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Outsourcing: A Strategic Move for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

In this blog, we’ll explore the top jobs that small businesses can consider outsourcing to enhance their operations and competitiveness. Outsourcing customer support to a call center or customer service agency can provide 24/7 coverage, multilingual support, and cost-effective solutions for handling customer inquiries and issues.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

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.

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5 of the Most Useful AI/Machine Learning Tools for Your Business

Strategy Driven

In fact, real AI is mostly applied to business development and science projects where data-driven derivatives and goals are the primary focus of a given strategy. Well, machine learning is the concept of an AI developing its own repeatable output based on the data analysis from repeated input. Dick would have us believe.

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The True Cost of Hiring Yet Another Manager

Harvard Business Review

You have front-line employees who create what you sell or who deal directly with customers: software developers, sales reps, call-center staffers, and so on. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. It’s the same in a company.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

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. Design the right strategies and processes to carry out the vision in a multichannel world. Customer journeys are complex and crisscross the organization.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

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. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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