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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

In fact, we were actually engaged not in a technology-implementation program but in a huge change-management initiative. But the key problem was that the records were not internally interoperable, which had become a growing barrier to improving quality and efficiency in an increasingly demanding local-health-care environment.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Changing attitude towards work. The attitude towards work is changing.