Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Even Apple, known for its culture under Steve Jobs that famously resisted allowing customers or outside developers to alter any of its platforms, finally bowed to a growing reality.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

But although AI is a real and genuine technology, the potential and tangible applications of modern AI advancements are far from what Hollywood movies and novels by authors such as Philip K. Well, machine learning is the concept of an AI developing its own repeatable output based on the data analysis from repeated input. MonkeyLearn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Insight Center. For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. It is frequently used to automate financial processes, such as comparing invoices with shipment notices, or transfering data from email and call center speech-to-text systems into transactional systems of record.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten. Develop a strategy that doesn't simply rely on being the biggest.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. JP Morgan Chase, although a digital innovator, has opened 600 branches since January 2010 while closing 325. In our view, no.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. Technology start-ups are the Philippines’ latest customers, and more are flocking to the country’s beach-laden shores each year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. Insight Center. How technology is changing the way we work. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. It’s an unrelenting focus on developing the best leaders at every level of your enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Changing customer behaviors driven by digital technology have altered the way consumers want to buy. Developing customer-oriented offerings. Some companies are using analytics to streamline the sales process and develop new products. Customers Product development Sales' households.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As new technologies shift customer journeys and expectations, they can (and should) also enhance companies’ abilities to engage with customers in the most relevant ways. Don’t be loyal to the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. One success story occurred when a front-line associate in a call center posted online she didn't like a new process. Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That means churning through data to find insights that others haven’t seen and then developing the organizational capability to act on them faster and better to drive above-market growth. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Given today's technology available for data acquisition as well as new developments in analytics, it is possible to do much better than this. The most innovative employee managers we know use business analytics to understand the differences in how individual store associates perform.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

This will prove far more useful than today''s CRM techniques, which are conversational only in the scripted and controlling manner of call centers. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. Customers Marketing Technology' That is, talk to them, two-way, as equals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Khoja continues: "Today when you come to Roshan, you come to our network control center, you come to our call center, you will find not one single expatriate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Khoja continues: "Today when you come to Roshan, you come to our network control center, you come to our call center, you will find not one single expatriate.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Private equity firms and insurers were among the early adopters, utilizing these innovations for investment pre-screening and claims automation. In call centers of major software companies, chatbots improved the productivity and quality of underperforming workers more significantly than that of “superstars.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are spawning what many are calling a new type of industrial revolution. While both technologies refer to the same process, there is a slight nuance to each. In addition, there are unique and new cyber risks associated with cognitive and AI technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. Technology investments work the same way. Value realization is displaced in time from the act that initiated the value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It’s an old-school idea common to technology companies as far back as the 1980’s, akin to “we know more about the engineers that work for our competitors than they do.”. Let’s “retool” the Zappos strategy through the staffing supply chain , to see how their innovation can spur a great conversation. Hiring Human resources Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

It also made it more difficult for business-minded observers to assess the importance of the machine's question-answering technology. This technology has climbed an astounding learning curve — and there's no reason it should stop here. Was Watson smart or dumb, a savant they could use or a senseless tool?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

Without this breadth as well as granularity of information, we don't know whether to allocate resource to improving call centers, retail channels, advertising campaigns or new product innovation. Umut Konus is assistant professor of new product development at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Almost anything can be outsourced to specialists and reconnected.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Exponential technology change. The CHREATE teams developed a topography based on the degree of the democratization of work (the impact of the first three trends above on an organization) and the degree of technological empowerment (the impact of the latter three trends), shown in the figure below. Today, turbo-charged.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country. For instance, breeding programs have developed cows to produce milk that is low in fat and high in omega-3 oils. When the U.S.

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