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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation. Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Negative organizational culture: The overall culture within an organization can impact teamwork. If the organizational culture promotes competition, silos, or a lack of collaboration, it can trickle down to the team level and hinder cooperation. Others just do not care.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Can everyone access the information they need? Do processes produce the right outcome? Can they scale?

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

Our own focus throughout the integration process was to keep customer needs at the forefront of our decision making and actions. We did this by making sure communication and clarity were a high priority with our teams, to ensure there was no information vacuum consumed with gossip. Don’t neglect your culture.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

An invitation-only request for information from ECEN leads to an extensive review of the system’s quality, outcomes, and patient satisfaction data. This process-improvement methodology includes workflow redesign, error proofing, best-practice implementation, cost bundling, financial risk sharing, and outcomes measurement.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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