Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The result, or outcome, is that farmers can manage their operations more efficiently and increase crop yields. Sponsored by Accenture. For an outcome-centric company to carry out marketing’s promise, sales organizations must know the customer well enough to understand the specific outcomes it seeks. Insight Center.

Productivity 28

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 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

JUNE 14, 2017

Data is not always shared efficiently. Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience.

Data 30

Data Banking Sales Accenture 30

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. Did we reach our target audience?

Software 28

Software Data Accenture Engineering 28

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

APRIL 4, 2016

shared capital, shared workforce) to efficiently deliver on the same customer promise, many equivalent approaches have appeared before within those same industries, and it is the successful disruption of the status quo — not any fundamental “newness” — that has incumbents worried. Sponsored by Accenture.

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.) and status of financial commitments – commitments like sales orders, purchase orders, payroll, inventory, shipping, and taxes.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. In classic microeconomic terms, where firms previously focused on how best to manage transaction costs, platforms require top management to creatively cultivate transaction surplus. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. Insight Center. No strategy is static.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Advertising Education 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Organizations that take cyber security seriously should implement best practices that will help reduce the disconnects and ensure effective cyber risk management. For example, customer details including login credentials and account information is often for sale on the dark web. Insight Center.

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Exercises Survey Accenture Data 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center.

Data 28

Data How To Enterprise Travel 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.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

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

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 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

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts. Sponsored by Accenture. This has implications for capacity utilization and capital efficiency.

Data 29

Data Engineering System Efficiency 29

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

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. By 2030, we estimate there is the potential for manufacturers worldwide to realize an estimated $1.4 Insight Center.

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Industry Automotive Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The startup got an eye-opening inside view of how a bank’s IT shop actually launched new services and the bank realized the fintech’s approach to security management would prove superior to its own. Fortunately, they tend to be manageable. Think “lean pilots.”

Banking 28

Banking Engineering Enterprise System 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Improved pricing.

Data 35

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 35

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42%, to a three-year low , where it has languished ever since. What we end up with are dynamic demand chains in place of rigid supply chains, resulting in more efficient resource use for all. Sponsored by Accenture. Various endeavors have already started. Insight Center.

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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. Sponsored by Accenture. I recently spoke to Professor John Quelch, who teaches at Harvard Business School and at Harvard’s T.H. Insight Center.

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Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. The autonomous economy is extremely labor and capital efficient, sometimes so much so that the prices of its products decline to close to zero. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Insight Center. The Age of AI. Related Video.

Retail 29

Retail Automotive Transportation Video 29

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

What if we could track every component in a supply chain, automatically verifying their compliance with regulations and laws as they cross borders and are processed and combined with others to create a final product for sale? Sponsored by Accenture. Other factors of production could be tracked and managed similarly.

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System Accenture Data Transportation 28