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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. And technology? High volumes—low margins—cost-effective—technology driven. I N THE WESTERN WORLD, we often do not have an accurate picture of Africa as a growing marketplace.

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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

Per the 2014 McKinsey research study of 1323 companies involved in organization redesign, less than a quarter of those transformation efforts succeeded. Subramanian is author of the new book, Transforming Business with Program Management : Integrating Strategy, People, Process, Technology, Structure and Measurement.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care. Take my company, athenahealth. Insight Center.

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The Most and Least Digital Jobs – and How Well They Pay

Harvard Business Review

The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital). If you click on one of the small orange dots floating in the middle of the interactive, you’ll notice a cluster of jobs all in one industry: health care.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. R&D spending.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.