Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Deconstructing and then reconfiguring the components within jobs reveals human-automation combinations that are more efficient, effective, and impactful. Sponsored by Accenture. AI and robotics increasingly take on the routine aspects of both blue and white collar jobs, leaving the non-routine to humans. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Accenture 127

Accenture Examples Retail Productivity 127

Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. For efficient collaboration between humans and machines, the appropriate level of automation must be carefully defined. In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm.

Case Interview 121

Case Interview Transportation Healthcare System 121

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

We believe uses of virtual health hold potential to boost the capacity of primary care doctors—without adding or training more professionals—at a time when the American Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of as many as 40,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) in the next decade. health system over the next few years.

Accenture 70

Accenture Analysis Healthcare Data 70

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. The increased prediction accuracy, in turn, makes it possible to achieve large increases in operational efficiency — having the right inventory in the right locations. Advances in measurement technology increasingly allow offline firms to benefit from these types of gains through more efficient pricing.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories. The Age of AI.

Company 157

Company Survey Finance Engineering 157

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 16, 2024

This article delves into some of the most promising use cases of Gen AI in banking, examining how it is already reshaping the sector through advancements in customer service, data-driven decision-making, risk management, and operational efficiency. Operational Efficiency Gen AI will boost the productivity of operational staff.

Banking 78

Banking Financial Operations Data 78

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. Training opportunities are plentiful, but you will need to show personal interest in order to take advantage of them. Cool, or not?

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Third, train the entire organization and ramp up a motivation campaign. We assemble multidisciplinary teams and do joint training. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. We clarify goals.

Agile 132

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

For instance, Goldcorp, the global mining company, recently partnered with Accenture to help knit together an ecosystem of large and small IoT suppliers to co-develop a connected mine in Cerro Negro, Nicaragua. First, train your employees in critical IoT skills — not just technology and processes but collaboration, too.

ROI 71

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 71

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. Training the model. AI as project manager. Did we reach our target audience?

Software 71

Software Data Accenture Engineering 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too. These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms. Insight Center.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 102

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. Originally intended to support advertising agencies, Facebook created a training and education platform to teach advertisers how to use Facebook’s myriad advertising, marketing and experimentation tools more effectively.

Insurance 70

Insurance Insurance Education Advertising 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. They rely on the nerve center for additional support, model validation, and training.

Methodologies 71

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. As the technology is able to identify products in such an efficient manner, inventory can be updated in real time and the data can be used to inform targeted replenishment and merchandizing decisions. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.

Tools 70

Tools Construction System Retail 70

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. (A recent accident involving a Tesla “autonomous car” has raised questions about AI’s current limits.). Insight Center.

Company 70

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Now, they are pioneering a new phase of global digital manufacturing that will transform the key processes surrounding the manufacturing of everything from automobiles to trains, planes, machinery, and even kitchens. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Industry 70

Industry Automotive Engineering Software 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. They know that many cognitive techniques are based on statistics, and that the same analysts and data scientists who generate traditional statistics can also be trained to work with machine learning and other forms of AI. Insight Center. The Age of AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

System 70

System Data Advertising Tools 70

freshminds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Being a critical business analyst is at the heart of management consulting - seeking out valuable data and generating new ideas to maximise efficiency and profit within companies. But there's no escaping it – today we are all members of a highly digital world and the new heights to which digital can reach just keep jumping forward.

Data 42

Data Analysis Accenture Tools 42

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

Helps federal agencies solve complex business issues, manage risk, and improve financial measures and the overall quality, efficiency and effectiveness of public service. You will have specifically designated training to increase your technical skills, both at the beginning of your tenure and throughout. Public Sector Practice.

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Many people believe that issues of scarcity can be solved by using more efficient production methods. But this may overlook some of the unintended consequences of efficiency improvements. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Efficiency 71

Efficiency Energy Software Resources 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

Agile 70

Agile Development Talent Deloitte 70

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates.

Engineering 117

Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 117