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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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Why Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Begging for More Regulation

Harvard Business Review

But concern over compliance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws have to date largely discouraged their participation. In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Facilitating adherence to these guidelines provides an opportunity for innovation,” said Tiffany Wan, an innovation fellow at Deloitte’s GovLab.

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Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the GAO observed that when given the chance to comment on its June 19 report , “the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emphasized the progress it has made in establishing exchanges, and expressed its confidence that exchanges will be open and functioning in every state by October 1, 2013.” Are you impressed?

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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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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. For example, new innovative reimbursement models aim to reward providers for lowering health care costs on the supply side.

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

Would you communicate with your compliance department that way? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. I don''t think English is "better" than any other language. points in October 2010 to 737.3