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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Case Question: Assessing Open Innovation at Siemens, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Siemens has invested heavily in the open innovation concept, but seems to find itself unsure of how to proceed with all the ideas that were generated. If I were in charge of open innovation at Siemens, I would analyze the strategic objectives of Siemens and establish metrics to measure how far any particular idea/project advances those objectives.…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Last year I attended a conference on “Emergency Department Operations Research,” along with colleagues in the field of emergency medicine. In distinguishing networks from communities of practice, I’d say the field of emergency medicine is a network, but not every ED doc out there has the same commitment to the domain of interest of clinical…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Mariya, great points. I agree there is definitely a place for textbooks in medical education – I still have many of my outdated editions of texts from school, and a 1965 Ciba collection of Netter drawings. Those are irreplaceable.
I guess I was commenting more on FOAMed for postgraduate and continuing medical education, though I think it…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
One of the most interesting points I found in Christensen’s article was about how big a business opportunity has to be to seem interesting to a large company. I imagine this applies to publishers, who receive many submissions but enter into contracts to publish/promote/sell only those works for which they sense there is a large market opportunity.…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Diane,
I think ‘test the waters’ is the biggest advantage – authors can publish with little risk or liability (unlike a publisher who invests heavily in print publishing, marketing and distribution). But as mentioned above, how you market the product to consumers will be important. For you it may be a veterinarian listserv or professional…[Read more] -
Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Corey,
I hadn’t heard about this strategy by Wu Tang. I’m fascinated! With so much piracy (the HBR case cites 20 illegal downloads per legit track purchase), it’s amazing that the basic forces of economics (supply and demand) prevail, garnering such a high price simply for the scarcity of the sole physical copy of the LP.What a bizarre industry!
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
With packaging/manufacturing, distribution, record company and retail overhead all a combined 40% of the price of a physical album, it’s not surprising to see disruptive innovation on the part of artists wanting to produce and distribute their own albums. While digital downloads were themselves a disruptive innovation, distributers like iTunes…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Charlene, great points. I agree, HIPAA makes it tough. This is the tension between ease of use vs security. Allowing people to add their own devices to the mix only makes that more complicated.
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I haven’t found that having my own device on the network has allowed me to increase my productivity much, apart from being able to remotely access applications via Citrix. BYOD requires an IT department that can service your needs and quickly. Temple Univ Hospital isn’t there yet.
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
My hospital allows you to bring your own device, but locks it down with regard to apps you can install and with security software that slows it down. I’ve decided to segregate my work and personal life. In part due to security and the “Big Brother” feeling of having my employer potentially watching the games my kid is playing on my phone or iPad.…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: Global & Information Technology, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Yes, IT has enabled the emergence of global brands by allowing geographically distant parts of an enterprise to coordinate their operations with reliable data. “The left hand knows what the right hand is doing” thanks to IT. Best practices can be determined by analysis of huge amounts of data, and processes can be modeled and simulated in ways…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
S3 = simple storage service – sells storage by GB
EC2 = elastic compute cloud – scalable, elastic computing environment to run instances/apps
SimpleDB = core-functionality web-based database for real-time lookup and querying
SQS – simple query service – allows different applications to transmit messages back and forthPROS
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I agree with the other comments here that IT played a central role in globalization efforts at Wyeth. I don’t think it’s about centralization/decentralization, though this of course is a question to be wrestled with during any globalization effort. Rather, as Mariya indicated above (and as the article concludes) IT was the ‘lingua franca of…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: Business Models, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
As a physician and now an MBA student, I have been interested to witness the changes related to cost structure in health care. As the article mentions, there are cost-driven vs value-driven cost structures. I find that there is a shift underway, as more focus in health care at large is being placed on value . Though somewhat different to analyze…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Probably the same way VW couldn’t read the tea leaves to see that under-investing in IT during the 1990s was a bad idea. It’s about corporate governance and having a business strategy that incorporates an understanding of the changing market (realize that the web is increasingly important to sales, realize that people want SUVs instead of small…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Matulovic’s position requires that he stand behind the process. If he doesn’t, he risks undermining the entire process and threatens his and the ELT’s credibility in the next budget cycle. He needs to take lessons from the failures of this cycle and use those to influence the process at the executive level. If he feels an NRG priority such as…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Mariya,
Shared vision is a nice idea, but in reality there are usually points of overlap but not complete agreement about a particular vision. I sympathize with Matulovic, who as CIO is at the leadership level but may not have the greatest sway over enterprise priorities. It’s hard to be a leader or manager ‘in the middle’ of the corporate…[Read more] -
Dan del Portal commented on the post, Case Question: Volkswagen Process Assessment, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The new system is definitely better. An organization is doomed to failure if its individual business units are investing heavily in projects without regard to how those investments tie into enterprise strategy. One major discovery in this new process was the redundancy between business units’ top-ranked projects. By the old mechanism of funding…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Case Question: When Hackers Turn to Blackmail, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
1. Sunnylake should have backup servers and be able to isolate some servers/records from outside its walls. There should be firewalls in place to prevent access, but if those fail, they should have the ability to produce records off-line from physically isolated back-ups.
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Reading Question: Platform Culture, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I used Uber once, with their ‘first ride free’ promotion, before I heard all the negative press about the company. I have to say I was impressed, like Aldo, with the level of service. The shadier sides of its business culture make me less excited about using the service again. Once a company earns a reputation like that, it’s hard to shake, and it…[Read more]
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