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How to Pay an Independent Contractor in India: A Guide for Global Companies

Velocity Global

India holds one-sixth of the world’s population, many of whom speak English and are highly skilled in tech, IT, and other critical sectors. Naturally, global companies are seeking talent in India to work as remote contractors. However, this poses an important question: How do you securely pay an independent contractor in India? Although there are several payment methods available, companies must also consider other factors before engaging contractors, including taxation, IP protection, and compl

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How Do You Grow Your MSP Business?

31 West

Cybersecurity threats have become the biggest cause of concern for businesses. Unfortunately, the risk isn’t just for the large corporations that report annual revenues in millions. But SMBs are also exposed to these attackers. Businesses are turning to MSPs ( Managed Service Providers ) for IT operations and security. Small businesses, particularly, work with the IT help desk to mitigate the risk of security breaches.

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What Drives Globalization?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/nadia_bormotova The author of "De-globalization – Myth or reality?" sees three forces that drive globalization. The first is the ability to shorten distances in both transport and communication. The second is the commitment of nation states to establish and adhere to rules, standards and safeguards that ensure that goods, services, capital and labor can move relatively freely across borders.

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How IT Leaders Can Manage Costs during Inflation and Develop Better Outsourcing Partnerships | In the News

Everest Group

The best strategy to maximize business needs amid inflation involves appreciating existing shifts in economic forces to source partnerships for improved business value. Amy Fong, Partner at Everest Group, says that industry stakeholders can only lower outsourcing costs by appreciating the concern’s existence and developing appropriate strategies to improve flexibility in industrial operations.

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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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Dedicated Team Service for an eCommerce Company

Groove Technology

Customer. Our customer is an eCommerce company based in Germany. Their main product is related to organic cosmetic. Challenge. Our customer reached to us when they needed a dedicated team to support them in developing a delivery app. Technologies. React Native,NET, MS Azure.

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How We Picked The 2022 Top 10 Emerging Technologies

Forrester Digital Transformation

Since we published The Top 10 Emerging Technologies In 2022, we’ve been getting questions about how these technologies were selected out of the hundreds that Forrester tracks. Clients also ask, “Why are some obvious ones like machine learning, blockchain, the metaverse, or quantum computing missing?” Here are our top 10. Please read our four-part blog […].

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Top Cities With BPO Growth For 2023 

Redial

Since exploring the economic context of countries and markets is a fundamental part of our day-to-day, we couldn’t resist looking up what is ahead for the Business Process Outsourcing industry for 2023. . What are the top places aiming to invest in and generate more opportunities for companies and their people? South Africa. If you have been reading our latest blogs, you know South Africa has been a topic of discussion, becoming a preferred destination for BPOs searching for lower costs a

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Credit app development for a finance & investigation company

Groove Technology

Customer. Our customer is an Italian credit company operating for the local market in Financial & Reputation Investigations. Challenge. The company came to us when they lacked a technical team who could help them build a mobile app for their credit service. Technologies. React Native, Node.JS, MongoDB.

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Want To Improve Employees’ Insights-Driven Decision Making? Data Literacy Programs Alone Won’t Help

Forrester Digital Transformation

Companies want to be insights-driven, customer obsessed, and future fit. This journey includes investing in data literacy or spending on tech. In 2022, 75% of US business decision-makers responded that they are adopting enterprise-wide data literacy, and companies are projected to spend 4.7 trillion dollars on technology globally. But if tech execs think that these […].

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Today in Global Small Business: Gratefulness Edition

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Olga Beliaeva What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Gratefulness: a necessary ingredient for relationships (and in business). Why gratitude matters in our world. Quote of the week: "Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don't forget to lift someone up." – words from Roy T.

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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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What Are The Different Types Of Firewalls?

31 West

A firewall is a security mechanism that filters out the bad traffic that tries to access your private network. Like a metal detector installed at secure entrance points in buildings, a firewall is a virtual tool that scans data packets before they enter your company’s network. It checks these data packets against a set of predefined rules. Like any other technology, the firewall has been updated with advanced security protocols that extend its usability beyond network protection.

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The clean hydrogen opportunity for hydrocarbon-rich countries

McKinsey and Company

Hydrogen could play an important role in helping hard-to-abate sectors meet climate targets. Countries with hydrocarbon resources and industry expertise can help build and scale the needed technology.

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Design Do’s and Don’ts for Retailers This Holiday Season

Forrester Digital Transformation

Retailers can improve their websites and boost customer experience this holiday season by applying these tips.

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Retailer's Huge Holiday Wish?

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/pialhovik Retailers’ biggest holiday wish is to get rid of all that excess inventory. As some of the nation’s largest retailers report quarterly earnings and revenue, Wall Street is paying close attention to another number, too — inventory levels. Who isn't carrying a great deal of inventory lately? And who isn't experiencing issues with goods ordered pre-pandemic that are finally arriving now?

