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Crisis Management: How Did the Financial Services Industry Fare During 2020?

Clarity Consultants

In 2020, the financial services industry had to put its crisis management plans into action. Most companies had to pivot without much notice, ensuring they could adjust to new rules regarding how organizations were (or weren’t) allowed to open and operate during the pandemic. Re-Opening Plans Were Formed Early in the Pandemic.

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How Grocery Stores Should Respond to the Growth of Online Markets

Harvard Business

During 2020-21 online grocery shopping soared from 3.4% to double digits as Covid-19 made customers reluctant to go into stores. Post Covid, online grocery shopping is still high, forecasted by Forrester (2021) to hit 10.4% How will grocery retailers service this new demand stream?

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Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth

Brimstone Consulting

The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. As part of the STAP, Brimstone facilitated the process through which the leadership team worked together to create a Strategic Business Framework (SBF).

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Driving Business Response to the Impact of Covid-19: Redesigning Distribution

Eupnea Management Consulting

Article Driving Business Response to the Impact of Covid-19: Redesigning Distribution Follow us on Linkedin: FOLLOW Based on a post-crisis new level of operational efficiency and changing need and expectation of customer What is the impact? Global trade activity fell by 14.8% and supply chains starved of cash in Q2. Endnotes 6.

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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

In contrast, a digital currency can operate on a peer-to-peer network that allows a buyer to settle a transaction directly with a seller without a financial intermediary. In February 2020, Sweden’s Riksbank announced that it is conducting a pilot project with Accenture aimed at developing a digital krona that is simple and user friendly.

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Combatting COVID-19 in Emerging Markets

Tom Spencer

According to a study conducted by BCG in May 2020, more than two thirds of consumers fear not being able to pay their rent. To open up emerging economies, certain approaches can be used to maintain day-to-day operations while lowering R. This has resulted in a shift in consumer spending, primarily through delayed expenditure.

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PPP in India: Developing a Resilient Health Infrastructure

Tom Spencer

They are usually associated with infrastructure development, but governments can also apply such partnerships to invest in technological advancement, implement government policies more efficiently, increase awareness of and access to proven treatments, and partner with global entities to improve the healthcare ecosystem.