Remove Document Remove Information Technology Remove Management Remove Productivity
article thumbnail

Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

article thumbnail

The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

Agile 28
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

7 Ways to Introduce AI into Your Organization

Harvard Business

Though these technologies can seem daunting, the good news is that getting started with cognitive technologies is getting easier all the time. Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. ” Mostly Buy.

article thumbnail

How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business

Therefore, Dr. Niazi designed his program to focus on using outcomes to improve the quality and productivity of clinical care conversations and reduce the time needed for documentation — all of which matter greatly to clinicians.

Report 28
article thumbnail

The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

Studying such a large number of leaders who all faced similar challenges with similar options in organizations that are regulated, measured, and documented in the same way enabled us to directly compare what they did, why they did it, and the impact they had. Five Types of Leader. Is it because they’re leaders first and teachers second?

article thumbnail

Can AI Address Health Care’s Red-Tape Problem?

Harvard Business

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. It involves productivity improvements made in increments by individual organizations without the prerequisite collaboration and standardization across health care players required with EHR adoption.

article thumbnail

The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition.