Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

Tom: North Highland offers a range of solutions including Data and Analytics, Managed Services, Operating Efficiency Ratio, People and Change, Professionalising IT, Social Insights Lab and Strategy and Advisory. Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Where does North Highland do the bulk of its work?

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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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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. Consider examples like data analysis experts, Google search engine advisors, and CRM strategists. Travel costs matter less than capabilities. . workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

domestic air transport in America for cost-conscious business travellers). For example, one of Apple’s product missions might be to provide consumers with easy-to-use digital technology, and another mission might be to provide fashion accessories for Yuppies and young people. the transport market) or very narrowly (e.g.

Productivity 113

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Medical student education and resident training, patient therapy, and physician operations are three segments in healthcare with high growth potential for VR and AR technologies. 3 This was developed to provide better insights into how the heart operates and what happens when something goes wrong. .

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

Instead, employees throughout the organization will be able to spot the low-hanging fruit where AI could make your organization more efficient. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. These examples will help team members to understand AI’s enormous potential, but also its limitations.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2016

According to my aunt, who accepted the Medal of Freedom on his behalf (because at that point he was too sick to travel), Drucker was also unbelievably embarrassed that “ management by objective ” had been used to justify the Iraq War. By the turn of the century, this was much more evident, at least in private.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An example would be Google in search, or Facebook in social networking. Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). Ford or Tesla?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Seek out what’s not working: The old adage says that bad news doesn’t travel up.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a good example of an organization that is making the most of its D&A function, applying it in scheduling to reduce expenses, for example, reducing the need for teams to fly from city to city for games on back-to-back nights. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? All of the above?

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Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. Autopsy #1 – Borders.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. While you can and should expect to travel a lot, they do try to keep travel regional, so you won’t be crossing time zones every 4 days. Core Values.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The example illustrates how cross-functional work between various health-related organizations ensures that innovation is not bogged down by the bureaucracies that often accompany formal partnerships. . ” A key example of this is Qatar’s National Autism Plan.

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Education Healthcare Research Tourism 35

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?). traffic deaths. Lawmakers face a critical choice.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. The answer is yes, as we found in the example of Ascension , the largest nonprofit health system in the United States. In food and environmental support services alone, for example, $400 million a year was going to more than 100 different contracts.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. For example, one survey indicated that the use of ad-blockers among U.S.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. For example, a French employee at Rakuten found commonality with his Japanese coworkers by recognizing that both cultures are results-oriented and prone to analyzing processes for how they could be improved.

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MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

For example, USA Today reports Atlanta, other cities see a streetcar renaissance. At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Detroit is not the only city to recently hop on the nostalgia bandwagon. will open its $135 million, 2.4-mile

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Transportation Operations Wireless Construction 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

Healthcare 28

Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Much of the current thinking about new service-delivery models is based on the notion that cost and efficiency of care delivery can be enhanced by directing more patients to primary care. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits.

How To 28

How To Insurance Insurance Travel 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities. ” 4.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. Capture Reference Data About Current Change Projects.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

I traveled to headquarters to meet the team, figure out the culture there, and get a clear sense of who controls what. So in addition to overseeing our portion of the operation, I became a conduit, doing my best to build relationships between my staff and the folks at headquarters.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

People are willing to travel for expertise, but they’re not willing to travel to hire a consultant from the other side of the world or the other part of the continent if they can get the same thing down the street. A productized service business is about efficiencies and scale and a finite number of offerings that set prices.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Efficiency through syndication.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Insurance industry observers, for their part, believe that the innovative distributed ledger could introduce a variety of improvements and efficiencies to the insurance landscape, and have the following four applications: Fraud detection. He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. Identity management.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

The financial and operational rewards for innovation are significant. Creativity and risk-taking are essential to overcoming challenges, but businesses often reward efficiency and avoid risk. improved operational productivity. Conclusion Organizations naturally reward efficiency thinking and avoiding risk.

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Culture Boston Consulting Group Leadership Recruiting 52

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled. Another example of automation that enhances humans’ native abilities is the exoskeleton.

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MishTalk

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " The fuel savings witnessed by trucks in a platoon has a significant impact on the operating profits of the operator, not to mention the environmental impact of reduced CO2 and emissions.” It now seems very likely, if not a given.

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Transportation Guidelines Engineering Wireless 78

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, a store like Macy’s can build its presence on a beacon platform that can be downloaded by shoppers as a mobile app. For example, Placed is a firm that provides in-store attribution analysis representing consumer visits to physical store locations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The most visible example of leapfrogging today is in nations like Kenya and South Africa , which have rolled out near-universal telephone access using 3G networks instead of laying down copper cables, and provided internet access by smartphone rather than with desktop PCs. India’s Aadhaar biometric ID card system is a great example.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

86% agree it makes life more affordable, 83% agree it makes life more convenient and efficient, 76% agree it's better for the environment, 78% agree it builds a stronger community, 63% agree it is more fun than engaging with traditional companies, 89% agree it is based on trust between providers and users. billion since its launch.

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Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To find out, we investigated the effect of air pollution on call-center workers at Ctrip, China’s largest travel agency. Several aspects of the firm’s operations allowed us to credibly isolate the effect of pollution on productivity. If they’re affected by pollution, then we might all be vulnerable.

Productivity 28

Productivity Travel Policies Research 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization. Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization.

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