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Cascade of Errors

CaseInterview.com

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. Most airplane crashes were not caused by a single error, but typically by multiple errors… hence the phrase “a cascade of errors.”. The phrase “initial misdiagnosis” comes up a lot in medical error cascades.

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Cascade of Errors

CaseInterview.com

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. Most airplane crashes were not caused by a single error, but typically by multiple errors… hence the phrase “a cascade of errors.”. The phrase “initial misdiagnosis” comes up a lot in medical error cascades.

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French Email Ban Update: "Duty to Disconnect"

MishTalk

Thus, I did not have several errors that were present in the Guardian report. In my opinion, this will quickly cascade, to numerous other unions. In response to France Prohibits Sending Work Emails, Answering Cell Phones, Outside Working Hours one reader strenuously objected. The reader''s big objection? Claiming " France " did this.

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business

Institute of Medicine released what would become a touchstone report, To Err is Human , which estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die in hospitals each year due to medical errors that could have been prevented. In 1999 the U.S. It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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If Your Data Is Bad, Your Machine Learning Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business

Reasons range from data creators not understanding what is expected, to poorly calibrated measurement gear, to overly complex processes, to human error. Even with such efforts, cleaning neither detects nor corrects all the errors, and as yet, there is no way to understand the impact on the predictive model.

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Your Strategy Won’t Work If You Don’t Identify the New Capabilities You Need

Harvard Business

Developing capabilities requires experimentation, trial and error, and iterative learning to figure out what will work in each organization’s unique culture, functional structure, and environment. So despite general agreement that the strategy made sense, the missing capabilities made it impossible to carry out.