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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

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. Other research has documented that the pay gap between firms is contributing to increased income inequality, but our work makes two additional contributions.

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

Harvard Business

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. It involves productivity improvements made in increments by individual organizations without the prerequisite collaboration and standardization across health care players required with EHR adoption.

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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. presumably you get marginal increases in productivity and decreases in inefficiency — less burn-out, a better working environment, less staff turn-over, etc.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. Pivothead is a firm with 25 employees producing wearable technologies to help the blind and visually impaired. Despite statistics suggesting a decline in U.S.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition.

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process. 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. Newport News Shipbuilding, which designs U.S

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? 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.