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John Rodgers, Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at SSA & Company, was quoted in Financial Advisor on fiduciary regulations and insurance carriers. With a lack of clarity over what the regulations require, insurance carriers may be reluctant to do anything. “This uncertainty creates an unbelievable burden—a bottleneck that’s going to cause a backlog,” […] Read More »
Wayne Dix, Vice President, Healthcare at SSA & Company, was quoted in a Managed Care Magazine article titled “PBMs: Higher profile puts them in the crosshairs” on the 2017 outlook for pharmaceutical benefit managers. The article quotes Wayne’s thoughts on the disruption caused by direct-to-consumer coupons and what it means for how PBMS function: “I think there […] Read More »
Dave Niles, president of SSA & Company and G100 Companies, and Chairman of the Deming Center advisory board, opened the annual Deming Cup awards dinner on October 25th. The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School honored David M. Cote, chairman and CEO at Honeywell, and Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO at PepsiCo, with the 2016 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence. Read More »
Stephen Miles and The Miles Group (TMG) were featured Friday on The Wall Street Journal‘s research roundup, “Survey Roundup: Gaps Remain in Board Evaluations.” The Miles Group’s research, conducted with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, “reveals that while boards generally rate themselves positively in terms of skills and expertise, significantly high […] Read More »
The Revolution in Digital Payments Cisco Chairman John Chambers, speaking at G100 last month, ranked India Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a model leader of digitization. Days after, Modi surprised everyone by removing India’s most valued and popular currencies, even though India still uses cash for 95-98% of all transactions. Designed to root out corruption […] Read More »
Raj Thangavelsamy, Vice President at SSA & Company, was quoted in a TechTarget piece on content management and unstructured data analysis for businesses. The article shares Raj’s thoughts on the importance of mobility in business processes and the use of software to manage data on the cloud. “Business processes are driven by documents, and mobility is a […] Read More »
Nick Kramer, Senior Director of Data and Analytics at SSA & Company, was quoted in an article in The Pulse of IT on how companies should approach IT upgrades for their point of sale systems. Kramer recommends companies take a holistic approach that fully considers their existing infrastructure before investing in new systems and technology. Nick also advises […] Read More »
SSA & Company Senior Advisor Deb Henretta was recently featured on Bloomberg Radio’s segment “Using Data to Make Better Business Decisions.” She discussed how big data is one of the major challenges facing management teams, and why leadership is crucial to getting the most value from it. According to Deb, “we’re at a tipping point […] Read More »
The CEO position is more complex than it ever has been, and CEOs must have a much broader and deeper skill set to tackle this complexity. Looking to the year ahead, CEOs are expected to serve as experts in a wide range of areas – by their investors, their boards, their employees, and the public. […] Read More »
Jason Meil, SSA & Company’s Managing Director of New Products and Innovation, was quoted in an article titled, “High-Tech Investing: 7 Sectors to Watch.” In the piece, syndicated in both US News & World Report and Yahoo! Tech, Jason comments on the future of high tech investing–that there is massive potential for new technologies and that he expects […] Read More »
