Volume III

The industrial revolution in services

Weaving digital into the entire organization will require companies to raise their aspirations, expand their toolkits, and deliver impact across the board.

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Part 1: Raising the aspiration

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Introduction: Three objectives to scale digital service operations successfully
– Companies have been on a journey to digitize operations for years, but recent world events, most notably the COVID-19 pandemic,... are accelerating digital transformation to help organizations grow and work through volatility.
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The imperatives for automation success
– New survey findings show that organizations that successfully automate business processes follow a few common practices.
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Next-generation operating models for the next normal
– Changing stakeholder behavior may lead companies to reconsider how they operate.

Part 2: Expanding the toolkit

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The future of customer experience: Personalized, white-glove service for all
– The next horizon of customer service will be built on individual customer profiles, enabling companies to quickly resolve issues... and even prevent them from occurring.
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Simple, predictive, proactive, responsive: The future of customer operations
– For happier customers and lower costs, companies need a better way to steer their digital-service transformations.
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Beyond contactless operations: Human-centered customer experience
– As we look forward to the next normal, consumers are already demonstrating a preference for companies that deliver great service... while reducing risks all along the customer journey.
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An executive primer on artificial general intelligence
– While human-like artificial general intelligence may not be imminent, substantial advances may be possible in the coming years.... Executives can prepare by recognizing the early signs of progress.
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Operations management, reshaped by robotic automation
– Today’s automation shows huge promise for saving time, money, and human effort. For operations centers, is it now just a... matter of “ready, set, automate”?
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Sales automation: The key to boosting revenue and reducing costs
– Automation tailored to sales operations is a win for companies, customers, and sales reps. Here’s how to make it work.
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Making healthcare more affordable through scalable automation
– As more healthcare companies start to implement automation technologies, the ability to coordinate across the organization in... achieving scale will be a major determinant of success.
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Automation in government: Harnessing technology to transform customer experience
– Automation can enable governments to provide outstanding levels of customer experience, driven by innovations that are as sensitive... to people as they are to technology.

Part 3: Delivering the impact

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Lean management or agile? The right answer may be both
– Through thoughtful design, agile and lean management can be the perfect match for companies in search of lasting performance improvement.
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Building the vital skills for the future of work in operations
– Operationally intensive companies have entered a new wave of automation and digitization. That will have a big impact on the skills... they need to remain competitive.
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Breaching the great wall to scale
– Introducing a new operating model is hard. Doing so quickly is even harder. Under pressure to accelerate their transformation,... how can companies overcome the barriers that often hold them back?
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Unlocking enterprise efficiencies through zero-based design
– Zero-based design allows even mature companies in asset-heavy industries to cut costs and complexity without compromising safety,... quality, or customer trust.

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Turbocharging the next-generation operating model
– More and more companies are embarking on creating their next-generation operating models. Here we share the lessons we have learned, the best practices that have started to emerge, and stories from leaders who have been through the transformation.