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Personalized Recommendation Engines Are Coming to Health Care

Harvard Business

In the past decade, consumers have shifted from worrying about sharing personal financial information when shopping on the internet to embracing online retailers’ recommendations for them. That is because the best online retailers offer customers a curated and highly personalized shopping experience. No strategy is static.

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What Could Amazon’s Approach to Health Care Look Like?

Harvard Business

.” Meanwhile, skeptics highlight Amazon’s lack of expertise in health care, a sector that many deem curiously resistant to the competitive forces that characterize the retail and web services markets in which Amazon has thrived. So where is the link to health care?

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. While hiring less-skilled workers hurts a firm’s productivity, the data shows that companies still did this in order to take advantage of the fact that hiring these workers is so much cheaper.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. Management techniques explained 18% of that difference.

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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.

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How Predictive AI Will Change Shopping

Harvard Business

Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple are accelerating consumer expectations and what’s technologically possible, from same-day delivery to machine-powered image recognition. Responsive retail has peaked, and we’re about to enter the era of predictive commerce. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

These services focused on business management and information technology. Information Technology. Consumer Products. Excellence in Retail. 1992, IBM unveiled another service called IBM Consulting Group. This department had 1,500 consultants worldwide servicing companies and organizations in 30 countries.

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