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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Over time, it has become a necessity for the consulting industry to develop frameworks to address critical business problems with the help of big data. The first company to identify emerging demand trends and tailor its operations to delivery can quickly establish itself as the go-to source for particular goods or services” ( EY, 2016 ).

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

The goal is to exploit both the trust of … users and bugs in their web browsers to install a virus allowing the hacker access to the organisation’s network” ( Welch, 2016 ). If you are an IT company that creates software, hiring developers to check code can be a good defensive strategy. Common Methods of Cyber-Attack.

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Desperate Times Call for Effective Turnarounds

BCG

Article Friday, November 11, 2016. Many transformation initiatives focus on improving a company’s financial and operational performance from “good” (or moderate) to “great”—that is, the company is already doing well in some or most areas, yet management still sees a need to make improvements. Winning in the Medium Term.

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A Sisyphean Struggle: Insights from BCG’s Treasury Benchmarking Survey 2016

BCG

Focus Thursday, November 03, 2016. Our 2016 survey found that most banks are still in the stabilization phase. Pressure is also on banks to refine their steering, IT, and ­analytics approaches to eke out basis points of margin, improve their operating ­efficiency, and enhance their insight-generating capabilities.

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Generating Value While Transforming Insurers’ Legacy Technology

BCG

Article Thursday, December 08, 2016. See, for example, “Digitizing Customer Journeys and the New Insurance IT Model,” BCG article, August 2016.) But almost all insurers in the US and Europe use complex legacy technology that constrains their ability to operate in today’s digital world.

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TeBIT 2016 Executive Report: Drilling for Digital Gold

BCG

Report Monday, October 10, 2016. So it seems reasonable to assume that telecom operators, too, are reaping the rewards. It’s just the type of question that TeBIT, a benchmarking study jointly developed by ETIS–The Community for Telecom Professionals and The Boston Consulting Group, was created to answer.

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Telecom’s Twin Peaks: Software-Defined and Virtualized Networks

BCG

Article Thursday, June 30, 2016. Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) have already started to change the way that telecom networks are designed, deployed, and operated. But will operators strike gold with these technologies?