Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Or, could we all have overlooked the warning in the movie WALL-E of what can happen when humans misuse ultra-modern technology? Image: Pexels. References.

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MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. Examples of these systems include electronic alerts for medication interactions and reminders to ensure all steps in the care process for the pneumonia patient are followed. ilbusca/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

And big companies tended to be more efficient than smaller firms, which meant their workers were more productive and therefore better paid. For example, if a big firm had some cafeteria workers on payroll, it felt at least some pressure not to let their wages fall too far, because inequality was bad for morale.

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JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons. Here are a few examples: Increasing OR utilization.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

For example, Intermountain employed a team of paid clinical experts to develop such clinical-decision-support algorithms based on scientific literature and Intermountain’s own experience in order to standardize how common medical conditions (such as pneumonia) are diagnosed and treated by its physicians. The path forward is clear.

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JULY 6, 2016

For example, digital technology company Omada Health helps individuals lose weight and prevent diabetes through online behavioral counseling. Iora Health attacks unnecessary care by pairing technology-powered patient analytics with high-touch, team-based care at its network of primary-care clinics.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Rather than creating hub-and-spoke methods for organizing our shared resources for mutual advantage, this new technology would provide solutions without any central oversight. In a world without middle men, things get more efficient in unexpected ways.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts. These actions certainly save money, but typically less than 5% of their total expense base.

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MAY 20, 2016

In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). For example, many U.S. A water authority in Australia, which deployed a software solution for improving network efficiency, is a case in point.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Educate both groups — and all employees — on the need to understand their organization’s cyber exposure and how attackers can exploit information they gather from reconnaissance efforts to craft targeted attacks. It should be more than a theoretical exercise, using real examples of what can be found about the organization.

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JULY 5, 2018

Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology. That is one reason why conglomerates are still popular in emerging economies , but have declined in countries with more efficient capital markets.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. Take lighting, for example. Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center?

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JUNE 7, 2017

He asked his team to analyze how certain patient populations — for example, women in need of a mammogram — accessed the health care system. Leverage Technology. SCPMG invested in information technologies that allowed patients to schedule visits from mobile apps, access online personalized health care plans (e.g.,

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MARCH 31, 2017

These firms are likely to have already established the organizational structures needed to nurture and spread new technologies and business approaches. Two good examples of combining well-established practices with cognitive technology to achieve business success are American Express and Procter & Gamble.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Building more efficient, secure, and resilient governments. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. Today, new devices coupled with artificial intelligence using vast amounts of data from millions of sensors are helping us tackle key social concerns. Estonia has only 1.3

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AUGUST 25, 2016

At one Fortune 1000 company, for example, “flame wars” broke out between customer support units, desperate to respond faster to customer complaints, and the technical design group, equally desperate to avoid ad hoc fixes. Technology facilitates greater transparency and visibility throughout enterprise ecosystems.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Within the core business, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way Honeywell creates and captures value for its industrial customers through new efficiencies and services that unlock new value. Ecolab is a prime example of this. billion gigabytes of data the company captures each day.

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JULY 11, 2016

In the financial services sector, innovative payment technologies, which have fundamentally transformed the way we transact, are bringing new speed and convenience to charitable giving — enabling people to give back to their communities as easily as they can tap for an Uber ride.

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JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. For example, it took nearly a year to design, build, and implement ABIe. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For example, Anheuser-Busch, working with Uber (and Otto), just delivered 2,000 cases of Budweiser in a self-driving truck. But the most automated carmakers are not necessarily the most efficient. Thus, it is as important to get long-term organizational change underway as it is to rapidly exploit near-term efficiency.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

If adaptive bots learn from every meaningful human interaction they have, then mistreatment and abuse become technological toxins. That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. Bad behavior can poison bot behavior.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. For example, both Accountants and Architects also acquire a primary school early on.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Strategic Information Technology and Operations. For example, here’s the straightforward Oliver Wyman career pathway: Analyst. This focus on efficiency is a major defining characteristic of the high-performance culture at Oliver Wyman. Corporate and Institutional Banking. Retail and Business Banking. Public Policy.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Most health care portals, for example, don’t have strong multifactor authentication. For an example of how to proceed, they can look to the financial services industry, where some of the most well-known examples of cyberattacks in the last decade have occurred. Experiment with blockchain.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” IT would temporarily create proprietary advantages, he predicted, citing Walmart as an example.

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MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

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MAY 25, 2017

Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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