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Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles

Harvard Business Review

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Why Your Innovation Team Needs a Lawyer

Harvard Business Review

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

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A Blueprint for Measuring Health Care Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.