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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. Machine learning develops predictive capabilities with a form of number-crunching, a trial-and-error learning process that builds upon statistics and computer science.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. MAJOR POINT OF UNDERSTANDING: If they had measured the ROI of TV, or the computer, or the automobile, or the telephone, or the Internet after 5 years, NOBODY would have gotten involved, and we’d be in a technological bog – sinking.

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The phone is smart. How smart is the user?

Strategy Driven

Guidelines of phone use have significantly changed because of technology availability. That was a technological EON ago. Your phone holds technological mysteries and magic that can make your hours pay higher dividends once you master them. Your challenge is to harness it, master it, and bank it. Not just on and off.)

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. Governments want banks who will lend to businesses and homeowners,” Bob explains, “That’s what we intend to do.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

BancAlliance, a consortium of community banks, has partnered with Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Customized, individual lending has historically been difficult for small banks because of regulatory risk and the high cost of underwriting a large pool of loans. Build it yourself.

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. Related Video.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.