Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

If you had a factory job, it wasn’t your job to worry about productivity. And yet, we hardly talk about productivity. Productivity is the amount of useful output created for every hour of work we do. What’s the most productive choice? He designed the Model T to be efficient to build. What happened?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Advertise successes. Look for boundary-spanning partnerships: As work becomes more complex, it takes teams and cross-boundary collaborations to build products, attract customers, and achieve results. They designed and implemented a new shared services organization that centralizes training development and vendor management.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Distributing social responsibilities to relevant people across the organization can be efficient, be effective, and help make one-on-one customer engagement scalable.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 9, 2017

Sometimes she’s helping tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft train the algorithms that will curate online content. These AI-assisted augmented services, delivered by people quietly working in concert with bots, are poised to enhance our daily productivity but they also introduce new social challenges.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

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. To train this model, we first collated historical data from the past three years across thousands of projects, comprising millions of records.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Online Advertising. Selling productized consulting. Online Advertising. LinkedIn advertising. The publication’s need to get maximum advertiser “bang” for the “buck” it spends on printing and mailing each print issue, means that only the most qualified readers actually get a printed copy. Speaking Engagements.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. We often field questions from our hiring and training clients about how to interact with their data experts. Is the data clean and easy to analyze?

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

AI holds great promise for making marketing more intelligent, efficient, consumer-friendly, and, ultimately, more effective. Take Sephora’s Kik bot , which quizzes customers about their makeup preferences and then follows up with specific product information. The marketing industry will be no exception.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

In that strategy , the country uses state enterprises, industrial policy, and the power of its domestic market to dramatically increase the country’s industrial production. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The company also built an expert system that helped advertisers at P&G to use, modify, and reuse the company’s advertising assets. They believe it is both more effective and cost-efficient to develop in-house skills (as they did to a large extent with the previous generation of AI tools). Focus on the talent.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Inside the newsroom, we had families living in the cafeteria, conference rooms, training centers etc.; When it came to the business, we had gone back 20 years and distributed the paper as a print product. We had no advertising because most of our advertisers were closed, their agencies without power.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Moreover, Google will most likely argue that its search engine has made e-commerce more efficient for consumers despite bundling it with AdSense and that its Android operating system has helped make smartphones and apps more ubiquitous and cheap despite bundling them with the Play Store. In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

People flock to Facebook, for example, because most of their friends and family are on it, which in turn allows Facebook to collect a large amount of data about us, and attract advertisers. As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

After that, each time shoppers with the app enter a beacon-enabled store, they can receive promotional messages or deals on their device about products in the aisles they are browsing. For example, feedback from a single customer about wait times may not be sufficient to generalize the operational efficiency of the staff.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

As a manager, your goal is to keep your team engaged, productive, motivated, and happy. Suresh Khanna, CRO of AdRoll, the online advertising placement company based in San Francisco, says that many of his employees have asked for promotions before they were ready. What’s the best way to help them set realistic goals?

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