Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” Data is not always shared efficiently. Sponsored by Accenture. However, through a new culture and technology strategy, the company pivoted and raised its Net Promoter Score by 18 points. Insight Center.

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Data Banking Sales Accenture 31

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. “In bringing together a specialist direct-marketing agency with a generalist creative shop, cultural differences were bound to arise, given the contrast in customer approach and sensibilities.

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Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 29

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. High performing organizations are 2.5

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Agile How To Efficiency Groups 44

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Having firsthand experience of an attack, even a simulated one, means the C-suite will gain awareness that’s vital to driving a top-down security-focused culture. Furthermore, operating procedures need to be well defined and expressed to get the most from the technology. Insight Center.

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Exercises Survey Accenture Data 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. All of the above?

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Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Our culture would kill it.”

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 32

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. Sponsored by Accenture. For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. P&G has a culture that emphasizes entry-level hiring and promotion from within, but in the data science and machine learning domain it made an exception and hired several people who already possessed the necessary skills. Insight Center. The Age of AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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System Data Advertising Tools 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

“Traditionally, boards have tended to stay out of operational functions, but technology is so pervasive that the best practice is to have direct board engagement in technology through active committees, just as they would with audit, compensation, and other key areas.”

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Recruiting Recruitment System Trends 29

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

For instance, Goldcorp, the global mining company, recently partnered with Accenture to help knit together an ecosystem of large and small IoT suppliers to co-develop a connected mine in Cerro Negro, Nicaragua. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. Sponsored by Accenture. On the one hand are data science groups that are too independent of the business. Insight Center.

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Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. While PwC is a global brand in the professional services industry, each member firm in various locations around the world are locally owned and operated and subject to the laws of their geographic jurisdictions (which makes sense, because some countries require this of accounting firms). Industries.

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