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Virtual Reality Could Help With Caring For Disabled People

The Horizons Tracker

Living with disability “Being a disability support worker requires many attributes including patience, honesty, and compassion, as well as skills in first aid, administration, information technology, teamwork, providing personal care, and problem-solving,” the researchers explain.

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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone seeks to assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday—whether you work in a design field or not. The most creative and productive way [to apply design thinking] is to engage people—the [stakeholders]—in the process.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator.

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Information & technology Marketing'

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Financial Rewards Make People Suggest Fewer but Better Ideas

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. “This was quite exciting as most research on creativity is field research based on interviews, and is done by psychologists,” said Gibbs.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. His consideration of information technology in light of the history of the printing trade leads to surprising conclusions. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

Computerized clinical decision support with embedded evidence-based practice guidelines can fill in information gaps. Health information technology will support these new partnerships and foster team-based care.