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Top Consulting Firms

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Accenture, Oliver Wyman. Founded by Arthur Andersen in the 1950s, Accenture introduced computers to General Electric in one of its first projects. Accenture Strategy is its wing, focused on C-suite consulting. Accenture Strategy is its wing, focused on C-suite consulting. Work-life balance is a challenge for Accenture.

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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. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. AI as project manager. Training the model. In fact, they would not have helped us achieve our key goals.

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business

Concurrently, a new digital engineer role will emerge: a highly analytical, digitally savvy data scientist who manages, models, and tweaks the algorithms, alert protocols, and parameters guiding the automated decision-making planning systems. Remove the robot from the human.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tonnes of e-waste (discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts)—with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tonnes respectively. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. Sponsored by Accenture. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases.