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 30

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 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

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 35

Accenture Examples Retail Productivity 35

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before.

Agile 37

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 37

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. What about the automation of the production line? Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Company 42

Company Survey Finance Engineering 42

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level. This would allow it to uniquely identify every product, even distinguishing fashion items by size and color, as well as proving information on its location. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 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. 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

MARCH 31, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. They know that many cognitive techniques are based on statistics, and that the same analysts and data scientists who generate traditional statistics can also be trained to work with machine learning and other forms of AI. Insight Center. The Age of AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

System 28

System Data Advertising Tools 28

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. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 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. But there's no escaping it – today we are all members of a highly digital world and the new heights to which digital can reach just keep jumping forward.

Data 42

Data Analysis Accenture Tools 42

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. They rely on the nerve center for additional support, model validation, and training.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Now, they are pioneering a new phase of global digital manufacturing that will transform the key processes surrounding the manufacturing of everything from automobiles to trains, planes, machinery, and even kitchens. 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

MAY 25, 2016

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Sponsored by Accenture. Predicting demand.

Data 48

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

Agile 28

Agile Development Talent Deloitte 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.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Titled “Buy American and Hire American,” it directs federal agencies to review whether existing policies adequately prioritize American products and protect American workers. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

Engineering 33

Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Here’s why: New technologies come to consumers as finished products that can be exchanged for money. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Many people believe that issues of scarcity can be solved by using more efficient production methods. This is the context in which a new mode of production is emerging.

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Energy Software Resources 28