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How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

Companies are starting to introduce generative AI-powered innovations into their processes, and to promulgate policies on how to use the tools safely. New generative AI-enabled tools are rapidly emerging to assist and transform knowledge work in industries ranging from education and finance to law and medicine.

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How Leading Consultancies Can Better Manage AI Risk

Harvard Business Review

In an age when AI-powered tools are reshaping industries, consultancies are embracing the potential of AI copilots to revolutionize their services. As AI copilots redefine work processes and business competition, questions arise about responsible innovation. Will this AI arms race drive equitable practices or lead to hasty shortcuts?

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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The fact is that the ability to innovate has never been more possible and has never happened faster.

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Moving from Transaction to Engagement

Harvard Business Review

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. Factor in new types of information management. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines.

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Take Accountability for Your Own Success

Harvard Business Review

One of the most common excuses for lack of organizational progress is that "senior management" (or the CEO) isn't providing the right direction or sending the right message. In fact, many of the CEOs and senior executives I've worked with over the years are surprised, humbled, and sometimes frustrated by their lack of real power.

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Liberate Your Employees and Recharge your Business Model

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

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