Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Betsy Jordyn: We were at a business training where we were learning how to grow our consulting practices back in the day. What happened to you?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

The deep learning models we mentioned are trained for specific image recognition tasks (such as nodule detection on chest CT or hemorrhage on brain MRI). The FDA requires, and the ACR provides methodologies for, vendors to verify the effectiveness and value of the algorithms before and after they are taken to market.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

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. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

To be sure, anonymized insurance-claims data and electronic health record (EHR) data has been accessed and analyzed for many years. One of the biggest is how to make the transition from legacy technology and analytical competence to more-powerful and sophisticated analytical tools and analysis methodologies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

The strange part is how today’s AI works, building subroutines of patterns, and loops of patterns about other patterns, training itself through multiple layers that are only possible with very large amounts of computation. Once validated, the pattern-finding methodology is strengthened by feeding it more data.

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