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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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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. For example, an insurance company that gains access to a person’s health records could use information about a pre-existing condition to limit the insurance coverage it offers.

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

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Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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

Harvard Business

And Honeywell recently established a dedicated Industrial IoT (IIoT) division to create an IoT platform that helps industrial clients derive greater value from its products and the 2.5 Insurers can use this data to better understand their customers and to price policies accordingly. Ecolab is a prime example of this.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

Nous service lines include business strategy, public policy, leadership & people development, organisational capability, and information management & technology. Pacific Strategy Partners develops practical solutions by deploying low leveraged teams guided by deep Director expertise. Pacific Strategy Partners.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Core r epositioning.