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Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

Harvard Business

health care system. Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. Health systems were reluctant to share what data existed, seeing it as a valuable proprietary asset. It could herald truly disruptive change in the U.S.

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Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode

Harvard Business

The main reason they can harm companies to such a staggering degree is that today’s cybersecurity systems use centralized monitoring, with little beyond their main firewalls to protect the rest of an organization. Today’s cybersecurity systems have been built to detect previously identified malicious codes and malware.

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Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency

Brimstone Consulting

The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. The post Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.

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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). Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.

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Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking

Harvard Business

Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. Marwell needed to be a systems entrepreneur to change the entire system that constrained internet access.

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

Harvard Business

But he also realized that the existing system was not working as needed. Only a relatively small group of employees submitted ideas through the system, which required them to prove the economic advantage of their ideas through a lengthy and complicated process. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement hiring IBM to design, build and manage a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, NY under the brand name Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC).

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