Remove 2008 Remove 2020 Remove Development Remove Marketing
article thumbnail

What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

Banking 120
article thumbnail

How the Financial World Adapts to Climate Change

Tom Spencer

You are likely to receive a question at your upcoming job interview, which assesses to what extent you are up-to-date with the latest business developments, and also requires you to reflect on that knowledge with regards to a major social-political issue. Green Finance. Resilience Bonds.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A New Quest for Consultancy: Transitioning from Just-in-Time Logistics

Tom Spencer

Since the philosophies, frameworks, and insights developed by top firms contribute to the business practices which play a role in making the economic system unsustainable, a crisis signals the need for reflection. Now, the 2020 global pandemic teaches us that we need to review our beliefs about just-in-time logistics.

article thumbnail

We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita High School, where I learned to develop group and individualized training toward specific goals — namely, competing in band competitions or performing in concerts. Rita and manage others at Blockbuster and combine them to develop and implement training for salespeople, operations staff, cashiers, and line managers.

Hotels 52
article thumbnail

Great Depression 2020?

CaseInterview.com

I’ve been noticing that there are questions lately about what caused the Great Depression and whether we’re at risk of something similar in 2020. For context, I asked this exact same question in October 2008 at the start of the Great Recession. We were extremely close to a great depression in 2008.

Banking 119
article thumbnail

Save Lives vs. Save the Economy

CaseInterview.com

Prior to 2008, the financial sector grew way beyond enabling the rest of the economy. In the months after the stock market crash of 2008, many of those rocket scientists were laid off. The month before the crash of 2008, Las Vegas (which had a wildly speculative residential real estate market) had 40,000 mortgage brokers.

Financial 145
article thumbnail

Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. 2020 has been replete with inspiring stories of organizations acting quickly to address immediate needs. Develop a Team of Teams. Build Agility. Take the example of V12.