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[Podcast] What If? So What? Episode 4: What if Every Brand Went Direct to Consumer?

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Over the course of nearly a decade at General Electric, he reinvented the company’s sprawling appliances division, devising ways to grow share and profitability, all the while competing against an ever-increasing number of entrants. In 2016, Jon joined fan and light maker Big Ass Fans as its first chief operating officer.

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Reopening has started. Is it too late to transform?

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When cities went into lockdown and businesses scrambled to understand how and IF they could operate, we published a series that discussed what businesses should consider to address immediate, midterm, and long-term impacts of the pandemic. Think about how your business reacted to operational impacts, customer reactions, and employee needs.

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Helping FI’s Develop Their ‘FinTech Sense’

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But that doesn’t mean all the players in payments and financial services have a solid or clear digital strategy. It’s not that banks don’t want to go more digital and mobile, he said. But that’s not the whole story, of course. It takes time and it takes capital [to go deeper into digital],” he continued.

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P&G Reports 50 Pct Jump In eCommerce Sales, Sees Lasting Shift To Online

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In announcing its fiscal second-quarter results, the Cincinnati-based consumer goods giant also credited its “constructive disruption” strategy for a 15 percent jump in earnings, which also allowed it to increase its full-year forecast.

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J.P. Morgan Looks Toward Payments Modernization

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"It's about digitizing how the whole business operates.". Of course, the digital transformation leaders this year were the organizations that prioritized technology from the onset. Digitization strategies that were set forth well before the pandemic quickly proved instrumental in achieving those goals.

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Ayala To Launch Fund Focused On FinTech, eCommerce, Healthcare

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.” He added that the fund’s investments will be aimed at complementing its brick-and-mortar business, ensuring that its existing businesses can evolve and bring more digital products and services to the Philippines. The fund is part of Ayala’s strategy to implement digital strategies. “We

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The Evolution Of eBay’s Global Payments Strategy

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PYMNTS recently spoke with Keala Gaines , eBay’s head of global payments services, to understand how the platform’s payments strategy has changed over the years as well as to understand the role payments has played in helping it grow from a small operation to serving business and consumers across 100 countries with 27 international sites. “I

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