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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

Along with our partners at HBR and McKinsey, we're delighted to announce those finalists today (in alphabetical order): Progress Out of Poverty: Business Intelligence for Those in the Business of Helping the Poor. Hacking Executive Compensation with Dynamic Incentive Accounts. Story Lindsey Alexander and Steve Wright.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Is the innovation supported by leadership, management, incentives, and communication?). Medalogix offers solutions that use a combination of predictive analytics, workflow analysis, and business-intelligence engines to improve quality and reduce costs. Are potential adopters risk averse or penalized for change?).

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business Review

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. Because the sales team had so little incentive to keep up with the data entry requirements, the quality of the data in the system became less and less reliable over the following year. The result?

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