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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Managers and people in higher positions, in general, are always looking for ways to improve bottom-line operations and minimize the risks. Risk management helps them stay on top of the market challenges and trends in the relevant industry. However, markets and industries are dynamic concepts. More Precise Risk Models.

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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

The P2P lending market was valued at $67.93 Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. These platforms use the latest technology to provide direct and safe interaction between borrowers and lenders through a simple application process.

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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

And so, we had to quickly create and adopt more flexible work conditions and rely heavily on technology to help ensure business continuity. . As a technology company, we are used to moving at lightning speed to keep pace with change and innovation. How do you plan to maintain the best HR practices in the ever-evolving industry?

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

See More Videos > See More Videos > At this point in the evolution of big data, the challenges for most companies are not related to technology. Companies that fail to adapt do so at their own competitive and market risk. of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand. Increased communication between these parties is vital for a business to increase market agility and reduce production and dispersal delays.

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You're Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

For example, Drew Houston''s March 2008 Digg video for Dropbox generated 70K signups for a product that hadn''t been released yet — and went a long way in confirming product-market fit. But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first.