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The Biggest & Boldest Undertaking of 2018

Growthink Blog

Because it is one thing for healthcare industry incumbents like Aetna, Anthem, and Humana to "talk the talk" about reducing costs and improving value.but it is another thing entirely when they are forced to do so because of the existential threat of a “disintermediating” juggernaut like Amazon and friends represent here.

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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna

Growthink Blog

For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. Like to explore what bold strokes like CVS buying Aetna are possible for your business in 2018? Let’s do this! Rather Innovate than Die?

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Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. I think one of the studies that we recently conducted probably in 2018 sort of mid 2018 was understanding the relevant or the inclusion of ads within local. Neil Crist: Without question. Neil Crist: It is.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most successful venture funds, recently published a blog post that put the challenge of recruiting a world-class engineering team of 12 into stark perspective. And this doesn’t even begin to address the time-suck of recruiting high-level engineering talent. Not likely. And office rents?