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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. In terms of flexibility and autonomy, consultants who operate as contractors can decide what services to offer, when and how to offer those services, and what prices to charge.

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Drones Help New Industries Take Flight

Tom Spencer

This was beneficial as coal has a material value for RWE’s business, and using a drone allowed PwC to audit the resource much more efficiently without compromising the quality of the audit. Fortune (2017). The drone measured the volume of RWE’s coal reserves, which allowed PwC’s auditors to calculate its value. Agriculture. References.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. That’s a resource that is much less expensive for new businesses with no track record than for established businesses with all the credibility in the world.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. C-Level Community: This innovative online subscriber service provides resources, blogs, webinars, an Expert of the Week Q&A, etc.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

Critics outside of CareMore issued an ugly forecast: Our resource-intensive approach to care would never survive on Medicaid’s meager reimbursement levels. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. To many at the time, we were fools. Great physicians would never choose to treat Medicaid patients.

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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. operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets.

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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. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. The real problem is that U.S. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.