Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. For sales and business development, this is an invaluable tool. Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.”

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Marketing & Sales. MC Articles. Accountancy Age Articles on AT Kearney. Articles from The Economist. 1995 – A.T. Hispanic Network.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Recently, the terms “functional” and “focused” have been used to refer to servicing a specific system, function or process, for example, marketing systems, financial systems or information technology. — Look for the articles in this series, including: What Do Consultants Do? Types of Consulting Can Overlap.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. It’s sales. But a foundation not understanding fundraising is like a venture capital firm not understanding sales. We turn up our nose.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

It has at least 21 data science systems , which include several supply chain optimization systems, an inventory forecasting system, a sales forecasting system, a profit optimization system, a recommendation engine, and many others. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This focus on function, for instance, may result in recent sales being stored in different systems from historical sales, thus presenting an immediate barrier to boosting sales through personal product recommendation. The incentives of individual teams are unlikely to encourage data sharing as a primary requirement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Sales organizations are trying to predict which sales associates will successfully close deals. Similarly, algorithms have the potential to improve hiring and promotion decisions in areas ranging from sales teams to teachers to police. School districts are trying to predict which teachers will bring a classroom to life.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives. Continue to invest in systems to encrypt data, protect networks and various endpoints — internet of things sensors, point of sale terminals, mobile devices, etc. People need to learn how their actions can have consequences.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. The company’s recent decision to cut staffing and product variety in the existing business, while continuing to improve digital sales channels, appears to be an effort to optimize across both.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). Finance Risk.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Why does a salesperson lose a sale? The sales department equally preferred having a salesperson listen and solve their needs and being challenged; HR was equally split across all three selling styles. 4: Some Buyers Are “Price Immune” Price plays an important role in every sales cycle. Steven Moore for HBR.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Salesforce is adding Einstein features to its customer-facing software clouds, including the ability to automatically score sales leads, read emails from customers, and classify images used in social media.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

One solution is to become the authoritative source for a particular kind of information. Some firms have managed it, in healthcare and in other arenas — think of QuintilesIMS as a source of pharmaceutical sales data, Nielsen as the authority on TV viewer habits, and the U.S. Census for information about U.S. demographics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

For example, customer details including login credentials and account information is often for sale on the dark web. This information can be leveraged by attackers to create synthetic IDs that are often used to enable cyber crime.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Salespeople waste time dealing with erred prospect data; service delivery people waste time correcting flawed customer orders received from sales. .” Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are rife with hidden data factories.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

.” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We estimate that robotization, digitization, digital self-services, distributed digital advice and sales, and robo-advisors could result in a 60-70% reduction in the workforces of service providers, from financial services to telecom. Commerzbank has announced plans to digitize 80% of its processes within three years.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As you grab your keys, you hear a voice from the device on your coffee table: “It looks like you’ll use the last of your milk tomorrow, and yogurt is on sale for $1.19. Imagine you’re about to leave the house to pick up your kids. Would you like to pick up an order from Trader Joe’s, for a total of $5.35?”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Some extremely successful companies have made great use of recommendation engines to boost sales or improve customer satisfaction. Stitch Fix is already applying several of these machine learning techniques in service delivery and R&D — and other companies can follow its lead.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. ” The new way of deploying software, he said, also gives him visibility on where and how it is consumed, providing information about future costs.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

For example, sales is the focus of potentially big improvements via new tools that can provide better lead generation, forecasting, and targeting. These issues aren’t unique to the water industry; they’re also relevant to companies in other industries that are using data and digital tools that are increasingly available.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data. The company, however, is aiming to achieve half of its gross merchandise value from overseas sales by 2025. These steps, however, can easily cross over into protectionism. Now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

For example, directors of auto manufacturers and auto parts suppliers will need to understand how shared and autonomous mobility will accelerate electrification of the transportation sector, affecting car sales.

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