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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

We have a few clients, one in particular that the selling cycle was four years, and that’s a lifetime in a small business and to a consultancy to think that, “I’m talking to this potential client for a period of four years off and on and still haven’t sold them one day of work.” Click To Tweet. How do you do that?

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. They’ve also grown their sales 134 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 53 percent.