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From the five billion records that cybercriminals exposed in 2019 to the 42% of teens across 25 countries having a problem with their parents posting about them on social media in 2020, it is clear that everyday digital behaviors are not without risk. Learn the tips to protect your privacy online.

In today’s workplace environment, organizations face heightened challenges for employee recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and engagement. Understanding how to attract new employees, while keeping and supporting your current workforce is critical to an organization’s ongoing success. It starts with having a sense of urgency, empathy, being intentional, and practicing active listening.

With OSHA releasing and publishing the Emergency Temporary Standard (the “ETS”) on November 4, 2021, there are new vaccine guidelines and mandates for employers to follow. In this eBook, we address the “vaccinate or test” program set forth in the ETS and provide samples and templates on mandatory vaccination policy, reasonable accommodation requests, medical inquiry requests, and other essential documentation that can be customized for your needs.

In moving past the COVID-19 pandemic, there are five key items that CIOs will almost certainly need to focus on as their role shifts away from being pure technology leaders and toward critical business drivers and decisionmakers. The first important item will be securing the hybrid cloud/on-premise systems and applications.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an acceleration of adoption of cloud solutions and other remote access tools. However, hasty adoption of any new technology that is not combined with robust security frameworks, policies, and controls can leave businesses vulnerable. A formal vendor management process and having specific controls in place can mean the difference between a cloud solution being a huge advantage to agile solutions or leaving the business open to attacks and unauthorized access.

Uber rethought and deconstructed the traditional value chain in its industry to create a new technology-enabled business model centered on enlisting the capabilities, assets, or knowledge of others. It was the Uberization that pointed toward a new way of creating value and gaining scale, showing its potential for asset managers who are looking past their institutional blinders and carefully observing their environment and weighing alternative ways of doing business.

Artificial intelligence is quickly transitioning from curiosity to critical cog in efforts to monetize data and power applications from front to back office. Given asset management’s reliance on efficient data processing, rapid decision making, and accurate reporting, there are myriad ways machine intelligence can have an impact.

Data-smart companies are learning how to access, aggregate, and distill competitive knowledge from a vast sea of previously inaccessible information. While there will be asset managers who resist the data adoption or take a wait-and-see attitude, the firms that enthusiastically embrace a data-centric strategy can expect to be rewarded with unanticipated competitive advantages.

Online platforms are reshaping business dynamics, putting customers in charge and forever altering the customer experience. As Asset Managers weigh the critical decision of whether and how to embrace disruptive technologies and business models (which may not be profitable for some time, could undercut current product lines, and may not succeed at all), some lessons can be learned from Amazon’s journey.

Technology has transformed how businesses communicate with—and learn from—their customers. Despite historic hesitancy on the part of many asset managers, driven in large by regulatory concerns, social networks play an increasingly pivotal role in the industry. Investment management functions such as idea generation, portfolio monitoring, and trading may attract the most interest, but social media is infiltrating the industry in other ways as well.