Costs and Benefits of Leadership Team Humor
Is leadership team humor always humor? Take a look at a common example. Assume you are sitting in a leadership team meeting for a strategic business unit. The senior vice president sitting next to you makes a potentially humorous comment about the senior vice president sitting across the table. When the other team members (including [...]
Reduce Healthcare Improvement Fatigue
Shifting from a volume-based healthcare model to a value-based model makes sense when you consider that the U.S. trails other wealthy nations on improving health outcomes. As the healthcare industry makes this shift, hospitals and other healthcare organizations are continuing to experience a growing consequence of the pressure to assess and improve the quality of [...]
Simple Laxity Enables Credit Card Fraud
In some ways, retailers and credit card companies are trying to be proactive in the fight against credit card fraud. For example, Visa developed software to detect whether it is you or an impostor who is using your credit card at a gas station pump. The use of new EMV-chip credit cards will help prevent fraud, because they [...]
Is Vehicle Technology Just Hype?
Vehicle infotainment (VI) is a marketing buzzword. An electric vehicle that is directly competitive in price to a combustion engine vehicle is an aspiration for the distant future. An optical, head-mounted display (think Google Glass) is a novelty for a pedestrian with discretionary funds. These statements may sound valid, but they are not as accurate [...]
Moore’s Law at Age 50
April 19th will be a landmark day in the semiconductor industry. Fifty years ago, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore shared a stunning prediction in Electronics magazine: Silicon chips should double in complexity (i.e., in terms of the number of components on them) every year for the next 10 years. In 1975, based on industry developments, he [...]
Executive Disagreement without Resistance
As an executive, you have inevitably had disagreements with other executives who are peers or direct reports. These differences in perspective are natural parts of business relationships just like they are any other relationships. Research by CPP provides evidence of this with its finding that 85 percent of employees deal with disagreement on a regular [...]
COPD and Epilepsy Apps Enhance mHealth
If you thought smartphones, tablets and wearables being used as legitimate medical devices for more than monitoring your heart rate and storing basic medical history is a few years away, you might want to adjust your time horizon. LifeMap Solutions, a growing digital therapeutics provider, just launched a pilot program for its COPD Navigator app. [...]
The Impact of Pony Express on Banks
While “Pony Express” may sound like a potential offering from Wells Fargo (or possibly another visual to go with its iconic stage coach), it is not a creation of this bank. In fact, it is a service that Google has in the works. According to the tech news website Re/code, Google is developing this service [...]
Satellite Race for Boeing, SpaceX and OneWeb
If you are talking about satellites, the names Boeing and SpaceX probably do not raise an eyebrow, but OneWeb may prompt some questions. If you are talking about the Internet, the name OneWeb may sound like a potential match, but where do Boeing and SpaceX fit? As it turns out, all three of these companies [...]
The Internet of Things Deserves Your Attention
How much attention should be paid to the Internet of Things (IoT)? Some recent events in the last three months provide a compelling answer. Earlier this week, Forbes reported that global software developer SAP announced a list of new partnerships in order to get more involved in IoT. TechCrunch shared news today that Amazon acquired [...]
