Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

A piece of machinery to meet a product need? For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. Sponsored by Accenture. What are you really looking for?

Productivity 28

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 28

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

So here they are: The top 10 management consulting firms in the very global, very dynamic, always-changing District of Columbia! Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The leadership set you up for success.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization? Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Production performance. What decision rights should each role have? Programs and staff grow. Each quadrant is described below the graphic.

Agile 65

Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

All of the 500+ BCGers in New York will be moving to the spacious office location; a birdie told us that the consultants at the New York office helped design the office space for the new location because their current Managing Partner said “People should be the author of their own space” – classic BCG creativity at work. .

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

But new uses of virtual health and digital technologies may help the industry manage these challenges. To explore the impact of virtual health in primary care, an Accenture analysis looked at the economic value of virtual health uses in three common care scenarios: an annual patient visit; ongoing patient management; and self-care.

Accenture 28

Accenture Analysis Healthcare Data 28

freshminds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Being a critical business analyst is at the heart of management consulting - seeking out valuable data and generating new ideas to maximise efficiency and profit within companies. InsightSquared - data mines from connected data analysis accounts such as Salesforce, Quickbooks, ShoreTel Sky and Zendesk.

Data 42

Data Analysis Accenture Tools 42

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Look for boundary-spanning partnerships: As work becomes more complex, it takes teams and cross-boundary collaborations to build products, attract customers, and achieve results. Insight Center.

Agile 45

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 45

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Yet most organizations don’t manage internal collaboration productively, and assume that technology or formal org charts can yield agility. All of these points of execution are essential for organizations, yet all encounter inefficiencies unless they’re managed as a network.

Agile 39

Agile How To Efficiency Groups 39

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

That’s why decision makers require spot-on data and efficient, streamlined systems to maintain it. Sponsored by Accenture. They’re free, globally recognizable, high-quality data points that enable you to efficiently gather information on a business’s industry, online activities, and functionality.

Sales 28

Sales Data Efficiency Retail 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

We used machine learning to augment the power of seasoned professionals—in this case, project managers—by allowing them to make data-driven business decisions well in advance. AI as project manager. Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects.

Software 28

Software Data Accenture Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

They empower shoppers with in-depth product information and peer opinions and seem to know what a consumer is looking for before the person asks for it – and sometimes even before she or he knows they want it. Sponsored by Accenture. It’s both high-tech and vastly more high-touch than previous disease management efforts.

Engineering 29

Engineering Healthcare Retail Accenture 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient. Many FinTechs function as cloud-based software platforms and can enable “procure-to-pay” systems that incorporate both purchasing management and accounts payable functionality. Sponsored by Accenture.

Transportation 30

Transportation Finance Financial Banking 30

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Deconstructing and then reconfiguring the components within jobs reveals human-automation combinations that are more efficient, effective, and impactful. Sponsored by Accenture. Certain tasks, such as talking a client through their frustration with a faulty product or mishandled order will, for now, remain a human task.

Accenture 30

Accenture Examples Retail Productivity 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

By 2020 customers will manage 85% of their relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human. Sponsored by Accenture. On the other hand, most of a sales manager’s activities, which involve strategic decision making and employee supervision and coaching, cannot be automated. Insight Center.

Development 28

Development Sales Accenture McKinsey 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

First, we should agree on a definition of a new market: in our view, it is commerce that brings together products and services with customers in a transaction that did not previously exist. Sponsored by Accenture. .” They have more similarities than differences with traditional businesses, and should be regulated accordingly.

Hotels 28

Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) SOX severely limited even more the interaction between management consulting and financial auditing services. 1982 - Price Waterhouse World Firm formed.

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 35

Company Survey Finance Engineering 35

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center.

Agile 30

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

Where traditional business models sell products and/or services, matchmaking models sell reduced transaction costs. Sponsored by Accenture. Choice One means going it alone to build product and find buyers. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. Successful platforms empower their users.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Advertising Education 28

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

The interviewees, who were in the process of an M&A deal or who had recently been through one, included C-suite executives, private equity dealmakers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and middle managers. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Company 28

Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

We know that when IT projects fail, it is usually not because the technology didn’t work (although this can sometimes be the case), but because the changes required at an organizational and employee level weren’t managed effectively. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. In a major U.K.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. Sponsored by Accenture. HR needs to pay more attention to the product features that successfully push the analytics messages forward and to the pull factors that cause pivotal users to demand, understand, and use those analytics. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Metrics 31

Metrics Analysis Data Talent 31

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. ABIe pulls its answers from a data warehouse, where all the knowledge relating to the company’s products and processes has been organized.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The reps also become more efficient because Angie routes the right leads to the right reps. In the small pilot CenturyLink ran, Angie could understand 99% of the emails she received; the 1% that she couldn’t understand were sent to her manager. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

Sales 28

Sales Marketing Tools Telecommunications 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G.

System 28

System Data Advertising Tools 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Executives allowed their technology team to acquire a lot of products, but no one understood what the advanced tools were supposed to accomplish or how to use them. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

Data 28

Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update. Most companies target digital transformation and end up with digital upgrades, using digital technology to increase efficiency or effectiveness at something your firm is already doing.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Sponsored by Accenture.

Data 29

Data Engineering System Efficiency 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. Take fund managers.

Company 33

Company Telecommunications Data Retail 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

The majority of these gains will be realized from better management of pre- and post-production processes – the rest will continue to be derived from the actual manufacturing or production. Sponsored by Accenture. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Industry 28

Industry Automotive Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. That’s what happened at a financial services firm where management was mulling a change to its commission structure. But it reduced the compensation of salespeople who were less efficient but ultimately more valuable—causing them to defect to competitors. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

Advancements in artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices have made it possible for cities to increase efficiencies across multiple services like public safety, transportation, water management and even healthcare. Sponsored by Accenture. An estimated 2.3 Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right.

System 30

System Operations Data Accenture 30

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Fortunately, they tend to be manageable.

Banking 28

Banking Engineering Enterprise System 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

The technology can reveal hitherto hidden information and allows users to attach digital tokens — a unique, negotiable form of digital asset, modeled on bitcoin — to intermediate goods as they progress along the production, shipping, and delivery phases of a supply chain and as title to them passes between different players.

System 37

System Government Data Accenture 37

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Chipotle aimed to differentiate itself from other quick-serve restaurants on the basis of using local ingredients and local sourcing of its products. Insight Center.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28