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How To Make AI Ethics More Effective

The Horizons Tracker

The research found that these ethics teams faced significant resource constraints and lacked sufficient support from leadership. What’s more, ethics teams should have full bureaucratic support and authority to ensure that they can implement any ethical fixes required before the product is launched onto the market.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. To develop a strategy, one has to look at the competition and our team and figure out the difficulties and barriers to “winning the game.”

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. And they faced big constraints. Some companies now use gamification technology to engage employees in collaborative actions ranging from meeting new colleagues to completing team-based business goals.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Assemble the right team, pairing leaders from inside and outside the organization. Assemble the right team, pairing leaders from inside and outside the organization.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

This was for incentive payments and supplemental reimbursement for services provided by health professionals and hospitals that became meaningful users of IT. $3 The HITECH Act also included constraints — many about timing. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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India’s Secret to Low-Cost Health Care

Harvard Business Review

A key to this is that, faced with the constraints of extreme poverty and a severe shortage of resources, these Indian hospitals have had to operate more nimbly and creatively to serve the vast number of poor people in need of medical care in the subcontinent. Today, the U.S.