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Season 7 Episode 18: How an Entrepreneurial Operating System Produces Greater Outcomes // Doug Hall, Resources for CEOs

BCW Institute

Does your organization have an operating system that links your vision down to your employees’ daily and weekly actions? Well, find out how many entrepreneurial companies and ministries are discovering how an effective operative system can lead to improved outcomes and impact. Now here’s your host, BCWI CEO , Al Lopus.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

Amazon, born 24 years ago, had captured about 45% of online retail commerce in the United States by 2017, but still stood for just about 5% of total US retail gross merchandise volume in that year. Those technologies started to be used about ten to 25 years ago, and the average level of absorption of these technologies was about 37% in 2017.

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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business Review

By 2017 it had grown organically to $12.79 In 2017 and 2018 , Decathlon was ranked the #1 Great Place to Work in France. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. billion worldwide.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. The soaring U.S.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last September, the U.S.-India

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets. Problem 3: Separating operating- and capital-budget timelines and processes. Gillian Blease/Getty Images.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows.