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What to do if a remote developer keeps missing deadlines

In the computer programming world, missing deadlines may seem fine sometimes. But if it happens frequently, you may lose some valuable clients easily. However, managing and encouraging teams to stay within deadlines can be quite challenging. This is true, especially when your developers are working remotely. In this article, we’ll guide you about what to do if your remote developers miss deadlines consistently.

What if you could connect 100% of your CSM, ESM, or ITSM data sources to your service teams?

The idea of a single view into the enterprise has existed for some time as a "holy grail" concept—not just for Customer Service teams, but for IT leaders, and managers looking for big-picture dashboards for better decision-making. The trouble with realizing this concept has historically been an unreasonable investment in time and treasure to tear-down and rebuild vast enterprise systems. Today's fast-paced mergers and acquisitions activities only compound the technical challenges.

7 Important Steps to Improve Operational Efficiency

When it comes to improving your business operations, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. You have to look at the different processes involved in your business--from sales and marketing to product creation and delivery. Here, we’ve listed the strategies you can do at a minimum to improve your organization’s overall operational efficiency.

Mattermost Recipe: Leveraging the Kubernetes Operator to deploy our Community Server

Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly. If there’s a Recipe you want us to cook up in the future, drop us a line on our forum.

How to Find and Choose the Best Offshore Accounting Service

Accounting plays an important role in the growth of a business. And if you don’t have an in-house accounting professional with the required skills, you can hire an offshore accounting service. Outsourcing accounting to an offshore company can give you accounting books without any mistakes and an expert opinion on your firm’s finances. But how do you choose reliable offshore accounting services?

4 Successful Nearshoring Examples to Guide Your Business

Nearshoring, or the practice of moving your business to a nearby country, offers several benefits that can help boost your firm’s growth. However, you should determine if nearshoring is right for you before shifting your business operations. Fortunately, from Boeing to Whirlpool, there are many nearshoring examples to help guide companies who want to explore nearshoring.

Step-by-step guide to better cross-team collaboration

If you’re trying to complete a major project on your own, good luck. Nowadays, projects need every team in on the action. We know that siloed work doesn’t cut it. And without cross-team collaboration, what are you really doing to get projects done faster and more efficiently? Well, you’re probably not. We’re not trying to be harsh. In fact, a lot of workers take on the brunt load of a job to avoid putting pressure on other employees.

How organisations can succeed with a people-first approach

The past decade has seen a seismic shift in how employees view work. They expect it to fit in with their lifestyles, ambitions, values, skills, and individual personalities. The reality is that a positive workplace culture leads to high performance both individually and organisation wide. Businesses have evolved to create a culture change in the workplace by putting people first.