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Model Bank 2017: Some First Impressions

Celent Banking

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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What banks can learn from Wal-Mart

Chris Skinner

Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon? were put in charge of Wal-Mart’s entire domestic e-commerce operation, overseeing more than 15,000 employees in Silicon Valley, Boston, Omaha, and its home office in Arkansas. It’s a benchmark article showing how an incumbent giant finds it hard to adapt.

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Celent Model Bank Awards: Fraud, Risk Management, Process Automation and Flub-Free

Celent Banking

A large number of the entries show that a streamlined and automated operational risk framework is critical to run a successful risk management program. Improved data analysis and machine learning capabilities also featured prominently in the winning case studies.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. State of Innovation Report. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale.

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Amex Sizzles, Big Banks Fizzle And Indian eCommerce Lives Up To Its Sizzling Hype

PYMNTS

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. Witness the power of platforms on top of platforms operating at scale. It’s a perfect case study – happening in real time – of how platforms use their scale on both sides to enter new markets – drivers and consumers – and monetize the value of their platform.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. Product: Quidsi. Product: Guvera.

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