According to a new Association for Information and Image Management (“AIIM”) of Silver Spring, MD study, the enterprise is not taking maximum advantage of business process management concepts.Surprisingly, only 3%…
Recently, the Wall Street Journal noted that Facebook is transforming journalism. This is a great segway into something we've been watching for a while. Social media is not just for…
As global accounting standards have started to converge, businesses are increasingly being required to understand and adopt XBRL as an enabling technology in enterprise wide disclosure initiatives being mandated by global financial governing bodies, such as the SEC’s Final Rule in the US and HMRC in the UK. Executing any company IT strategy requires knowledge, foresight and careful planning and XBRL is no exception.
Looking back on 2009 and changing perspectives: Don’t Rush eHRs Without Addressing Medical ID Theft was posted on ModernHealthcare.com by Martin Ethridgehill, formerly a provider training specialist with Blue Cross…
The Model for Improvement,* developed by Associates in Process Improvement, is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement. The model is not meant to replace change models that organizations…
BusinessWeek published one of the first articles we have seen about a trend we commented on last year - social media inside the enterprise. Social media will provide a powerful…
We are all capable of creativity - some times creativity that is massively successful is called genius. So, if we all "have it," what does it take to create, and if one has accomplished something great what can they learn from the experience so that they and others can try to repeat it?
Barak Obama’s administration is expected to spend $50 billion to modernize the health care system, focusing in part on upgrading information technology for EHR for electronic health record, and PHR…
Finding the Devil in the Detail of Financial Statements It has often been said that "the devil is in the detail." Somewhere, buried among all the data in mortgage backed securities…
B. Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. -- "satyam" means truth in Sanskrit -- said in a letter of resignation that he overstated profits for the…
"It's all about how you think." Here is another side to a winning U.S. college football coach who likes to give back to others. Pete Carroll overcame tremendous adversity to…
Summary Even though the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) clearly defined financial transparency as an important component of the foundation of our financial system, it is nearly non-existent in…