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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

In January 2016, IBM announced a collaboration with SBRH, which gave Pepper a cognitive computing system named Watson which allowed her to understand sophisticated semantic context through natural language processing and process a humongous volume of data including “dark”, or unstructured, data from social media, video, images and text.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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Global Corporate Banking 2016: The Next-Generation Corporate Bank

BCG

Report Monday, December 12, 2016. With interest rates low—even negative, in some markets—and an increasingly heated search for assets, downward margin pressure is likely to remain a fixture. Corporate banking is a tough business. But not everyone is being dragged down. The time for this radical shift is now.

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Leapfrogging: Value-Based Health Care Comes to Emerging Markets

BCG

Focus Thursday, August 04, 2016. And yet, we believe that some of the biggest opportunities for value-based health care today are to be found not in advanced economies but in emerging markets. In the global debate about value-based health care, the lion’s share of attention has focused on the developed world. It makes sense.

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How Emerging Markets Use Partnerships to Leapfrog in Health Innovation

BCG

Article Friday, May 13, 2016 Building sustainable health systems in emerging economies is one of the biggest challenges of our time. And following the path of established health systems in developed economies is not the answer.

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Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Tom Spencer

Traditionally this problem has been solved by sending payments through the banking system. The strides in market value that the digital currency has made over the years have attracted global interest. Since it has been partially banned from the SWIFT system , Russia is considering accepting bitcoin for its oil and gas exports.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. trillion in 2016. Figures for 2016 forecast a surplus of $25 billion. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. With just 2.6