Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

jessica solomatenko/Getty Images. It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The word can be uttered by a CEO speaking to employees or Wall Street analysts. It can be emblazoned on the door to a new innovation center in Silicon Valley.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 30, 2018

“We’re not going to be here long.” That’s because this project isn’t going to work and we can’t afford to stay, or because this project is going to work and we’re going to move up. That’s a pretty profound thing for some real estate to say about its corporate tenant. And the employees absorb it each and every day.

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Consulting Success

JULY 30, 2018

Anytime you’re solving a business problem or anytime you’re offering a service, one of the best ways to figure out what you should be offering is to find out what the market wants and figure out what problems the buyer is having and focusing on that. Open innovation catalyst Scott Wagers has been trying to address that question over the course of his career.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 30, 2018

Is it possible to use personalized emails that get a great response, and ultimately, new clients, from those in your network? I’m not talking about mass direct emails, but sending individual emails to people in one’s network, LinkedIn connections, past clients, etc. for the purpose of generating enough interest to get a conversation with that person.

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As more and more companies in a range of industries adopt machine learning and more advanced AI algorithms, the ability to provide understandable explanations for different stakeholders becomes critical. If people don't know why an AI system made a decision, they may not trust the outcome.

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Consulthon

JULY 30, 2018

Hello Everyone, Currently I'm working on project with the scope of reviewing the current performance management system and setting new KPI's. My challenge goes like this: 1) What is the balanced no.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

Shana Novak/Getty Images. In a world in which men dominate leadership roles, should we focus on changing the systems and structures that favor men at women’s expense? Or should we emphasize the tactics individual women can use to get ahead? Our research explored this question. The first message, that it’s processes and organizations that need to change, has been gaining traction in more recent years.

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MBO Partners

JULY 30, 2018

What enterprises need to know about Workers’ Compensation insurance when engaging independent contractors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

JW LTD/Getty Images. Companies are using AI in all kinds of innovative ways to advance their businesses. If you’ve ever searched Netflix to watch a movie, AI (a recommendation algorithm) was no doubt used in your decision about what to watch. If you’ve shopped on Amazon, your decision about what to buy was also influenced by AI (via an association algorithm).

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Automation is becoming less of a novelty and more of everyday business for many brands. According to a McKinsey Global Report, 45 percent of all work duties can be potentially replaced with AI and machine learning. Over 65 percent of companies will experiment with customer-facing chatbots (AKA bots) this year, with the aim to provide 24/7 customer support and reduce cost.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. We’ve all experienced some version of this problem: Ask “how many customers do we have?” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other.

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