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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. market share in online sales. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Getting Value from Machine Learning Isn’t About Fancier Algorithms — It’s About Making It Easier to Use

Harvard Business

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. Training the model. AI as project manager. Did we reach our target audience?

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. Originally intended to support advertising agencies, Facebook created a training and education platform to teach advertisers how to use Facebook’s myriad advertising, marketing and experimentation tools more effectively.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

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.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Third, train the entire organization and ramp up a motivation campaign. We assemble multidisciplinary teams and do joint training. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. We clarify goals.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

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.

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