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How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business

Second, companies can use machines to supercharge the productivity and effectiveness of workers in unprecedented ways. The company collects as much information about a client as it can, in both structured and unstructured form. Structured data includes surveys with personal information such as body measurements and brand preferences.

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. (A Digital momentum.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

executive explains, “Most current practice is to wait for the service-failure event and judge performance by reacting to it, because the utility doesn’t get credit from regulators or the media for preventing leaks that the public doesn’t know about.” As one U.S.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.”