The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

©iStock/Rawpixel What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Eight essential international business skills. Master international growth with these winning strategies. Quote of the week: “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran and Russia.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In the current evolving technology landscape, generative AI (gen AI) has been leveraged as a transformative force, promising opportunities for innovation and efficiency, in most of the contemporary IT and BPO services deals. Proposing gen AI in the solution is no longer considered as a differentiator for service providers but has become a table stake in the past two to three quarters.

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Premier BPO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Businesses seek digital transformation solutions to align their people, processes, and technology toward becoming a data-driven organization that can leverage data to drive unparalleled business value. For this, businesses must fundamentally shift how they operate and compete. As explored in our previous blog from the data-driven success series Unlocking Success: The Importance of Being a Data-Driven Organization , the journey toward harnessing the dataset’s full potential begins with understand

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Eclaro

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Every day is game day, whether you’re a business owner, a member of a great corporate team or a job seeker looking to make that roster. And in every case, sources of motivation are all around us—you just need to know where to look.

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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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Aspirant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you making decisions based on intuition, or are you leveraging the power of data to drive your business forward? Every day, businesses face a flood of decisions, each one shaping their future and steering them toward success. Decision makers have access to more information than ever before, presenting incredible possibilities to use this information to make informed and effective choices.

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The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

©2024 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Summer was about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope.

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The Hackett Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Potential 63% Improvement in Procurement Operational Efficiency Revealed Miami, FL – September 10, 2024 – The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) released the first Digital World Class Matrix focused on the contract life-cycle management (CLM) and intelligence software market – a core component of the upstream procurement tools within the source-to-pay (S2P) technology landscape driven by rapid artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and increasingly complex business requirements.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.

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The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

©iStock/Tashatuvango Going global is increasingly on a CEO’s and a CMO’s to-do list. In the UK alone, 87% of those businesses who trade internationally are planning on expanding their overseas operations this year, with a further 10% aiming to step outside the UK for the first time. That’s a lot of cross-market communication campaigns. But, despite emerging technologies helping business bridge borders more easily than ever before, they’re still being held back by language barriers – to the tune

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Amzur

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, CIOs and CTOs face significant challenges in meeting the demands for innovation, efficiency, and exceptional customer experience. Merely relying on generic Google searches or top 10 lists of AI tools may not suffice for organizations striving for true innovation and success. It’s crucial to understand how and where to implement AI tools across the organization to drive productivity and success while managing costs effectively.

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The Hackett Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Miami, FL – September 12, 2024 – The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) is delighted to announce it has been named Coupa EMEA Partner of the Year. This recognition honors The Hackett Group’s EMEA Coupa implementation team for their outstanding performance in driving project execution and the most successful go-lives over the past year. “This achievement was made possible by the exceptional dedication of our team who consistently prioritized our clients’ needs and focused on delivering tangible v

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, maximizing value in outsourced services is crucial for buyers to achieve savings objectives and maintain a competitive edge. This blog delves into strategies to ensure cost efficiency and foster high-value vendor partnerships, providing a comprehensive focus on these approaches to vendor engagement, which in return can drive significant outcomes and enhance a firm’s overall performance.

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The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

©iStock/royyimzy This latest edition of the Field Guide to Going Global from Baker McKenzie helps you examine foreign law issues for taking business models, products and technology international. Their guidance should be helpful whether you are working for a start-up company or a large multinational enterprise that is broaching new frontiers. The guide addresses these questions: Are you considering expanding into new jurisdictions?

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Amzur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction SuiteWorld 2024, NetSuite’s highly anticipated flagship conference, brought a host of exciting updates, reaffirming the platform’s commitment to innovation and AI-driven solutions. Held in Las Vegas, the event gathered thousands of NetSuite users, partners, and industry experts, all eager to explore the newest trends and advancements in cloud-based business management.

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Zinnov

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In the past five years, India Global Capability Centers (GCC) landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from cost-saving outposts to strategic innovation hubs. Today, these centers are not just participating in the global business landscape; they are actively reshaping it. India, the GCC Capital of the World The impact of GCCs on India’s economic fabric is profound and far-reaching.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nowadays, AI is a crucial field with various frameworks like ML.NET that can be used to build amazing applications using pre-built models from cloud providers. It’s important to learn how these services work behind the scenes, how to create custom models, and understand how your application can interact with AI frameworks beyond just cloud providers or the source of the AI services.

