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4 Steps to Improving Your Strategic Thinking Passion and Proficiency

Organizational Talent Consulting

Even though I had earned my MBA, I wasn't an efficient reader or writer. For more information on the Watson-Glaser critical thinking appraisal, visit www.talentlens.com. Too often, we fail to consider how we can leverage others to help us develop new habits. Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.),

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In 2011, Oliver Wyman ranked 7th in Vault’s Consulting 50 (combining “best to work for” and overall prestige). In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. Strategic Information Technology and Operations.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 The BHDP system has allowed the Army to develop new ways of examining patients and improving the quality of care for key diseases such as PTSD and major depressive disorder. Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. Photo courtesy of Apple.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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