The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine. A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review.

Crisis 91

Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development. Google’s operation stands out for its scale. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

Products 8

Products Productivity Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

While some organizations have made great strides in developing robust mechanisms for sharing data, many do little beyond circulating the most basic data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient-satisfaction survey (the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or HCAHPS).

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Health Care Survey Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time.

NPV 14

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather surgeons together to review particular cases and share ideas for improving their practice.

Media 8

Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8