The Global Small Business Blog
AUGUST 24, 2021
©iStock/chuyu The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here's what that means for holiday shopping. More than 18 months into the pandemic, the disruption to global supply chains is getting worse, spurring shortages of consumer products and making it more expensive for companies to ship goods where they're needed. Shipping companies expect the global crunch to continue.
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Talking with sellers is like measuring weather patterns; you find out quickly which way the wind is blowing. And the topics Forrester clients ask about often reveal emerging trends. So what’s top of mind for B2B sales teams? I created a list of the top five topics revenue leaders asked me about in my first […].
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Groove Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
E-commerce conversions are recorded when someone takes the desired action on your website. This is usually a sale, although sometimes this can mean adding an item to your wish list, shopping cart, or subscribing to your newsletter. So, your e-commerce conversion rate is the process of optimizing your website for more purchases, cart items, etc. In addition, consumers sometimes see online shopping sites as a place to gather information rather than buy.
Hyland
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
... The post RPA in action: How non-developers are using bots to improve processes appeared first on The Hyland Blog.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
McKinsey and Company
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges.
Automation Anywhere
AUGUST 19, 2021
You’ve been invited to become a citizen developer in your company. If you go online, you’ll find lots of articles about citizen development. In a nutshell, citizen developers are usually nontechnical employees such as business users or subject matter experts who learn how to build intelligent automation software bots to handle their workflows. Here’s why citizen development is a good thing for you.
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Globalization Partners
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Did you know that your team members who work at home are not working remotely? In a world where companies had to quickly transition to work outside of the office, understanding remote work environments can present a challenge if want to set a clear remote work policy. Many companies think of remote work as an all-encompassing term that is directly related to working from home.
Perficient Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool owned by HashiCorp, which allows you to build, deploy, change, and manage infrastructure using code. It helps you define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files and manages your infrastructure’s lifecycle. Code is the instruction written in a human-readable format with extension (.tf) or in (.tf.JSON), which is written in Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL).
The Global Small Business Blog
AUGUST 28, 2021
©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to.” – Richard Russo, author and screenwriter.
The Global Small Business Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
©iStock/dorian2013 Disruptions in global supply chains have generated the phrase "everything shortage." But US imports are at record levels at some ports, and Americans are breaking shopping records, too. Supply-chain professionals plan to alleviate the backlog container by container. What's up? Yet claims that the country is running short on everything miss a key point.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
The Global Small Business Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2021
©iStock/Beboy_ltd What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Turning you on to Richard Orlinski's magnificent work (France). How to build brand love. How corporations organize global production is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Quote of the week: "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." – Amy Lowell 10 potential New Year resolutions for global small businesses.
The Global Small Business Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." – John Burroughs.
The Global Small Business Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2021
©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results-oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment." – John Goodman.
The Global Small Business Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come." – Mandy Hale.
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Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Starting in the 1800s, house calls from physicians were the norm. Traveling was too difficult for sick patients and house calls eliminated most of the healthcare costs of a standard visit. Until the 1940s, house calls were the primary modality of care. Physicians would travel with their medical supplies on foot or by horseback to […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Gen Z schools America once again. 23-year old Peter McIndoe from Memphis started a movement that went viral: Birds Aren’t Real. The movement propagated a conspiracy theory that the US government replaced all birds with drones sent to spy on its citizens. The movement drew thousands of followers, including 75K on Twitter, 360K on Instagram, […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 22, 2021
When did you join Forrester? I began my latest career adventure with Forrester in November, 2021. The Forrester “Bold at Work” values will be core drivers for my research with the intent of enabling clients and technology vendors to also be “bold at work”. Together, we’ll accomplish great things. I have always focused on delivering […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 13, 2021
It’s been … a weekend for security pros. The Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affects somewhere between 0 and 3 billion-plus of the devices currently running Java. Luckily, a metric ton of amazing advice exists on #InfoSecTwitter right now. It’s a lot to consume at once, which is why we‘ve put together three parallel workstreams you […].
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Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 16, 2021
In 2017, Forrester expanded upon the IT service management market (ITSM) to establish enterprise service management (ESM) as a chosen area of coverage, continuing this research with a 2019 Forrester Wave™ evaluation. Now, we are pleased to announce The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021. In 2018, ITSM vendors were still completing the transition […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Our research has found that, while most enterprises use multiple public clouds or some form of hybrid cloud implementation, it isn’t done for resilience purposes. The reasons for this are many, but to summarize, building applications to use multiple clouds is hard. There can be massive inefficiencies, complexities, and redundant tasks in managing multiple versions […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Over the weekend, security pros took to social media to understand and dissect the Log4j vulnerability. Forrester already released a blog on responding to Log4j, but beyond the immediate (and mid-term) response issues, there are some longer term risk management and community considerations – specifically open source support, maintenance, and risk. The fact of the […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
DECEMBER 10, 2021
2021 brought monumental shifts to the B2B sales world. Throughout the year, Forrester’s B2B Sales Executives service published key research on how sales leaders should address these changes, and we’ve highlighted that research below. B2B Buying Is Changing, And Sales Needs To Quickly Adapt Many changes in B2B selling are a result of shifts in […].
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Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Instagram is becoming cheugy for Gen Z youth. Forrester just got data back from its Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® US Youth Survey, 2021, which shows a 13-point year-over-year increase in weekly usage of TikTok (from 50% to 63%) among US Gen Z youth (ages 12–17). For that same audience base, Instagram weekly usage declined 4 […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
It’s nearly the end of the year, so it’s the perfect time to reflect on your accomplishments while planning ahead. Now is also a good time to review the content you published during 2021 and ask some key questions about it. Does your content include data and tech expertise that buyers want? Was it created […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The new PMA has three priorities: employee experience, customer experience, and managing the business of government. In this blog post I evaluate the CX priority and offer advice to implement it.
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Forrester predicts that 2022 will see the rise of the chief trust officer, bias bounties, decentralized digital identities, and the Climate Pledge Initiative.
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Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Sales technology vendors often use the GPS analogy to describe how they help sellers reach their goals. Enter your destination, and let the system guide you. While this analogy makes sense, these vendors have spent more time talking about the route than their ability to get where you’re going on time. Companies that are not […].
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
New expectations call for new processes and tools. Learn how software development will adapt to the new normal in 2022.
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
To help brand manufacturers take control, Forrester’s Digital Go-To-Market Review series assesses a set of brands in a specific category to see how well they are positioned to thrive independently. In this review, we analyzed our reviews of 177 retail brands.
Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The metaverse has arrived — or that was the vibe last week, anyway, at the 2021 installment of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) conference. Many speakers also acknowledged that the metaverse is still in its early days, but the consensus was that after decades of gestation, the metaverse is now born. Since 2013, AWE has […].
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.
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