Strategy

Ozzie Paez

Dec 29, 20222 min read

The informed decision-maker fallacy

A common and dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers predictably make better, more objective decisions. It’s...

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Ozzie Paez

Dec 8, 20222 min read

Exceptional Transformation

Coping with disruptive technological innovations is a daunting challenge for established businesses and institutions. Disruptions...

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Ozzie Paez

Mar 16, 20222 min read

Putin & the Laws of Human Stupidity

Analysts prefer objective measures to subjective qualitative factors. Numbers simplify analysis and allow the application of quantifiable...

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Ozzie Paez

Mar 8, 20222 min read

Proliferation & Putin's Ukraine crisis

Threatening crises promote tunnel visions as those affected focus on their immediate effects. It’s only later, after normalcy returns,...

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Ozzie Paez

Feb 28, 20222 min read

Putin's nuclear bluffs

Mr. Putin is playing the nuclear card. It’s a reflection of Russia’s economic limitations and its history. In this context, hindsight...

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Ozzie Paez

Jan 18, 20222 min read

Patients and innovators in healthcare

My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...

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Ozzie Paez

Dec 10, 20212 min read

Barriers to healthcare innovation

Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....

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Ozzie Paez

Dec 9, 20211 min read

Harvard Digital Health Wrap-Up

Harvard’s last Digital Health cohort of 2021 wrapped December 4th. There were 191 participants from across the world. This was one of the...

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Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities

Ozzie Paez

Nov 11, 20212 min read

Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities

All technologies introduce controversies and disruptive technologies can kick up a storm. My colleagues and I have experienced these...

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Ozzie Paez

Oct 12, 20211 min read

New technologies help hospitals cope

Hospitals facing high demands and limited bed space are sending Covid patients home earlier than they’d prefer. It’s a classic response...

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Ozzie Paez

Jul 23, 20211 min read

Healthcare lessons beyond healthcare

Healthcare systems need to look beyond healthcare for lessons and solutions to meet the current and future crisis.

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Ozzie Paez

Jul 22, 20212 min read

Operational Elasticity

The COVID crisis tested healthcare’s robustness (the capacity to take a punch) and agility (the ability to adapt). Many hospitals...

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Ozzie Paez

May 21, 20211 min read

Preparedness and healthcare specs

I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...

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Ozzie Paez

May 20, 20211 min read

Research: Tech and catastrophes

Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...

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Ozzie Paez

May 6, 20211 min read

Coping with mass casualty events

Previous posts in this series dealt with lessons learned after a mass casualty event – 9/11. This one focuses on mounting disasters that...

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Ozzie Paez

Apr 15, 20211 min read

COVID lessons learned: Part 1

Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...

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Ozzie Paez

Nov 18, 20204 min read

Decision-making’s crucial 3rd leg

In his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman describes two systems that drive our thinking and decision-making....

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Ozzie Paez

Aug 17, 20201 min read

Lockdowns are killing supply chains

It’s been frustrating helping business and political leaders understand the unplanned consequences of economic lockdowns.

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Ozzie Paez

Jul 21, 20201 min read

Prepare for 2021

Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...

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Ozzie Paez

Jun 27, 20201 min read

Benchmarks and uncertainty

he COVID-19 crisis has been exasperating for many of us in part because of contradictory explanations from experts and news sources...

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