article thumbnail

To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology. About the Author.

Agility 65
article thumbnail

Do Your Analytics Cheat the Truth?

Harvard Business Review

At one financial services firm, for example, call center analytics showed spike after spike of negative customer satisfaction numbers. The only thing more surprising — and more disappointing — is how unwilling or unable so many senior executives are about asking simple questions about the analytics they see.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Five Superpowers of Marketing

Harvard Business Review

On the executive team you have marketing, sales, technology, and service. Retailers have stores, call centers, and e-commerce. Technology and teamwork — with your customers, staff, CEO, peers, and partners – will give you the superpowers you need to create extraordinary results. What’s your superpower story?

article thumbnail

How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

.” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

article thumbnail

How the Philippines Became Tech Startups’ New Source for Talent

Harvard Business Review

The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. Generations of Filipinos have been raised on Hollywood movies, Friends , the NBA, and of course, Facebook. Most are skilled in the more ubiquitous programming languages and producing iOS and Android apps.

article thumbnail

The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Where producing a product in a Chinese plastic extrusion plant in China used to require people on the ground brokering deals, proprietary information systems, and the ability to guarantee substantial volume, today it requires only Alibaba.com. The competitive advantages of scale are being commoditized. So what's the solution?

Porter 12
article thumbnail

Three Examples of New Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Chris Plescia, Marketing, Collaboration and Corporate Internet Solutions BSA Leader, told me that they are moving from an information "push" environment — sending out lots of messages on things workers need to know — to a "pull" environment, where workers search for information they need, get answers to questions, or access services.