The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can. Add in currency and credit risks, and it’s by no means an easy pivot to make.

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 94

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

And they are comfortable using rapid design cycles to prototype and test products/services in the market, rather than depending on traditional marketing analysis. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

Women on Business

JANUARY 9, 2011

Here are 10 ways to increase your team’s productivity and overall chance for success. You find yourself in a situation where you are the strongest player assigned to the team. How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Define your success.

Press Release 169

Press Release Team Discount PR 169

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

In so doing, they created a new financial product called a post note. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low. But higher yield meant higher risk, since borrowers who sought out post notes did so because they did not qualify for the less expensive credit from traditional banks.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them.

Company 8

Company Team Due Diligence Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

He explained that his organization was highly functionalized with separate units for sales, trading, investing, portfolio management, credit, risk, and operations; some of which reported to him and some to the corporate center. She and her customers were basically told to get used to the delays.

Succession 14

Succession Credit Risk Operations Report 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

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. We spoke with top executives at each of these firms about the rise of cognitive in their organizations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8