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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

Imagine if social security funds were invested in the market. Well make sure there are good options to protect your investments from sudden market swings on the eve of your retirement." I think a more interesting graph would show each fund against a respective benchmark (e.g., Choose your poison. Posted by 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

Whether you are at the movies, market, coffee shop or mall, politeness and manners are out. 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?

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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. The retailer will open 180-200 of its small format stores, called Neighborhood Markets, in the next fiscal year through January 2016, Greg Foran, head of the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S.

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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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Creating Global Digital Empires®

Chad Barr

This framework can be used to construct a short article, podcast or video. The three insights or components I will discuss are strategy, content and marketing. The simple benchmark I use to determine the quality and provocativeness of the content is to analyze the immediate reaction to the content.

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