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The Anti-Hype Resource on Problem Solving

Chris Peasner
January 21, 2020

Novel Solutions: Black Box Technology in Hospital Operating Rooms

Chris Peasner
January 21, 2020

Much like flight data recorders used in aviation, the OR Black Box® captures video and audio of the operative procedure along with physiological data from the patient and anesthesia monitor.

Tagged: problem solving, novel solutions, healthcare

Chris Peasner
January 21, 2020

5G: 2020 Device Shipments to Grow 0.9% to 2.16B

Chris Peasner
January 21, 2020

Gartner estimates that 5G models will account for 12% of mobile phone shipments in 2020, and that will reach 43% by 2022

Tagged: 5G, Gartner

Chris Peasner
January 17, 2020

AI for the Oil and Gas Industry

Chris Peasner
January 17, 2020

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business. How new tech is boosting old energy.

Tagged: ai for oil and gas

Chris Peasner
December 30, 2019

Robotics are expensive but seemingly required resources

Chris Peasner
December 30, 2019

Resource Allocation: Robotics create a resource gap that is hard to close

Tagged: resource allocation, robotics, ai4BL

Chris Peasner
December 17, 2019

Key attributes of the executive sponsor for growth initiatives

Chris Peasner
December 17, 2019

Resource Allocation: Key attributes for the executive sponsor in growth initiatives

Tagged: resource allocation, growth initiatives, executive sponsor

Chris Peasner
December 13, 2019

Resource Allocation: Avoid the halo effect

Chris Peasner
December 13, 2019

When making decisions about who’s going to be on the team and what role they play, its important to make judgments on evidence that is independent and valid.

Tagged: bias, halo effect, resource allocation

Chris Peasner
December 10, 2019

Why the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem is Slowing Down

Chris Peasner
December 10, 2019

If VC’s are the bridge between university science and corporate invention, then non-VC backed companies are losing ground.

Tagged: innovation

Chris Peasner
December 9, 2019

Survivorship Bias: The Tale of Forgotten Failures

Chris Peasner
December 9, 2019

“It happens when we assume that success tells the whole story and when we don’t adequately consider past failures.”

Tagged: bias, survivorship bias, resource engagement

Chris Peasner
December 5, 2019

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World

Chris Peasner
December 5, 2019

“The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become. Here’s how to develop the power of an elastic mind.”

Tagged: novel solutions, new solutions, elastic thinking

Chris Peasner
November 26, 2019

YouTube is the Most Frequently Used Educational Video Source for Surgical Preparation

Chris Peasner
November 26, 2019

“Sometimes he’d even open a YouTube video in the operating theater when confronted with a particularly challenging surgery or unexpected complication.”

Tagged: healthcare, YouTube, novel solutions

Chris Peasner
November 18, 2019

AI as a member of the care team?

Chris Peasner
November 18, 2019

“Machines will not replace physicians, but physicians using AI will soon replace those not using it”

Tagged: ai, care team, healthcare, human and machine

Chris Peasner
November 15, 2019

Why is the three-body problem unsolvable?

Chris Peasner
November 15, 2019

This is very technical, but some have found this interesting. At Q* we work with all kinds of problems, from simple to complex to wicked. No “chaotic problems” so far, whew.

Tagged: ai, machine learning, chaotic problems, neural networks

Chris Peasner
November 14, 2019

Is Your Company an Innovator?

Chris Peasner
November 14, 2019

Although the definition of innovation has many nuances, this research shows that the most innovative companies share a set of common traits.

Tagged: innovation, innovation readiness, 5 traits for success, HBR, MasterCard

Chris Peasner
November 12, 2019

Lawyers hate timekeeping. Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI

Chris Peasner
November 12, 2019

“It uses AI and machine learning to figure out whether an activity is billable, for which client, a description of the activity, and its codification beyond…”

Tagged: ai, machine learning, resource allocation, activity tracking, lawyers, legal services

Chris Peasner
October 23, 2019

Google Says Quantum Computer Beat 10,000-Year Task in Minutes

Chris Peasner
October 23, 2019

The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor

Tagged: quantum computing, google, ai, machine learning

Chris Peasner
October 21, 2019

Get more out of your meetings

Chris Peasner
October 21, 2019

Effective meetings produce better decisions. Yet too many decision meetings are doomed from the get-go. You can do better.

Tagged: resource engagement, meetings, decision making, McKinsey

Chris Peasner
October 20, 2019

Emerging trends in AI, blockchain, cloud and more

Chris Peasner
October 20, 2019

The pioneering CIO and longtime health IT evangelist, now Harvard's globe-trotting International Healthcare Innovation Professor, talks about what's next in emerging trends…

Tagged: healthcare, ai

Chris Peasner
October 18, 2019

Drugmaker to Test Machine Learning to Prevent Drug Shortages

Chris Peasner
October 18, 2019

Merck plans to use analytics and machine learning to predict and prevent drug shortages…

Tagged: healthcare, ai, machine learning

Chris Peasner
October 18, 2019

An algorithm to assist judges

Chris Peasner
October 18, 2019

Can an algorithm better predict which defendants should be released on bail?

Tagged: ai, machine learning, problem solving, ethics, judgement, objectivity

Chris Peasner
October 17, 2019

Novel Approach: Hospitals adopting an airline practice

Chris Peasner
October 17, 2019

“What health systems can learn from airplane flight crews” Novel approach to reducing adverse events

Tagged: healthcare, novel solutions

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