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Free Your Staff to Think

Harvard Business Review

Because professionals have such direct access to information and people, many companies have let most of their administrative assistants go, leaving it to professionals to manage their own information. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. Kit" information. This is good.

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Speeding Up the Digitization of American Health Care

Harvard Business Review

These and many other feats of information management will soon be routine in the United States. Thus, investing in costly and complicated information systems imposes expenses on doctors and hospitals that they cannot recoup through the normal forces of competition. Indeed, in some places they are already happening.

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Shaping Lives, Inspiring Futures: An Interview With Tracy Keogh

HR Digest

For those employees, HP is taking measures to keep them safe, including travel restrictions, site visitor restrictions, in-person meeting postponements, requiring face coverings, physical distancing, alternate staffing shifts, safety signage, and enhanced cleaning and sanitization practices. manufacturing and R&D) to work on site.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

If the company management feels it is operating below this standard most of these practices can be self taught by studying them on the internet or visiting a bookstore. Informed Management [Experienced User or Management 2.0]. Skills management. Time management. Training and development.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

More broadly, many tech leaders have emphasized the contributions of high-skilled immigrants to the economy — and have spoken out against anti-immigrant actions like President Trump’s travel bans. Is There a Shortage of Technical Skills in the U.S.?