Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012. Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It's now how silver haired executives — and 75 year old grandmas — read the news, manage their email and play games with the kids. The rise of accessible augmented reality technologies makes physical location matter more. But that's a battle for beyond 2012. This is one dramatically cost-effective way to do it.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2012

Plus there are two more professional development classes starting in September of 2012; Mastering Organizational Complexity ; Solution-Focused Leadership. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development. Thank you so much for doing such an amazing job. Community Connections of New York. Gateway-Longview.

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Class Project Construction Learning-by-Doing 120

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Let me know how you go. Could you summarise what CoachStation offers and does in a few sentences? CoachStation helps people and businesses to become more effective and efficient in what they do. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. I discussed Deming and DoE a bit in a previous post: Statistical Techniques Allow Management to do a Better Job (about a paper Dr. Deming wrote).

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Deming Quality Tools Process 28

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In my previous two posts from this series, I discussed how changing demographics, views on the nature of work and the workplace, and rapid advances in technology have converged to create intense competition for talent in today’s job market. They managed by “walking around.” These leaders led from positional authority.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. At best, it can manage costs.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Moving from a world in the 1960s and beyond to present day, we need to change our thinking from an individual basis to a community – or tribal approach So interestingly in a modern technological society, maybe we need to start to learn from our cave dwelling forefathers. Who is the book aimed at? Do you know what – I am not sure.

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Review Books Diversity Human Resources 37

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2023

Definition of Data Storage Solutions Data storage solutions encompass a variety of technologies, tools, and platforms that businesses use to store, manage, and safeguard their data. Cost Efficiency One of the primary benefits of integrating data storage solutions is cost efficiency.

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Power Efficiency Cost FAQ 117

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. billion on these social sites by 2012.

Media 73

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 73

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

Company 9

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean that new technologies aren’t going to usher in a lot of disruption to the financial system. Traditional economists (and, yes, that label could well describe both of us) often ignore a crucial separation between money (the “what”) and the payment technology (the “how).

Banking 8

Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Three Images/Getty Images. market for personal computers.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Contrast this with 56 percent in 2012.) It was 77 percent in 2012.). This is a 16-point jump over 2012. When we asked why marketing and IT should collaborate more, the most cited reason was a simple one: Marketing is more about digital now, which requires more technology..

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. This will help doctors make better decisions based on up-to-date knowledge in a time efficient manner. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. The business media have had no shortage of these. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. New energy management software can also help identify consumption inefficiency and automate electricity usage when necessary by collecting site-specific energy data.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. Where We Came From and Why We’re Successful. The Challenge: Be Careful What You Ask For.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients. These technologies currently affect a small share of the population.

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Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Not likely.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous. Yes, industry pioneers like Doubleclick were building technology systems to manage online ad serving, but the change was a matter of degree, not of kind.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. It is a great economic waste.".

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Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A.

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Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. In a digitally driven economy, the preferred way for everyone to interact with a company is through internet technologies, such as a company's website, mobile interface, or Twitter feed.

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Engineering Forrester Software Mass Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

We conducted a meta-analysis of 108 empirical studies that focused on 42 countries during 1981 to 2012. The findings , published in the Academy of Management Journal, show that family firms invest less in innovation than other firms (both public and private) that aren’t family-owned.

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Innovation Company Long-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the American Medical Association, my colleagues and I found that from 1990 to 2012, the number of workers in the U.S. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Compliance 8