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How to Address the Supply-Chain Staffing Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are being impacted by a global skills shortage that is hampering manufacturing output and service delivery. In addition, the costs of producing materials, manufacturing goods, and providing services is rising due to labor costs.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. He went on to become president of the Kentucky Medical Association and in 2016 was honored with the association’s Distinguished Service Award.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management.

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Want to Improve Customer Service – Treat Your Employees Better

The Practical Leader

Part of the article reports on “a recent study conducted by Marshall Fisher, a professor of operations and information management at Wharton, and other colleagues.” ” He goes on to show how one of the keys to improving customer service is: “‘the power of management by common sense.’

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

How did the finance function at Group Health, ThedaCare and others make the transition from business policeman -- focused on oversight, surveillance and compliance -- to coach and adviser on improvement activities? In four main ways: Provide information managers and the front line can use.

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Your Company Culture Can’t Be Disconnected from Your Customers

Harvard Business Review

We have had the privilege of advising dozens of organizations on how to get to Level Three. As their website puts it, “If you love to build, to invent, to pioneer on a high-performance team that’s passionate about operational excellence — you’ll love it here.”