What do you do when patients are so isolated and travel is so difficult and money is so tight that symptoms go untreated because information travels so slowly? Oh, and there’s not a dime to spare. This is the challenge faced by many rural health centers utilizing a system of community health workers who travel [...]
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Ways To Kill Business Innovation Through Analysis
Want to kill a good innovative idea? Analyze it in some obviously logical yet inappropriate way. It would be murder but you are unlikely to get caught. When thinking about this I always remember an old accounting example where we try to help the owner of a diner decide if it would be a good [...]
Cardboard Creativity…
Making Do While Making Great
It can be easy to forget that creativity is a brain exercise more than a money exercise. Sure, money helps – but it can also get in the way. Subject in point – The Cardboard Theatre’s first production at Indiana University – Bloomington. Life is all about solving problems. Problem? Students at IU want [...]
The Slash and Burn Prune.
Is this an example of good pruning or bad? Of course the choices weren’t good. Either a severe prune or get yanked out by the roots. So this probably will turn out better for the bush. Summer will tell. We are told budgetary cutbacks demand careful pruning. That cuts must be made strategically to ensure [...]
Dump Your Marketing Department
Your marketing budget has been cut 50%. So what. Do the company a favor and figure out a way to get rid of it all together. That may be a bit rough, but truth is when the boss says cut costs the accountant aims for the Marcom budget cause it’s easy and below the line. [...]
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