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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

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Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Well actually, no it’s not. I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Our Freedom.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

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Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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The Increase in U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Is Nothing to Cheer About

Harvard Business Review

another 2 million manufacturing jobs were lost after 2008. The 4 million jobs lost before 2008 will probably never come back. How about the 2 million lost after 2008? From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. In the U.S.,

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. For example, Dr. Bazile began reading GHDonline daily in 2010. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management'

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business Review

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 Ask for help reducing your low-value work from your company’s productivity unit or information technology gurus. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. million jobs were lost.

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. The stimulus bill of 2009 allocated $30 billion for health care IT, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 allowed significant changes in the way Medicare pays for services.