Sourcing strategy If it is no longer a question of sourcing or not for your software development, the next step is analyzing your organization needs and define your sourcing strategy. This discipline is the most difficult exercise for Clients and unfortunately also the most underestimated. The level of maturity is directly proportional to the level of success you..
16. January 2017, Davos, Switzerland. The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) is an annual benchmarking report that measures the ability of countries to compete for talent. The report ranks 118 countries according to their ability to grow, attract and retain talent.Much more than an international league table of talent, the GTCI report provides a tool-kit..
WordPress versions 4.7 and earlier are affected by eight security issues: Remote code execution (RCE) in PHPMailer – No specific issue appears to affect WordPress or any of the major plugins we investigated but, out of an abundance of caution, we updated PHPMailer in this release. This issue was reported to PHPMailer by Dawid Golunski and..
Simpler rules on cookies: The so called “cookie provision”, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. New rules will allow users to be more in control of their settings, providing an easy way to accept or refuse the tracking of cookies and other identifiers in case of..
10,000 people and businesses paying extortion money each month to avoid having their sensitive data, or Client data, released or scrambled. Source: Hackers steal data from 1.5 million user accounts after esports company refuses to pay ransom | VentureBeat | Security | by Jonathan Vanian, Fortune
The old email technology is far from dead and we all depend on an email address for business as well as private purposes. Looking through my own inbox and counting the number of received spam emails from the last 10+ years clearly, indicate that spam is here to stay. But, don’t attempt to copy-cat. Be aware..
You see it on TechCrunch all the time: company X raised $X million at $X valuation. But if you don’t work in venture capital or finance, you might not know what all this means. Great intro to Venture capital, angel investors, valuation, IPO and funding rounds Source: WTF is a funding round? | TechCrunch
The total number of new onshore deliver center openings more than doubled from 22 in 2014 to 52 in 2015 and the first half of 2016. In 2012, three quarters of new services centers were offshore. North America is currently the most favored onshore region for IT and business process services, according to Everest Group,..
This research backs up something Matthew Youlden — a Language Ambassador for Babbel who speaks over 20 languages — previously told Business Insider. Youlden recommends doing something active and passive in the language — as in, practicing speaking the words and also watching a foreign TV show. The goal is to be surrounded by the..
Why cultural differences aren’t responsible for bad bosses and employees Missouri business professor, Arthur Jago, has demonstrated that we make way too much of culture as a force behind an employee’s— and by extension, a leader’s— behavior. In his recent paper, published in European Management Journal, Jago revisits data gathered from 14 countries. Are Hofstede’s..