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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business

Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. Firms that use AI analytics to generate wide recombinations are 3 to 7% more productive than firms that do not. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help.

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

My collaborators and I conducted a series of six studies (a combination of experiments and surveys) to see how cc’ing influences organizational trust. He found that increased transparency led workers to conceal information, even when that information was beneficial, such as process improvements they’d discovered.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

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A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project?

Epicflow

A business case is somewhat similar to a feasibility study, which is why they sometimes get confused. A business case vs. a feasibility study. Both a business case and a feasibility study are decision-making tools that present a project’s viability. Let’s clear up the difference between them in the subsection below. .

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Companies that adopt this practice will not only be better employers; studies have shown that stable retail schedules can also drive sales and labor productivity.

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Hidden Heroes: Business Operations in Companies of All Sizes

Tom Spencer

Process Improvement One of the key functions of business operations teams in big companies is to analyze existing business processes and identify areas for improvement. Technology and Systems Startups often leverage technology and systems to optimize operations and improve efficiency.

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The key to becoming a learning organization

Asamby Consulting

If know-how is constantly added to the organization's collective memory, it can improve effortlessly over time High autonomy. If the organization is self-learning, there's no external driver necessary to push trough process improvements etc. A good examples is really every process improvement. And you change it.