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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

You know, those same disruptive forces redefining all sectors from manufacturing and retail to healthcare and tech. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. In three years the progress is impressive, especially in the healthcare sector. Eight product divisions, with very high degrees of autonomy, were the center of its operating model for more than a decade.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 3 – Cloud)

Tom Spencer

Productivity: IT teams can allocate their time to more important business tasks, rather than time-consuming IT management chores essential for on-site data centers. The rise of insurtech has introduced a host of startups to the market, small companies built on digital agility that bring new perspectives to the business of insurance.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Four key outcomes to transforming healthcare: Lower entry barriers and increase geographic reach to improve access to care. HRO Principles and Patient Safety.

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Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person

Harvard Business

The psychological and physical problems of burned-out employees, which cost an estimated $125 billion to $190 billion a year in healthcare spending in the U.S., The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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