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Taking Latin America workforce research into the AI age: Meet Juana

ShadowHornet is piloting a new AI chatbot, Juana, focused on providing you advanced information and insight into the technical workforce in Latin America. Try it now!

Impacts of AI & Future Employment Opportunities

Interview discusses how AI is on pace to eliminate 600,000 US tech jobs, and some new horizons of opportunity created by the recent trend

AI and Mobility to Power the Retail Workforce

Retailers are often locked in by mobile device strategy decisions made three to five or more years earlier. This hurts their ability to use disruptive and innovative technology (e.g. AI) to make an impact on retail efficiency. It also means that they're weakening their competitive position to others who have taken R&D risks. This paper discusses how retailers can rapidly adapt to today's technology landscape to achieve more benefit, even when they have made decisions in the past that are currently hindering their progress.

Sample report: Tech Sourcing from Trinidad and Tobago

This report, commissioned by and furnished to a top 50 PE firm aided them in site evaluation for nearshore, development backoffice, and engineering outsourcing. They were considering Trinidad and Tobago against several US and Latin American destinations. Download by clicking the button below!

What's Going on in the Tech Labor Market

The period 2022-2024 has been an unprecedented period of turbulence in the tech labor market. This short clip suggests several contributing factors causing the pain.

Exiting the Shadows of Theory X

This 5 minute speech on how today's dysfunctions in the workplace are a direct result of management philosophy created in the 1900s to drive production out of factory workers. That philosophy, Theory X management, is still being used on today's diverse, highly educated and globally diverse workforce - to disastrous consequences. Speech became the #2 globally viewed presentation in the DisruptHR network in Q1 2024.

Red Hat Takes Customer Service to Next Level With Predictive Analytics

Well before the generative AI boom, Red Hat was pioneering machine-learning based solutions to enhance their customer service experience. This article discusses how the firm used a combination of internal and external expertise to drive next level differentiation in the marketplace.

Disrupting the 40 Hour Work Week with the Trusted Talent Smart Cloud

This 37 minute video details massively disruptive trends to the US tech labor market in 2024, including AI, nearshoring/offshoring, and the emergence of fractional hiring solutions

AI will disrupt, dislocate, and destroy and ironically, give you the opportunity of a lifetime

Short clip describes how AI is disrupting the traditional tech labor market, destroying jobs but creating opportunities in the process

An Assessment of Domestic Sourcing in Madison County: Marshall, North Carolina for the United States Department of Agriculture

Used by the USDA and White House Rural Council, this report highlights the pros and cons of Marshall, in Madison County, North Carolina, as an entrepreneurial destination for tech business leaders in the domestic sourcing market. Download report by clicking button below!

Innovating to Innovate: Domestic Sourcing from the Rural US to Spark Innovation at Red Hat

Post-keynote address given by Thomas Mirc in 2015 at the RevAmerica National Summit on Domestic Sourcing in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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