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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. And “the internet of things” has barely begun…).

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

All of the RFID tags are “passive technology,” meaning that the individual tags don’t need power. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers. Address potential obstacles early.

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What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)

Harvard Business Review

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. There are an awful lot of leaders in trouble these days. The trouble I’m referring to is getting new ideas implemented and brought to scale.

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There’s No Such Thing as Anonymous Data

Harvard Business Review

Economic data tracking can help identify opportunities for innovation and growth. Currently, PII is binary and information is either personally identifiable or not. . ” Regulation Information & technology Data Analytics Security & privacy' million people, all of which had been scrubbed of any PII. .

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks.

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What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients

Harvard Business Review

Appoint a project leader to direct the team, define deadlines for key milestones, such as contracting with an external IT vendor or obtaining ethics approval (if necessary), and hold the team accountable for delivering on them. To date, that investment has largely been in IT development.

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation in which different technologies, such as genomics, materials science, and robotics , rise to the fore.