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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

For instance, a bank might launch a property search platform where it advertises its mortgages, such as the property search site hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Alternatively, an accounting software company might offer additional services that cover legal incorporation, logo design, CRM, inventory management, and invoicing.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Even though these systems are updated regularly, we can no longer rely on standards and measures that were developed in a different age to reflect today’s realities — especially when we’re evaluating tech firms. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This was done in the hopes of developing specialists with certain areas of expertise which would then lead to new clients and high-paying tax and consulting jobs. Information Technology. Business Process Management. Change Management. Talent Management. Technology Enablement. Senior Manager.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

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Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives

Harvard Business

billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012. They often openly advertise thinly-disguised criminal jobs in countries such as Belarus and Ukraine and use the new “employees” for low-level coding and as money mules.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them.