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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. Such flexibility not only allows for real-time optimization but also leads to more efficient resource management. Albert Ponsteen is a seasoned TOC expert, mentored by Eli Schragenheim.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% Despite these strictures, the Brazilian operations of McDonald’s and Carrefour reaped similar types of benefits as the slaughterhouses — $12.5 of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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

Harvard Business

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. However, our analysis did find that patients treated by locum tenens physicians have slightly higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay, which raises the possibility that they deliver modestly less efficient care. Our study was recently published in JAMA.

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