Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. The most direct and obvious investment is increased wages.

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Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

a strategic management and operations consulting firm that helps businesses implement breakthrough strategies. Similarly, Vin D’Amico, Founder and President of Damicon, where consultants “turn businesses from fragile to agile,” recalls a time when he spoke with a prospect by telephone, then e-mailed him a copy of a published article.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail. These tensions are embraced as polarities to be managed rather than problems to be solved.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

There is no question that big data and AI will bring about important advances in the realm of management, especially as it relates to being able to make better-informed decisions. For example, consider the healthcare industry, where AI is having a huge impact. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Putting data “in the cloud” essentially means paying someone else to manage it, and then connecting to their servers via the internet to access your data when you need it. This operational agility can be particularly valuable when facing uncertain demand or a fast-evolving competitive environment.

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