Decision theory

Tracer Fortifies Leadership Team as Demand for Brand Protection and Cybersecurity Measures Skyrockets

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Monday, April 22, 2024

The leadership team’s extensive experience in brand protection and AI is expected to accelerate Tracer’s growth and innovation in swiftly and precisely identifying instances of brand misuse across the digital landscape.

Key Points: 
  • The leadership team’s extensive experience in brand protection and AI is expected to accelerate Tracer’s growth and innovation in swiftly and precisely identifying instances of brand misuse across the digital landscape.
  • Businesses need a solution that offers sophisticated AI and other advanced technology supported by a smaller number of specialized industry experts,” said Rick Farnell, CEO of Tracer.
  • “With its advanced AI platform, fine-tuned by deeply experienced industry experts, Tracer has raised the bar significantly for brand owners struggling with traditional brand protection methods,” said Alan Spencer, Global Chief Technology Officer.
  • “I believe that demand in the brand protection space is going to surge in the coming years.

InvestCloud Partners With Ameriprise to Offer Personalized Financial Planning and Advice to Corporate Wellness Clients

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

InvestCloud, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced it is partnering with Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) to offer personalized financial advice to users of its corporate financial wellness and life-planning solution, Pink.

Key Points: 
  • InvestCloud, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced it is partnering with Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) to offer personalized financial advice to users of its corporate financial wellness and life-planning solution, Pink.
  • We are extremely excited that Ameriprise can offer financial planning and advice to the employees of our corporate Pink clients in the U.S. and look forward to expanding the capability to our Pink clients globally.
  • InvestCloud Digital Financial Planning is the only planning solution that offers advice across the spectrum from self-directed through to UHNW advice.
  • InvestCloud Digital Financial Planning includes life planning, goals-based planning, cashflow planning, tax planning and estate planning.

InvestCloud launches InvestCloud X

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Monday, November 1, 2021

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --InvestCloud, the global leader in financial digital transformation, today unveiled InvestCloud X its most significant product innovation yet.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --InvestCloud, the global leader in financial digital transformation, today unveiled InvestCloud X its most significant product innovation yet.
  • As with all InvestCloud products, InvestCloud X has been designed and built using InvestCloud's iProgram (formerly known as PWP), the patented AI code generating engine that is a revolution for cost and time to market.
  • Connecting all aspects of InvestCloud X is of course the InvestCloud Digital Warehouse, the custom central data warehouse cataloging data for seamless search and access the world over.
  • Co-founder and Chief Product Officer for Digital Wealth Yaela Shamberg explains: "From Lifestyle to Goal-Based plans, Cashflow, Tax, Trust and Retirement, the Digital Planning platform in InvestCloud X is a fully digital experience, accessed using the InvestCloud X Communication Platform.

InvestCloud launches InvestCloud X

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Monday, November 1, 2021

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestCloud, the global leader in financial digital transformation, today unveiled InvestCloud X – its most significant product innovation yet. InvestCloud X is three revolutionary products packaged into one: a Digital Communication platform transforming the way advisors interact with clients, a Digital Planning platform designed to cover the simplest to the most sophisticated needs of all investors, as well as a Digital Shopping platform for financial products called the Financial Supermarket.

Key Points: 
  • Like everything InvestCloud has done in its 11 years since inception, InvestCloud X is deployed on InvestCloud's financial cloud platform, which today supports $6.3 trillion in assets across over 20 million investor accounts in over 40 countries globally.
  • As with all InvestCloud products, InvestCloud X has been designed and built using InvestCloud's iProgram (formerly known as PWP), the patented AI code generating engine that is a revolution for cost and time to market.
  • Connecting all aspects of InvestCloud X is of course the InvestCloud Digital Warehouse, the custom central data warehouse cataloging data for seamless search and access the world over.
  • Co-founder and Chief Product Officer for Digital Wealth Yaela Shamberg explains: "From Lifestyle to Goal-Based plans, Cashflow, Tax, Trust and Retirement, the Digital Planning platform in InvestCloud X is a fully digital experience, accessed using the InvestCloud X Communication Platform.

