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Your business plan requires better simulations

September 9, 2024

Most businesses are facing a more demanding business environment that includes:

  1. Increasing customer expectations for improved quality and faster delivery.
  2. Stronger competitors.
  3. More complex products and services.

One consequence of this business environment is shortening product cycles. In this environment, CIOs can champion enhanced simulations to reduce risk and advance the business plan.

“We believe sophisticated simulations are essential to ensure that companies achieve rapid, quality product development,” says Keey Ryong Song, chief operating officer (COO) at MORAI, a South Korean technology company that develops simulation platforms for many industries and applications. “We’ve seen companies flounder due to poor software

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CMS’s Journey To Value-Based Care

May 11, 2023

Most people think of CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) as an insurance company that covers individual services provided by physicians, FQHCs, hospitals, and other health care providers. Some people even think of it as a policy-writing agency for Medicare. It is true that CMS reimburses providers for services to millions of individual beneficiaries. However, since the Affordable Care Act came into action in 2010, CMS has been developing focused payment strategies that shift from fees for services to value-based care and a focus on population health.

Today, CMS’s second-highest strategic priority is prevention and population health. To this

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Small businesses plan to increase wages by 3.3% on average over the next 12 months amid high inflation and a tight job market

May 1, 2023

Toronto, April 27, 2023 – Small businesses expect to increase wages by an average of 3.3% over the next 12 months, according to the latest Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) Business Barometer®. While the average wage increase plans remain elevated by historical standards, they are down after peaking at 3.6% in June 2022.

“Wage plans would have to further moderate to bring inflation within the Bank of Canada’s target range of 1% to 3%, however they are really not that far off and, quite frankly, show a sensible approach in the current inflationary context. Small businesses, while responding with

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Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

April 19, 2023

HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans use HEDIS as a standard to measure the performance of their plan. The data is tracked from year to year to measure the performance of the health plan and thus provide information regarding the population served.

The data that is collected is used to monitor the health of the general population, evaluate treatment outcomes, etc., and the data is collected

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Mullen Group Ltd. – 2023 Business Plan and Budget

February 15, 2023

OKOTOX, AB, Jan. 16, 2023 /CNW/ – (TSX: MTL) Mullen Group Ltd. (“Mullen Group“,”We“,”our“and/or the”Corporations“), one of North America’s largest logistics providers announced today that the budget and business plan for 2023 has been approved by the Board of Directors (“boards“).

“Today we provide our shareholders and interested investors with an outline of our expectations and priorities for 2023. As we enter the new year there is a higher level of uncertainty due to policy changes by banking and regulatory authorities, as they attempt to slow economic growth

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