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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Be Your Own Talent Scout

Harvard Business Review

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. He is the co-author, with Mette Norgaard, of Touchpoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (Jossey-Bass, May 2011).

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Human resources development. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Treeâ„¢ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.