The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2024

A few years ago Adecco asked workers how they felt about the introduction of AI-based technology into the workplace, and the overwhelming majority felt optimistic, saying that they thought it would make their lives better. Workers shouldn’t have to feel they have to compete with robots and outsmart them to still be valued at work.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 11, 2024

In a recent article , I looked at the often nefarious use of technology to spy on employees, including those working on-site as well as remotely. Protecting privacy “Legal rights are crucial to make sure workers have a say in how technologies are used in the workplace,” the researchers explain.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Invest in Connection – Providing connection equity will require creativity, innovation and investment in workspaces and technologies that make it possible. Invest in Connection – Providing connection equity will require creativity, innovation and investment in workspaces and technologies that make it possible.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. This includes which countries will have a call center in the primary language, localized products, a comprehensive digital presence, and globalized partner programs.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

They cite the example of Teleperformance, a prominent call center company, which employs extensive digital monitoring of its remote workers. In the context of employee monitoring, the researcher argues that monitoring practices can significantly restrict individuals’ freedom.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In the book, Friedman revealed how drive-thru windows aren't staffed by attendants inside, but by a call center hundreds miles away, so of course, I had to run out, jump in my car and see it for myself! Barker believed that excellence, innovation and anticipation are the triad of the future. That's too bad, even foolish.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

While it may seem somewhat unusual, Zoom has Chorus, its AI coach, as a standard feature, and products like Cogito have also been working extensively with call center staff in recent years. By contrast, the top-ranked agents tended to have an aversion to the technology itself, which obstructed their learning.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2018

Innovate Mundane Tasks. For example, if you have a call center, try sprucing it up by implementing call center gamification. Upgrade your technology, innovate repetitive tasks and always be thinking about how to make your environment more engaging for your staff.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

But although AI is a real and genuine technology, the potential and tangible applications of modern AI advancements are far from what Hollywood movies and novels by authors such as Philip K. Thanks to movies such as The Matrix, Terminator, and well, AI: Artificial Intelligence, most people are aware of the concept of intelligent machines.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2024

An interesting note: the fintech call center employees in this study were well-educated twenty-somethings, a group generally more open to technology. So, if that same manager introduces content, the skepticism extends to the content itself. This poses a challenge for managers lacking people skills.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Khoja continues: "Today when you come to Roshan, you come to our network control center, you come to our call center, you will find not one single expatriate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Khoja continues: "Today when you come to Roshan, you come to our network control center, you come to our call center, you will find not one single expatriate.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. Captive R&D Centers. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

The only real way to grow sales and profits is to create innovative offerings with some "must haves" that define new categories or subcategories for which competitors are not relevant. Proprietary technology. Ongoing innovation. Here are some twelve routes to real barriers the last six of which involve the brand. Brand networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. The ones who are really innovating aim bigger. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. The ability to make it easy for customers to alter products to better meet their needs is not confined to technology firms. Rethink your innovation competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Take call centers, which all too often focus their performance reviews around cost-driven data like "average handle time." When representatives then try to keep calls as short as possible, they’re unable to solve complicated customer problems, driving up the number of repeat calls and the level of customer frustration.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

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Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. JP Morgan Chase, although a digital innovator, has opened 600 branches since January 2010 while closing 325. In our view, no.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten. In the best cases, it takes your competitors years to distill your secret sauce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are spawning what many are calling a new type of industrial revolution. While both technologies refer to the same process, there is a slight nuance to each. In addition, there are unique and new cyber risks associated with cognitive and AI technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. Technology to the rescue?

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. It is frequently used to automate financial processes, such as comparing invoices with shipment notices, or transfering data from email and call center speech-to-text systems into transactional systems of record.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

It also made it more difficult for business-minded observers to assess the importance of the machine's question-answering technology. This technology has climbed an astounding learning curve — and there's no reason it should stop here. Was Watson smart or dumb, a savant they could use or a senseless tool?

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Learning Curve Pharmaceuticals Call Center Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Given today's technology available for data acquisition as well as new developments in analytics, it is possible to do much better than this. The most innovative employee managers we know use business analytics to understand the differences in how individual store associates perform.

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Retail Merchandising Succession Taylorism 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. But how often is this qualitative feedback seen as a sturdy platform for innovation and growth? Re-frame customer objections as new businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

Without this breadth as well as granularity of information, we don't know whether to allocate resource to improving call centers, retail channels, advertising campaigns or new product innovation. Umut Konus is assistant professor of new product development at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We call these people Cost Center Consumers, and they come in two flavors. They tie up your call centers, incur costly returns, and generate other costs that occur below the gross margin line, which is harder to see. Redbox, the innovator whose DVD dispenser machine rents DVDs for $1 per day, had also grown quite rapidly.

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