HomeTagsProductivity

Tag: productivity

Adoption and impact of AI: lessons (and limitations) from the latest McKinsey and BCG studies

In recent months, reports on the state of AI have been piling up, each heralding a major disruption in the way businesses work, make decisions, and create value. Two publications by major strategy consulting firms have just been released in quick succession. McKinsey sees fast but still hesitant adoption, while BCG sees a polarization between a minority that captures almost all the gains and a majority that is going around in circles. Taken separately, these reports shed light on part of the subject, but read together, they say something deeper about how...

Adoption and impact of AI: lessons (and limitations) from the latest McKinsey and BCG studies

In recent months, reports on the state of AI have been piling up, each heralding a major disruption in the way businesses work, make...

The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt: another perspective on productivity

There are books that leave a lasting impression because they confirm what we already think, and then there are those that force us to...

Who is handling your artificial intelligence projects? Probably not the right people.

For two years now, artificial intelligence projects have been multiplying in businesses, often with a mixture of urgency and fascination. But despite sometimes flawless...

Technologies sell productivity, but businesses want revenue

The other day, I explained why AI has not delivered on its promises in terms of productivity, that this was not surprising and could be explained...

The great illusion of technological productivity gains (including AI)

For more than half a century, each technological wave has been accompanied by the same promise: to produce more, faster and at lower cost. We...

How can we measure the productivity gains of AI?

There is a lot of talk about the productivity gains that artificial intelligence is said to be bringing to businesses. We read all kinds of figures,...

Are you familiar with Parkinson’s law on how your employees manage their own time and productivity?

In 1955, British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson formulated the law that now bears his name: "Work expands so as to fill the time available...

Local optimum vs. global optimum and the theory of constraints: why your productivity gains sometimes serve no purpose

Eliyahu Goldratt, although trained as a physicist, had a profound impact on industrial management with books such as The Goal (1984) and The Haystack Syndrome (1990). His contribution...

Are you familiar with Coase’s law on transaction costs and its impact on capturing productivity gains?

With every technological wave, we always hear the same promise: to produce more, faster, with fewer resources. Yet the same question always comes up:...
123...11Page 1 of 11

Follow me :

About

Main categories

Recommended BookmarksCollaborationManagementHuman resourcesDigital usesIntranets and digital workplaceTechnology and SoftwareEmployee ExperienceCustomer relationshipDigital Transformation
Styled Text

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International