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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. It will provide comparisons between the realities and perceptions that are held. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Research shows they can be cut in half. Customer retention.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. Personal Development. Developing a Body of Work-Knowledge. Teaching-Training.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. A new consumer mindset. Financial challenges.

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Why Gender Balance Can’t Wait

Harvard Business Review

The World Economic Forum’s recent Global Gender Gap Report 2015 gives us a wealth of detail about the continued worldwide imbalance in gender equality and what it means for the future. We can look at a country-by-country comparison and see a correlation between economic performance and gender parity.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Challenges.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

By comparison, male directors are more than twice as likely to identify as Republicans than Democrats. Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business Review

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market. The country is in a tech startup boom.