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Freshworks lays off 660 — about 13 percent of its global workforce — despite strong earnings, profits

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The company said the layoffs were part of “realigning our global workforce.” Freshworks CFO Tyler Sloat even touted a stock buyback program, to illustrate the company’s strong financials: “Given our strong financial position and improving cash profile, we have the opportunity to expand our capital allocation strategy.

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An archetype-based approach to driving your global workforce transformation

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Step 1: Assess the demand profile By shifting the composition of your workforce, you are bound to affect certain functions, capabilities, or products. As an example, consider the case of a global retail client. Step 2: Create the master set of archetypes After constructing a demand profile for each function, look across those profiles.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

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Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. A global management team was also formed to support the effort.

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What AI already does well in supply chain management

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That’s because the current generation of AI is already very good at two things needed in supply chain management. Forecasting Take for example, Amcor, the biggest packaging company in the world, with $15 billion in revenue, 41,000 employees, and over 200 plants globally. Most of their market is in food and healthcare packaging. “We

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comdivision – Cloud expertise from design to deployment and management

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In fact, comdivision was the first partner to achieve all eight VMware Master Services Competencies (MSCs) globally, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to continuously expanding its knowledge and delivering excellence to every customer engagement. And for the majority of that time, the company has done it in partnership with VMware.

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10 master data management certifications that will pay off

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Master data management (MDM) is required to ensure the enterprise’s data is consistent, accurate, and controlled. Customer relationship management (CRM) , supply chain management (SCM) , and compliance all have one thing in common: they rely on an integrated, single view of quality data. for 180 days access.

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Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role

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But with these high-profile undertakings can also come opportunities for career growth. Coming from a promoter-led company to a large enterprise, what dissimilarities did you encounter in your working relationship with the top management in the two companies? How are you managing the new expectations?