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Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health?

Chartered Management Institute

Getting multiple partners to support each other to the hilt within a healthcare system may feel obvious, but nationally it's far from a given. Drawing on new survey data, existing research and case studies the report seeks to better understand existing deficits – and the potential – of effective management.

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4 Keys To Successful Crisis Management In Today’s Wired World

Tanveer Naseer

How our principal managed this crisis – being fully aware of how easily her every word and action could be shared through the various online channels – proved to be a great case study on crisis management in today’s wired world.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Starting Over – Without being hampered by systems/processes that haven’t worked, you can create as you go. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Immediate Feedback – It is far better to succeed or fail.

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

Strategy Driven

Employee suggestion systems. Statistical management methods. In order to put a quality program into place, the following steps must be taken: Study the activities of admired companies. Read case studies of Malcolm Baldridge Award winners. ’ These actions include: Education. Communication. Involvement teams.

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Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

Harvard Business Review

It took two days to get an apology from United Airlines CEO Oscar Muñoz after the video surfaced, but the company’s management now appears to recognize that its frontline service providers set in motion something with awful consequences. Computer systems and algorithms are now part of customer service decision making.

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Patience in Japan

Harvard Business Review

Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more central to its value system. All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. The culture of Japan tends to be outer-directed. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. Rohit Deshpande is Sebastian S.

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How to Lead During a Data Breach

Harvard Business Review

In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” Now six years later, an actual event has occurred that is eerily similar to that fictional scenario: a trusted retailer’s point-of-sale system security was breached and a large amount of customer data may be compromised.

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