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What Are the Most Effective Software Outsourcing Models?

Groove Technology

Software outsourcing has been popular for a while. Because of the advantages that outsourcing has brought to multinational corporations, it has never gone out of style. Businesses start to experience internal development issues, delivery delays, untested apps, bugs and defects, slower growth, and various other comparable issues, which necessitate the necessity for outsourcing services.

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5 Call Center Metrics to Optimize Agent Performance

Provana

Choosing the right call center metrics is just as important as operationalizing them. Here're five key call center metrics you should keep an eye on.

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Setting Up A VPN On Your Phone Is Easy – Here’s How

31 West

If you’ve got a smartphone, then you probably haven’t tapped into all of the amazing features and functions that it supports. Implementing and using a VPN on your mobile is a good example of this, but what is one, why should you take this step, and how can you go about it? Introducing VPNs. A virtual private network (VPN) sounds complex, but is a fairly straightforward concept to grasp.

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Picking An Agency To Maximize The Value Of Your First-Party Data

Forrester Digital Transformation

For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships. In Forrester’s Q1 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022, a whopping 76% of B2C marketing respondents said that they are […].

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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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What is a Global Employment Organization (GEO)?

Groove Technology

A Global Employment Organization (GEO) is a global alternative for recruiting workers abroad without establishing a branch or subsidiary in a foreign country. The GEO structure uses “employers of record” who are already set up and prepared to onboard and pay a new employee in each country of employment. In the host nation, where the GEO relies on its local partners and specialists, this speeds the recruiting process and guarantees that employers are compliant.

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Forecasting The Future: Five Seismic Shifts That We Saw Coming

Forrester Digital Transformation

As Forrester approaches its 40th anniversary, we reflect on a few of the monumental changes that we correctly predicted.

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Find Joy in 2022!

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Find joy, remain grateful, stay humble, be brave and go global in 2022." – Laurel J. Delaney, creator of the The Global Small Business Blog.

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10 reasons to outsource your call center operations to Mexico

Redial

Mexico is quickly positioning itself as a powerhouse in BPO outsourcing, but what is the reason for this? Easily, we can say that it is mainly the operating costs, the U.S. is too expensive. Therefore, an increasing number of American businesses choose to outsource their telemarketing services and other BPO to nearshore call centers. All these factors can help companies consider outsourcing some or all their day-to-day operations. 1 Cost reduction: Salaries compared to the U.S. are much lower an

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Do Not Expect the Demise of a Globalized Economy

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/Tilegen Retreat, not defeat: What Ukraine war means for globalization. But many others caution that while an era of globalization already in retreat is likely to retreat further as a result of the war, no one should expect the full demise of the globalized economy or the international liberal order that fostered it.

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St. Patrick's Day Is An Enchanted Time

The Global Small Business Blog

©2014 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time. It’s a day to begin transforming Winter’s dreams into Summer’s magic.” – Adrienne Cook.

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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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Let Us Love Winter

The Global Small Business Blog

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." – Pietro Aretino.

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De-globalization Might Lead to a Different Globalization

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/metamorworks De-globalization, which is a retreat from Western-designed globalization, did not begin during the pandemic or during the Russian war on Ukraine. This process had its origins in the Great Recession of 2007-09. Up to now, there has been no choice apart from the largely Western-driven globalization. But some countries are using technology to regain their independence.

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BAM! The Tit For Tat Continues on Sanctions

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/wissanu99 Just when you thought Russia wouldn't bother with sanctioning any U.S. officials, BAM! Take that Pres. Joe Biden. Here's one for you Hillary Clinton. And Hunter Biden, you're not off the list either. What am I talking about? Russia's foreign ministry says it has imposed sanctions on US President Joe Biden and 12 other US officials.

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MSFT: Launches MDR And Hops On The Everything-As-A-Service Bandwagon

Forrester Digital Transformation

Everything-eventually-becomes-a-service which Microsoft demonstrates by launching its own version of managed detection & response. We discuss what CISOs need to know, how it will impact the market, and what to look for next.

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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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Delivering More Value Through Empowered Teams

Forrester Digital Transformation

Command, Control, And The Changing Workplace Organizational and people management has perennially been a favorite topic of writers and researchers. Even the Bible tells a story of how Moses’ father-in-law gave him advice about management and delegation of tasks! For much of the 20th century, a top-down, command-and-control style of management was favored, with a […].

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Update Your Knowledge Management Practice With Three Agile Principles

Forrester Digital Transformation

Long-standing “waterfall” knowledge management (KM) practices are failing to meet the needs of the modern enterprise, and technology leaders must reassess their approach. Agile principles transform knowledge management within the enterprise from lengthy, delay-laden processes to lean practices that seek to make sharing knowledge easy and adaptable. For the same reasons that agile principles have […].

