Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2%

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Educate both groups — and all employees — on the need to understand their organization’s cyber exposure and how attackers can exploit information they gather from reconnaissance efforts to craft targeted attacks. 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

MARCH 31, 2017

These firms are likely to have already established the organizational structures needed to nurture and spread new technologies and business approaches. Two good examples of combining well-established practices with cognitive technology to achieve business success are American Express and Procter & Gamble.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. 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

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. 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.

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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. Experiment with blockchain.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

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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. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. Operational Improvements.

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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). In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. For example, many U.S. As one U.S.

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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

JUNE 13, 2017

Building more efficient, secure, and resilient governments. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. Today, new devices coupled with artificial intelligence using vast amounts of data from millions of sensors are helping us tackle key social concerns. Estonia has only 1.3

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

Rather than creating hub-and-spoke methods for organizing our shared resources for mutual advantage, this new technology would provide solutions without any central oversight. In a world without middle men, things get more efficient in unexpected ways.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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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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