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Turning Observation into Innovation

Leading Blog

Watch and record how they think and interact with your product or service. Users connect with you through call centers, emails, searches, your website, and networking events. The anthropologist’s toolkit consists of these four steps to help you change the way you see things; to find meaning in what people do or don’t do: 1.

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Employee Recognition: Why It’s So Important and How to Do It

Chart Your Course

Human resources firm Bersin found in a 2012 study that 87 percent of companies utilize tenure-based employee recognition programs, despite research showing these methods are outdated. The Harvard Business Review published the results of a study that followed employees of a Chinese call center called Ctrip.

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Everyone needs a Jerry

Surviving Leadership

We were geographically dispersed – call centers, field technicians, and a big ol’ headquarters filling two rather large office buildings. And many days, most people really liked their job – awesome people to work with, cool projects, access to leadership, super fast career development.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. A content writing service, for example, plays a valuable support role in product development. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

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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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

For example, RPA will seldom replace the entire “job” of a call center representative. Certain tasks, such as talking a client through their frustration with a faulty product or mishandled order will, for now, remain a human task. Optimizing RPA can only be done when the work is deconstructed.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

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