defines how work gets done and goals are achieved. Historically, traditional team structures have often been built around departments or functional roles. For instance, a typical company might have separate teams for marketing, finance, human resources, and operations.

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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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Procurement Outsourcing (PO) – Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Procurement Outsourcing (PO) – Services Procurement Outsourcing (PO) providers are seen as strategic partners by organizations and are playing a critical role in helping them navigate the challenges posed by macroeconomic uncertainties and inflationary pressures by driving cost reduction and enhancing efficiencies. With the increasing willingness to outsource judgment-intensive strategic procurement processes, service providers are building strong domain expertise and digital transformation capa

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Sitecore Containers without Docker Desktop

Perficient Digital Transformation

As the IT industry has increasingly started embracing containerization, it has become a cornerstone of modern software development. Sitecore is not an exception. Sitecore announced official support for containers from the version 10 initial release. Since then all of us have started using Docker Desktop to run Sitecore’s containerized solution.

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Why Customer Retention Analytics Matter for Your Business

V-Soft Consulting

In this rapidly emerging digital era, the race to attract new customers often takes center stage. Companies allocate significant resources to marketing and advertising campaigns, focusing on customer acquisition as the key to growth. While acquiring new customers is crucial, we help you retain the customers you already have – improve retention. In this blog, we'll delve into the types of customer retention analytics and why it matters for your business.

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Multi-country Payroll (MCP) Solutions PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Multi-country Payroll (MCP) Solutions The Multi-country Payroll (MCP) solutions market has expanded steadily over the last few years. The economic uncertainty has made enterprises focus on cost reduction and resource allocation. Enterprises are now seeking assistance beyond just conventional payroll management. In response to this demand, providers have evolved their portfolio by offering flexible pricing models and easy scalability.

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Unlocking Success: Embracing Contact Centres as a Rewarding Career Choice

Intelligent Sourcing

The contact centre industry offers a diverse array of career opportunities that extend far beyond the conventional image of customer service representatives answering calls. In today’s dynamic business landscape, contact centres have evolved into multi-faceted hubs of customer interaction, problem-solving and innovation. From roles in quality assurance and training to leadership positions and supplier management, […] The post Unlocking Success: Embracing Contact Centres as a Rewarding Care

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U.S. SBA Awards Washington State a $1 Million STEP Grant to Fuel Exports

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/aiisha5 The Washington State Department of Commerce again tops the list of states awarded funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to help state small businesses grow through exporting. Washington’s $1 million State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant is the largest awarded from a total $20 million to 49 states in this 11th year of the program.

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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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Shift from proactive to predictive monitoring: Predicting the future through observability

IBM Services

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the seamless operation and performance of software applications is crucial for businesses. Downtime, glitches and service interruptions can result in significant revenue loss and damage a company’s reputation. This is where modern, advanced monitoring solutions like IBM Instana come into play. With its cutting-edge capabilities, Instana goes beyond traditional monitoring approaches like New Relic, enabling organizations to detect and predict i

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Four tech leadership lessons from the Manhattan Project

The Scalers

This article was previously published for the Forbes Tech Council and was written by our CEO, Emilien Coquard. Julius Robert Oppenheimer was relatively unknown to the general public until the release of Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer this past July. For a tech enthusiast like me, however, the physicist was more than just the man who developed the atomic bomb; he represented some of the qualities a great leader should have.

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25 Ways to Make Today Your Lucky Day

Eclaro

Is today your lucky day? Of course it is! We feel that way every day here at Eclaro, although some days have us reflecting on the concepts of luck than others.

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Technology Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Technology Provider Landscape The post-pandemic era marks a pivotal period for organizations worldwide as they grapple with the challenges of a global economic slowdown, geopolitical complexities, supply chain disruptions, and ongoing talent shortages. In the face of these multifaceted challenges, corporate leaders are increasingly turning to automation as a strategic lever to not only weather the storm but also emerge stronger and more resilient.

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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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Enhancing customer experience: Streamlining orders with custom email notifications in IBM Cloud

IBM Services

Let’s consider the operations manager of a thriving online business specializing in handmade crafts. This operations manager understood the importance of catering to their loyal customer base, some of whom resided in different time zones. In their quest to provide exceptional service, they faced a challenge—how to ensure that customers could place orders as soon as new shipments of their artisanal products arrived.

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A crash course of GraphQL – from Zero to Hero

Perficient Digital Transformation

Almost anyone attending XM Cloud sessions at SUGCON North America earlier saw GraphQL queries as a part of such presentations. For mature headless developers getting through each query requires some amount of time, while for newbies that “user-friendly” syntax stands as an unreachable barrier. Once in the past, I failed to find any good article about this without any doubt great query language – some of them were way too excessive while others missed out on a lot of basics.

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Understanding Applicant Tracking Systems: A New Era of Hiring

SPD Load

In today’s hyper-competitive job market, hiring the right talent is paramount for an organization’s success. The process of finding, evaluating, and selecting.

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Using OKRs for Your Sustainability Goals: It’s Time to Drive Meaningful Change | Webinar

Everest Group

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR Using OKRs for Your Sustainability Goals: It’s Time to Drive Meaningful Change WATCH THE WEBINAR ON-DEMAND As enterprises become more sustainability-driven, traditional approaches to measuring success, such as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), are no longer practical methods for determining objectives and measurable outcomes for pressing sustainability issues – like climate change and inequity.

