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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. GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

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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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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

.” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business

Why does a salesperson lose a sale? 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. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge.

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