Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” —John F. Kennedy It seems at every conference, symposium, or other gathering of thought leaders for higher learning where the topic is Lean Six Sigma, many of the attendees—and almost all of…
McKinsey & Co tackles the big question on everyone’s lips nowadays: How exactly will the great succession of new technologies such as the Internet, the cloud, big data, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence affect the future of our economy? While we are purposefully creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in what…
“The greatest wealth is health” (Virgil, Ancient Roman poet). There is nothing more important than taking care of ourselves and each other. However, focusing a health system on the appropriate goals in a complex political and social environment requires investment in the right combination of time, money, intellect, and creativity. Government agencies are bringing pressure…
Ben Nicholson is an experienced Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement and Process Re-engineering leader within financial services. He has led major projects in a number of the world’s major banks resulting in change and process improvement. In this exclusive interview for the BTN, Ben shares his views regarding changes within operational excellence, the use of continuous…
Bloomberg reports on the “new face” of American unemployment – one we cannot ignore any longer. Bloomberg finds that as the U.S. labor force crests again, a new complex of problems locks many Americans out of the workplace. Even at so-called full employment, some 20 million Americans are still left behind. While some of America’s jobless are…
Filling your car up with gas is generally considered to be relatively cheap. But even though the global slump in oil prices has persisted over the last three months, the burden of filling up is yet felt differently around the world. Bloomberg examines gasoline prices around the world, by ranking 61 countries by three economic…
