Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work. Disaggregate the different parts of the curve shown in the chart above and determine how AI can play a role.

Airlines 8

Airlines Disaggregation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Instead of just celebrating, or making an investment across the board to bring in even more traffic, think about how you can disaggregate your data so you can better understand cause and effect in this situation. Looking at your numbers carefully and digging into disaggregated data allows you to take much more educated and focused next steps.

Metrics 8

Metrics Disaggregation Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It is hard to disaggregate the reasons, but doing so alongside answering each of these questions will help bring clarity to this crossroads. If that is the case, then hire someone. Separate your financial motivations for selling from the non-financial reasons and write them down or discuss them with a close adviser or mentor.

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Disaggregation Long-term Short-term Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages. Still, companies often make the mistake of developing products and features to appeal to the mean. They pore over aggregate results and aggregate averages.

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Disaggregation Levitt Analysis Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In disaggregated markets with many sellers and buyers and where search costs are high, intermediaries provide considerable value. Beyond finding the right seller, an intermediary might help match the buyer to the best product for her, providing important guidance and product information. But the car market is no longer like this.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Disintermediation Disaggregation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

But producers in many of the newer entrants (such as Bangladesh) tend to be small and highly disaggregated. Over the last years, labor intensive production keeps moving to ever-cheaper countries. By some estimates there are over 4,000 garment factories in Bangladesh alone.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The ability of such technology to enable traditional jobs to be disaggregated and to supplement or replace routine activities presents opportunities in efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. Cognitive automation like Google Glass can transform the work of a flight attendant , for example.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Insurance Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When transaction costs drop past invisible thresholds, there will be sudden, dramatic, hard-to-predict aggregations and disaggregations of existing business models. These changes, and others, represent a pervasive lowering of transaction costs. As the costs of reaching people dropped, there was a sudden change in the system.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

If the star quality of our employees isn't immediately apparent, disaggregate their package into component skills until you find the disruptive skill that can make them a star performer, and deploy him/her accordingly. We each yearn for that kind of "yes.".

Disaggregation 15

Disaggregation Long-term Career Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Without clear guidance, most reps simply slip into "order taker" mode, closing small, disaggregated, price-driven deals at a discount all in the name of "giving customers what they want.". It's not a bad strategy, mind you, but it backfires when leadership is vague about how this translates to specific behavior.

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Discount Disaggregation Consensus Price 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. That may sound like a lot, but it pales in comparison to the amount spent on cyber security, airport screening, or border security. It’s not enough.

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Project Disaggregation Globalization Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Insurance Retail Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. They should be calling for AOL to double down — not by increasing Patch's $150M+ yearly cash burn , but by increasing commitment. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. Consider the market.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Advertising Business Model Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Quirky has created an innovation engine more suited for the Social Era — in which work and jobs are no longer the same thing, and collaboration happens outside of organizations as much as within it — in three ways: It disaggregates the process of innovation from the innovator''s work itself.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Disaggregation Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the group’s targeted segmentation and disaggregation efforts ended up dramatically improving response and resolution times for typical customers. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.

Storytelling 16

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. million drivers are active on the platform globally.

Management 8

Management Price Disaggregation System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media. Social can be and is more than marketing or communications-related work.

Strategy 18

Strategy Disaggregation Reis eBook 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. That's where the Dupont analysis come in. In the 1920s, while companies used return on equity to assess their performance, DuPont recognized that the single metric had its limits.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job. Startup businesses used to create about 3 million jobs a year in the U.S. but that has declined to barely over 2 million per year. There are fewer full-time journalist jobs available anymore, for instance, but there is plenty of freelance reporting work.

Katz 8

Katz Disaggregation McKinsey Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Previously, there has been a presumption that there was no need for a disaggregation of the interests of the UK as a whole and England, on the grounds that it contains 85% of the UK population. The newest element of that wider dialogue is the idea that consideration is needed about the position of England.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disaggregation Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. That's where the Dupont analysis come in. In the 1920s, while companies used return on equity to assess their performance, DuPont recognized that the single metric had its limits.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Disaggregate the drivers. While A/B testing treats solutions as interchangeable and disposable, the reality is that there are some changes that users won’t forgive you for undertaking, even if you are one of those companies that is “always in beta.”

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Motivation Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8