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Only The Start: Change and Forecasting Comes With Risk

N2Growth Blog

Making plans flexible means that strategies must be adjusted much more frequently than we’re used to, which usually involves constructing a framework for decisioning. The current crisis is teaching all of us the necessity of organizational flexibility and adaptability. Permanent Phenomenon.

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Saving Money As A Startup – Ways To Increase Your Margins

Strategy Driven

The Covid-19 crisis has caused widespread disruption, but it has also created opportunities. Investing in technology to improve efficiency. If you run a construction company, for example, you may want to look for talented individuals to work on specific jobs, rather than employing a team of workers on a full-time basis.

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How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Cofounded by Michael Murphy, a Harvard-trained architect who has devoted himself to improving the social impact of built environments, MASS is changing the way hospitals are designed and constructed. They looked at 12 diverse facilities for evidence of how unit design affects Caesarean rates.

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How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health

Harvard Business Review

From clean water supplies to the polio vaccine, the most effective public health interventions are typically preventative policies that help stop a crisis before it starts. Thanks to predictive analytics, we are piloting new ways to predict public health challenges, so we can intervene and stop them before they ever begin.

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How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health

Harvard Business Review

From clean water supplies to the polio vaccine, the most effective public health interventions are typically preventative policies that help stop a crisis before it starts. Thanks to predictive analytics, we are piloting new ways to predict public health challenges, so we can intervene and stop them before they ever begin.

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

on instruments and tools that a dynamic information and communication technology sector, drawing on all the research that preceded and accompanies it, has bestowed on us. Figures speak for themselves only to those who understand how they have been constructed and in which context they are to be used. But all must still be interpreted.

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We May Never Know Leaders' Responsibility in Gulf Disaster

Harvard Business Review

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And, if they are not known, those lessons can't be learned.

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