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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 IT support and services to specialized firms ensures that your systems remain secure, up-to-date, and efficient.

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

Strategy Driven

However, the system also provides feature-rich machine learning tools as standard that can be utilized in a variety of ways. One of the most powerful AI and ML systems available, Google AI prides itself on being able to take under-researched problems and find solid, scientific solutions that advance the state-of-the-art in the field.

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

Harvard Business Review

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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AI Adds a New Layer to Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn. Because these systems can be trained to analyze and understand natural language, mimic human reasoning processes, and make decisions, businesses are increasingly deploying them to automate routine activities. Related Video. The Upside of Automating Part of Your Job.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. This clean-sheet customer experience prioritization over more traditional call center KPIs had a huge effect.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. A customer may go online, compare products, scan a bar code, search, and call an agent. Customer journeys are complex and crisscross the organization.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?