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BCG: AI gains diluted by unchanged customer-facing processes

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) highlighted a company that significantly reduced an AI-assisted task's completion time from ten days to just one. However, the customer still experienced the original ten-day wait because the surrounding processes, including approvals and handoffs, remained unchanged. BCG emphasizes that true value from AI lies in optimizing the entire customer response time, not just the internal task duration. AI

IMPACT Highlights the need to optimize end-to-end processes, not just internal AI tasks, to realize full AI value.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from a consulting group discussing AI's impact on business processes.

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BCG: AI gains diluted by unchanged customer-facing processes

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    BCG describes a company that cut an AI-assisted task from ten days to one while the customer still waited ten days. The surrounding process had not changed. For

    BCG describes a company that cut an AI-assisted task from ten days to one while the customer still waited ten days. The surrounding process had not changed. For a commercial team, this suggests measuring the time to a usable customer response, including approvals and handoffs. A …