HR tech that doesn’t get in the way of healthcare

Week of July 18, 2022

Nemours Children’s Health needed an HR system that would get out of the way of its mission to deliver healthcare to kids. Startups help businesses figure out what their customers want. Axactor, a debt collection company, speeds up its financial reporting. How restaurants can get ready for a possible recession. Also: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Speech simplifies adding speech recognition to applications.

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“Being able to deliver a sense of hope to the parent of a sick child is an amazing gift.”

—Bernie Rice, CIO, Nemours Children’s Health

Healthy HR

Nemours Children’s Health cares for more than 480,000 kids a year in Florida and Delaware. The fast-growing organization needed a powerful human resource system that allows its 8,000 associates to focus on patients, not managing employment requirements.

Customer connection

Startups offer new tools for customer understanding: DataKlout uses speech analysis to analyze customer intentions, helping one client cut customer acquisition costs by 75%. FirstHive uses machine learning to build a customer identity from a variety of data sources. And Complete Intelligence enables business forecasting.

Fast financial reporting

Axactor, a debt collection company, reduced its financial reporting cycle from one week to one day after implementing cloud enterprise performance management software.

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Diversity commitment

To truly support diversity and inclusion, companies need to embed D&I deep into their culture—offering multiple ways to listen to workforce concerns, shouting the company’s D&I support to the world, and putting data to work to measure progress.

Industry spotlight | Food and beverage

Smart dining

Restaurants are staring at a possible recession, but they can use technology to adapt—potentially cutting hours of operation to focus on most profitable times, using customer self-service kiosks to redeploy staff, focusing menus on the most popular items, and more.

Chipotle manages surging growth

Beverage distributor cuts close time

Synlait directs diversity

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