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3 Ways to Plan for and Overcome Workday® Challenges

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If left unaddressed, these challenges can lower the ROI of your software investment or, in a worst case scenario, cause it to fail completely. Workday® is used in a wide number of industries ranging from education to hospitality to manufacturing and more.

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas. Here’s how we did it.

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Your Company Should Be Helping Customers on Social

Harvard Business Review

So how can companies increase their ROI of social media customer service? To scale that connectivity requires integrating social media data into your CRM system. One leading hotel chain, for example, provides travel tips to travelers, even those not staying with them, to further its mission of hospitality.

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The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Large-scale examples include Hong Kong’s historic real estate subsidy for MTR rail from the airport to downtown, or the per-liter subsidies for private urban water and sanitation providers in Algiers and many other cities. They should also encourage sources of repayment for such investments beyond just user fees.

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Convincing Employees to Use New Technology

Harvard Business Review

“We’ve spent an awful lot of money on technology, but I still see people working in the old way,” complained the CFO of a large hospitality company. They make their money by selling products and software, rarely by getting them used at scale. Why does this happen? And finally, the bottom line: user adoption programs cost money.

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HR Technology Strategy: How HR Leaders Can Succeed

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Maximized ROI Strategic planning allows organizations to select and deploy technologies that offer the best return on investment. As the organization expands or changes, the technology infrastructure can scale accordingly, providing the flexibility needed to accommodate new requirements and emerging trends without significant disruption.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term.