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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. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers.

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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

Examples include payroll, benefits, risk and compliance, and labor relations. Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow. Unfortunately, a lot of e-learning is just plain awful.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Delivering HR-related operational, compliance, and administrative tasks with distinction is important, but let’s be clear that doing so is table stakes.

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A Blueprint for Measuring Health Care Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. This facilitates persistence later if the program encounters skepticism or administrative or technological obstacles – as does sometimes happen. Insight Center.

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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. I hear these stories all the time. Where are the risks?