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The Pentagon’s “Force of the Future” Reinvents Hiring

BCG

Article Thursday, September 15, 2016. On June 9, 2016, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the latest and culminating parts of his sweeping reforms to the Pentagon’s antiquated personnel system.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most. HarperBusiness. Mulinge, P.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. The result: hospitals lost $49 billion in 2016 treating Medicare patients, a number that’s surely higher now. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts.

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S. A March 2017 report from the Identity Theft Resource Center indicated that more than 25% of all data breaches were related to health care. Experiment with blockchain.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). And demand is increasing.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

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. Their very power and presence have begun to transform them from potentially strategic resources into commodity factors of production.

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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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