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

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Insights into what customers want and need are more important than ever as the economy and market conditions change. According to IDC analysts, businesses were estimated to have spent $215 billion in 2021 on big data and business analytics solutions, a 10% increase over 2020. What is customer intent?

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They pay way too much attention to shareholders, numbers, and data and not enough to the power of people. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. GM market share fell from 62.6% A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees.

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$550 Billion Energy Junk Bond Bubble Busts; "Whac-A-Mole" Distortions in Multiple Markets

MishTalk

The Fed’s decision to keep benchmark interest rates at record lows for six years has encouraged investors to funnel cash into speculative-grade securities to generate returns, raising concern that risks were being overlooked. percent in June, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. And this is a mania.”

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. If there is a financial crisis, the stock market falls by half and the asset manager’s performance is in line with the stock market, they now make $500 million. As such, analysts will smooth these data.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

People analytics — defined as the use of data about human behavior, relationships and traits to make business decisions — helps to replace decision making based on anecdotal experience, hierarchy and risk avoidance with higher-quality decisions based on data analysis, prediction, and experimental research.

Culture 54
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Chinese Banks Hemorrhaging Deposits, 1st Quarterly Drop Since 1999; Banks Offer iPhones, Even Cars for Large Deposits

MishTalk

Customers are attracted to trust funds and the stock market which has been on a tear, up 43% in the last six months. Higher returns from Internet funds and investment products such as trusts, combined with the promise of a soaring stock market, have China''s banks feeling the drain.

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Case Competition Tips & Tricks

Tom Spencer

Rather, a strong team will have competencies in diverse fields such as finance, strategic planning (SWOT, PEST, 5-Ps), public speaking, graphic design (creating a beautiful slide deck), and Excel (modeling things like valuations, sensitivity analysis, and graphs). You want to distinguish yourself from the crowd by thinking “outside the box”.