Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

A radical departure from the traditional consulting model that would further lower costs. Our employment of true experts, use of modern technologies and streamlined business operations ensures clients receive exceptional advisory services at an affordable price regardless of their budget. And why not? All delivered affordably.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Employ Internal Multisourcing. Engage Customers.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower. Specialist knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

“In 2014 alone, Sevian Business Performance Assessments identified over $200 million in people, process, and technology improvement opportunities at four client companies,” continues Karen Juliano, StrategyDriven Vice President in charge of Sevian Business Program development. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

In addition to costing dearly, these practices send the message that bad performance will be rewarded. If research and development or technology drive your organization, you’ll be at risk for this phenomenon than other kinds of organizations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. She can be reached in St.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. No industry is immune.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). … Intermountain has been identified as a low-cost, high-quality provider.1 However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. And just in time, too, because the demand for services is on the rise at the same time that the need to rein in costs is becoming ever more acute. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. By 2018, as many as 1.7

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What are the costs and benefits of self-disruption at that uncertain stage? We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. These are rarely studied questions. A rare natural experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. Creating a great customer experience and achieving operational excellence both require a capable and motivated workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges. Burwell, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Cyberattacks cost companies an estimated half a trillion dollars in damages every year. As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. In 2015 Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 Harm Reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

AI is a huge set of technologies, each with a specific, fine-tuned purpose. With the help of machines and advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology , the USPS can now read and process 98% of all hand-addressed mail and 99.5% By linking this technology with a relatively small and finite data set of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. A great web developer with at least five years’ experience can cost less than $25,000 a year.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. billion euro.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (training) saves higher costs. This is another of my trademarked concepts, known as The High Cost of Doing Nothing.). Workplace literacy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. International migration is on the rise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a cost of customer acquisition of just 5 cents, Simson’s traditional approach to advertising was generating an impressive return on investment. By 2015, RedBalloon was delivering more than four million customers to businesses across Australia and New Zealand that offered “experiences.” Not Albert.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. In turn, the company is achieving lower levels of employee and customer churn, and correspondingly lower employee hiring and customer acquisition costs.

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