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Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance

BCG

These undertakings include digitizing the customer experience, building digital offerings and business models, and constructing in-house digital capabilities. And we analyzed the main IT trends on the basis of four years of architecture benchmarking with top insurers in the German market. The prospect is daunting.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. The retailer will open 180-200 of its small format stores, called Neighborhood Markets, in the next fiscal year through January 2016, Greg Foran, head of the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S.

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11 Habits of Truly Terrific Employees

Rick Conlow

” Understand that the job is what you do every day, but also includes learning more in the industry. They offer it constructively even if it disagrees with others, including the boss. Stay marketable. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? Pulling It All Together.

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business

Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies.

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What's Behind the Plunge in Oil? Winners and Losers? Boon to Spending or Recessionary?

MishTalk

Helm dismisses peak oil, I don''t (and to a certain extent he misses the construct), but much of the rest of what he has to say is accurate enough. The idea that because of the waste and corruption and populist spending, these countries can therefore enforce a particular price on the market is nonsense. OPEC supplies.

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

Harvard Business

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market.

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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business

Even when the money on offer is enough to live on, you need to figure out if it’s an amount worthy of your knowledge and skills and whether it’s in line with the local market. “Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says.

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