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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. cancel or rebid them). In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six. Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services. As the U.S.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.

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5 Steps to becoming a Successful IT Consultant

QEmploy

As a result they will meet their business objectives and overcome problems. The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application). Why should you choose Consulting?

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Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking

Harvard Business

Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. Over almost two decades, the social enterprise space has been learning how direct impact and systems change work together.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time. All they need to do is fill out review forms, go to meetings, and assume that HR will make sure that the people issues are addressed.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Kearney’s innovation practice: collaborative innovation, innovation portfolio management, innovation strategy and R&D performance strategy.

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Breaking Down Data Silos

Harvard Business

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. But there is a bigger and costlier demon that lurks in enterprises. Vendor lock-in.

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