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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? We know the Resistance Loop.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. electronic tumor conferences), the service was developed and operationalized internally and then extended to members. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

A matrix structure is an example of hard-wiring, because the two bosses of a manager in a matrixed position have the joint responsibility to set his objectives, supervise his work, do his appraisal, and ensure his development. For example, the U.S. Don’t pretend.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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An Online Medical Database Is Reducing Doctor Error

Harvard Business Review

Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented. Despite the massive scale of preventable, costly medical errors in the United States, the problem is dwarfed by their prevalence in resource-constrained settings.