Ozzie Paez
The informed decision-maker fallacy
A common and dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers predictably make better, more objective decisions. It’s...
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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Exceptional Transformation
Coping with disruptive technological innovations is a daunting challenge for established businesses and institutions. Disruptions...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Putin & the Laws of Human Stupidity
Analysts prefer objective measures to subjective qualitative factors. Numbers simplify analysis and allow the application of quantifiable...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Proliferation & Putin's Ukraine crisis
Threatening crises promote tunnel visions as those affected focus on their immediate effects. It’s only later, after normalcy returns,...
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Ozzie Paez
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Putin's nuclear bluffs
Mr. Putin is playing the nuclear card. It’s a reflection of Russia’s economic limitations and its history. In this context, hindsight...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 18, 2022
- 2 min
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
Harvard Digital Health Wrap-Up
Harvard’s last Digital Health cohort of 2021 wrapped December 4th. There were 191 participants from across the world. This was one of the...
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Ozzie Paez
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities
All technologies introduce controversies and disruptive technologies can kick up a storm. My colleagues and I have experienced these...
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Ozzie Paez
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
New technologies help hospitals cope
Hospitals facing high demands and limited bed space are sending Covid patients home earlier than they’d prefer. It’s a classic response...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Healthcare lessons beyond healthcare
Healthcare systems need to look beyond healthcare for lessons and solutions to meet the current and future crisis.
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Operational Elasticity
The COVID crisis tested healthcare’s robustness (the capacity to take a punch) and agility (the ability to adapt). Many hospitals...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
Preparedness and healthcare specs
I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Research: Tech and catastrophes
Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Coping with mass casualty events
Previous posts in this series dealt with lessons learned after a mass casualty event – 9/11. This one focuses on mounting disasters that...
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Ozzie Paez
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
COVID lessons learned: Part 1
Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...
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Ozzie Paez
- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
Decision-making’s crucial 3rd leg
In his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman describes two systems that drive our thinking and decision-making....
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdowns are killing supply chains
It’s been frustrating helping business and political leaders understand the unplanned consequences of economic lockdowns.
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
Benchmarks and uncertainty
he COVID-19 crisis has been exasperating for many of us in part because of contradictory explanations from experts and news sources...
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