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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Although there are many ways to do demand forecasting right, these key tips can help a business get more out of their investment in the practice: Remember that demand is not monolithic and try implementing a disaggregated model. Use automated systems to monitor how a demand forecast is matching up to actual expressed demand.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Our compensation systems are designed to minimize risk of bias based on race and gender and we’re confident they’re sound.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

It is particularly effective in automating the so-called “swivel chair” tasks, where data needs to be transferred from one software system to another. These tasks are traditionally done by humans. How robotics and machine learning are changing business.

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

Harvard Business Review

More nuanced analysis points to a less dystopian future where a great number of activities within jobs will be undertaken by intelligent systems rather than humans. To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work.

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3 Ways to Get More Out of Your Web Analytics

Harvard Business Review

In searching for an answer it’s all too easy to become guilty of what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls System One thinking: using fast, instinctive, and emotional shortcuts to jump to conclusions. Looking at your numbers carefully and digging into disaggregated data allows you to take much more educated and focused next steps.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Reputation systems and active supplier screening maintain quality, and the need for insurance keeps customers from bypassing the marketplaces. Their business model advantages are clear — the "fleet" renews itself naturally, there are no parking or logistics issues, geographic expansion and scaling is more seamless.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

The third innovation was called the “smart contract,” embodied in a second-generation blockchain system called ethereum, which built little computer programs directly into blockchain that allowed financial instruments, like loans or bonds, to be represented, rather than only the cash-like tokens of the bitcoin. Insight Center.