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  • Banking Digitally

    June 3, 2017, 11:48 AM IST

    By HOLGER HARREIS ET AL The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation 239 (BCBS 239) has set a standard for regulators globally… in the past several years, banks have made significant investments in the data…

    June 3, 2017, 11:48 AM IST

  • Managing oneself

    June 1, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

    By: EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH Research shows that if you set happiness as your goal and pursue it, value it the way our culture encourages us to do, you can actually end up feeling unhappy and…

    June 1, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

  • Product dynamics

    May 30, 2017, 12:55 AM IST

    By: C GNANASAMBANDAM ET AL Product managers are the glue that bind the many functions that touch a product: engineering, design, customer success, sales, marketing, operations, finance, legal and more. Unlike product managers of the…

    May 30, 2017, 12:55 AM IST

  • A work in progress

    May 29, 2017, 12:34 AM IST

    By James Manyika The world of work is in a state of flux, which is causing considerable anxiety — and with good reason. There is growing polarisation of labour-market opportunities between high and low-skill jobs,…

    May 29, 2017, 12:34 AM IST

  • Customer Focused

    May 27, 2017, 3:57 PM IST

    By: SYLVIE BARDAUNE ET AL Growing numbers of companies are coming to recognise the benefits of customer-centric strategies: higher revenues, lower costs and stronger employee and customer loyalty. In the effort to transform customer journeys…

    May 27, 2017, 3:57 PM IST

  • The China syndrome

    May 26, 2017, 1:00 AM IST

    By Gideon Rachman One of the significant things about President Xi is that he came in to power in 2012, so he’s been there coming up for five years and will almost certainly be renewed…

    May 26, 2017, 1:00 AM IST

  • Economic analyses

    May 22, 2017, 11:58 PM IST

    By Richard Bookstaber During a visit to the London School of Economics as the 2008 financial crisis was reaching its climax, Queen Elizabeth asked the question that no doub twas on the minds of many…

    May 22, 2017, 11:58 PM IST

  • On Data Mining

    May 22, 2017, 12:12 AM IST

    By Peter Fader Customer analytics has been around from the time that marketing as we know it today was born. Let’s think about the 1950s or so, when we started realising that customers are different…

    May 22, 2017, 12:12 AM IST

  •  Strategic insight: Executives need to study

    May 20, 2017, 12:45 AM IST

    At a good number of companies, corporate strategy has long represented the bland aggregation of strategies that individual business unit heads put forward. At others, it’s been the domain of a small coterie, perhaps led…

    May 20, 2017, 12:45 AM IST

  • Managing crises

    May 19, 2017, 12:11 AM IST

    By Sanjay Kalavar The total amount paid out by corporations on account of US regulatory infractions has grownby over five times, to almost $60 billion per year, from 2010 to 2015. Globally, this number is…

    May 19, 2017, 12:11 AM IST

  • Numbers Game

    May 18, 2017, 1:09 AM IST

    By Kevin Mole et al Machine learning is one of many tools in the advanced analytics toolbox, one with a long history in academia and supercomputing. Recent developments, however, are opening the doors to its…

    May 18, 2017, 1:09 AM IST

  • Managing by numeracy

    May 17, 2017, 12:56 AM IST

    By Robert Feldmann et al Many companies do their best to optimise production processes using established rules of thumb or incomplete data. But at the end of the month or reporting period, they often discover…

    May 17, 2017, 12:56 AM IST

  • Internet Innovation

    May 15, 2017, 12:43 AM IST

    By Mark Patel Et Al Niccolò Machiavelli, one of history’s great futurists, might have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) when he wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to…

    May 15, 2017, 12:43 AM IST

  • Increase resilience

    May 13, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

    The growth was stunted in my leg when I was born, so I had braces. But they amputated it when I was five, and I got a new artificial leg and had to learn to…

    May 13, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

  • Digital future

    May 12, 2017, 12:20 AM IST

    By Mercedes Goenaga ET AL Business is now in the midst of the most significant disruption in decades. This epochal transformation has been driven largely by technological changes —big data and advanced analytics, additive manufacturing,…

    May 12, 2017, 12:20 AM IST

  • American pastime

    May 10, 2017, 12:37 AM IST

    By Tyler Cowen American dynamism has been declining for several decades. We now have a society where we’re afraid to let our children play outside. We medicate ourselves at much higher rates. We hold jobs…

    May 10, 2017, 12:37 AM IST

  • On Better Governance

    May 8, 2017, 11:44 PM IST

    By Richard Dobbs Et Al Higher costs and rising demand have driven rapid increases in spending on core public services such as education, healthcare and transport…. Government expenditure amounts to more than a third of…

    May 8, 2017, 11:44 PM IST

  • Managing strategy

    May 7, 2017, 11:51 PM IST

    By Dan Lovallo Behavioural economics teaches us that a host of universal human biases, such as over optimism about the likelihood of success, can affect strategic decisions. Such decisions are also vulnerable to what economists…

    May 7, 2017, 11:51 PM IST

  • Managing by mingling

    May 6, 2017, 12:04 AM IST

    By Thomas Barta Most of the leadership advice aimed at senior functional managers is how to build, align, energise and guide a world-class team. This is a challenging task in its own right, but we…

    May 6, 2017, 12:04 AM IST

  • Money illusion

    May 5, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

    By: Adair Turner There are essentially two ways to achieve nominal demand growth: through government money creation or through private credit growth. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Each can be beneficial up to a point…

    May 5, 2017, 12:32 AM IST

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