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Delivering on the Promise of AI
The broad promise of AI is that it will allow humans to make exponentially faster decisions and invoke deeper analytics. Let’s explore what the future...
Rethinking Investor Relations Tech
Firms should apply the “zoom out/zoom in” approach to technology investments. The “zoom out” perspective looks at a time horizon of 10 or more years...
And The Next InvestTech Unicorn Is…
Unicorns are mythical beasts. In the VC world, they are high growth startups that achieve $1bn+ in valuation. In the investing world, a unicorn is an...
Attitudes & Latitudes: Notes from the Tech Side of Investment Management
The investment management industry is known, from the outside, for many things. In a few words: high stakes and important work, high-performing individuals, and long but...
Data Disintermediation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving!
The investment management industry runs on data. Organizations build their businesses around carefully constructed, disciplined processes of collecting and analyzing information that are designed to give...
When Diligence Goes Digital
Defining the Digital Diligence Moment: When the investment management industry no longer depends on emails, multiple Word documents, and PDFs to exchange diligence information, and instead...
Delivering in the Experience Economy
Future economic growth lies in the value of experiences and transformations--good and services are no longer enough. Joseph Pine of Columbia and James Gilmore of UVA...
Building a Data Legacy for Your NextGen
Given the significant investments of time, talent and money in the ecosystem around data, there’s no question that data is poised to be one of...
The Automation Within - from & for Millennials
Speed and agility are competitive advantages that drive innovation. A counterweight is a competing goal of quality, which cannot suffer in the quest for speed. How...
Why 1000 Days?
As I was contemplating embarking on an entrepreneurial journey, my parents, both entrepreneurs, shared a few pearls of wisdom: If you don’t have the staying...
Process Matters – Workflow Technology Empowering People
Perhaps you are a large investment firm looking to create a culture of excellence that will perpetually attract top talent and dominate your market. Alternatively, you...
Disrupting How We Manage Documents
A document is a representation of thought that is written, drawn, presented, or memorialized. Over the years documents have evolved as a means to structure a...