Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber.

Industry 28

Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

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 32

Data Banking Sales Accenture 32

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. Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured.

Data 28

Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Last week Google announced that , in an effort to bridge the “online ad–offline purchase” gap, it will begin to connect online ad exposure to brick-and-mortar sales. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. Data from the U.S.

Advertising 28

Advertising Retail Data Accenture 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. For example, customer details including login credentials and account information is often for sale on the dark web. This strategy must capture an appropriate balance between tools, people and processes. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right. Safeguarding your company in a complex world.

Exercises 28

Exercises Survey Accenture Data 28

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static. Kroger has aligned its entire business around a “Customer 1st” brand strategy. Furthermore, labor can now be more efficiently allocated to other value-added activities throughout the store. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The result?

Trends 31

Trends Hotels How To Retail 31

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static. Coles, speaking at Boston University’s recent Platform Strategy Research Symposium, emphasized that helping participants become better entrepreneurs was essential to the platform’s overall success. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Advertising Education 28

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Such behaviors include: managing meetings more efficiently, creating an effective climate of email use, blocking time in calendars for reflective work, negotiating role demands, and avoiding triggers that lead us all to jump in on projects or meetings when we shouldn’t, to name just a few.

Agile 46

Agile How To Efficiency Groups 46

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static. 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.).

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. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. We track changes in team member happiness and productivity, customer behaviors and satisfaction, and sales and profitability. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Agile 33

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. As the technology is able to identify products in such an efficient manner, inventory can be updated in real time and the data can be used to inform targeted replenishment and merchandizing decisions. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 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

JULY 13, 2016

In the transactional economy, the most important measures are new customer acquisition and sales. For sales, the moment of transaction is the start, not the finish line. Today, streaming is a more efficient way for me to access professionally created video content, and Netflix provides me with streaming. Sponsored by Accenture.

Cash Flow 28

Cash Flow Survey Metrics Accenture 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 42

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 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. When analytics and instinct come together, a strategy becomes more powerful.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The takeaway: minimum viable pilots work because they don’t prioritize sales or procurement over real-world learning. The startup turned its ostensible shortcoming into a usable insight in its own technical and sales development. Think “lean pilots.” The ploy worked.

Banking 29

Banking Engineering Enterprise System 29

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The autonomous economy is extremely labor and capital efficient, sometimes so much so that the prices of its products decline to close to zero. Blu-ray and DVD sales have suffered declines of more than 10% for the last two years. But hope is not a strategy. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Retail 31

Retail Automotive Transportation Video 31

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

and status of financial commitments – commitments like sales orders, purchase orders, payroll, inventory, shipping, and taxes. PwC moved on to acquire Ant’s Eye View, in August 2012, a social media strategy development and consulting firm. and in August 2011, purchased PRTM. Public Sector Practice. Internal Firm Services (IFS).

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221