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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons. Here are a few examples: Increasing OR utilization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For example, Intermountain employed a team of paid clinical experts to develop such clinical-decision-support algorithms based on scientific literature and Intermountain’s own experience in order to standardize how common medical conditions (such as pneumonia) are diagnosed and treated by its physicians. The path forward is clear.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

At one Fortune 1000 company, for example, “flame wars” broke out between customer support units, desperate to respond faster to customer complaints, and the technical design group, equally desperate to avoid ad hoc fixes. Technology facilitates greater transparency and visibility throughout enterprise ecosystems.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions. For example, automobile insurance companies like Allstate, Progressive and State Farm have launched programs to use connected devices to monitor customers’ driving patterns.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For example, Anheuser-Busch, working with Uber (and Otto), just delivered 2,000 cases of Budweiser in a self-driving truck. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. But the most automated carmakers are not necessarily the most efficient.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

And big companies tended to be more efficient than smaller firms, which meant their workers were more productive and therefore better paid. For example, if a big firm had some cafeteria workers on payroll, it felt at least some pressure not to let their wages fall too far, because inequality was bad for morale.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

He asked his team to analyze how certain patient populations — for example, women in need of a mammogram — accessed the health care system. Leverage Technology. SCPMG invested in information technologies that allowed patients to schedule visits from mobile apps, access online personalized health care plans (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

For example, digital technology company Omada Health helps individuals lose weight and prevent diabetes through online behavioral counseling. Iora Health attacks unnecessary care by pairing technology-powered patient analytics with high-touch, team-based care at its network of primary-care clinics. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Organizations that take cyber security seriously should implement best practices that will help reduce the disconnects and ensure effective cyber risk management. It should be more than a theoretical exercise, using real examples of what can be found about the organization.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services.

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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. For example, it took nearly a year to design, build, and implement ABIe. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Most health care portals, for example, don’t have strong multifactor authentication. For an example of how to proceed, they can look to the financial services industry, where some of the most well-known examples of cyberattacks in the last decade have occurred. Update HIPAA. Experiment with blockchain.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

If adaptive bots learn from every meaningful human interaction they have, then mistreatment and abuse become technological toxins. That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. Using bad manners with smart technologies can lead to bad management. Bad behavior can poison bot behavior.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. For example, both Accountants and Architects also acquire a primary school early on.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This allows health care employees to devote more of their time to patients and focus on meeting their needs more efficiently. Here, we analyze three ways AI is chipping away at mundane, administrative tasks at various health care providers and achieving new efficiencies. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. Examples of these systems include electronic alerts for medication interactions and reminders to ensure all steps in the care process for the pneumonia patient are followed. ilbusca/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. And yet few corporate managers are asking such questions, much less taking advantage. And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. Take lighting, for example. Cost Savings.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

The water industry is using digital technologies and analytics to derive more value from its physical assets. The need for this sector to change and evolve could not be greater: The organizations that manage water supplies around the world are facing critical issues, and water scarcity is chief among them. For example, many U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Building more efficient, secure, and resilient governments. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. Every citizen carries a digital ID card that allows him or her to vote remotely, pay taxes with a few clicks, manage health care, and much more. Estonia has only 1.3

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

This sharing requires a complicated management apparatus , mostly provided by VISA. If the process of using an ATM had been invented today, with the blockchain as a state-of-the-art database technology as an option, we would most likely not need an administrative entity like VISA to manage the process.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” IT would temporarily create proprietary advantages, he predicted, citing Walmart as an example.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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