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Teary eyes, baseball and analysis awakening
Time after time, I have seen the lunacy of people trying to make important decisions without facts. I have tried to convince more than one management team of the dangers of failing to “manage by fact.” Just like many of us, Billy Beane of the Oakland A’s at first failed to convince the scouts of their errors.
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Can there be privacy online?
By now most readers have been contacted by Google and asked to accept the corporation’s revised privacy policies. Most users simply clicked the acknowledgement box and continued on. But, as I’ve mentioned in previous columns, the cloud carries risks.
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Patient-centered care, take one
Upcoming changes to patient access and healthcare provider choice as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act soon will shift new consumers into the marketplace and increase competition for patients. But be forewarned. This is a new breed of healthcare consumer with the ability to affect the financial viability of your healthcare organization. They will not be mollified into accepting the status quo.
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Live lean or die
Explanations vary, but one common theme is the longstanding belief that small businesses “tend to be more nimble, more creative [and] less bound up in bureaucratic rigamarole,” Kathleen Melymuka wrote in CIO magazine. In the parlance of industrial engineering, small businesses tend to be more lean.
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A systems view of military operations
As goes the military, so goes the welfare of a nation, not just for national defense, but also for national economic stability and advancement. This makes it imperative for the civilian population to pay attention to the systems engineering movement in the military.
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