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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

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All Boards Need a Technology Expert

Harvard Business Review

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In heath care, Omada has similarly turned services into a product, packaging complementary healthcare devices, services, and support into a turnkey offering it sells to employers and health insurance plans to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

In India, where the number of digital payments is growing over 30% annually , the central bank has ruled that digital payment enablers must ensure that all payments data be stored only on servers within India. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

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Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

So why did one of the planet's biggest investment banks — and its 33,300 employees — hold out so long? For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". "Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people.".

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions are delaying these projects being financed.