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Leveling Up: Consulting Skills for an AI-Powered World

Tom Spencer

For example, in a retail setting, let’s say a fashion clothing client wants to understand the purchasing behaviour of their customers. Consultants are still needed to interpret the results, identifying key trends and patterns, and making recommendations that can help the client to increase sales and customer satisfaction.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. And then there are ethical challenges. But what are the ethical issues of potentially collecting photos of barely dressed consumers?

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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Organizational Character and Leadership Development | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

For the last 50 years it has not been fashionable to talk about moral development, yet the subject of moral development is all about being a grown up. Here’s more information about leadership development and ethics. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. We know the list and it keeps getting bigger. Read more.].

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. It can’t just be left to the PR department — the necessary messaging is too likely to be entangled with technical, legal, and ethical issues to compartmentalize it to any one department.

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Foundations of Consulting ? Part 3: Primary Working Goals and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Working in a collaborative fashion with your clients helps ensure that recommendations are accurate, that clients follow the recommendations and that they adopt the changes needed to improve themselves and their organizations. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. How can I get more consultants to print with me? Read more.].

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation. ZB by 2020.