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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. Armed with this information, managers can then allocate products better, and, see why choices are made. Automating basic processes.

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Hospitals Can Work Better

Harvard Business Review

Even more disturbing, a Hearst media study suggests that preventable medical errors (including infections) lead to at least 200,000 deaths per year , double the estimates from several years ago. Patient satisfaction with hospital care is also declining , based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

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Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms.