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5 Ways to Better Manage Your Field Workforce in the Cloud

Chart Your Course

However, determining which technology tools to use — and how to make it all work for your team — is another animal altogether. For example, Aspect uses forecasting tools and looks at historical patterns to better determine the number of agents who should be working in your call center at any given time. A service like Import.io

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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. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. You don’t need to be a scientist to benefit from science money. .&#

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More Data Won’t Turn Employees into High-Performing Machines

Harvard Business Review

At least in our narrative, engagement has replaced productivity — work should be rewarding and fun, colleagues should be friends, and work-life balance has been replaced by work-life integration (as we work from home at 1 a.m. A new era of Taylorization has begun, thanks to the widespread penetration of technology at work.

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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. For example, RPA will seldom replace the entire “job” of a call center representative.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In a few minutes, the secretary called back and arranged an appointment for the next day. What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. At the same time, technology has the potential to take us back to Theory X.

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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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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.