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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business

Machine learning algorithms digest all of this eclectic and unstructured information. An interface communicates the algorithms’ results along with more-nuanced data, such as the personal notes, to the company’s fashion stylists, who then select five items from a variety of brands to send to the customer.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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What Digital Change Demands of IT Organizations - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. . “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said. Calva also oversees the company’s innovation group, as well as the day-to-day operations of IT. “We’re becoming an online company,” said Calva.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

Employing a rigorous approach to the words and phrases at the heart of the company’s products, ABIe’s avatar-driven interface offers accurate answers to policy questions while streamlining the quote process. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. When electricity initially replaced the steam engine, engineers just placed electric motors where the steam engine used to be — with limited productivity gains.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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