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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. Lack of physical engagement with clients has added challenges.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

Clearly, any enterprise that doesn’t embrace automation won’t be able to survive any better than a farmer with a horse-drawn plow. At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. This creates a dilemma for leaders. market share in online sales.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

The primary care community has largely embraced these ideas, perhaps because they reinforce the community’s value and centrality to the health care enterprise. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Less Time, Better Care.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric. ” In a sense, purpose is following the path that digital has taken in the enterprise.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. If stable scheduling were adopted enterprise-wide, transition costs might well entail the costs of upgrading or replacing existing software systems.). Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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