Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

It seems that Yesmywine has recognized something counterintuitive about the setting and pursuit of goals. It could also help managers when it comes to setting targets for their teams. Goal Setting. You Can’t Achieve Your Goals Without the Right Support. You and Your Team Series. Make Your Work Resolutions Stick.

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Goal Loyalty Motivation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

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. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. These stats were reviewed by managers every week.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As Jo Coombs, Managing Director at OgilvyOne, London, observes, “I don’t think it can just be one or the other. The better metric would measure the percentage of calls that were made and required no additional follow up. Based on this data, operations recommended marketing cease actively trying to acquire these customers.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

History makes a compelling case that serving customers with integrity — delivering steadfast, predictable service quality — can translate into outsized loyalty and market share when the economy commits to a comeback. In other words, your market's unlikely to pay you extra to cover your investment in customer caretaking.

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Airlines Call Center Retail Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Without a clear, measurable, value-creating goal, companies risk expending huge amounts of human and capital resources without delivering any real financial return. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Their stated goal is typically to improve customer satisfaction at each step of the customer journey.

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Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

One company that’s making headway on that goal is CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), one of the insurance companies affiliated with the 55 million-member American Automobile Association (AAA). With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. But the past is merely a prologue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

The reality, however, is that meshing the skills and resources of different departments, each focused on its own distinct targets, to achieve a larger organizational goal is much easier said than done. To start truly collaborating, here are two steps that you should take: First, consider the goal you’re trying to achieve.

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Cooper Insurance Bottom-up Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. It has started growing Watson Health through acquisitions and a new partner ecosystem.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems. To manage the rising tide of knowledge work performed by a younger generation of employees, Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? The truth is that Gradgrind would make a terrible manager. The goal is simple: put the right people with the right skills in the right work. Third, how can we improve call-volume? He's "[a] man of facts and calculations.

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Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Large call centers are pioneers in this area — for years, they’ve tracked the number of calls and breaks employees take and the customer ratings for each call. The goal of enhancing user experience like this is to increase response rates. Today, such methods are applied in a variety of environments.

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Ethics Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

In our ongoing study, we investigate this dynamic in the context of retail tracking, to understand how data collection about customers can impact how retail workers are managed. and they are increasingly able to use these data to personalize marketing campaigns and promotions to them, potentially reducing the value of clienteling practices.

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Retail Software Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

If, however, the goal is to support the discovery of knowledge, they become a hindrance. They also spend time in the field with inspectors (who conduct tax investigations) and call-center staffers (who negotiate with taxpayers). For tasks such as processing financial trades or retail transactions, these are ideal skills.

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Project Call Center Information Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re already using Salesforce CRM offerings and want to ease into smarter processes for sales, marketing, and service, this seems like one of the easiest ways to do it. Some call center automation offerings like Ipsoft’s Amelia also fall into this category. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D.

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Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. . Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Turning data into action.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Almost five years ago, I was sitting in the conference room of one of the world’s largest insurance companies, trying to push the idea of social customer relationship management to their corporate marketing team. I call this the Great Pyramid of Support Needs. We’re fighting against email inboxes and sticky notes.

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Insurance Maturity FAQ Media 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. What’s optimal for you – with your goals and values – could very well be suboptimal for the next person.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A customer journey looks at things entirely from the customers' point of view:; their actions, goals, questions, and barriers over time. But for company's where the website is a straightforward marketing tool, it may be better to classify it in Messages, which we'll see below.) You are creating a customer experience.

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Insurance Retail Brand Loyalty 15

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. They are tactics that fit into a strategy, which fits into a bigger picture of the goals we’re trying to achieve as a company. To put it more practically, if you are bad in the call center and at the front counter, what makes you think you’ll be good on Twitter?

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Media Tactics Strategy Open-book 289

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. Take fund managers.

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Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Everyone from product managers, to call center reps, to the front-line worker in the branch or store uses information to make decisions. Collaborative BI tools apply social networking features to allow people to share goals and evolve their thinking in real-time. It's a hidden cost, and a growing one. And in a Web 2.0

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Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem. Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Brands have touch-points everywhere: order history, email lists, physical retail locations, customer service call centers, social media, packaging, end-cap displays, etc.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While companies have outsourced low-value work such as payroll processing and call centers for decades, today they farm out critical activities. And Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel uses IBM to manage its computer systems and Ericsson to operate its cell tower infrastructure.

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Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Improve the experience in your retail locations or call centers. This strategy makes perfect sense, and it aligns nicely with the way your company is probably organized — with the website, retail locations, and contact centers each in their neat little silo. What's the best way to optimize your customer experience?

Retail 15

Retail Call Center Strategy Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

“When I joined the company, the front line management jobs were the best,” the CEO told us. He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. A Tuesday follow-up call is used to see whether the blockages are being removed. It is the most disciplined thing we do.

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Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While it’s understandable that stock and currency markets would react this way to the outcome of the election, I believe that it’s somewhat of an overreaction. The goal was to find ways to use copper to combat the spread of infections. A shift in relations is required between developed and emerging markets.

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Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 12