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. We’ll need to use technology and solutions that level the playing field for all.

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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. However, companies do not typically start their operations with a global plan. This is where your globalization strategists will spend the most time.

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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

MARCH 5, 2020

You can send your books to an accountant, your calls to an answering service and your intelligence technology management to an IT firm, while you concentrate on the core projects and tasks that build your company up. Outsourcing different aspects of your business can help you save time, money and focus.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. She holds an MS in Management Sciences from the University of Maryland.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. Expect to render good business all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

What has happened is that in the name of speed and efficiency, local managers and their employees have been equipped with web-based technologies, which is potentially a good thing: The right kind of system can empower workers to improve the customer experience and engage in a dialogue with the clientele.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our call centers became the FEMA call centers. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. Or a desire to invest in other newer parts of the business — the solar, the housing, the call centers, etc? and Caribbean.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. That work isn't somewhere else, it's anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. Rather than relegating customer complaints to a far-off call center, the firm's leaders listened to and interpreted them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We hear from business leaders who perceive that flexible work is a make-people-feel-good play that disrupts operations and drags down performance. Frontier Communications, for example, has found that work-at-home agents are 25% more productive and have double the retention rate of work-in-the-call-center agents.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. For example, RPA will seldom replace the entire “job” of a call center representative.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. So how can companies tell if they are really ready for AI and other advanced technologies? Automating basic processes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response. So what's the solution?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

To build new technologies your frontline employees will use and trust — tools that will actually improve the customer experience — you need to ask for their feedback at every stage of development. For example, at Verizon we recently developed and introduced two new technologies to our call centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Our biggest problem then was customer service—specifically, finding the right employees to staff our call center. But we’ve found that on average, our customers call us at least once at some point, and if we handle the interaction well, we have an opportunity to create an emotional impact and a lasting memory.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. Raymond Gehman/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it. The ability to make it easy for customers to alter products to better meet their needs is not confined to technology firms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. One success story occurred when a front-line associate in a call center posted online she didn't like a new process. Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

You can work out what aspects of your operations you should be spending on. 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. The consumer panel sends texts for all touchpoints.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Based on this data, operations recommended marketing cease actively trying to acquire these customers.

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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. Call center companies are increasingly capitalizing on their ability to track individual sales to match the most effective people with the right opportunities.

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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. Divas: These are high maintenance consumers who drive costs up after purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

The only way to thrive, or even survive, these managers conclude, is to find workers who can co-create value with customers and constantly improve operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The problem is not surprising. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? And where will this technology work best? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

In the first month, 15% of those new leads were “lookalikes,” meaning that the people calling the dealership to set up a visit resembled previous high-value customers and therefore were more likely to make a purchase. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Here's what they should focus on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Let''s examine one specific aspect of Otis Elevator, a unit of the Top 100 innovator United Technologies Corp. Offshore outsourced product development gets less press than outsourced IT and call centers, but it has the ability to create additional revenues for nimble innovators. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

At the same time, technology has the potential to take us back to Theory X. Call centers, for example, know how many calls an operator handles per hour, the average time per call and how many sales were made or disputes resolved. Employers can now measure productivity to the split second.

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