Make Efficient Decisions by Consensus
"Let's continue this discussion at next week's meeting, because we need to take another look at these issues to get everyone's commitment." As soon as Bill heard the vice president make this statement, his blood pressure shot up 20 points, because this would be the third time that a decision has been kicked down [...]
Too Much Patient Satisfaction?
Patient satisfaction is an important consideration, but hospitals and health systems may be focusing too much on it as a key metric. According to a national study conducted at UC Davis by Dr. Joshua Fenton, patients who reported being most satisfied with their doctors actually had higher healthcare and prescription costs and were more likely [...]
Identity Theft Insurance?
Approximately $16 billion was stolen from 12.7 million U.S. consumers in 2014 according to the 2015 Identity Fraud Study released by Javelin Strategy & Research. The FTC found that identity theft was the number one type of complaint for the 15th year in a row among 30 categories of complaints. Identity theft accounted for 332,646 [...]
Metropolis Development Boosts Los Angeles Resurgence
The 6.3-acre Metropolis project designed in the late 1980s that stalled in the 1990s and mid-2000s is now part of the revival of downtown Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Times, the $1 billion "city within a city" is being created by Greenland USA, a Chinese development firm. Greenland expects the four enormous buildings [...]
Man in the Cloud Attacks on Box, Google Drive and Dropbox
If your company uses cloud applications such as Box, Google Drive or Dropbox to make data available to multiple users and devices, then you should be aware of Man in the Cloud (MITC) cyber attacks. Imperva, a cyber security company based in northern California, described MITC as a new type of attack in its August [...]
Lead Employees through M&A Integrations
Obtaining organizational growth and innovation through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is still a common practice. According to the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances, there are 40,000 announced M&As worldwide in 2015 with a total value of approximately $4 trillion. While M&As have been around for a while, the success rate for them is still lacking. Research [...]
NFL and GE Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostics
With the launch of their Head Health Initiative in 2013, the NFL and GE have helped to make positive strides to improve the health and safety of athletes at all levels. The initiative is a four-year, $60 million collaboration to aid in the prevention, detection and management of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) as well as [...]
Credit Card Changes in the Next 5 Years
Innovation is a part of our daily lives whether it is what we drive, devices we use to communicate or how we shop. The credit cards that we use are no different. According to Credit.com and Boston.com, there are five ways that credit cards are likely to change by 2020. Chip and PIN everywhere. While [...]
F-35 Jet Still Raising Questions
In a June article from CBS News, you might get the impression that the F-35 fighter jet program is “clearly on track.” Capable of supersonic speeds and boasting radar-busting stealth design and unprecedented computer technology, the F-35 is the most advanced and most expensive plane ever built for the U.S. military. With more than 8.5 [...]
Fitness Tracker: A Fad or Essential?
How many steps have you taken today? This is a question that makers of fitness trackers hope people will continue to ask. If you pay attention to the technology industry, it may seem like this industry is determined to make people healthy. Wearable products like fitness trackers continue to appear on the market that are [...]
