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Month: November 2021
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“What does it take for traditional companies to create value with digital technology?,” asked a McKinsey article published in November of 2018. Based on its research, the article suggested that “successful digital reinventors – digital natives and digitally transformed incumbents – employ a range of approaches, such as investing boldly and adopting cutting-edge technologies at…
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The adoption of new digital technologies in response to the pandemic has reached levels that weren’t expected for many year, – and those changes are likely be long lasting. A few months ago, for example, a McKinsey survey of global executives found that the pandemic has accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions,…
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“COVID-19 triggered a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH),” said economists Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Stephen J. Davis in Why Working from Home Will Stick, a paper published in April of 2021 by the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). “Americans, for example, supplied roughly half of paid workhours from home…
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“The decision not to attend college for fear that it’s a bad deal is among the most economically irrational decisions anybody could make in 2014,” wrote NY Times journalist David Leonhardt in Is College Worth It? in May of 2014. “Over the long run, college is cheaper than free,” he added, citing an article by…