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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

However, navigating the complexities of business operations, strategic planning, and growth can be challenging for small business owners. They work closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term goals.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. How do we manage capital consumption and the volatility of our assets?

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Knowledge as a Service Knowledge as a service (KaaS) is a “managed service” model where firms in the professional services industry offer proprietary data, prescriptive insights, and guidance, to clients in real-time through a web-based platform. We also offer change management courses for user adoption. Interested in learning more?

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Small businesses and young businesses are especially vulnerable. Data from the U.S.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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BitGold Now Available in US! Why BitGold?

MishTalk

Brink’s”), which insures gold through third party insurance providers. With its IT expertise, C$35 million of cash in the bank and other resources, the combined BitGold/GoldMoney has resources far beyond what GoldMoney alone was able to put together. It is also the first gold-based card of any kind available in the US.