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8 Advantages of Managed IT Services for Healthcare Clinics

Strategy Driven

They will provide you with regular security assessments and training. Focusing on IT resources also allows the clinic to focus on innovative solutions. Plus, they can focus on patient care and develop cost-effective IT strategies. Furthermore, service providers will work with you to create policies and procedures.

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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

He was also innovative. As McChrystal describes in Team of Teams , the challenge wasn’t so much that he needed to develop new resources, but that he had to access surveillance and intelligence assets —many of which were not under his direct control—more effectively.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Shift the focus to include small companies.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business Review

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. ” Create win-win incentives.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

Unlike a startup company, which is supposed to play with alternative strategies until the right one emerges, a midsize firm already has a strategy that is working. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. In fact, OSS makes up nearly one-third of responding organizations' overall enterprise software portfolio, which is, interestingly enough, about the same as the proportion of internally developed software.