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StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 6 – Developing a.

Strategy Driven

Episode 6 – Developing a Collaborative, Productive Culture examines how leaders can develop a collaborative, productive culture where conflict is used constructively to better the organization’s overall performance. To read Diane’s complete biography, click here.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Give constructive rejections. Build a diverse team. The product is in pre-clinical trial today.

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Because a CEO often effectively controls the director selection process, he will tend to choose directors who are unlikely to oppose him, and who are unlikely to provide the diverse perspectives necessary to maximize firm value. Could technology help? corporations between 2000 and 2011.

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Pinterest as Free Market Research

Harvard Business Review

Then I heard that it grew 429% from September to December 2011. Refuse to use the technology and we end up behind the curve. Use the technology and we risk wasting our time or, worse, embarrassing ourselves. In a culture that flowers with an increasingly diverse variety, this is useful. My first reaction was panic.