Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. ABIe pulls its answers from a data warehouse, where all the knowledge relating to the company’s products and processes has been organized.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. The Richeys invited me to join their product development advisory board. What are our strengths?

Hotels 28

Hotels Data Film Fashion 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. What’s the trick?

Recruiting 28

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

But when he had the chance to get candid feedback during a company training, he realized that he wasn’t focused enough on how he was showing up. The human mind rarely operates in a rational fashion, and our judgments are seldom free from bias.

How To 70

How To Case Interview Research Study 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the beginning companies sold products. In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. More so than products, the possibilities with projects are endless.

Productivity 28

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

ROI 28

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. From here, firms have to make a creative leap to discover the unique combination of products and services that may address those needs. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

Education 28

Education Real Estate Research Company 28

Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Less dry-cleaning bills! Less distractions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is a deceptively simple example of what the Harvard-trained economist Mancur Olson popularized as the collective-action problem. And a Chinese agreement to cut back on subsidies improves conditions facing steel and aluminum companies also operating in Europe and Japan, not just in the American Midwest. This offer will be tempting.

Intellectual Property 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. What’s missing, more often than not, is a clear strategy and operational model for using these capabilities in ways that are specific to the company’s business requirements. The same is true for processing power. Keep it commercial.

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