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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

In Chicago , for example, predictive analytics is improving health inspections schedules in restaurants, while in Boston city officials are collaborating with Waze, the traffic navigation app company, combining its data with inputs from street cameras and sensors to improve road conditions across the city. Methodology.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

Traditional ZBB implementations focus almost exclusively on simple SG&A , in part because SG&A benchmark data is far more readily attainable than are relevant data from the core functions of comparable companies. We believe the exact opposite to be true. Most ZBB implementations are not ambitious enough. We have tried.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. ” Step 2: Do benchmarking. Linear plans. Too much funding up front.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Here are some examples: Cost to Acquire and Serve a Customer (CAC and CSC) : The better you understand your customer and prospect base, the more you build experiences and services they crave, the lower your CAC and CSC should be. There is place in the world for performance benchmarking survey metrics like net promoter score (NPS).

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). Editor’s note: Every ranking or index is just one way to analyze and compare companies or places, based on a specific methodology and data set. Financial performance.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

We then enrolled them in online courses teaching necessary job and technical skills, like computer science fundamentals, complex problem solving, group collaboration, agile methodology, effective written communication, and so on. We mentored and supported them over six months, as they completed their courses.

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Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again

Brimstone Consulting

Through his work, Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of the future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts, and author of Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage , has identified several cognitive biases, or mental blind spots, that influence leader decision-making around (..)

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