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The Global Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

©iStock/izanbar The most common view – held by 72% of Americans – is that democracy in the U.S. used to be a good example, but has not been in recent years. Another 8% of Americans say U.S. democracy has never been a good example for other countries to follow. Do you agree or disagree? Read the analysis , which indicate that Americans are much more likely than people in other countries to say U.S. democracy used to be a good example.

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inDinero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When you decided to pursue a career in the non-profit sector, you unlikely wanted to do non profit accounting work. It’s hard to feel the difference you’re making if you spend the day on spreadsheets and compliance. Fortunately for you, it’s common practice for small and large organizations to outsource to outside accounting firms or volunteers. But before you delegate or take on this task yourself, it’s important to have a high-level understanding of accounting for non profit organizations.

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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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Capgemini

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

How digital assets reshape the post-trade landscape in capital markets George Holt 08 July 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin The continued advancement of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and other blockchain derivatives, is building a new era in the capital markets. This shift extends beyond trading, by revolutionizing the logging, clearing, and settling of transactions within the post-trade sphere.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Technical Challenge The key idea of proposed approach is to create an instance with two databases attached: Sitecore 9 Legacy New Sitecore 10 XM Cloud There could be two potential ways of doing this: Restore backup of XM Cloud database to a legacy XP of the desired version with content databased already attached/restored. That would not works since XP 9.3 neither knows about XM Cloud schema, nor is capable to handle Items as Resource which were invented in XP 10.1.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Watch Everest Group’s Abhijnan Dasgupta, Practice Director, Trust & Safety, discuss the impact of generative AI on moderator wellbeing, including the role it will play in the wellbeing lifecycle. Abhijnan joins a panel of industry experts to discuss the future of wellbeing in Trust and Safety. Key questions answered in this on-demand webinar: How does genAI exemplify the need for T&S wellbeing services?

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Globalization Partners

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Global expansion offers companies the chance to tap into new markets and access diverse talent, but for Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs), it also introduces a maze of challenges. Navigating different labor laws, aligning compensation with local expectations, and ensuring compliance in unfamiliar territories can quickly turn a promising opportunity into a risky venture.

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Capgemini

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

How distributed ledger technology can impact the role of centralized clearing parties George Holt 29 July 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Periodically, transformative technology emerges that instigates profound changes across multiple industries, redefining the way we live our lives and conduct business. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is one contemporary example.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The greatest wealth is health. Perficient came up with this “wellness at work, wellness in life” initiative to provide basic health care, Eye care and dental care to its employees. Perficient proves its value for People and prioritized the wellness of its people. Perficient joined hands with Kauvery hospital for basic health care, Dr Agarwal’s hospital for eye care and Clove dental for dental care.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As the role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) continues to evolve, the need for a strategic approach to talent management has become increasingly crucial. In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, finance leaders must focus on financial performance and ensure their teams are equipped with the skills and mindset to navigate future challenges.

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Intelligent Management Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

If I win then you must lose. This has been a predominant belief that governs interactions in the business world and beyond. What can I gain without giving? It is a zero sum game. Just this week, a tweet from economist Robert Reich informs us that the typical worker in the 100 lowest-paying US corporations earned $34k last year while the average CEO pay was $14.7m.

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Capgemini

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Insuring the future with a payer-provider partnership Capgemini 10 September 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin New technologies and regulations make collaboration more valuable than ever In brief: New technologies and regulations are changing the healthcare landscape. For proactive health payers, these changes carry immense opportunity. By partnering with providers and leveraging new technologies, healthcare payers can unlock new value.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Generative AI or, as I prefer to call it, generative machine learning (ML) has taken the business world by storm. By now you’ve likely encountered an email or some form of marketing generated by one of these models, perhaps without even realizing it. They’re powerful tools and I look forward to the improvements we can bring to people’s lives. But I also think it’s essential to understand their limitations, lest you end up with some embarrassing results.

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Everest Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As the Engineering Services market continues to evolve, the Everest Group’s Engineering Services Top 50 2024 report offers valuable insights into the shifting dynamics and emerging trends shaping the industry. Now in its sixth edition, this definitive list provides a comprehensive overview of the 50 largest third-party engineering services providers, ranked by their revenue and year-on-year growth.

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V-Soft Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The ITSM platform is one of the critical aspects in determining the effectiveness of IT services, the speed of service delivery, as well as business agility within an organization. Despite the many ITSM solutions available on the market, ServiceNow stays among the leaders due to its versatility and scalability. As many organizations are looking for sophisticated IT Service Management tools, this article is something that helps you compare ServiceNow ITSM to its main competitors, such as Atlassia

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