Sentences with phrase «business structure innovation»

I also wonder if the existing model isn't more powerful than it appears since there is clearly room for business structure innovation despite limited actual innovation.

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Frias leads the $ 230 billion investment and pension solutions business, where she is responsible for the pension risk transfer, longevity reinsurance, structured settlements, and stable value businesses within Prudential Retirement, and related institutional product innovation efforts.

Indeed, entrepreneurs» business models, financing needs, and operational objectives require lawyers and scholars to rethink governance, capital structures, and regulatory schemes that may limit or impede further innovation, both nationally and transnationally.

Our creativity - friendly business structure and location in the heart of the action in downtown Raleigh help create an environment of excitement and innovation in our team that is passed along to our clients in the work we do.

This structure will result in new opportunities for small businesses to flourish in nices left untouched by large corporations, and lead to more cooperation between large and small companies - particularly in the areas of sales, marketing and innovation.

The hosts provide their tailor - made support and expertise, then guide the inventors in structuring a business plan, producing and market - testing a prototype, and preparing them for a pitch, where they will meet real potential investors and industry buyers ready to invest their own money and resources to bring their innovations to market.

For a business to run profitably, that structure is unwieldy and some consultants were hired, Nigerian government, World Bank paid them huge amount of money and they wrote a report called NIPOST Consultant Report, that the 38 territories can never engender operational efficiency, innovation and profitability and therefore, they recommended 3 zones.

This Center manages the Accelerating Innovation Deployment Demonstration grants, which support States or local agencies in deploying innovations that are unique to their way of doing business; the Advanced Market Readiness grants, which provide funding to move a prototype innovation into a market - ready condition that would then be eligible to be advanced in the biennial list of EDC innovations; and the STIC incentive grants, which provide funding to the STICs to foster a culture for innovation and make innovations standard practice in their State structure.

But for the majority of legal services that the population needs, liberalizing the business structures to allow innovation would, I think, result in massive, positive changes to how those legal services are delivered.

It is important to organise people and business structures in such a way so as to keep up with innovation while ensuring that costs are kept within budget, as well as to preserve profit without stopping investments.

Drawing on this experience, Adam provides practical and constructive support to clients while remaining focused on innovation in developing new business structures and transaction forms to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the industry.

Kalajdzic finds that the all too common argument in favor of ABS, «that access to new sources of capital will allow lawyers to bring in technological innovations and adopt new business structures; firms using ABS will have a competitive advantage and will thus be able to achieve economies of scale; with economies of scale firms can lower prices and provide better quality of service,» is not supported by the available data.

Third, the traditional business models and pricing structure are under heavy strain right now, but law firms tend to tweak their models in response instead of considering how competitive changes and the impact of innovations such as AI might impact in the longer term.

It is important to organise people and business structures in such a way so as to keep up with innovation while ensuring that costs are kept within budget, as well as to preserve profit with the needs of the market.

Now in its 14th year, the report examines the most important aspects of service to clients of leading law firms — gathering views on importance and satisfaction for all aspects of client service, including commercial understanding of client business, consistency of service across the firm network, teamwork, communication, fee structures, billing and innovation.

The institutions of law and the business of law are structured in ways that fight innovation and change.

The CBA Futures Initiative is addressing issues related to the ethics and regulation of the legal profession, education and training of lawyers, and innovation in business structures.

One of the ways we've tried to address the lack of diversity on the Steering Committee is through the makeup of the teams doing in - depth examinations into legal education and training, business structures and innovation, and ethics and regulatory issues.

While the insights and innovations of the process are uncertain at this time, the CBA seems committed to considering matters of regulatory innovation and change, particularly in relation to the adoption of alternative business structures.

Andy Daws, Riverview's vice-president North America, says the 2007 Legal Services Act, which was designed to promote competition, innovation and the public and consumer interest, has made the U.K. «the world's legal laboratory right now,» where experiments in ownership structure, service delivery, and alternative business models are being carried out, with varying degrees of success.

Many agreed with the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, which said the role of alternative business structures in fostering innovation is «overstated.»

But it is the innovation of: (1) alternative legal services that cut costs by cutting the competence of the people who deliver the legal services; (2) the commercialization and industrial production of legal services (such as, LegalX, LegalZoom, LegalZoom (Canada), Axiom, and, Neota Logic); and, (3) of ownership of law firms by investors referred to as, «alternative business structures.»

In Canada, the discussion about legal innovation has lately become bogged down in the debate over alternative business structures (ABS).

Lawyers On Demand (LOD) is no stranger to Alternative Business Structure (ABS) innovation, having been the first flexible legal service provider in the UK — pairing freelance lawyers with clients who need a more versatile legal offering.

More specifically, the Issues Paper describes that the group «Regulatory Opportunities» is charged with studying existing regulatory innovations, such as alternative business structures and the Canada Bar Association's Legal Futures Initiative Report, and then recommending «regulatory innovations that improve the delivery of, and the public's access to, competent and affordable legal services.»

The facilitation of positive market trends includes permitting and encouraging new systems for delivering legal services, such as technological innovations that lower costs and improve quality, or different business structures that do the same.

Entry Criteria This award seeks to uncover innovation in the delivery of legal services by Alternative Business Structures.

On the one hand, sustaining innovation, a description of increased efficiency for current deliverables, breaks down under the regulatory and business structures that have evolved around such firms.

It's the jump - off point for a series of research papers on the future of the profession and looks at three key areas: education; innovation and alternative business structures; and ethics and regulatory issues.

Dr Reul is widely recognised as one of the leading corporate counsel working in business today and was cited by nominators for his serial innovations in the structure and function of the BMW global legal team.

Blockchain was great again in 2017, or Blockchain ™ at least, where consultants did their best to convince people that a transaction ledger in a Merkle tree was a fantastic new innovation in business data processing, and not a structure we'd had since 1979 or software (Git) we'd had since 2005.

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In addition, corporate America is warming up to the idea of the sale - leaseback structure, and innovations in credit - tenant financing are creating new business opportunities, he adds.