Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. Removing the financial intermediary, i.e. the bank, can increase convenience, efficiency, and security. Blockchain technology offers to remove this point of failure.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Bain & Company is listed as the best place to work in Glassdoor’s 2017 awards list. Bain & Company. McKinsey & Company.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

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1 to 1

MAY 10, 2021

Finding contact center employees with the right skillset can be difficult for brands to do efficiently. Becoming More Efficient. Tasks get completed faster and more efficiently. When closing sales, speed and efficiency are the names of the game. Partner experts know how to act quickly and move to the next objective.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. It’s an illustration of how, just as the internet didn’t stop at revolutionizing the computer industry, the impacts of advances in synthetic biology won’t be limited to biotech.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

These will often heighten your efficiency as to who should be considered a worthwhile prospect to meet with at all, thereby increasing each sales call’s likelihood of success. Are You Targeting the Right Market? Yet it may be instead that the market we’ve targeted doesn’t really want or even need our service. How to do this?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. Fees earned from advising companies and helping them issue debt are up 25%, and now account for one-quarter of the industry’s earnings. HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

But the security industry is a fast-growing market, with IDC pegging it as becoming a $101 billion opportunity by 2020. So why are we limiting security positions to people with four-year degrees in computer science, when we desperately need varied skills across so many different industries? million unfilled positions by 2020.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facing a tight labor market as the holiday shopping season approaches, many retail companies will undoubtedly consider following the lead of Amazon, which recently announced that it is raising its minimum hourly wage for all of its U.S. In service industries like retail and fast-casual dining, that’s rarely the case.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. Blockchain startups raised over $5 billion in 2017 through ICOs and over $12 billion through the first three quarters of 2018. Renee Comet/Getty Images. How ICOs Constrain.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Over the past few years, industries from enterprise IT to financial services have become more consumer-centric. The healthcare industry faces high regulatory burden and health incumbents that have not recognized their businesses face an existential threat. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. How it will impact business, industry, and society. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. Almost every major financial institution in the world is doing blockchain research at the moment, and 15% of banks are expected to be using blockchain in 2017.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

This figure will only continue to increase and it's estimated that $90 billion worth of mobile payments will be made by 2017. The app market is constantly evolving to create easy to use solutions to our every day activities. Between 2012 and 2014 sales via smartphones catapulted from 5% to to 34%. Payment Apps.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

. “If there ever were an antitrust case where the parties had a dramatically different assessment of the current state of the relevant market and a fundamentally different vision of its future development,” Judge Leon began his decision, “this is the one.”

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Outbound Phone Marketing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What do the most remarkable deals of 2017 tell us about this remix and its effects on our daily lives? The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing. But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels. Our health. How we make things.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 24, 2022

Blockchain has already had a significant impact in the finance industry with the global cryptocurrency market cap now exceeding $1 trillion. Blockchain looks set to be deployed in many other industries. In 2017, Protokol estimated that $1.2 trillion worth of luxury goods were counterfeit.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Because virtually any type of information can be digitized, codified and placed onto a blockchain (a database that is tamper-proof and permanent), the technology’s potential to impact various industries is significant. This would be of incredible value to the industry as it is estimated that 65% of all fraudulent claims go unnoticed.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Centralization of goods markets. Consolidation in the banking industry. 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. Centralization of goods markets. Consolidation in the banking industry.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

By targeting consumers that were unsatisfied with their banking experiences, fintech has developed a mass following by appealing to the consumer desire for easier and more time efficient systems to carry out financial transactions, manage finances, obtain advice, and make investments. References: EY(2017) EY FinTech Adoption Report 2017.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. The banking industry in South Africa was no exception; for decades the industry was dominated by “the Big Four” (Standard, FNB, Nedbank, and Absa). ShutterWorx/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " The trucking industry is very interested in going from single trucks to convoys of trucks. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 13, 2017

They can hire top designers for their marketing materials and assets such as their website. Small consulting firms and independent consultants don’t have the same sized marketing budget. And their website is one of their most important marketing assets. Global corporations have massive budgets. It looks professional.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It was just the industry and firm norm. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout. .” I was single with no children, and had almost unlimited capacity for all things related to work.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The India Stack has had a similarly transformative impact on the provision of government services through a number of other programs, notably including pensions, the provision of cooking gas, and [others], with comparable gains in both the quality of the citizen experience and in government efficiency.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. Our research forecasts that it will offer the second-fastest economic growth after the emerging Asia-Pacific (APAC) in 2017. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. In the U.S., All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

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