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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. In the U.S., This issue can become a major performance barrier.

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Are They Contractors or Staff?

Women on Business

As a larger operation, it gets a bit tougher. operates their own business. Who pays travel expenses? One of the more complicated tasks for a business owner is being able to correctly classify the people working for you. As a one man shop. it it’s fairly easy, when you pull someone in it is a temporary arrangement.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Operations in a Connected World. And something was wrong.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. I think showing love is something that will really come back to you in the end, even in the business world. Interesting thoughts. Thanks for posting.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

HCCI outsourced back-office operationshuman resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Even with zero copays and deductibles and free travel for the patient and a chaperone for 1-2 weeks, insurers would save a lot of money.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation. The savings to Ascension in supplies alone totaled about $1 billion, or 5% of total revenues.