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Researchers Are Encouraged To Produce Quantity Rather Than Quality Research

The Horizons Tracker

According to a recent paper published by Queen Mary’s, the UK government’s research evaluation system appears to incentivize academics to produce a greater quantity of work, but at the expense of quality. The team analyzed over 3.5

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The Business Value Of Joy (And Just Getting Things Done)

Terry Starbucker

He then started Menlo Innovations in 2001, with the express purpose of ” bringing joy to the world through software “ Menlo has gone on to win the Alfred P. How a sharp focus on rigor, discipline and quality plays right into basic human nature. magazine. The business value of getting things done.

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WHE17: The Cost of Medical Errors: Educating Employees about Patient Safety | with Leah Binder from The Leapfrog Group

Engaging Leader

How can you educate your employees about patient safety and influence them to choose the hospitals with a better track record in terms of safety, quality, and value? The survey is the only nationally standardized and endorsed set of measures that captures hospital performance in patient safety, quality and resource utilization.

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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Back in 2001, what we know today as the Agile Manifesto was born , by the hand of several American CEOs of the technology sector (software) and they decided to combine various ideas to propose an alternative to the slow working methods that were not responding to the current ones needs, before your organization and your customers.

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Does Having A Black CEO Help Firm Performance?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined the performance of around 5,000 CEOs who had been appointed between 2001 and 2020. While it is encouraging that markets recognize the strong qualities of Black CEOs, our study also suggests that firms seemingly appoint Black CEOs only when they are excessively qualified. It’s not.

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How Healthcare Can Help In The Fight Against Climate Change

The Horizons Tracker

This innovative model has clear global health implications,” they explain. This situation can be compounded by the lack of high-quality and affordable healthcare. The clinic provides discounts to villages if they manage to achieve a community-wide reduction in logging. Curbing deforestation.

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The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers.

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