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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools. Thus, the relevant question becomes: How can forecasting be implemented in a way that provides solid ROI and improves efficiency, rather than simply prognosticating?

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. This "reengineering" of consumption is a natural consequence of the ongoing consumerization of digital technologies.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

However, with technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence accelerating changes to jobs, the relationships between performance and value become even more complex and yield potentially exponential opportunities for value creation. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

But more strategic responses identify the essential ensembles of people, processes, and technologies that provide the most valuable — and valued — user experience (UX) for customers and clients. This clean-sheet customer experience prioritization over more traditional call center KPIs had a huge effect.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets).