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How to Create and Sustain Financial Inclusion

BCG

Financial inclusion helps propel socioeconomic development. The prevalence of transaction accounts, the availability of credit, and the willingness to save and buy insurance products are all positive markers of economic and social improvement. Focus Tuesday, April 11, 2017. That correlation is well-known but not well understood.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Although rate information is a closely guarded secret, based on my 20 years in the industry here are very rough ballpark numbers for “management consulting” (not IT consulting, project management, training development, etc.). There are lots of ways to do this.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

What makes this developing market so dynamic is the wide array of medical wearables, from implantable devices to ingestible ones, that have the potential to track all kinds of patient data including drug adherence. Potential Benefits. Offers include things like gift cards and small cash payments for meeting certain daily fitness goals.

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

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“Oftentimes, the user experience developed by a company for its customers overlooks critical components of the underlying intents the customer wants resolved through their customer experience (CX),” says Ravi Bharadwaj, executive director of corporate strategy at TTEC. “By

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

For example, automobile insurance companies like Allstate, Progressive and State Farm have launched programs to use connected devices to monitor customers’ driving patterns. Insurers can use this data to better understand their customers and to price policies accordingly. Digital leaders are 2.5x Digital leaders are 2.3x

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

.” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group. Here’s the framework I employ with boards and CEOs.

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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment

Harvard Business

Initially, beginning in 2009, CORE began taking on financial accountability for all musculoskeletal physician-related medical expenses (paid claims) with one insurer, which pays CORE a per-member per-month (PMPM) fee that represents about 20% of the total physician medical expense for musculoskeletal care.