Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2018

Leadership has to step up and take the initiative if you want to experience real change. Innovate Mundane Tasks. For example, if you have a call center, try sprucing it up by implementing call center gamification. Be open about your initiative and seek additional ideas from staff and leadership members.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Invest in Connection – Providing connection equity will require creativity, innovation and investment in workspaces and technologies that make it possible. A few years ago, I participated in an early use of remote presence technology when I delivered a leadership workshop at GE Digital.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. This includes which countries will have a call center in the primary language, localized products, a comprehensive digital presence, and globalized partner programs.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 13, 2019

As we explore customer experience leadership, it’s amazing how much we learn from asking the simple question, What do customers wish we would do? The answers to this question ensure that our customer experience leadership focuses on what truly matters to customers. So let’s look at those answers! Image by Michael W.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

Leadership Tip: great service cultures give employees leeway and power. For example, during the holiday rush, every Zappos employee, including CEO Tony Hsieh and other members of the executive team, spends time working the phone lines shoulder-to-shoulder with the regular call center employees. Copyright © 2020 by Micah Solomon.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In the book, Friedman revealed how drive-thru windows aren't staffed by attendants inside, but by a call center hundreds miles away, so of course, I had to run out, jump in my car and see it for myself! Barker believed that excellence, innovation and anticipation are the triad of the future. That's too bad, even foolish.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

Neuroscientists such as Matthew Lieberman of the University of California at Los Angeles have also shown that when the neural circuits for being reactive drive behavior, some other neural circuits become less active—those associated with executive thinking, that is, controlling oneself, paying attention, innovating, planning, and problem solving.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

This distortion is due to a concept called cumulative error. Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. The game here is called “silos,” and it too results in cumulative error. However, they held the line when it came to assigning customers randomly to call center employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve This call center employed all the best practices of the day: A psychologist created scripts of talking points.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.” Engaging leaders don’t just start out this way. “I

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.” Engaging leaders don’t just start out this way. “I

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Ctrip decided to run a nine-month experiment with its airfare and hotel divisions in the firm’s Shanghai headquarters call center. Leadership & Managing People Book. All employees with at least six months’ worth of experience with the firm were offered the option to work from home for four days each week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Even today, when we extol the virtues of creativity and innovation, we still see bureaucratic job titles, inflexible roles, and standardized evaluation systems that generate anxiety instead of excitement and self-expression. None of us wants to just perform pre-programmed behaviors again and again. versus $2,459.44

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It tested our crisis management and leadership skills beyond what we could have foreseen or prepared for, demonstrating that in a large-scale crisis, it’s how you react to its real-time situations that determines the speed at which you can begin to rebuild. Here’s how we did it. The First Crisis: Employees.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM leadership must have the courage to quickly modify or even eliminate the ones that aren’t working according to plan. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. Acquire ideas, not just revenue. The strategic rationale for specific acquisitions varies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. They also worked with the call center and IT to create a “chat live” button to make it easier for customers to complete forms online before they drifted off to a competing site.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. As in many other companies, Wipro’s traditional entry process was tightly centered on teaching the company culture and necessary job behaviors to new employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. This leadership imperative goes far beyond being collaborative and "playing nicely" with peers.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses. Handle Consumer Complaints.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

One success story occurred when a front-line associate in a call center posted online she didn't like a new process. And innovation is built into jobs through "20% time" projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Leadership Marketing'

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Instead she was ramping up mobile-banking operations—which competitors were also doing—and looking to experiment with something more innovative: partnerships with supermarkets and electronics stores that would allow FDM to set up kiosks within them. Will we all be working out of call centers or supermarket kiosks next year?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Another context element is that this policy applies to call centers, which employ a large number of people doing jobs that are similar, easily described, and familiar to most applicants. Let’s “retool” the Zappos strategy through the staffing supply chain , to see how their innovation can spur a great conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

By doing so, an elite group of companies has enabled their employees to more rapidly address customer problems, anticipate unarticulated needs and drive customer-facing innovation. Innovations such as shopping cart recommendations have been the direct result of entry-level employees taking initiative. Brands to the Mayo Clinic and U.S.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 24, 2011

Beryl brings goodness into the world by helping hospitals with call center support for doctor referrals and follow-up calls to check on patients who recently underwent treatment. Michael writes for leadership periodicals worldwide and for his award-winning blog on leadership at www.michaelleestallard.com.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own.

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