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Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

He’s used it in agriculture, health care, energy, and just about every other business context you can imagine. The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – often referred to by its Russian acronym, TRIZ – is an analytical and algorithm-based science rooted in the study of more than 3 million patents.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Refer and cross-sell each others' services. Professional societies and associations. Composers and lyricists to write songs.

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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

Harvard Business Review

Our study will use a large corporate dataset from a major medical company to examine how technology extends our working hours and thus interferes with necessary cognitive recovery, resulting in huge health care costs and turnover costs for employers. External recovery refers to actions that take place outside of work—e.g.

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Business Has Changed, and Even Washington Has Noticed

Harvard Business Review

Johnson Controls has 170,000 employees and specializes in optimizing the energy and operational efficiency of buildings. Who better to retrofit an old building like the Empire State Building in New York City or the Inorbit Mall in Mumbai, simultaneously cutting carbon footprints and improving profits?

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How Hard Do Company Founders Really Work?

Harvard Business Review

Over eighty founders or co-founders of health care, technology, social media, retail, and financial services firms responded. ” At least 10 other CEOs referred to their enterprise as their child. While children, obviously, require tremendous time and energy, you rarely hear from parents who regret that commitment.