The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2020

Excel, on the other hand, is a super-powerful platform, but you really have to study how to use it. The transition to digital medical records grew apace after the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which saw some $27 billion in federal incentives awarded to help healthcare providers adopt the technology.

System 59

System Health Care Information Technology Incentives 59

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 294

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. You just finished reading For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish !

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cybersecurity, information technology security or computer security is the process of the protection of computer systems, programs, and networks from digital attacks or the theft or from the damage of the hardware, software, electronic data or misdirection or disruption of the services they provide.

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Tips Software Banking System 72

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Preventing fraud sure sounds like a good thing. That seemed to make sense.

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. As a result, business processes are being machine-reengineered. Reengineering got off track by encouraging businesses to overhaul too many processes too quickly.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. In sum, being a founder sends a powerful reputation signal of your abilities as a leader. Championing change is hard.”

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Every aspect of design thinking is explained and analyzed together with insights on navigating through the process in Part 1 of the book. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings. The process was messy and non-linear.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

Process 12

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

These real-world vignettes highlight social media''s underappreciated and undervalued impact within and between organizations: the power to self-organize. Social media inside the enterprise and out lower the costs and increase the power of individuals to productively coalesce and coordinate on their own initiative.

Media 8

Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 People weighed in, and then they changed the process.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

This monumental effort to improve her condition took several years, and she learned some powerful skills along the way. One fellow I know is a relentless learner, but primarily in one area—information technology. I knew that personality manifests itself in behavior and that behavior is triggered by mental processes.

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Development Succession Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 102

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Here’s a five-step process you can use for a meeting, an email message or a stopped-in-the-hallway request for an update. This process will help you make it obvious to the boss that you’re on top of the project. Other Uses of the Process. Let’s say you have to brief the boss on the status of a project. How can you do it best?

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Kaplan Audience Chief Executive Officer Seminar 68

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

In order to capture, filter, and analyze huge amounts of unstructured data, an organization needs to leverage the new technologies that include massively parallel processing (MPP) and NoSQL/Hadoop-like (non-relational) database and software frameworks. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

This is the domain of predictive analytics — a concept that isn’t new, but the potential of which, in a world not limited by data or processing power, is expanding rapidly. I’m at Lockheed Martin where we focus relentlessly on expanding and improving the technology and tradecraft to remain ahead of adversaries.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Analysis Information Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. This led to very powerful, highly-optimized models that were used to predict all sorts of things. What about the myriad lower value decisions that businesses face each day?

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Company Hammer Operations Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

But you may have to revamp your decision processes to make the tools work smoothly. Wouldn’t customers feel annoyed that the company had so much data about them and was using it to customize the collections process? Early in the process, you will want to assess the specific risks you are likely to encounter.

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Tools Workshop Information Technology Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The cost of sensors, processing power, and bandwidth to connect devices has dropped low enough to spur widespread deployment. has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These customers were given perks, privileges and the power to offer certain promotions. The combination of digital due diligence, processing power and predictive profiling required several terabytes — far more than the bank’s internal systems could handle. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Sometimes you can infer the way someone will process the information based on his or her job function.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

For example, there was a substantial increase in productivity during the twenty-year stretch from 1980 to 2000, fueled by companies' investments in enterprise-wide information technology. In fact, technology adoption alone, without the accompanying changes in work practices, had little or even a negative impact on productivity.

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Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

When layered on top of existing information infrastructure, ambient-intelligence applications can cut through the clutter and deliver the right information in a digestible form that clinicians can use, quickly and effectively at the patient’s bedside. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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Mayo Information Health Care Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Historically, new technologies from the mainframe to client server and ERP — while enabling organizations to pursue new business goals — became a bottleneck to progress. This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. Information & technology Leadership'

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Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

But despite the tools’ power to improve care, most health care institutions are not yet using them. It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Instead, they could leverage new information technologies to reengineer, reorganize and radically streamline their production and service delivery. Our mobile devices are powerful computers connected to high-speed networks. Today, a decade after the launch of the iPod, consumers are starting to reach the same realization.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

We find that the typical profile of a data scientist who produces analytics for machines is someone with a natural science, mathematics, or engineering background (often at the PhD level) with the deep mathematical and computational background necessary to do the really high-powered work. Hiring Information & technology'

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Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Cloud-based analytics made it possible for organizations to acquire massive amounts of computing power for short periods at low cost. Along with the hardware advances, the need to store and process big data in new ways led to a whole constellation of open source software, such as Hadoop and scripting languages.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Did I mention they have petabytes more data to play with and process? While the computational resources and techniques for prediction may be novel and astonishingly powerful, many of the human problems and organizational pathologies appear depressingly familiar. Decision making Failure Information & technology'

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Too often, today’s uncoordinated performance-measurement systems focus primarily on which care processes are used and fail to empower patients to answer the basic question: “How will this treatment decision affect someone like me?” The Power of Scale.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Such mindsets become further embedded in systems, structures, processes, and cultures that are self-perpetuating. A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center. In that strategy , the country uses state enterprises, industrial policy, and the power of its domestic market to dramatically increase the country’s industrial production. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Their life anchors are their identification with an institution of great power; influence over individuals, policies, finances, and the community; and constant affirmation of their importance as individuals and of their role as leaders. That’s one reason why many top executives delay retiring and cling to power for as long as they can.

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CEO Execution Policies Power 8