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

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company. Companies have an opportunity to truly listen to their customers and better engage.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

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Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FHA Swamped By Defaults.

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According to Ligon, the only way the FHA can avoid a bailout is to reduce its market share by lowering maximum loan limits to $325,000 over the next four years, raise credit requirements for borrowers, and institute “burden sharing” with loan originators by reducing insurance coverage from the current 100 percent to 50 percent by 2016.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

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If there was ever a time when monetary insurance was needed, it is today. Contrary to 1979/1980, the current gold bull market will unlikely end due to a sudden strong rise in interest rates, as the balance sheets of governments, households and corporations are tainted by huge debt. 2011-12-29: Max Keiser. 2011-11-18: Max Keiser.

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BitGold Now Available in US! Why BitGold?

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Brink’s”), which insures gold through third party insurance providers. The balance sheet also includes a lot of outstanding short-duration lending facilities, adding more risk. It is also the first gold-based card of any kind available in the US. In contrast, GoldMoney and BitGold are debt-free.