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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations. Implementation criteria.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

First, consulting services were added for property and casualty insurance claim adjusters and attorneys. Information Technology. Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Transportation. Promotions are dependent on how quickly you meet functional competencies and skill requirements set out for you by the powers that be.

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Can AI Address Health Care’s Red-Tape Problem?

Harvard Business

Using AI-powered tools capable of processing vast amounts of data and making real-time recommendations, some hospitals and insurers are discovering that they can reduce administrative hours, especially in the areas of regulatory documentation and fraudulent claims. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

These services focused on business management and information technology. IBM Czechoslovakia, and IBM Japan created their own regional consulting services departments to meet business client service needs in each specific region. Information Technology. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K., Confused yet? Finance Risk.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business

Tens of millions of Americans, most with health care insurance, have never had appropriate screening for colon cancer. This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care.

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Judging the Obamacare Rollout Two Weeks Later; Signups Vs. Obama's 7 Million Goal; Unprecedented Experiments

MishTalk

In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. These are not glitches,” said an insurance executive who has participated in many conference calls on the federal exchange.