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Do Ethics Still Matter?

Effective Managers

Is Ethics even a thing anymore? This is where abiding by a code of professional conduct and ethics gets difficult. Do ethics stop at the profit and loss statement, or do they extend to the end-result of the intervention? Executives drive sales targets throughout the organization. So, is Ethics still a thing?

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The Transformative Power of AI in Business

Tom Spencer

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

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AI in Consulting: The Beginning of a New Era

Tom Spencer

In manufacturing, AI can be used to optimise supply chains, increase the efficiency of production processes, and predict equipment failures. This will be useful in the retail industry where accurate sales forecasts are critical to success. In addition, AI raises new ethical and legal issues.

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Is consulting ready for its Amazon moment?

The Source

Suppose you moonlight as a small business owner and you want to start selling your products online; maybe you make a line of high-quality cashmere socks embroidered with inspirational Paul Drucker quotes. And further suppose that—for one of any number of perfectly valid reasons—you have a strong ethical aversion to working with Amazon.

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Real-World Examples of AI in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

For example, NLP can be used to analyse customer reviews on e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, to identify common themes, such as product features that customers like. AI-powered predictive models can be used to test different strategies by simulating a range of scenarios and predicting future outcomes, such sales or customer demand.

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Servant Leadership Coaching Your Superpower

Rick Conlow

It demands ethics, integrity, character, and honor in dealing with people. The company’s sales goals required great improvement in employee engagement and customer experience. Sales results beat the competition. To keep up with customer needs and competitive pressures they needed their teams to be more productive.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Compensation should be tied to broad-based outcomes and include things such as customer satisfaction and product knowledge, in addition to success at closing deals.

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