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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business

The survey contained 16 management questions in three main sections: monitoring, targets, and incentives. Our survey was nationally representative but limited to manufacturing, covering small and large firms across every state in America. In total, we got data from over 35,000 manufacturing plants in a massive national survey.

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Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Five years ago, compensation (i.e.,

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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.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

These services focused on business management and information technology. Information Technology. Exit Opportunities: Without doing an exit survey at IBM (maybe we will in the future), we can’t say exactly what each segment of the armies of ex-IBMers go on to do. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K., Finance Risk.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Our previous survey work at Tech Pro Research found that only 12% of companies have been hit by a mobile security breach.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

Mining giant Rio Tinto is using drones to survey equipment and mining pits in Western Australia. Airlines Easyjet and Lufthansa have adopted drones as a tool for aircraft inspections. Other industries are being persuaded by the cost and safety benefits of drone-based data as well.

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