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By 2020 more than 7 billion people will be communicating and performing transactions over the web on over 35 billion devices. So how can companies effectively create a digital identity that promises security, ease and comfort for its customers? This study, sponsored by Oracle, assesses the role identity plays in the digital economy. Visit hub: http://bit.ly/1LKqXfN

Integrated next-generation technologies may equip students to continue their education their entire lives, and can address three goals: fortifying student skills, increasing education’s ROI, and enabling students to be innovative and entrepreneurial. Education technology providers will likely need to shift their focus from content to connections. Download the full Deloitte Review article here: http://deloi.tt/2wfvlnd

Launching a startup isn't easy. At each stage of scaling - from founding to product-market fit, from product-market fit to hyper growth, and from hyper growth to maturity - entrepreneurs face unique challenges. Greylock Partners hosted an event, called Greyscale, focused on these challenges at each stage. In the opening keynote, Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners discusses the state of enterprise software after the first quarter of 2016. He summarizes the private and public markets, M&A activity, and explains how this climate affects the startup environment.

Burson-Marsteller and Swiss-based IMD have been working together to research corporate purpose since 2008. This year’s study is presented in the context of the findings of Burson-Marsteller’s Corporate Perception Indicator, a global survey of public hopes and expectations of companies and their leaders.

The document summarizes a report on the six stages of digital transformation for companies. It introduces the six stages as: 1) Business as Usual, 2) Present and Active, 3) Formalized, 4) Strategic, 5) Converged, and 6) Innovative and Adaptive. The stages serve as a framework for companies to assess their digital maturity and guide their digital transformation journey. Successful digital transformation requires a clear purpose, vision, and collaboration across functions. It also often begins with a focus on improving the digital customer experience to align the organization and identify opportunities.

As bottom lines shrink, payors and providers are beginning to see convergence, or vertical integration, as the path to growth, Panelists from Johns Hopkins Institutions, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC and Grant Thornton LLP share their experience and offer insight on the challenges and benefits of this strategy. Read the full paper at http://gt-us.co/1Cv6MRA

The document discusses the challenges of extracting insight from big data and earning trust when using data. It examines fears about data leading to a trivial culture drowned in irrelevance (Huxley) or loss of privacy and control due to surveillance (Orwell). While size is important, the bigger challenge with big data is the variety of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources. Extracting meaning from human language in data requires rigorous analytical approaches. Case studies show traditional methodologies must adapt to address issues like multiple languages, spam filtering, relevance categorization, and consistency. Ensuring accurate, transparent analysis is key to gaining insight from data while protecting privacy and trust.

Craig Rispin discusses how the pace of technological change has accelerated exponentially in recent years, leading to massive changes across every industry and country. While change is happening rapidly externally, many organizations are still operating with business models from centuries past. The document highlights emerging trends like the growth of mobile technology and devices, the internet of things, big data, and new business models like Uber that individual entrepreneurs can now achieve what previously required large companies. It emphasizes the need for organizations to embrace collaboration and adapt their strategies to keep up with the accelerating changes in their industries.

The document outlines plans to launch a wholesale banking platform called Standard Treasury that will provide banking services via API to fintech companies and power the next generation of financial applications. It details the team's experience in banking technology, regulatory work completed in the UK and US, product roadmap, and financial projections showing an $8.99M series A round will fund the application and launch process. Risks are acknowledged but mitigation strategies are proposed to address challenges in obtaining a banking license, timeline, and hiring.

The implications of companies not getting their lease accounting and lease management practices in order before new lease regulations take effect, or simply not getting prepared fast enough, could be serious. Don’t let yourself get caught saying any of these four things six months from now. www.deloitte.com/leasepoint

A ten year look back and view into the future of the Personal Loans industry. Why did the Banks pull back at the same time that Lending Club and Prosper emerged? Why haven't the Banks come back? What's next?

Nearly half (47.1 percent) of discovery, legal and information technology professionals say their organizations have responded to at least one global litigation, regulatory, or investigative incident in the past year, according to a Deloitte poll. Just 21.9 percent said their organizations could conduct discovery and produce evidence within mandated timelines for those global matters. 250+ discovery (37.7 percent), IT (24.4 percent), in-house counsel (23.9 percent) and law firm professionals (14 percent) responded to questions during a Deloitte Dbriefs webcast, “Globalizing Discovery: A Systemic Approach,” on March 29, 2017. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/dbriefs-webcasts/events/march/2017/dbriefs-globalizing-discovery-a-systemic-approach.html