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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost.

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Protecting Your Company from Cyber Attacks

Strategy Driven

Different sectors need different types of security measures to protect the company and also staff and customers details including personal information and banking details along with credit card numbers. However, staff training on the use of technology and online habits and practises is never a waste of time. Use a Firewall.

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Win Back Trust with Raw, Unscripted, and Real Messaging

Skip Prichard

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. In other words, we want the unfiltered, plain, raw, and unedited truth.

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As European Banks Retreat from the World Stage, China Is Stepping Up

Harvard Business Review

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For some banks, the answer is simply: Yes.

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How Capitec Became South Africa’s Biggest Bank

Harvard Business Review

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. It has now become the largest bank in the country. These areas were underserved by the traditional banks.

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A Guide to People Analytics for Every HR to Succeed

HR Digest

Between 2015 and 2016, there was a 29% increase in the adoption of data-driven HR decision-making, with people analytics now ranked as a high priority by 71% of businesses and very important by 31%. This in turn leads to improved productivity. An overview of people analytics tools.

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The Blockchain Will Do to Banks and Law Firms What the Internet Did to Media

Harvard Business Review

Of course, the internet has since become a major influence on our lives, from how we buy goods and services, to the ways we socialize with friends, to the Arab Spring, to the 2016 U.S. How technology is transforming transactions. Unfortunately, the exuberance of fintech investors is way ahead of the development of the technology.

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