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Building a Resilient Global Enterprise Inspired by Biology

BCG

Article Wednesday, February 22, 2017. Many global enterprises today have succeeded by following a simple recipe: procure, manufacture, and assemble in the lowest-cost locations, link these using reliable, standardized logistics and information technology, market the resulting products globally, and book profit in low-tax havens.

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A Strategist's Guide to the Digital Grocery

Strategy+Business

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. But that does not fully meet the challenge.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017. Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies. Image: Pexels. References. How data analytics are changing the consulting industry.

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Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology

BCG

Article Friday, April 07, 2017. Many global enterprises today have succeeded by following a simple recipe: procure, manufacture, and assemble in the lowest-cost locations, link these using reliable, standardized logistics and information technology, market the resulting products globally, and book profit in low-tax havens.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Wealth also tends to stay in-region, as outside investors tend to be locally based.

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

Public safety: Police are using artificial intelligence to collect and analyse huge volumes of data in order to spot patterns, uncover new leads, and solve criminal investigations (Revell, 2017). Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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