Ithron Newsletter Vol. 2

Strategy & Markets

1. How boards plan for the disasters that no one wants to think about

2. AT&T strategy bears fruit during COVID pandemic

3. Cross-Border Mergers: Old Challenges, New Solutions

4. The Top 6 Ways To Finance A Merger Or Acquisition

5. Fintech 250 List from Leading Business Analytics Firm Features 32 Unicorns including Affirm, Coinbase, Robinhood, Among Many Other Multinationals

6. Wall St has never seen a company like Palantir

7. Trump Has An Electoral College Advantage Again This Cycle

8. Aswath Damodaran on Acquisitions: Just Say No | CFA Institute Enterprising Investor

9. Opinion | Germany's Economy Will Triumph in the Post-Covid-19 World

10. Kraft Heinz Names Global Media Agency Partners to Support Company’s Consumer-Centric Focus

11. KKR & Co: Suzanne Donohoe Promoted To Global Head of Strategic Growth

12. Snowflake: Unfreezing The Data Market (Pending:SNOW)

13. Virtual Strategic Planning Meetings

Startups & Venture Capital

1. Venture Capital Investment Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2027: Reports Globe

2. UK Private Equity, Venture Capital Returns Outperform Public Markets

3. Edtech is the new SaaS

4. Owl Ventures Closes $585 Million in New Funds for Global EdTech Investments

5. Startups in pandemic days: a tale of despair and dreams

6. These millennials are building businesses for a post-pandemic world

7. When a venture capital-backed merger goes awry

8. Meet the TC Top Picks for Disrupt 2020

9. VCs say these 19 e-commerce startups are thriving during the coronavirus pandemic as online shopping takes off

Digital Transformation: 

1. In digital transformation, not all workloads can shift fully into the cloud

2. Take a Mobile-First Approach to Digital Transformation

3. Analyzing Impacts Of COVID-19 On Digital Transformation Spending in Logistics Market Effects, Aftermath And Forecast To 2026

4. The story of a 3-year digital transformation at Electrocomponents, taking it to a top-5 growth stock in the FTSE 250

5. Digital transformation in energy: Achieving escape velocity

6. How is digital transformation taking place across sectors?

7. Covid-19 is Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Cyber-Security

8. Digital Transformation in the Banking Sector Is Being Driven by Need to Reduce Operational Costs, Offer Better User Experience: Report

9. Strategic digital transformation in Africa in the time of COVID-19

Culture, Change, Communications

1. Investing in Social Good Is Finally Becoming Profitable

2. Research: Knowledge Workers Are More Productive from Home

3. Work, learn anywhere strategies attract investment, innovation

4. UK spending on coronavirus consultants tops £100m

5. Poor Predictors: Job Interviews Are Useless and Unfair

6. Key Changes Leaders Need To Make Now To Help Their Organizations Thrive

7. Promoted During the Pandemic? Here’s Your Next Step

8. Two Black-Led Banks Just Merged to Form a $1 Billion Lender

9. Female-managed US funds outperform all-male rivals

10. 3 Reasons Why Successful People Don’t Worry About Upsetting Their Coworkers

11. Council Post: 10 Top-Notch Personal Brands Leaders Should Emulate

12. Council Post: When Control Is Just An Illusion, What Can Leaders Count On?

13. Research reveals a radically different, Covid-influenced CFO role

14. If You Want to Succeed, Plan to Fail

15. Intuition About Signals And Systems

16. The future corporate center: Functional efficiency runs in the family

17. Google Has Master Plan To Build A Massive Corporate Town For Its Employees

18. Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? It Could Be Both, Suggests New Theory

19. DocuSign CEO sees the new digital way of life outliving the pandemic

20. I'm Shorting Apple As It Enters Its War On Developers (NASDAQ:AAPL)

21. WPP CEO Mark Read Tries to Apologize for Ageist Comments

Commercial 

1. Competing on Customer Outcomes

2. Confused by Facebook's Limited Data Use for CCPA? You're not alone

3. 7 products created by startups as a direct result of customer requests

4. Can your procurement strategy rise to COVID's challenge?

5. B2B commerce platform Bikayi lands $2 million in seed funding

6. 'I was basically told: you are never showing this' – how we made Cadbury's Gorilla ad

7. What Has - and Hasn't - Changed in B2B Marketing

8. How To Build An Audience That Will Sell For You

9. 5 Crucial Data Driven Mobile Applications For Thriving SMEs

10. Anand Sanwal on building CB Insights via a B2B newsletter that gets a lot of love from data and technology ent