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

MAY 18, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Looking ahead, Maureen sensed that the company was also going to be focusing on efficiency in response to market changes and the continued integration of the acquired companies. They designed and implemented a new shared services organization that centralizes training development and vendor management.

Agile 53

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. People with these traits can quickly pick up the technical skills through on-the-job training, industry certifications, community college courses, and modern vocational and skills education programs. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right. Safeguarding your company in a complex world. In 1951 the U.S.

Talent 45

Talent Education How To Recruiting 45

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

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.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Advertising Education 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

Helps federal agencies solve complex business issues, manage risk, and improve financial measures and the overall quality, efficiency and effectiveness of public service. You will have specifically designated training to increase your technical skills, both at the beginning of your tenure and throughout. Public Sector Practice.

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Following our rubric would ensure defendants are treated equally, with only the highest-risk defendants detained, simultaneously improving the efficiency and equity of decisions. The three-step recipe can be followed by an analyst with limited training in statistics, using freely available software.

Case Interview 49

Case Interview Video Software Accenture 49

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. AI and robotics increasingly take on the routine aspects of both blue and white collar jobs, leaving the non-routine to humans. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Accenture 36

Accenture Examples Retail Productivity 36

Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. For efficient collaboration between humans and machines, the appropriate level of automation must be carefully defined. In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm.

Case Interview 34

Case Interview Transportation Healthcare System 34

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too. These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms. Insight Center.

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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.

Agile 39

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

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

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

APRIL 14, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories. The Age of AI.

Company 43

Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

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

For instance, Goldcorp, the global mining company, recently partnered with Accenture to help knit together an ecosystem of large and small IoT suppliers to co-develop a connected mine in Cerro Negro, Nicaragua. First, train your employees in critical IoT skills — not just technology and processes but collaboration, too.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

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

MAY 25, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. The increased prediction accuracy, in turn, makes it possible to achieve large increases in operational efficiency — having the right inventory in the right locations. Advances in measurement technology increasingly allow offline firms to benefit from these types of gains through more efficient pricing.

Data 49

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 49

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. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Industry 28

Industry Automotive Engineering Software 28

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

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates.

Engineering 33

Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Many people believe that issues of scarcity can be solved by using more efficient production methods. But this may overlook some of the unintended consequences of efficiency improvements. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Energy Software Resources 28