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How to Meet Customer Expectations when Demand is High

Strategy Driven

To avoid this, outsource most of the operations you’re not competent at or take a lot of your time. Also, think of outsourcing your human resource, accounting, and manufacturing department. You improve productivity and at the same time have qualified outsourcing companies take care of essential departments.

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A Better Way for Employers to Procure Health Care

Harvard Business Review

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. They are taking control of their health care supply chains. It is a costly mistake. physical therapy.).

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. The Autonomous Outsourcer.

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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

RPA automates high volume, low complexity, routine administrative “white collar” tasks — the logical successor to outsourcing many administrative processes, further reducing costs and increasing accuracy. Deconstructing the “job” reveals that the human still plays an important role.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. And while employers operate across state lines, very few providers do. The corporations in the HTA are seeking to improve the supply chain for the 4 million people covered by their plans.