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We live in an increasingly connected world. Never in the history of humanity has information been so readily available. Today, it's not just people who are more connected with each other but devices that are connected with people and processes and people that are connected with devices that connect them to other people, processes and devices. It is truly a connected world — and we have information to thank for that.

The Internet of things (IoT) plays a significant role in connectedness, and today we are looking at the role of cloud-agnostic hardware in IoT. We will cover critical questions asked today in the IoT industry. That includes the benefits of cloud-agnostic hardware, how cloud-agnostic hardware affects the future of IoT and whether there is an alternative to cloud-agnostic hardware.

Read more on Entrepreneur here.

Global “Sustainability and Climate Change Consulting Market” In the forecast period of 2022-2028 research report has been recently published. The report provides detailed information on the effective analysis of the businesses. This report includes extensive market research on the Sustainability and Climate Change Consulting Market that allows users to analyses future demand and forecast accurate implementation. Expected growth rates based on intelligent analytics provide more information about the global market Sustainability and Climate Change Consulting Market. Limits and growth aspects are based on a deep understanding of global market growth.

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Careers360, Sri Lanka’s latest and most innovative job seeking site, launched its online platform to the public, connecting job seekers and employers by offering a transparent, easy-to-use solution for finding new careers and new candidates, respectively. The platform, proudly built by Azend Technologies Ltd., leverages the latest technologies in creating a lightweight, innovative, easy to use web portal on par with global platforms.

Careers360.lk provides a fresh face by bringing the latest features in the global recruitment space to a traditional Sri Lankan job market; from profile matching to analytics-driven recruitment. It offers a suite of packages catered to individual job adverts, to corporates looking for a cost-effective mass hiring option.

Read more on Daily FT here.

You understand that every dollar matters since you own a company. To secure the future success of your company, you must be diligent with your financial decisions. IT personnel is one area where several startups suffer. It might be challenging to locate a workforce that is qualified and reasonably priced. Here’s where the expansion of the IT workforce occurs.

Long-term, hiring exceptional programmers and producing excellent work might be cost-effective for an expansion strategy. Yet, how does it function in practice?

Read more on The European Business Review here.

The global industry is never really static. But we have been witnessing major shifts around the world—changes that shed light on an industry in transition.

This week we are publishing The 2022 Global 200, which each year provides the most authoritative picture of the legal industry around the world. Our extensive report will feature in-depth reporting and analysis, charts with financial metrics for the 200 largest international law firms, and rankings by revenue, profits per equity partner and head count. It also closely examines markets in Asia.

Read more on Law.com here.

The report titled ‘Global Contact Center Outsourcing Market’ examines the competitive advantages of the market in the last few years. The report studies crucial aspects important for the market players and Contact Center Outsourcing industry to make sound business decisions and for investment opportunities. The study of the current economic and non-economic factors in domestic and international markets is described in the report. The facts gathered in Contact Center Outsourcing report are researched and collected through trusted sources. It includes primary and secondary methods of research.

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THE term “new energy” covers a number of concepts – some established, some new, including the use of new technologies to generate electrical energy and increasingly capture the production of “future fuels”, such as hydrogen, ammonia and methanol, says Michael Harrison, a partner in Ashurst LLP who’s based in Singapore.

Harrison, along with colleagues, has been involved in over 30 waste projects, and is currently working on 10 projects, all of which are at various stages of development.

Read more on The Business Times here.

Organizations worldwide are realizing that RPA is capable of transforming their backend operations and procedures in an entirely new way with digital technology. It is a novel approach to automating corporate operations and procedures. It enables businesses to use software-driven robots, or bots, to automate routine, predetermined activities. It minimizes the human labor required for tiresome, repetitive jobs so that employees can concentrate on more important and more meaningful work.

Read the full article on ResearchAndMarkets here.

The headline of one of my previous articles, “The Most Unenviable Job in Purchasing,” sums up my negative view of a purchasing department’s strategic sourcing function. In my experience, the solitary focus of strategic sourcing has been piece-price. And there is always someone who will offer a lower price.

What’s wrong with this approach, of course, is that there are other desirable supplier capabilities that can positively impact OEM customer internal costs, as well as position them to increase revenues/profits through satisfying incremental demand—i.e., demand that was not forecast. And these are largely ignored in today’s source-selecting strategy and process.  

Read the full article on IndustryWeek here.

After joining forces with PEN Partnership in August, Wavestone announces the acquisition of Coeus Consulting, a London based management consulting firm specialising in CIO Advisory. The three companies all share strong growth ambitions to build together a leading player in the UK consulting market.

Read the full article on Actusnews here.