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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. A seasoned practitioner will be more effective and efficient and will therefore be a better “buy.” Your rate has to cover operating expenses (internet, phone, bookkeeping), business insurance, and self-employment tax (the employer's half of Social Security and Medicare).

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. The interest rates at which banks borrow and lend money are influenced by the interest rates established by the central bank. Banks typically adjust their lending rates based on the central bank’s policy rate.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business

With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. One traditional insurer, for instance, shifted from updating its quotes every several days to every 15 minutes by simply automating the processes that collect benchmark pricing data. Structured data analytics.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

Within the core business, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way Honeywell creates and captures value for its industrial customers through new efficiencies and services that unlock new value. Insurers can use this data to better understand their customers and to price policies accordingly. Digital leaders are 2.3x

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Having Insurance (Risk Buffer). Be it health, car, or home insurance; the idea is to have a buffer against unexpected damage or health issues. Such flexibility not only allows for real-time optimization but also leads to more efficient resource management. Such insights lead to a reassessment of the benchmarks set for capacity.

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Business intelligence vs. predictive analytics: Turn key differences into advantages

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It encompasses data mining, data visualization, performance benchmarking, and descriptive analytics—techniques for parsing data to generate reports, performance measures and trends to reveal insights and make better business decisions. Business intelligence answers the questions, “who are our most valuable/least valuable customers?”

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