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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Large mutual funds have strong relationships with banks, where they are able to pay a trailer fee to bank investment advisors to market their product. For instance, if a client goes to meet a financial advisor to talk about opening a savings account, the topic of mutual funds can be brought up.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

In particular, the high level of PMM means that: Projects are delivered on time and budget; Risks and changes don’t derail projects; Projects are aligned with a company’s business objectives; The delivered output meets stakeholder expectations; A company is competitive on the market. .

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

MishTalk

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. With oil prices plunging, investors are questioning the ability of some issuers to meet their debt obligations. CJES), postponed financings this month as sentiment soured. Falling crude prices were the catalyst. Energy XXI Ltd.

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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”.

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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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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation.

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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.