Remove Development Remove Efficiency Remove Knowledge Base
article thumbnail

How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

UjuziKilimo , a Kenyan startup, uses big data and analytic capabilities to transform farmers into a knowledge-based community, with the goal of improving productivity through precision insights. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business.

Tools 134
article thumbnail

Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings. The patterns that you develop at this key stage will grow with you and will spell the difference between running or stumbling as you hit the growth stage. Start a knowledge base.

Metrics 131
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

ChatGPT: How Chatbots are Disrupting Entire Industries

Tom Spencer

As a strategy consultant at a boutique management consulting firm, I am always on the lookout for new tools that can help organizations become more efficient, effective, and innovative. One of the key benefits of ChatGPT is its ability to generate high-quality, relevant responses to user input.

article thumbnail

AI in Project Management: Is the Future Already Here?

Epicflow

And this statement perfectly describes our product highlighting the essence of Epicflow as a solution for managing multiple projects: efficient resource utilization based on innovative technology. Knowledge base queries: what does {term} mean?

article thumbnail

How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings. Insight Center.

Company 70
article thumbnail

How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

Developed in collaboration with Facebook, the report seeks to understand how public and private organizations can join forces to use social media data — through data collaboratives — to mitigate and perhaps solve some our most intractable policy dilemmas. How the Exchange of Data Can Help Solve Public Problems.

Data 118
article thumbnail

When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Efficiency through syndication. There are various drivers of such efficiency gains: Traditional economies of scale. Minimum efficient scale.