article thumbnail

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. Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.), I battled self-limiting beliefs, which required every ounce of determination and perseverance to keep at it. I didn't like it. We don't stay the same. So what is your real strategic thinking challenge?

article thumbnail

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

Harvard Business

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base. Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 million to 3.3

Data 28
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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). Strategic Information Technology and Operations. This focus on efficiency is a major defining characteristic of the high-performance culture at Oliver Wyman. Corporate and Institutional Banking.

article thumbnail

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

System 29
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. .”

article thumbnail

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.

Trends 32