Texas Voters Back More Money for School Maintenance

Texas Voters Back More Money for School Maintenance

The news about deferred maintenance in the nation’s K-12 public schools in the last 20 years has been unanimously bad. An ever-increasing number of districts have been overwhelmed by a growing backlog of work orders for failed HVAC systems, roofs and plumbing components combined with shrinking budgets resulting from taxpayers refusing to increase public funding…

Cyberattacks Disrupt Critical Healthcare Services

Cyberattacks Disrupt Critical Healthcare Services

Between disrupted services and down time, affected healthcare facilities can be left reeling from cyber incidents. With healthcare facilities caught in the crosshairs of many cyberattacks, the effects of these events are becoming more understood as they disrupt healthcare services. An Oceanside, California hospital experienced troublesome effects after falling victim to a cyberattack. According to…

Livening Up Research Labs With Design

Livening Up Research Labs With Design

Biotech firm creates welcoming and collaborative space at new headquarter facility. Protein sequencing company Quantum-Si in Branford, Connecticut needed a new headquarters for its scientists, researchers, engineers, and other diverse staff members. The new research laboratory and modern workplace will consolidate two prior facilities into a single, technologically advanced research base. The biotech company relied…

In digital and AI transformations, start with the problem, not the technology

In digital and AI transformations, start with the problem, not the technology

Digital and AI transformations are everywhere. Almost every company has done, is doing, or plans to do one. But how can you make the changes stick? In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, McKinsey senior partner Eric Lamarre talks about the critical elements of what it takes to rewire an organization through…

A new paradigm for our connected world?

A new paradigm for our connected world?

The world today is deeply interconnected (Exhibit 1). The cross-border flows of trade, services, capital, people, data, and ideas that have marked the global economy for the past four decades and more—hitherto known collectively as “globalization”—have enriched the world, lifted more than a billion people out of poverty, and brought us to an unprecedented level…