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Johnson & Johnson CEO: Decentralization Works
Decentralizing management is a good way to spark innovation and train corporate leaders, according to William Weldon, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, maker of Band-Aids and Tylenol. Weldon made the comments at a Wharton School leadership conference and a video of his comments is available online. J&J,...
Tags: Management, Peter Galuszka, Johnson & Johnson, Healthcare, Leadership
Blog posts 2008-07-02
"Crunch" Time
Feel like you're running on an economic hamster wheel, powering an economy that benefits only a relative few? Jared Bernstein's "Crunch" is for you. So says reviewer Harry Hurt III in A Rock, A Hard Place and an Exit Strategy. Hurt walks through Bernstein's discussion...
Tags: Economics, Bernstein, Benefits, Health Care, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald, Human Resources, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Healthcare, Globalization
Blog posts 2008-05-19
An Important Message: Get People Connected
For those of us who write about business, every once in a while, a book or an article comes along that seems so simple on some levels yet communicates great wisdom. "The Connection Culture: A New  Source of Competitive Advantage" is one such work. Here's a link to the download. The author is Michael Lee...
Tags: Author, Connection, Connected Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, William J. Holstein
Blog posts 2008-03-17
Disruptive Innovation for Social Change
Good enough innovations may be the best drivers of social change. The Idea in Brief The U.S. spends more money on health care than any other nation. Yet many less...
Tags: In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Thomas M. Sadtler, Rudy Ruggles, Heiner Baumann, Clayton M. Christensen, Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Management, Innovation, Health Care, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy
Articles 2008-02-13
Summing up Muhammad Yunus, "Creating a World Without Poverty"
I've been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty,  Muhammad Yunus' visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...
Tags: Poverty, Yunus, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-01-22
Pharmaceutical Jobs Offer Good Pay
Pharmaceutical jobs belong in the healthcare industry, a fast growing industry. An aging population and new developments in diagnosis and treatment leading to increased use of medication are the main factors leading this growth. The pharmaceutical industry itself is a big part of this growth story. In addition to bringing...
Tags: Job, Industry, Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term Survival
Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...
Tags: Lori Deschene, Management, Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Leadership, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Manager, Health Care
Blog posts 2007-11-21
When the Boss Is Away the Worker Will...Work?
You're taking off a week to go to Hawaii or Paris -- or maybe you're just schlepping it over to small town, Missouri to visit family -- and you tell your employees you'll be unreachable for the week. Come Wednesday you start wondering if that important report got processed. So you...
Tags: Wall Street Journal Online, Worker, Employee, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Healthcare, Policies And Procedures, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-08-22
The "No Asshole Rule" from Stanford
There's a ton of literature out there on the topic of business leadership, but Robert Sutton is in a field of his own. The Professor at Stanford University's Management Science and Engineering department has written a volume of influential work on topics ranging from data-driven decisioning to his latest...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Andrew Hines, Blogging, Leadership, Stanford, Professor
Blog posts 2007-06-01
Wal-Mart Teaches Employees Self-Help
Wal-Marts "Personal Sustainability Project" for employees, as reported in this NYT article, is fantastic. We all need to cultivate a sense of self-improvement -- we can improve our mind and body -- and I love how Wal-Mart is investing in programs to encourage this thinking among their massive employee pool....
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Ben Casnocha, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., health care, General, Management, Strategy
Blog posts 2007-04-07
IBM Healthcare Executive Kit: Capacity constrained? Experiencing outages and downtime? Need to better manage operating costs?
Today, unprecedented demands facing the healthcare industry are forcing organizations to restructure IT systems and transform their business practices. This e-Kit includes informative white papers on topics ranging from IBM data center and facility strategy solutions to the future of the healthcare industry. It also includes innovative ways you can...
Tags: Data Centers, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, IBM Corp., Outage, Health Care, Downtime
Resource centers 2007-01-01
Saying No Can Avoid Over-Committing Yourself
Saying no can often be a very difficult thing to do. No can be a very scary word. It can cause an extensive amount of anger, damage to relationships, and an overwhelming feeling of guilt. No, though, is often a very important word. It can help keep you from over-committing...
Tags: Goal, Word, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2007-01-01
Smart Solutions for Rural and Community Hospital: Information System Needs
Making smart choices that result in smart solutions are what hospital executives and management teams strive to achieve. This process can be difficult when evaluating specific hospital needs and determining what elements can best meet these needs. This paper provides client-specific cases in which Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. HMS was...
Tags: Healthcare, Hospital, Information System, Strategy, Management
White papers 2006-07-19
The Impact of Globalization on Vaccine Development and Availability
Globalization is likely to affect many aspects of public health, one of which is vaccine-preventable communicable diseases. Important forces include increased funding initiatives supporting immunization at the global level; regulatory harmonization; widespread intellectual property rights provisions through the World Trade Organization agreements; the emergence of developing-country manufacturers as major players...
Tags: Business Operations, Research & Development, Management, Strategy, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Globalization, Project HOPE, Vaccine
White papers 2006-07-01
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study Of Organizational Learning In Hospital Intensive Care Units
This paper contributes to research on organizational learning by investigating specific learning activities undertaken by improvement project teams in hospital intensive care units and proposing an integrative model to explain implementation success. Organizational learning is important in this context because medical knowledge changes constantly, and hospital care units must learn...
Tags: Management, Healthcare, Team Management, Hospital, Harvard College, Team
White papers 2006-04-19
Information Technology Vital for Global Healthcare Improvements
Aptly recognized as Toronto's "Urban Angel," St. Michael's Hospital is heading towards the future of healthcare. Through a powerful information technology initiative, the visionary Canadian care center is transforming clinical practice across the continuum of care. While St. Michael's in Toronto has a clear vision for moving towards an electronic...
Tags: Human Resources, Management, Strategy, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Health Care, Information Technology, Siemens AG, Software, Enterprise Software
White papers 2006-04-03
Information Technology: The Global Key to "Real-Time" Patient Care
Satiated with technological sophistication, Germany's hospitals are recognized as world leaders in healthcare's vision for a universal system of care. Information Technology IT solutions are fundamental drivers behind Germany's standard for real-time patient care, linking hospitals' facilities and systems across the continuum. Hospitals such as Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital UKE are...
Tags: Management, Strategy, Healthcare, UKE, Information Technology, Siemens AG, Hospital, Patient
Case studies 2006-04-03
The Impact of Compliance and Risk Management on Archival Storage Strategies
Today, organizations of all sizes and across all industries are subject to a wide range of local, national and international government and industry regulations. The most well known regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the US seek to control financial records, legal...
Tags: Hardware, Management, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Government, Healthcare, Strategy, Storage, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Hipaa, Risk Management, Industry, Compliance
White papers 2006-01-18
Care Management
The complexity of managing healthcare is increasing as providers and payers struggle to contain costs and improve quality of care for patients. What they've learned along the way is that successful and effective care management requires more than a care manager and a patient, and more than a healthcare provider...
Tags: Patient, Collaboration, Health Care, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Groupware, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2006-01-01
Competition in Health Care: Its Evolution Over the Past Decade
Understanding the roller-coaster experience with the use of market forces in health care over the past ten years provides important context for discussions of likely future developments in the nature of competition. The period began with acceptance of managed care transforming the organization of medical care delivery and proceeded to...
Tags: Project HOPE, Vision, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2005-12-01
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