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How Benchmarking Can Help Countries Become More Digital

Harvard Business Review

This has big implications for businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators seeking growth beyond their home markets: there just isn’t a one-size-fits-all app or approach to building scale in the global digital economy. The ASEAN region is an example of how benchmarking works. A Case Study of Digital Catch-up in the ASEAN.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

Change is innovative. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2016: Houston Community College, 45th. Benchmarking. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy. Great organizations work tirelessly to celebrate and involve their customers. Houston Ballet, 60th.

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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. No industry is immune.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. “It helped us do things we couldn’t do ourselves, like creating benchmarking models and a template for our employee manual.” This multi-faceted project also helped Cabot win the 2016 U.S. . “B Corp certification lends more credence to our programs.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. In 1967 African-American median household income was 55% that of whites; in 2016 that number was 61%. To continue to improve, we need benchmarking of employer-reported public data to help identify corporate leaders in diversity.

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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Between 2012 and 2016 the organization saw almost a 50% reduction in PMPM costs with certain at risk populations they managed. injections of medication into the joint and/or physical therapy). Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.