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Designers Are Your Anchor In An Uncertain Economy

Forrester Digital Transformation

As we head into another year of economic uncertainty, panic and fear seem to be gripping many organizations. From mass layoffs in the tech sector to hiring freezes, the world of CX has a right to be concerned. However, given the shifts in design awareness and transitions over the last decade from “what it looks like” to “how it works” we predict that designers and the experience design community will be more important than ever.

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Leaders Must Understand “The Meaning Of Stories” To Create “Meaning From Stories”

Forrester Digital Transformation

“You haven’t defined what story is,” said the voice of experience that afternoon, September 16, 2022. “That’s odd,” I thought. “What am I missing?” We were discussing my first leadership storytelling report, Master Storytelling For Impactful Leadership, intended to explain the “what?” and “why?” of leadership storytelling. In the report, I describe the three-arc structure […].

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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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VSM Enables All Teams To Become Elite

Forrester Digital Transformation

Value Stream Management is not value stream mapping and it’s not a DevOps tool, but it plays a crucial role in helping teams optimize software delivery and tracking value across their software delivery life cycle, even when a team is not operating in a “DevOps” mode. VSM tools “connect” into your software delivery process, ingest […].

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022

Forrester Digital Transformation

The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2022 evaluated 11 vendors on 35 different capabilities. Read the report to see the vendor that came out on top with the highest-ranked capabilities for the broadest set of organizations.

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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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Beware of “Coherent Nonsense” When Implementing Generative AI

Forrester Digital Transformation

Generative AI —using machine learning or other models (e.g., large language models) for creating novel text, images, sounds, etc. — is firmly in the spotlight as one the fastest-developing areas of technology today, especially with the recent release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Over the past week, we’ve seen thousands of people experimenting with prompts and questions […].

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How Shell Led A Citizen Developer Movement

Forrester Digital Transformation

How to establish, govern, and scale a citizen developer strategy is the most common low-code inquiry topic from Forrester clients – and Forrester data shows that at least two thirds of firms currently have a citizen developer strategy or plan to have one in the next 12 months. In 2021, Forrester identified three common structures […].

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Predictions 2023: Tech Teams Set Sights On Communication Coordination To Inform Insights Initiatives

Forrester Digital Transformation

Data and analytics teams are in for a bumpy ride in 2023. Those that can configure their content and communications best will outperform (and outlast) their competitors in the long run.

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The “Autonomous SOC” Is A Pipe Dream

Forrester Digital Transformation

Many vendors across the security industry share a vision: to deliver an autonomous security operations center (SOC) with their technology at the center. This idea is about as likely as me being able to join Starfleet and voyage with Captain Janeway in my lifetime. Why? First, let’s level-set on exactly what autonomous means: denoting or […].

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Agency Culture — Both Superpower And Achilles’ Heel — Is About To Change

Forrester Digital Transformation

Marketing agencies’ infamous environment — both vibrant and relentless — is decisively undergoing a cultural makeover in how its workers work, where they work, who leads the work, and what tools they use to create it. Agency culture is simultaneously their superpower and Achilles’ heel. They are well known to be vibrant enclaves of creativity where […].

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Global Hiring Guide for Startups

Grow your startup beyond borders and boundaries. Global expansion is the ultimate goal for many startup founders. However, to successfully enter new markets and grow internationally, you need a sound and scalable global recruitment strategy. In this eBook, you’ll discover how you can gain a competitive edge over your business rivals through the latest technology, harnessing global contractors, and using a global employment platform.

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Low-Code Is Helping Technology Firms Build A Bridge To Get Over Developer Hiring Challenges

Forrester Digital Transformation

Developer Demand Continues To Outgrow Available Talent The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 22.2% growth in application development and quality assurance testing demand in the next 10 years. Unfortunately, we are struggling to meet current demand to fill development needs. As tech companies continue to modernize through digitization, they are using unorthodox […].

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Growth Requires New Recipes, Not New Ingredients

Forrester Digital Transformation

After delivering my keynote at Technology & Innovation North America, another Forresterite joked to me: “That was great — but next time, more taco.” What did he mean? Well, to introduce my topic, “Growth Requires New Recipes, Not New Ingredients,” I discussed Austin Monthly’s Taco Madness, an annual March Madness-style voting competition that seeks to […].

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Gain Insight Into B2B Martech Decisions And Trends

Forrester Digital Transformation

Have you wondered what other B2B leaders think of martech solutions? Here’s your chance to help shape the future of B2B marketing technology decisions.

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Predictions 2023: CX Teams Thrive Or Wither Based On What They Do Now

Forrester Digital Transformation

Customer experience teams in 2023 will reach an inflection point: They will either show ROI and excel — or fade away. Read our CX predictions for 2023.

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption? The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. So what’s working now? What should your plans for 2023 include? By researching the supply chain challenges and solutions that businesses – especially small and midsize businesses – are currently experiencing, we’ve learned what’s working and what’s not.