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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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Advantages of Using OCR while Document Scanning

Offshore India Data Entry

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the most advanced methods of data entry that can help a business concern increase its operational capabilities. Emerging technology is developed using different languages ??and large datasets. OCR document scanning helps businesses convert typewritten or printed text data into editable and searchable machine-encoded text.

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Even in the metaverse, women remain locked out of leadership roles

McKinsey and Company

Five early indicators on women in the metaverse reveal gender inequality—especially in the leadership creating and setting metaverse standards.

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Learnings From Our Hybrid Cloud Management Forrester Wave™

Forrester Digital Transformation

This blog piggybacks off of my last post regarding the management evaluations I’ve been working on in 2022. As previously noted, they take a lot of effort but deliver high value — a lot of which can’t be captured in a single report. I already shared my tidbits of advice for the cost management evaluation. […].

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Our Easy 9-Step Guide on How to Turn Black Friday Customers into Your Everyday Customers

Raya Contact Center

We know your sales in the retail and e-commerce industry skyrocket on Black Friday and the Christmas sale seasons, but what if you could catch those customers and keep them loyal? We know your sales in the retail and e-commerce industry skyrocket on Black Friday and the Christmas sale seasons, but what if you could catch those customers and keep them loyal?

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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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The Three Dimensions of Product Engineering 

comeMakeit

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Unfolding the Crucial Benefits of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) Services.

Go4Customer

Today, we are going to discuss some critical aspects of the KPO industry. The KPO industry has served companies with top-notch computational solutions and contributed greatly to the process of business expansion. It is also a kind of business process outsourcing service yet it is more focused on information-related business operations. As we are slowly progressing deep into the digital era, every business is hugely dependent on large ch.

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Capitalize On Search Marketing’s Evolution With Two New Reports

Forrester Digital Transformation

In 2023, marketers plan to spend more on paid and organic search despite data deprecation and economic headwinds. According to Forrester’s Q3 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 82% of CMOs plan to increase paid search budgets and 74% plan to increase SEO budgets in 2023. As search budgets grow, the medium is changing radically. The […].

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What matters: How to scale advanced analytics in corporate functions

McKinsey and Company

Organizations are starting to embrace advanced analytics as a core pillar of innovation within their general and administrative functions.

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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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Everything You Need to Know to Get Started on Agile Project Management

Bydrec

Agile project management enables projects to respond quickly to new challenges and opportunities. It helps teams collaborate and make good decisions quickly, so they can deliver what their customers need. In this post, we explore five agile project management principles that will help you streamline your project management processes. These principles are based on the Agile Manifesto , which states that effective collaboration between team members is paramount for creating great software.

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What your fellow Hyland customers are prioritizing in 2023

Hyland

In this post: CommunityLIVE’s Post-it board results. Hyland customers’ top technology priorities for 2023. A note on “uncategorized” goals. Achieve your 2023 goals. Everyone knows the feeling of looking at their to-do list and wondering … where am I even going to start? The need to prioritize always hits a little harder in Q4.

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Learnings From Our Cloud Cost Management Wave

Forrester Digital Transformation

It’s been a grand spring, summer, and fall of Wave evaluations for me. These evaluations are time intensive. I’ve spent many nights, weekends, early and late hours on two separate cloud management evaluations. The participating vendors each spent long hours submitting answers to detailed questionnaires, lining up customer references & executive briefings, and preparing for […].

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Shaping the future of Thai banking: Reinventing purpose to ignite growth

McKinsey and Company

With new opportunities on the horizon, the Thai banking industry could ignite new growth and invigorate its profitability by redefining its meaning and purpose, reinventing its traditional role, and making bold and innovative operational changes.

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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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A CCO Alone Won’t Fix Your CX

Simplr

Research shows that 89% of companies that lead with customer experience (CX) perform better financially than their competition. Brands that excel in CX promote a customer-centric culture and adopt inclusive approaches to CX that encompass all departments. These brands ingrain CX and experience management across the organization and, as a result, can react quickly to shifts in consumer behavior and the marketplace.

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Here’s Everything That Social Media Outsourcing Can Do For You This Holiday Season

Magellan Solutions

What is Social Media Outsourcing? How Can it Help You This Holiday? It goes without saying that one of the most significant marketing platforms for companies nowadays is social media. Companies now have an easy way to connect with millions of potential clients via social media platforms. Did you know that social media outsourcing is prevalent nowadays?

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Slow And Steady: Steps To A Successful Total Economic Impact™ Study With Forrester

Forrester Digital Transformation

Both in training and in producing a TEI study, keeping things moving is the most important part. Fortunately, Forrester helps you throughout the entirety of the TEI process.

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In the boardroom with Alison Watkins: CEOs, boards, and leading through crisis

McKinsey and Company

Alison Watkins, who is a board member of CSL, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and Wesfarmers, believes that there is growing alignment—and a healthier balance—between CEOs and board members.

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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.