Tag Archives: Global trends

How to upskill family office employees. Five steps To get started.(Forbes)

Among technological progress and societal shifts, there is a global trend to upskill and re-skill employees; the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report indicated in 2023 that 44% of workers’ skills will be disrupted in the next five years thanks to automation, AI, and other new developments that will significantly change our expectation of, and approach […]
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Ranking: World’s Best Universities For Business & Economics (P&Q)

U.S. News & World Report has updated its Best Global Universities Rankings for 2024-2025 and, along with it, how those universities ranked in 51 different subject areas, including Economics and Business. It’s not a huge surprise that some of the top universities in the world also have best-in-class business programs. In fact, the home universities to almost all […]
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The digital trends disrupting the banking industry in 2023 (InsiderIntelligence)

Banking Industry Overview The banking industry is in a much healthier place now than it was after the financial crisis of 2008. Total global assets climbed to $154,211 in 2022, up 3.79 percent YoY from 148,583 in 2021, according to The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks Ranking for 2022.  With so much money to manage, major banks such as […]
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How A.I. and DNA are unlocking the mysteries of global supply chains (NYtimes)

Firms are turning to advanced technologies to help answer a surprisingly tricky question: Where do products really come from? At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton. That DNA will act as […]
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The top 10 global consumer trends report 2021 (Euromonitor)

The pandemic forever altered consumer behaviour. What we value, how we consume and where we spend will never be the same. Businesses that explore and understand these shifts can act now to improve product and service development, employ stronger marketing tactics, lock in customer loyalty and prepare for what’s next.  This report identifies the trends […]
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The 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) (UNDP)

The 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication “Charting pathways out of multidimensional poverty: Achieving the SDGs” released on  16 July 2020 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford and Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme. The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures the […]
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