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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. How did you develop it? And they are comfortable using rapid design cycles to prototype and test products/services in the market, rather than depending on traditional marketing analysis.

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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Categories : Communications , Ethics , Leadership , decision-making Echo Garrett is the National Practice Manager for KPMGs Financial Credit Risk practice and a Co-Founder of "Her Voice", a National Womens Organization that brings women together for local support and charitable opportunities.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them. This isn’t market research, but hands-on problem solving.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

And they have well-honed approaches for developing the requisite new skills in employees. Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G. Address applications that benefit you and the customer.