Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

If you’re trying to instill organizational change in your company, then you face not just a logistical shift, but a cultural challenge as well. By giving employees some genuine autonomy, a company can reduce the frequency, duration, and intensity of this threat state. The following is a guest piece by Jesse Newton and Josh Davis.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2020

You can send your books to an accountant, your calls to an answering service and your intelligence technology management to an IT firm, while you concentrate on the core projects and tasks that build your company up. This gives you more time to focus on other aspects of your company such as making new products.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. Portray their company as a contributor, not a savior.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For one of Puerto Rico’s largest companies, Grupo Ferré Rangel , the impact has been enormous. The family-owned business runs Puerto Rico’s largest media company&#8212 (GFR Media) as well as other companies focused on customer engagement (LinkActive) and real estate (Kingbird). and Caribbean.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In a research poll of 1,614 North American employees, we found that access to natural light and views of the outdoors are the number one attribute of the workplace environment, outranking stalwarts like onsite cafeterias, fitness centers, and premium perks including on-site childcare ( only 4-8% of FORTUNE 100 companies offer on-site child care ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. But the good news is that the early dividends from AI are already within reach of most midsize companies as they look for ways to expand their digital boundaries. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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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. This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? And where will this technology work best? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. ” Insight Center. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

This all-too-familiar story illustrates the challenge facing companies — especially customer-facing companies. Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. However, most companies measure only tactical performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

The only way to thrive, or even survive, these managers conclude, is to find workers who can co-create value with customers and constantly improve operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The problem is not surprising. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

These are the kinds of explanations I heard recently during two snafus with a car rental company that advertises its world-class service. This is even though I had given the company my flight number. Companies should provide simulations and situational training so that reps can walk virtually in customers' footsteps.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Companies such as Ford, Toyota, and Caterpillar have invested heavily as well. The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. Insight Center.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. The combined company would control 30% of the world’s beer market. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big.

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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

APRIL 21, 2011

But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. That work isn't somewhere else, it's anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That isn’t easy, but the payoff is worth it: Our most recent research shows that companies with excellent marketing capabilities outperform the market with 2-3X greater revenue growth. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

McDonalds isn’t the first fast food chain to consider giving customers more control over their orders using technology (though there’s a fair amount of debate about whether customization is really the best way forward for the struggling company ). Some self-service technologies are able to buck this trend.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

last month, destroying 4,658 homes, 94 commercial buildings, and displacing tens of thousands of people, Keysight Technologies was in the direct path of the disaster. The crisis had repercussions that extended well beyond company walls to our community, worldwide employees, customers, competitors, and numerous others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We hear from business leaders who perceive that flexible work is a make-people-feel-good play that disrupts operations and drags down performance. For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. But to reap these benefits, it takes more than technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Early results of an experiment at The Gap provide hope that there might be a remedy for one of the most controversial labor practices in retailing and other service industries, such as hospitality, health care, and call centers. But it requires the adoption of a whole new operating model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They also generate $1 trillion as consumers and $361 billion in revenue as entrepreneurs, launching companies at 4x the rate of all woman-owned businesses. Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And what factors helped or hindered advancement in their organization?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Paid digital TV companies, which also include Netflix and Amazon Prime, face high churn. Many companies love customer feedback, but only a handful have devoted as much energy to employee feedback systems. Insight Center. Companies rarely connect the two systems. Why don’t more companies do this?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

And an ambitious 13% said that they''ll settle for nothing less than having the best customer experience across every industry — in other words, these companies want to be the next Apple, Disney, or Zappos. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. Let''s examine one specific aspect of Otis Elevator, a unit of the Top 100 innovator United Technologies Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

Insight Center. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed. The second aspect of the system is to provide operational alerts. These might include margin calls, low-cash-balance alerts, or notifications of significant increases or decreases in the client’s portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy. ” 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

JUNE 20, 2013

Messages back and forth are also private and can take many forms, including texts, instant messages, email, phone calls, or whatever. The camera''s table sits in a virtual cloud, running on an operating system called CloudOS , which is programmed with KRL , or Kinetic Rule Language. in computer science. Now, about QR codes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. However, in the last nine years of the company's life, new management increasingly relied on Theory X.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. 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. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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