Category: Program Execution

Pragmatic Agile And Reports
Insight Paper • 5.17.2016

Pragmatic Agile and Reports

I am a late-comer to Agile. For years while at Bell Labs, MCI Systemhouse, FastWeb, and US Bank, I collected what I called “tricks” to help me and my teams get things done better and faster. Only when I went to work for ThoughtWorks did I realize that this had<span. . .
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Social-Media-and-the-Workplace
Insight Paper • 2.24.2016

Social Media and the Workplace

As social media created an explosion in the way in which we interact with one another it was inevitable that it would begin to creep into our professional lives. When companies began to recognize the power of social media we found ourselves inundated with more advertisements and promotions across<span. . .
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Building an IT Operating a Model for a Large Health Insurer
Case Study • 2.16.2016

Building an IT Operating Model for a Large Health Insurer

Our Client, one of the largest customer-owned health insurance companies in the country, needed to improve the efficiency and the quality of output generated by their IT organization. Their lines of business (LOB) are incredibly diverse, including government, group, and retail consumer healthcare plans. These LOBs exist at different<span. . .
Tagged in: Healthcare & Life Sciences, Optimized Operations, Program Execution, Strategy & Innovation
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2016 MAMA2
Event Summary • 2.9.2016

2016 MAMA2

The 2016 MAMA2 (MinneAnalytics does Marketing Analytics) took place January 22, 2016 at Medtronic’s Mounds View campus and attracted over 400 attendees from the Twin Cities Analytics community. MAMA is Minnesota’s premier event for Data Science in Marketing Analytics and is run by MinneAnalytics, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving<span. . .
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Maximizing ACA Payments For Healthcare Startup
Case Study • 11.9.2015

Maximizing ACA 3R Payments for a Healthcare Startup

Business Driver An innovative Healthcare Consumer-Oriented and Operated Plan (CO-OP) established under the authority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was weeks away from the deadline to submit their data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet they did not yet have a program in place to<span. . .
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