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Insights from Australia's Leading Social Sector Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

Founded in 2002, SVA invests in social change projects to help increase the impact and build the sustainability of high potential organisations in the social sector. Insights from Australia’s Leading Social Sector Consulting Firm. by Tom Spencer on September 9, 2012 · 0 comments. in Management Consulting.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

.” Rather than reducing reliance on intuition, the advanced methodologies of big data require managers to use even more intuition to make sense of the growing number of outputs and recommendations being generated by data models. How can we effectively combine data science and business expertise?

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How to improve your communication and problem solving skills for business

freshminds

McKinsey uses this term for their structural communication methodology. Why not try 'the Pyramid Principle' for effective structured communication when giving instructions or presenting information? Essentially, this means starting with the answer to the problem you are solving, crisply and directly (the top of the pyramid).

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How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business

Computer adaptive testing methodology and branching logic reduced the burden on patients completing PRO questionnaires. Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In 2002, ZS launched a Marketing Research practice, which eventually evolved to an even broader Marketing solutions area. Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. At the same time, there has been concern over whether locum tenens physicians provide lower quality care compared to permanent staff.

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Do Conservative Managers Give Smaller Bonuses to Women?

Harvard Business

The methodology we used in this study is based on a validated technique used by M.K. To capture the end result of this process, we gathered the annual bonus allocation decisions for all the firm’s associates (359 in total) from 2002 to 2007, and linked those to the partners supervising them each year. Chin, Donald C.