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2020 – The Year in Review

Chad Barr

family, business, finance, travel…) that ground you and make your journey meaningful, rewarding and impactful. The post 2020 – The Year in Review appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Identify the pillars of your life (i.e. As you review this year, what have you lost and what have you gained? Happy New Year!

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Conversation with 2020 Delivery

Tom Spencer

2020 Delivery is a management consultancy committed to improving public services and bringing about lasting change within public sector organisations. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Mike Meredith who is a Director at 2020 Delivery, and leads the firm’s people development function. We don’t have a New York office.

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The Fed: Chairmen More Powerful Than Presidents

Tom Spencer

The Fed influences the world economy Professors in banking and finance often use the metaphor of the economy as a plane and the Fed as the pilot. Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data ) The rapid increase in the monetary base during 2020 resulted from the U.S. For example, when the Fed purchased $1.7

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027.

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How to scale shared success through collaboration and trust

Kates Kesler

We don’t travel, eat, walk, drink together…and won’t anytime soon. By June 2020, 64% of workers already said they miss the social interaction they get from work. We are saving time by not having to commute or travel, yet many people spend more time on video calls than ever before. Real connections are deliberate.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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According to IDC analysts, businesses were estimated to have spent $215 billion in 2021 on big data and business analytics solutions, a 10% increase over 2020. And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business

One customer might try on shirts without having to travel to the store. But investment in the sector is hot, with AR and VR startups raising $658 million in equity financing last year. Some projections put AR and VR investment in retail at close to $30 billion by 2020 (from nothing today). VR and AR are emerging technologies.

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