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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Want to Improve Customer Service – Treat Your Employees Better

The Practical Leader

Part of the article reports on “a recent study conducted by Marshall Fisher, a professor of operations and information management at Wharton, and other colleagues.” ” He goes on to show how one of the keys to improving customer service is: “‘the power of management by common sense.’

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers

Harvard Business Review

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

And they have well-honed approaches for developing the requisite new skills in employees. Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G. Augmentation, not automation.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business Review

First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. For example, online retailers can adjust product prices daily because they have automated the collection of competitors’ prices. Automating basic processes.

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