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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Innovation on a budget. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. Innovation on a budget. Cost reduction.

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How AI Is Taking the Scut Work Out of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Because most healthcare fax numbers are public, doctors also receive scores of pizza menus, travel specials, and other “junk faxes.” And that’s just the beginning for our AI team. Next year, we hope to reduce the time it takes to import data from a fax into a patient record to 30 seconds.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. As a consequence, it is rather wasteful for each of the units to develop these solutions in parallel. ” But which exactly are “only those tasks”? Responsiveness through immediacy.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2020

Leading Blog

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. The companies that bring in the most H-1B workers, however, are not Silicon Valley tech firms but IT services firms, many based in India, that specialize in consulting or outsourcing.