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April 2017
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CONSULTANT SPOTLIGHT

 Meet Matt Ahart

  Associate Partner

  This month, Transom welcomes Matt Ahart as Associate Partner. Matt will assist financial services clients with strategy development, growth initiatives, process design and optimization, and organizational transformation.

With nearly twenty years of experience working with global banks and insurance companies, Matt has expertise in corporate strategy, M&A, operations, risk management, project management, and information technology. He has deep domain knowledge in vendor management, outsourcing / offshoring, operations management, metrics, contact centers, and operational risk management. Matt has also co-founded several consumer internet start-ups and worked as a practicing patent attorney.

Matt received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and Bachelor’s in Physics from Princeton University.

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Innovation

Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

March 30, 2017

Looking at the executive teams we work with as consultants and those we teach in the classroom, increased diversity of gender, ethnicity, and age is apparent… more »

The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail

April 11 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Three years later, many of these ambitious ventures will have quietly expired without an obituary… more »

Leadership

Hungry, Exhausted And Filthy: 8 Leadership Tips From Extreme French Marine Commandos Training

April 10, 2017

I’ve worked at president level at AT&T. I’m a reserve commander in the French navy. And now I teach a wide range of very able and experienced professionals on executive education programs at HEC Paris… more »

From ‘Tone-Deaf’ to ‘Textbook’: Experts Review the United CEO’s First — and Latest — Apology

April 11, 2017

Just one day after issuing a statement that was widely mocked online after a passenger was pulled screaming and bloodied from his seat on United Airlines, the company’s chief executive is trying for a do-over… more »

Insurance

Insuretech Startups Take Note: Traditional Insurers Score Highest Ever Satisfaction Grades

April 3, 2017

About one of every 15 U.S. homeowners insurance policyholders files a claim each year and these claimants are now giving insurers their highest ever satisfaction ratings… more »

In China, Starbucks is Offering Health Insurance to a Surprising Group of People

 

April 11, 2017

In China, Starbucks already invites workers’ parents to an annual employee meeting. Now it’s planning to offer those parents health insurance. The coffee giant said early Tuesday… more »

Banking, Lending & Payments

Bank of America, JPMorgan and the Battle for Small-Business Clients

March 12, 2017

While earnings growth was stable in the past two years, according to the Small Business Credit Survey released Tuesday, sales gains shrank as close to half of firms responded to financial challenges by cutting investments needed to fuel expansion…. more »

Awash in Liquidity, Banks Seek Tech Solution

April 6, 2017

Too much cash. It sounds like a good problem to have. But for banks, it can be costly to have too much cash sitting around doing nothing. Having too little liquidity can run them afoul with regulators, of course. It’s part of a chief financial officer and… more »

Asset Management

The Myth of Shrinking Asset Managers

April 3, 2017

It’s easy to assume that the recent upheaval among asset managers would result in a much smaller industry. But that’s far from certain. Some big investment firms have certainly shrunk… more »

Why Big is Not Always Better in Asset Management

April 11, 2017

Active asset managers must learn to co-exist – not compete – with passive product providers. There is a growing recognition that passives instruments are likely to become a standard feature in global client portfolios… more »

Private Equity

Private Equity Is Raising Its Bets to Save Distressed Positions

March 29, 2017

From Apollo Global Management LP to Bain Capital to Thomas H. Lee Partners, investors have bought hundreds of millions of dollars of debt in struggling businesses they took private… more »