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Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance

BCG

These undertakings include digitizing the customer experience, building digital offerings and business models, and constructing in-house digital capabilities. And we analyzed the main IT trends on the basis of four years of architecture benchmarking with top insurers in the German market.

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Consultant Ninja: Another Casualty of the Financial Crises.

Consultant Ninja

I think a more interesting graph would show each fund against a respective benchmark (e.g., Regardless, I truly appreciate your reference to that "annoying analyst" Nice touch on stifling constructive discussion. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 12:09 AM. Labels: Analysis. Related Posts. 7 comments: Alex. Consultant Ninja.

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

percent even as the country’s red hot construction sector has been attracting overseas workers, and a growing number of wealthy citizens are hiring domestic helpers from neighboring countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. Singapore’s unemployment rate is a mere 1.8 Fed Funds Rate for the purpose of minimizing large swings in the U.S.

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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

P urpose-Clarify and crystallize your beliefs on this one question: How do you want to make a constructive difference in this world? Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? These choices give you POWER over the daily barrage of negativism and pessimism.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Fewer Stores, Less Hiring Fewer stores means less construction and less hiring. Wal-Mart''s same-store sales — an industry benchmark of health — haven''t risen in six quarters.

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Nonfarm Payrolls +113,000, Median Bloomberg Estimate 180,000; Huge March 2013 Employment Revision

MishTalk

The benchmark revision incorporates a large non-economic change that resulted from a reclassification of 466,000 jobs from private households (out of scope by CES definition) to services for the elderly and disabled (in scope for CES). Employment grew in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and mining. percent, the U.S.

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Decision-Making Traps for Teams to Avoid

LSA Global

Tips to Mitigate Confirmation Bias Encourage psychological team safety and a culture of constructive debate where team members feel comfortable voicing and challenging assumptions. Tips to Mitigate Overconfidence Bias Foster a culture of humility, benchmarking, continuous learning. It can also lead to complacency.

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