Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Because hospitals receive substantial governmental revenues, they make public their operating data, which we needed to calculate productivity.

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Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. These planners will lead the charge in moving away from a traditional supply chain operating model, which is inflexible and slow, to a new dynamic model with true end-to-end segmentation. Their role: improve process efficiencies. Insight Center.

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System Engineering Accenture Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. AI as project manager. Training the model.

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Software Data Accenture Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. (A recent accident involving a Tesla “autonomous car” has raised questions about AI’s current limits.). Insight Center.

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