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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Don’t optimize for efficiency.

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AI in Project Management: Is the Future Already Here?

Epicflow

Therefore, an AI-driven resource management solution doesn’t replace a project or resource manager, it just creates favorable conditions for their productive work and successful delivery of projects. Knowledge base queries: what does {term} mean? It’s a good assistant that lets companies achieve their goals faster and easier.

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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.

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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., Think of compensation and benefits policies, product design standards, quality assurance methods, fraud reporting procedures, financial reporting systems, and the like.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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

Harvard Business

Shared (often aggregated) corporate data can be used to create intelligence products such as tools, dashboards, reports, apps, and other technical devices to support public or humanitarian objectives. How the Exchange of Data Can Help Solve Public Problems. Finally, data collaboratives can aid in monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.

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