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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead. The level of market volatility hitting the U.S. ” A Banking Pullback?

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Unwrapping Chipotle’s Evolving Digital Ordering Strategy

PYMNTS

Fast casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill became one of the first major restaurant brands to pioneer the mobile ordering experience in 2008. The company has since expanded its digital ordering portfolio to include artificial intelligence (AI)-powered phone ordering, drive-thru pickup lanes and a reordering feature through Amazon’s Alexa. .

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Shake Shack On Tapping AI And Other Tools To Optimize The Customer Experience

PYMNTS

These results still marked an improvement compared to Q2, when sales were down 45 percent year over year, and So noted that digital comprised 60 percent of total Shack sales in Q3. Many QSRs are up to the test, however, and are looking to digital tools to help them on the road to recovery.

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Walmart Pushes Digital Innovation During Investor Day

PYMNTS

The retailer purchased a 77 percent stake in Flipkart for $16 billion in May of this year as part of its longer-term global digital strategy. Walmart’s Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs further noted that the retailer also expects its eCommerce business to post a slightly greater operating loss next year.

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Innovation All the Time

Independent Banker

The role of Alex Jimenez, senior vice president and director of digital and payments innovation at the $7.2 has evolved over the years from operations oversight to overseeing operations and innovation. We had just begun to really start talking about the digital space then,” he recalls.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Bain, which has helped hundreds of similar businesses undergo their “digital transformation,” has that deep operator expertise.