Healthcare industry is known to be complex, growing and ..well, expensive; both to care providers and patients. The complexity comes from the decentralized and defragmented nature of Healthcare Providers. There are just too many inputs for a single output. Its costs comes from various sources such as, the latest technology and machinery, and the pharmaceutical […]
Category: Business and Society
Netflix Disrupting the Anime Industry
The Japanese Anime Industry was valued at a whooping $17.5 Billion in 2016 (1). Anime industry is notorious for not only underpaying their staff and animators, but also overworking them. 2 to 3 decades ago, “anime” wasn’t known in the West, but due to the influx of online streaming channels, anime industry got a boost. […]
Saudi Women Can Drive
Amidst all headlines, from ‘NFL-Take a Knee’ to the ‘Daily Weather Report’, one headline made it to the top of international news and trended worldwide on Twitter. If you were living under a rock, here is a post from NYTimes. History was made, three days after the 87th National Day of Saudi Arabia, on Sept 26, […]
Corporate Culture: The Sleeping Beast
Culture an any form, is the shared value and beliefs a group of people follow. When it comes to organizational culture, the ‘shared’ value and beliefs in an organization, governs how people behave and their decisions. Or in more simple terms, “Culture is how organizations ‘do things’.” — Robbie Katanga* How important is it? Well, […]
The Student-To-Employee Transition
I still tend to call myself a ‘recent graduate’ even tough it’s been a year since I finished graduate-school – guess that the saying is true then – “Once a student always a student” (by Medbh Mcguckian) So how has ‘work life’ been for me? To start with – it is boring and tiring. But, […]