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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. Having Insurance (Risk Buffer). Be it health, car, or home insurance; the idea is to have a buffer against unexpected damage or health issues. This is the “integration effect.”

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. One big incumbent that has become more receptive to disruptive innovation is the insurance giant Humana. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

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3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

Harvard Business

Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology. An example of this was the data science team, made up of repurposed actuaries, at a national auto insurance company. At one extreme, we see analytics groups that create overly complex models with long lead times and limited adaptability to changing inputs.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

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. For centers remaining in consideration after these initial steps, PBGH and HDP perform an in-depth site visit utilizing a patient tracer methodology.

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How Much Gold Should Someone Own? Where and How To Own It?

MishTalk

There is no fixed answer, but rather a general methodology that I like: Do not invest outside your comfort zone. Remember, if you do choose physical possession, you will need theft insurance or some other means of ensuring its safety. Periodically I receive questions on gold ownership. How much should one own, and where?

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