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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies.

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Health care is fragmented, and the quality of care varies widely, which leads to unsustainable health care spending. But the ACA does little to address fragmentation, quality of care, and the sustainability of the financial model for U.S. Addressing Uneven Quality. health care — how health care is paid for.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

To test new software before release, managers of large projects use elaborate test procedures run by teams of “quality assurance” professionals. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers.