Changing Minds, Business Models: Can the Consumer Products and Services Industry Sell Its Vision to the Workforce?
Technology was, by far, the star of this year’s National Retail Federation “Big Show” conference in January – from smart shelves fitted with real-time inventory trackers to mobile checkout apps and robots that promise to drive costs and errors out of the supply chain. Retail automation is a trend we touched on in a blog […]
Narrow Whistleblower Protection May Have Broad Impact
The U.S. Supreme Court, on February 21, 2018, ruled unanimously that protections afforded to whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) apply only to people who report potential wrongdoing directly to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This interpretation narrows a previous rulemaking from the SEC, which had extended retaliation protections […]
Financial Services in the Cloud? We’re Further Along Than You Might Think.
Cloud computing is now in the mainstream, and nothing proves that better than its gains in the conservative world of financial services. There are several players in the cloud provider space, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by far the biggest, with a market that exceeds those of Microsoft and Google combined. In fact, AWS […]
