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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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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

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Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. In addition, official statistics may underestimate intangible investment (spending on research and development, training, etc), which has been gaining importance in serviced-based economies. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Tens of billions of connected sensors are being embedded in everything ranging from industrial robots and safety systems to self-driving cars and refrigerators. In addition, they need the ability to switch to manually controlled environments in case artificially intelligent systems have to be shut down and to recall faulty smart products.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

That is, someone does the wrong thing while trying to do the right thing, and organizational systems fail to catch it and contain it. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. There are two aspects to the problem-finding corporate governance system its board has put in place.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. The data is scattered in silos — stuck in departmental systems that don’t talk well with one another, the quality is poor , and the associated costs are high. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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