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A Sisyphean Struggle: Insights from BCG’s Treasury Benchmarking Survey 2016

BCG

Focus Thursday, November 03, 2016. Our 2016 survey found that most banks are still in the stabilization phase. Pressure is also on banks to refine their steering, IT, and ­analytics approaches to eke out basis points of margin, improve their operating ­efficiency, and enhance their insight-generating capabilities.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Holiday, 2016) By these stoic virtues exercised by great historical figures throughout history, managers go beyond management to more adequately deliver results and reduce counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations. Click the link below to try it out.

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TeBIT 2016 Executive Report: Drilling for Digital Gold

BCG

Report Monday, October 10, 2016. So it seems reasonable to assume that telecom operators, too, are reaping the rewards. It’s just the type of question that TeBIT, a benchmarking study jointly developed by ETIS–The Community for Telecom Professionals and The Boston Consulting Group, was created to answer.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Over time, it has become a necessity for the consulting industry to develop frameworks to address critical business problems with the help of big data. The first company to identify emerging demand trends and tailor its operations to delivery can quickly establish itself as the go-to source for particular goods or services” ( EY, 2016 ).

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Global Payments 2016: Competing in Open Seas

BCG

Report Monday, September 26, 2016. At the top of the collective agenda in 2016 is the digitization of payments, which has come with more than its share of hype. What can banking incumbents do in the face of these developments? And time is of the essence. One objective will be to emerge as more-streamlined entities.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

The goal is to exploit both the trust of … users and bugs in their web browsers to install a virus allowing the hacker access to the organisation’s network” ( Welch, 2016 ). If you are an IT company that creates software, hiring developers to check code can be a good defensive strategy. Common Methods of Cyber-Attack.

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow

developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g., We’ll consider two sides of risk management in aerospace engineering: managing project risks and operational risk management outlined in the aerospace quality management standard AS9100. . Step 4: Developing risk response strategies. Operational risk management .