Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

At EY, where some of us work, we have developed a tool for social media analytics called SMAART that is able to understand sentiment within consumer and influencer groups. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Write the blog posts that help customers help themselves such as “How to do X-common-goal in our app,” or “How to set up x feature” Bonus: these articles will make your sales people very happy. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time. What not to do.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. Our pilot effort was supported in part by a federal grant.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required.

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Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Entrepreneurs in Chinese industries from animated media to applied medical research said that China’s insistence on domestic standards are resulting in less-ambitious innovation and that the education system is not supporting appropriate talent development. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. I felt like they got a lot out of it. We don’t have to do that.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. By the time that substantial U.S. Mind the Mittelstand.

Engineering 34

Engineering Government Automotive Research 34

Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

But you must also have the right data — lots of unbiased data, over the entire range of inputs for which one aims to develop the predictive model. While the data science team that developed the predictive model may have done a solid job cleaning the training data, it can still be compromised by bad data going forward.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. ”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers. ” So they did. It’s now striving to catch up.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. With the confirmation of Robert Lighthizer as United States trade representative, the long-delayed start of the formal process to begin renegotiation of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico can move forward. Renegotiating NAFTA.

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