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Drones Help New Industries Take Flight

Tom Spencer

This post explores three areas where drones are currently being used, the data they generate, and how they are being used to increase efficiency and maximise profits. In August 2017, after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, authorities used drones to assess damage and look for people trapped in their homes or vehicles ( Fortune, 2017 ).

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising. And they have significantly more impact.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business

We have a crisis in health care delivery, and if we can fix that problem we’ll have more than enough resources to cover all the uninsured and underinsured. Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. Preparing Dinner (Resource & Quantity Buffer). This is different from saving money for investment purposes, which is about growing your financial resources over time.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

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