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. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Yet, we are all human.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. In their medical training , physicians often are taught to maintain a clinical distance and an even temperament. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. We disagree. Reimagining Roles.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Distributing social responsibilities to relevant people across the organization can be efficient, be effective, and help make one-on-one customer engagement scalable.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Go and See.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These may be as simple as “reduce year-over-year health care spending” or as specific as “help employees with chronic disease improve medication adherence” Metrics. The best cost structure may vary with your firm’s goals and metrics. Training programs, pilots, or short-term trials may be available.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. It’s not just about data corruption — it’s also about how the bad data will reduce operational efficiency and bring production lines to a standstill.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). The leadership training industry often sells us “stuff” that we don’t need to buy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area. Later, in our annual comprehensive training exercise — a 30-day crucible in the Mojave Desert of California — we continued to benefit from our close collaboration.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The candidate unit should have low staff churn — the movement of staff in and out of job roles — which makes it easier to train teams. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Significant cost reductions can result from improving operational efficiency through better management of natural resources like water and energy, as well as minimizing waste.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

According to Hinge Research’s High Growth Study, the most effective marketing methods for consulting firms are… (Click on the links to be taken to the section of the article with the specific lead-generating tactics for each). By the end of this article, you will: . Start discussions on your articles. Newsjacking.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

In an earlier article , two of us (Bala and Srinivasa) provided a context to understand the respective argument of the EU and Google using the lens of digital-age markets. As this battle intensifies, even the titans themselves may not have the necessary metrics to accurately gauge their relative dominance.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too. These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms. But why stop with industrial assets?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? Relying too heavily on financial incentives to boost performance can often lead to gaming of metrics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control. Invest in training and professional development. It may cost us a few hours of productivity per month, but we’ll earn that time back as our employees leverage new skills or networks to be more efficient at their jobs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. Don’t make your AI too lite.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

We outfitted exam rooms and provider offices with cameras and trained the providers how to use a secure video platform to connect with patients remotely, while designing practice workflows to effectively move patients through the program. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The promise of today’s breakthroughs is not just efficiency – it’s unleashing value creation and capture in a time of mounting performance pressure. Optimized for efficiency rather than discovery and experimentation, their innovation and growth will stall. Rethink your efficiency conversations.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

Improved access is another potential benefit, as telehealth tools can free up time for providers to see new and more complex patients in-person by efficiently moving more routine visits out of the office. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction. The rise of urban centers led to department stores.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

These software systems can in some cases be so efficient at screening resumes and evaluating personality tests that 72% of resumes are weeded out before a human ever sees them. But there are drawbacks to this level of efficiency. They are typically trained to learn from past successes, which may embed existing bias.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. Yet the fact that companies in the U.S. calling on friends and family) over hard work (e.g. Organization.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They must understand the key operational metrics of the business and their impact on profit and loss, revenue, customer retention, and so on. Translator role: Ensures the solution solves the business problem in the most efficient and interpretable form for business users. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Children and families need to be able to access their care team promptly. pediatric primary care remain.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). A water authority in Australia, which deployed a software solution for improving network efficiency, is a case in point. As one U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards. How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. The team used an outside consultant with experience in automotive product design to train and coach the leader and team members in the new capability.

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