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A caffeinated beverage is a drink containing caffeine, a stimulant that is legal and common in most developed countries. Coffee and tea, that in one form or another (usually served hot but sometimes iced) appear in most world cultures, are the most popular naturally caffeinated beverages. As a part of their production process, many beverages are heavily caffeinated. These include some soft drinks (mainly cola drinks), as well as energy drinks intended as a stimulant, and perpetuating activity at

You have surely heard of hackers, but do you really know how they work? Hackers are well known for being bad guys, though there are certainly good hackers out there too. Here’s a brief guide to help you understand how a hacker can hack:

Directions for Hacking are Easy to Come By

Hackers don’t have to look far for help, especially if they don’t know much about hacking. First is a well-known website known as Kali Linux. It has a ton of tools available for hackers, and the site features many links to

While regulatory change management and enterprise change management may be different domains, there is a lot that regulatory change managers can learn from enterprise change management. The basics of both remain the same, even if regulatory change is a bit more complicated to manage.  

Identify the nature of change 

In addition to failures related to lack of support, 70% of change projects fail because they are not managed with an adapted approach. In other words, we often think that all change pr

For any company looking to get into the digital payments space, or already offering services in this area, tackling fraud and reducing the negative impacts of crime is a huge challenge. Losing time to fraudsters or individuals seeking to carry out illicit transactions can cost digital payment companies millions upon millions of dollars each year.

Not only do fraudulent transactions cost time and money, but they can also negatively affect customer services and user experiences. Time-consuming veri

With startups ready to disrupt traditional players, established firms need to form an even stronger bond with their customers instead of waiting for customers to reach out to them.

The traditional Customer Experience model—referred to as the “acquire what we make” model—is characterized by occasional interaction between the companies and the customers, once a customer ascertains her/his needs and looks for products or services to fulfill them.  In this model, companies do all they can to offer qu

The AI software segment currently holds the highest share of the global AI in the energy market (by product offering). AI software providers are responsible for maintaining and storing the application data of the customers. However, AI-as-a-service (AIaaS), also known as platform as platform-as-a-service, is one of the emerging AI product offerings, which allow the end users to access AI-enabled platform using cloud computing. AI-as-a-service is dependent on the purpose and application of the en

Family businesses are an overlooked form of ownership. Yet, they are all around us. One-third of companies in the S&P 500 index and 40% of the 250 largest companies in France and Germany are defined as a family business. A family business means that a family owns a significant share and can influence important decisions.

As family businesses expand their entrepreneurial beginnings, unique performance and governance challenges are encountered. The generations that follow the founder may insist on

Every firm will eventually reach the point when it has to professionalize the way it operates. This is done by instituting more rigorous processes, establishing clear governance, and recruiting skills from outside. Family Business is no different.

In the Family Business Survey, 43% of the companies believe that the need to professionalize the business is a key priority over the next 5 years. But the family firm has another dimension which other companies have to tackle: the family itself.

The issu

The routes to market that Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies use to sell and service their trade account is essentially critical. It determines their sales volume, their ability to deliver the proper levels of customer service in a cost-effective manner, and their success at securing scarce retail shelf space for their products.

Yet, only a few CPG companies have a comprehensive conceptual framework for optimizing their routes to market.

Diving into a Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy

The Go-to-Mark

Sustainable, superior returns accrue to companies that focus on what they do best. It is that simple. Yet it is incredibly hard to internalize. It is a rare company that focuses on what we do better than anyone in making every operating decision across every business unit and product line. Rarer still is the company that has aligned its differentiating internal capabilities with the right external market position.

These companies are called coherent.

Most companies do not pass the coherence test b

Have you heard of SIM swapping? It’s a new trick that hackers are using to get money and mess up your life.

What is SIM Swapping?

So, what is SIM swapping? It’s when a hacker tricks your cell phone company into thinking that you have activated your SIM card on another phone. In other words, the hackers are taking your phone number and then associating it with a different SIM card. If the switch is a success, your device will be deactivated, and all of your phones, texts, data, and more will come t

Christmas morning is here for the compliance management industry. The 2019 Payment Security report was just released by Verizon last week which is the de-facto industry performance report for the PCI security space.

The requirement for organizations to comply with payment card industry regulations and to be assessed against payment card data security standards began in 2003. Sixteen years later, many organizations are still stuck in a wash-rinse-repeat cycle of annual validation. The time has com

Teleradiology and artificial intelligence (AI) can work hand-in-hand and combine their ability to have a major impact on the delivery of health care. High-speed broadband networks' rapid growth has opened the way for vast amounts of data to be transmitted instantly across the globe. This provided the basis for the advent of teleradiology, a technique that allowed access and freedom for radiologists to diversify their practices.

What is teleradiology? How did Artificial Intelligence swooped-in its

As Western companies are being put under increasing pressure to cut expenses and improve return on assets, the dilemma of whether to keep key functions in-house or outsource them has taken center stage.

Manufacturing units are being identified with Make-or-Buy Decisions as third-party suppliers in Eastern Europe, China, and other low-cost regions hold out a promise of significant advantage that companies in developed countries can’t offer.

The Make-or-Buy Decision extends beyond manufacturing. It

You know the saying. It means we can see something coming, but we can’t move. Like a deer in headlights, often traditional organisations experience sheer inertia when faced with the light beams of disrupters to their industry. All talk, no action.

There is an app for everything these days. People used to joke about how there’s an app for everything except for falling in love, but you can’t even say that anymore. Risk management, like everything else in our lives, has similarly been completely transformed by technology. What used to be a simple process that was done through noting down some information on some papers is now a complex and sophisticated process.  

While we may have lost the simplicity of it all, we have gained much more. What

Reuters event is hosting a free to attend webinar on how to Enrich Auto Product Development Innovation With Fresh New Data (December 20^th, 10.00 Central US time). Register here

New and available data for Auto carriers is transforming the very definition of insurance. Product development that utilizes this data has never been more important and striking the balance between value for customers and carriers will be paramount if carriers wish to survive this period of change.

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