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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

That's because I have an overarching guideline for partnering with other people: I don't do business with jerks. So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. Jerks might want to exploit my IP for their purposes, as in this case.

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The key to becoming a learning organization

Asamby Consulting

If know-how is constantly added to the organization's collective memory, it can improve effortlessly over time High autonomy. If the organization is self-learning, there's no external driver necessary to push trough process improvements etc. A good examples is really every process improvement. Nobody likes to fail.

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Improving the Patient Experience: People, Process, Place Model

Tom Spencer

A model that healthcare and health system leaders use, supported by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering ( ASHE ), in order to evaluate and address patient satisfaction is the “people, process, place” model. making enhancements to the hospital physical environment. People: Teamwork makes the dream work.

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Urgent vs. Important – How to Sort Through the Noise

Women in Consulting

Tasks include maintenance activities and process improvements. Set yourself some guidelines on how often you check things, and be sure to pay careful attention to the source. (If As much and as often as possible, work in this area – these are the things that will help keep you out of Urgent/Important.

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Why you need a company wiki (and how to build it effectively)

Asamby Consulting

A learning organization If you don't want to do all process improvement and development in your company, you need to build a so-called learning organization: Your employees have a structured process and tool set to formalize and document what they learn and make it available to everyone. Without that, it will not work.

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Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older?

Harvard Business

However, this policy has recently come under scrutiny due to its high burden to doctors and the lack of sound evidence that recertification processes improve doctors’ quality of care. On one hand, skills and knowledge are accumulated through experience and can improve quality of care. As the physician workforce in the U.S.