BiasSync Receives CLE Accreditation in California and Illinois For an Interactive Online Unconscious Bias Mitigation Course

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Monday, November 30, 2020

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --BiasSync announced today that it has received approval from The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism for professional responsibility CLE credit in Diversity & Inclusion for its online BiasSync(c) unconscious bias assessment, education, and mitigation course.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --BiasSync announced today that it has received approval from The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism for professional responsibility CLE credit in Diversity & Inclusion for its online BiasSync(c) unconscious bias assessment, education, and mitigation course.
  • Earlier this year, BiasSync was also approved by the State Bar of California for CLE credit in the field of anti-bias.
  • BiasSync Co-founder and CEO Michele Ruiz said: "We are delighted to have our groundbreaking science-based unconscious bias assessment, learning, and mitigation solution approved for CLE credit for attorneys in two such important states.
  • The costs of unmitigated unconscious bias in the legal field are tremendous, both from a human and an economic standpoint.

FranklinCovey and Simon & Schuster Launch New Book, The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams

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Friday, November 20, 2020

The Leaders Guide to Unconscious Bias is ideal for leaders and managers as they strive to reframe how they think about and move past pre-conceived ideas or biases.

Key Points: 
  • The Leaders Guide to Unconscious Bias is ideal for leaders and managers as they strive to reframe how they think about and move past pre-conceived ideas or biases.
  • But unconscious bias often leaves us unaware of the results which can occur because of biased thinking.
  • Ignoring our biases doesnt eliminate their consequences, which can severely limit our own professional possibilities and those of our colleagues.
  • It might affect employee engagement and turnover, limit talent, and make it challenging for teams to work cross functionally.

Employers ‘Ignoring Vital Information’ When Making Decisions About People

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Employers may be making poor decisions about their people due to unconsciously ignoring vital information about the workforce.

Key Points: 
  • Employers may be making poor decisions about their people due to unconsciously ignoring vital information about the workforce.
  • Using that information could better inform and improve decisions employers make and help them offer more support to their staff.
  • Questionmark , the online assessment provider, is urging employers to gather more information about the people they employ before making crucial decisions around recruitment, onboarding, training and promotions.
  • In the recent Questionmark Viewpoint report Beyond Decision Bias: Making Objective People Decisions it was noted that cognitive bias could be undermining a range of people decisions.

Critical Business Decisions Vulnerable to ‘Cognitive Bias’

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The new report, Beyond Decision Bias explores how employers can jump to poor decisions because they are vulnerable to sub-conscious factors in decision making.

Key Points: 
  • The new report, Beyond Decision Bias explores how employers can jump to poor decisions because they are vulnerable to sub-conscious factors in decision making.
  • When attempting to tackle cognitive bias, it is essential that robust data and information are gathered to challenge presumptions.
  • The data from assessments can challenge cognitive bias and ensure that decisions are grounded in reality.
  • For more information on the risks of cognitive bias and strategies to tackle it, download the full report: Beyond Decision Bias .

Nearly 90% of Purchase Decisions and Discussions are Made at Home, According to New PebblePost Consumer Study

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190220005163/en/
    Home is at the Heart of Commerce Marketing (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Key takeaways from the study include:
    88% of purchase decisions are made or discussed at home.
  • Spouses have the greatest influence on purchase decisions: 73% of consumers agree that their spouse is influential in purchase decisions.
  • Todays research demonstrates the importance of direct mail in a shoppers path to purchase, with nearly 90% of buying decisions made at home, said Lewis Gersh, CEO, PebblePost.
  • The purpose of the study was to understand how direct mail impacts consumer purchase decisions, as well as how purchase decisions involve the home and family members.

Artificial Intelligence Interprets Data in a Way That Allows Us to Better Understand and Predict the Actions of Voters and Citizens

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

To that point, CivixAI, an artificial intelligence technology with two decades of experience within the automotive and finance industries, is being applied to politics and public policy.

Key Points: 
  • To that point, CivixAI, an artificial intelligence technology with two decades of experience within the automotive and finance industries, is being applied to politics and public policy.
  • It is important to first understand that the output CivixAI produces is a readout of the subconscious bias (i.e.
  • "For instance, we may want to predict who voters will elect in a specific race on November 6th.
  • With a focus on politics and public policy, CivixAI predicts the future behavior of voters, citizens and policymakers based on their subconscious biases.