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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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IBM watsonx Assistant: Driving generative AI innovation with Conversational Search

IBM Services

Generative AI has taken the business world by storm. Organizations around the world are trying to understand the best way to harness these exciting new developments in AI while balancing the inherent risks of using these models in an enterprise context at scale. Whether its concerns over hallucination, traceability, training data, IP rights, skills, or costs, enterprises must grapple with a wide variety of risks in putting these models into production.

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Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box

Perficient Digital Transformation

What Is Terraform? Terraform is an IAC tool, used to automate various infrastructure tasks. The provisioning of cloud resources is one of the main use cases of Terraform. It’s an open-source provisioning tool written in the Go language and created by HashiCorp. Terraform allows you to describe your complete infrastructure in the form of code. Even if your servers come from different providers such as AWS or Azure, terraform helps you build and manage these resources in parallel across multiple p

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A New Book From Us – Who Needs It?

Intelligent Management Inc.

Our new book is finally available See: ‘ From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management’ published by Springer This post was written by the Founder of Intelligent Management, Dr. Domenico Lepore Was this book really needed? Let me tell you: writing a book is complicated. It is emotionally burdensome, extremely time consuming and (very) insufficiently remunerated.

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Everest Group Launches PEAK Matrix Assessment for Supply Chain IT Transformation Service Providers for Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods

Everest Group

Everest Group names Accenture, EY, HCLTech, TCS and Tech Mahindra as Leaders in helping enterprises optimize operations, align demand and supply, enhance customer experiences, and respond swiftly to market changes. DALLAS, October 11, 2023 — According to Everest Group, retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) enterprises have invested heavily in supply chain IT transformation services in the past few years, especially after the pandemic underscored the urgency of a flexible and resilient suppl

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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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The synergy between UEM and medical device risk management

IBM Services

At the beginning of 2023, according to IBM Security’s “ Threat Intelligence Index ” report, healthcare was in the top 10 most-attacked industries on the planet. The “ Cost of a Data Breach 2023” report also uncovered that, since 2020, healthcare data breach costs have increased by 53.3%. Even if it adheres to a lot of regulatory practices, for the 13th year in a row, the healthcare industry reported the most expensive data breaches, at an average cost of USD 10.93 m

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Healthcare: Benefits of Outsourcing Revenue Cycle Management

Auxis

As bottom-line pressures mount, here are 5 benefits of outsourcing revenue cycle management that help healthcare companies maintain their own wellness.

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How to set up a Global Capability Center (GCC)

Zinnov

Global Capability Centers (GCCs) or Captive Centers as they were once known as, are the offshore delivery centers of global companies, that are owned, operated, and managed as subsidiaries – often in a low-cost, talent-rich location. As companies’ globalization journeys have evolved, so have these Captive Centers, which have transformed into Global In-house Centers (GICs) or Global Capability Centers (GCCs).

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From Vision to Reality: Defining a Net Zero Pathway for Enterprises | LinkedIn Live

Everest Group

LINKEDIN LIVE From Vision to Reality: Defining a Net Zero Pathway for Enterprises October 10, 2023 | 10:30 a.m. BST | 11:30 a.m. CET | 12:30 p.m. EET | 3 p.m. IST The rapid transition to a net zero economy stands as the paramount concern of the decade to address the climate crisis , demanding attention and action from government and enterprises. However, enterprises are facing challenges on their net zero journeys, including limited financial and technical resources, a lack of clear guidelines a

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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 data stores and governance impact your AI initiatives

IBM Services

Organizations with a firm grasp on how, where , and when to use artificial intelligence (AI) can take advantage of any number of AI-based capabilities such as: Content generation Task automation Code creation Large-scale classification Summarization of dense and/or complex documents Information extraction IT security optimization Be it healthcare, hospitality, finance , or manufacturing, the beneficial use cases of AI are virtually limitless in every industry.

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Katie Griffith Shares Her Career Journey and Bright Paths Experience at Perficient

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient is committed to advancing STEM education, improving the health and well-being of others, and making a difference in the community. Through our Bright Paths Program , in partnership with Strayer University’s Hackbright Academy and DevMountain, we’re providing relevant learning experiences that prepare students for the tech workforce. The fully funded 16-week custom coding bootcamp offers an incredible opportunity for students to receive first-hand experience with a broad spectrum of co

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Mastering AI Centers of Excellence: Key Considerations For Success

Zinnov

“ Have you ever had the feeling that you’re not in control? ” asked Morpheus in The Matrix. This question resonates in today’s AI-driven landscape, where the quiet integration of AI into our lives has made its presence almost imperceptible. It has touched upon various facets, from the technology embedded in our smartphones to the autonomous capabilities of our cars, as well as the tools retailers employ to enhance customer experiences without us even noticing.

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Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance BPS PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance BPS Enterprises have been increasingly turning to P&C insurance BPS providers during the recession to address elevated operating costs resulting from heightened inflation, which has led to increased claims expenses and rate adjustments for various P&C products. Cost reduction has once again become the foremost reason for outsourcing, along with the pursuit of operational efficiency to achieve improved business results.

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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.