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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Data is information organized in a form that can be efficiently used by people or computers to make decisions. Job Market Prospects. Prateek Natani is an Associate Consultant at KPMG, and completed a Computer Science Engineering degree in June 2020. Data Proliferation. Required Skills. According to the U.S.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse.

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What are the potential risks of digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Centralization of goods markets. Large investors can materially impact Bitcoin’s price because it has a small market capitalization and less than 1% of Bitcoin addresses own more than 90% of all Bitcoin. As of September 2020, there were more than 3,400 cryptocurrencies. Mistaken transactions. Regulatory risk. Cyberwarfare.

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Wood was not necessarily phased out, as much as just naturally replaced by coal, which represented a more efficient and denser source of energy. However, given that the fossil fuel-based energy market is valued at over $5 trillion, the risks involved in the clean energy transition are proportionally huge. Business Risks. Bottle Necks.

Energy 88
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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. Start in the back office, not the front office.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets.

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