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. In 2019, Fortune named Mulligan one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.” Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and 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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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

Thankfully, I had a secret weapon that I had been working on that was about to get even more potent – a metric innovation that would become a proxy for profit. In the fall of the previous year I had one of my managers, Bob, ask me if he could experiment with a “ customer retention service ” up in Helena, Montana. Making the Connection.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

At Cascade Asset Management , an environmentally minded recycler of computer components, sustainability reigns supreme, from a wholly green headquarters to employee nameplates personally made from recycled computer pieces. Visual storytelling is a powerful tool. Gathering spaces to celebrate and build camaraderie . Barbara T.

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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

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. Another account manager spent two days in a hospital to understand what it would really mean to become paperless.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. Most organizations do not tap this power source and, as a result, do not get the best out of their employees. Insight Center. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

People tend to associate Pollyanna-type positivity with inexperienced managers trying to squeeze a little more work out of frontline employees, or with the “keep smiling” wall posters in the call center. Creative thinking and innovation are enhanced by positive emotions, especially feelings of contentment and joy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We know that creativity and innovation fuel new products, services, even strategies. “Service creativity allows employees to delight customers in unusual ways or solve problems that existing protocol falls short of addressing,” said Jing Zhou, a co-author on the study and professor of management at Rice University.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Insight Center. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Conversations with systems that have access to data about our world will allow us to understand the status of our jobs, our businesses, our health, our homes, our families, our devices, and our neighborhoods — all through the power of advanced NLG.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Brand managers and customer care leaders beware. Consider the most obvious, and pernicious, perverse incentive: publicly tweeted complaints get faster/better reaction than calls or emails to the corporate customer contact centers. Twitter as contact center gateway, rather than solution space, may seem tactically unresponsive.

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Disintermediation Call Center Core Competence Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Guiding beliefs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. Guiding beliefs.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Rethink your innovation competencies. Clearly the firm has begun to recognize that powerful innovations can come from a savvy group of passionate and sophisticated customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This empathy experience galvanized them to create an innovative pilot billing program called Clear Control, which features bi-weekly billing periods, daily text updates on usage and bill amounts, and personalized home audits for efficiency. Early signs have been positive, with increases in sales conversion and first call resolution.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

Over the past few years, the power of machine learning and AI has become a viable tool in business development because of the analytical and data processing capabilities of modern hardware and accompanying software tools. Some of the most useful AI suites include: Google Cloud AI. Amazon SageMaker. Microsoft Azure AI. MonkeyLearn.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Our research on identifying replicable templates for business model innovation shows that innovating how a company engages with its workforce is an often overlooked way of increasing business model performance. The basic structure of the firm-employee relationship has not changed much over the last 50 years. Rethinking What They do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Utility companies are the traditional example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Others travel sites outsource their call centers overseas and really push all interactions to be electronic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

To develop a new customer experience, companies need a real-time engagement process that encourages customers and employees to devise new interactions between them and facilitates the emergence of innovative customer experiences. Company people in call centers and company stores still generally follow company narratives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. On the other hand, there are also real philosophical, ethical, or at least policy decisions to be made on the value exchange between marketers and consumers when data is shared and used to optimize marketing experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

It is frequently used to automate financial processes, such as comparing invoices with shipment notices, or transfering data from email and call center speech-to-text systems into transactional systems of record. It doesn’t ask whether we need to do this activity at all. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Data-driven customer insights give the CMO the power to do all that. Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. Forbes had to provide tools to enable external contributors to easily publish text, photos, and video — and interact with readers and "call out" comments they want to highlight. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. We call these people Cost Center Consumers, and they come in two flavors.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

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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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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. We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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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. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Turning data into action.

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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. The CEO can help by putting the CMO in charge of important initiatives and granting veto power on certain decisions that impact customers. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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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. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW ®. Of course, it’s the “defined sense” that makes things murky.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are disrupting the finance world, as exemplified by Morgan Stanley’s experimentation with an OpenAI-powered chatbot to assist their financial advisors. Trained on the bank’s proprietary research reports, this bot grants rapid access to its extensive knowledge base.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

From self-driving cars to drones to automated business operations, this technology has the potential to enhance productivity, direct human talent on critical issues, accelerate innovation, and lower operating costs. As with any innovative new technology, there are positive and negative implications.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

Our research into more than 20 front-line focused organizations (the basis for our recent book Judgment on the Front Line ), led us to a set of principles for moving well beyond the basics of customer service by putting power, resources and trust in the hands of front line personnel. Customer service Managing people'

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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. They are likely to view their department budget as the main indicator of their power and influence.

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