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. Another road bump is that blockchain processes are precise and rigid.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. 7 Dimensions of Servant Leadership Like the operating system on your phone, the leader's inner game values and virtues moderate leadership effectiveness. Kirkwood, C., Shah-Manek, B.,

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Many companies are already operating with lean staff, due to high attrition rates and not replacing staff, not to mention downsizing as a result of a difficult economy. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Bain & Company.

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MAY 10, 2021

Captive centers, those that are client owned and operated, provide resources directly to their organization. This may seem like an attractive option for brands that want to retain control of center operations, and ensure all associates remain on-brand and embrace the corporate culture. Becoming More Efficient.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. Creating a great customer experience and achieving operational excellence both require a capable and motivated workforce.

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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 news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Bureau of Labor Statistics cited $23,210 as the median annual wage for a retail salesperson in 2017, but that assumes a regular 40-hour week.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. On the business side, the escalation process has provided improved visibility into operations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Operating in this manner, you will no longer feel a need to shoehorn all the features, bells and whistles into the conversation. 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. Questions to Ask Yourself.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

No industry or sector is immune to hacking. At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. A March 2017 report from the Identity Theft Resource Center indicated that more than 25% of all data breaches were related to health care.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Within this integrated learning environment, QF has also established the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative that gathers a global community of health experts, innovators, and policymakers to capture and transmit the best evidence-based ideas and practices in the health industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, it became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the island. We’re now looking into developing other businesses and strengthening our presence in other industries. In terms of the media company, we needed to revise processes and look for efficiencies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fees earned from advising companies and helping them issue debt are up 25%, and now account for one-quarter of the industry’s earnings. Expenditures on control functions related to implementing new regulations such as compliance, risk, finance, operations, and technology have been cut — but only by 10%.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation. Predictors usually overestimate how fast things will happen and underestimate the long-term impacts.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. 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

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

JUNE 13, 2018

Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies. In 2017 Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon dominated the Emmy awards , scoring 125 nominations. The internet has fundamentally disrupted every aspect of the media industry.

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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 24, 2020

Consolidation in the banking industry. In 2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were also banned in China as a form of “public financing without approval”. Many small businesses, like family owned restaurants, operate on a cash only basis. Consolidation in the banking industry. Regulatory risk. Cyberwarfare. Acts of God.

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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

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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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. Self-driving trucks before the end of this decade used to seem like a remote possibility. It now seems very likely, if not a given.

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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). Capitec first entered the industry in rural areas.

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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. Commenting on popular blog articles in your industry. Are there any online events in your industry that could work? Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ?

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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. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To begin with quantitative outcomes, the Indian economy is operating at about $45 billion less cash than what it would have been if demonetization had not taken place. The result?

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

billion in 206 deals between 2011 and 2017. The field of health AI is seemingly wide—covering wellness to diagnostics to operational technologies—but it is also narrow in that health AI applications typically perform just a single task. health care by 2026. Clinical applications are still rare.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. billion people, makes the region an exciting expansion opportunity for multinationals across industries.

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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. What’s in Store for 2017? In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

For example, internet-of-things sensor applications are envisioned to deliver a wide range of services , from smart water to industrial controls to e-health. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 trillion by 2020, and $3.5 trillion by 2026.

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