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The Technology that can Revolutionize Health Care & What really motivates workers

Escrito por Felipe Sandoval | fecha: 1 Septiembre del 2010 | Sección: Del Harvard Business

THE PROBLEM FOR HEALTH
When people talk about technological breakthroughs in medicine, they’re usually referring to high-tech (and high-cost) innovations such as next-generation MRI machines or surgical robots. Oddly, they rarely talk about technologies that could improve the most critical factor in the quality of health care: the patient’s relationship with the provider.
Having graduated from medical [...]

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Major league innovation.

Escrito por arte de los negocios | fecha: 12 Noviembre del 2009 | Sección: Del Harvard Business
Major league innovation.

It’s October, and if you’re an American sports fan, you’re probably choosing sides in the upcoming World Series – the culmination of Major League Baseball’s season. But are you reflecting on what you as a manager could learn from the winning team?
When you think about it, a corporate executive on the hook for delivering [...]

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Lego CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp Leading through survival and growth

Escrito por AndrewO | fecha: 1 Septiembre del 2009 | Sección: Del Harvard Business
Lego CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp Leading through survival and growth

Sometimes a CEO’s most challenging leadership transition is not a matter of switching jobs but of guiding the company onto a new path. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, a former McKinsey consultant who came to the family-owned Lego Group as an outsider in 2001 and was named CEO in 2004, learned that a series of distinct leadership [...]

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Investing in the information technology that makes a competitive difference

Escrito por Andrew McAfee | fecha: 3 Agosto del 2009 | Sección: Del Harvard Business
Investing in the information technology that makes a competitive difference

It’s not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Our recent research finds that since the middle of the 1990s, which marked the mainstream adoption of the Internet and commercial enterprise software, competition within the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. We found that a central catalyst in this [...]

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