by Chris Flanders | Mar 4, 2013 | Blogs
The most interesting session for me today at HIMSS was the awkwardly titled “Building and Apply a Better Nurse Staffing to Outcomes Model.” It was presented by Nancy Barton (MSN, RN) from Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) and Ken Colbert from...
by Chris Flanders | Mar 4, 2013 | Blogs
HIMSS session – Driving change at Kaiser Permanente I just had the pleasure of sitting in a session at HIMSS in New Orleans that was presented by Kaiser Permanente during the Nursing Informatics Symposium. KP is always very cutting edge and the presenters, Julie...
by Bob Clements | Feb 26, 2013 | Blogs
In my last blog post, I talked about how retailers use traffic data with their workforce management (WFM) systems. The reality is that a minority of retailers use traffic to drive labor. Why aren’t more retailers aligning labor to traffic? I see five hurdles to...
by Bob Clements | Feb 26, 2013 | Blogs
An apparel retail client of ours called me recently. They had finished deploying traffic counters to their stores. They were considering switching their primary labor driver from sales to traffic and wanted to know how other retailers were using traffic data with...
by Chris Flanders | Feb 21, 2013 | Blogs
It’s funny how little things can impact us in big way. Something unexpected makes life seem wonderful. When an annoyance that you didn’t realize could be removed suddenly is gone, it just makes you happy! I felt this way the first time we got a DVR for our home...
