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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future?

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Seeing as operations is often associated with the strategy and technology side of a company, active operations consultants regularly work side by side with experts from these domains. IT Consultants: Technology consultants, focus on helping clients with the development and application of Information Technology (IT) within their organization.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. A key question that must be addressed by a larger system is how many facilities that could not have survived on their own can it manage without damaging its financial position?

System 128
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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

System 82
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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

However, while their companies had plenty of resources, the big digital bets did not pay off quickly enough, or richly enough, to counter the drain they represented on the rest of the business. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology.

Company 72
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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

One school can acquire others to form a group, which shares resources, making investment easier and cuts less painful. They quickly identify what’s not working and redirect resources to the most pressing problem — how to improve this year’s exam results. “If you cut resources, people have to change!”

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. It took trial and error — including detailed debriefs of those using ABIe — to arrive at very specific and actionable answers and to put in place the governance, metrics, and change-management processes to make controlled, methodical updates.

Company 70