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

Harvard Business

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. Easier and Improved Documentation. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs.

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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. Because no one likes to fund fundraising. It’s sales. And you get the capacity to handle program growth, but you don’t get any actual program growth.

Nonprofit 129
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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

Other research has documented that the pay gap between firms is contributing to increased income inequality, but our work makes two additional contributions. One of them has clearly been information technology. First, we use new OECD data that is representative of the whole population of businesses in 16 countries. .”

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time.

Tourism 89
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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. To do it, the company created a simple one-page talent review document that managers use to review potential leaders annually.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” The signatories posted their document online and invited others to add their names as supporters.

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