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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.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Value is in the products and services themselves.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires). 2 – Broadly communicating growth.

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

MishTalk

However, it will be important to monitor developments to determine whether the softness in the March labor market report evident on Friday foreshadows a more substantial slowing in the labor market than I currently anticipate. oil production almost certainly will fade away. Now, with prices dramatically lower, U.S.