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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business

Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. The team of 20 people represented technology, infrastructure, production operations, development and information security parts of the business.

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

Harvard Business

This allows health care employees to devote more of their time to patients and focus on meeting their needs more efficiently. Here, we analyze three ways AI is chipping away at mundane, administrative tasks at various health care providers and achieving new efficiencies. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. A few dozen consultants working in technology for the financial service industry are based at the Broadway office.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible.

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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “I’ve been the beneficiary of a lot of great leaders’ taking a personal interest in my professional development,” he says.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units

Harvard Business

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. We created a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and experts in clinical informatics to design and test information-technology tools that can help, rather than hinder, clinical care. It also saves three to five minutes on chart review per patient per day.

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