You Might Be Using Dark UX Patterns Users’ hire your website or app to do a job. Whether it’s to use a service, learn about a topic or to purchase something, the user has goals — and so do you. A well-designed experience makes it super simple and intuitive for the user to know where to look and what to click to …
What is Operations Research? Making decisions is easy, making good ones is hard. Arriving at the best decision with limited data and lots of uncertainty is even harder. Operations Research (OR) provides a framework for making better decisions when data is incomplete and uncertainty is high. Since we all face these challenges, all decision-makers should consider themselves as operations researchers, …
Venterans far and wide came together to showcase their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by attending our October all-hands meeting decked out in pink. For some, it required creativity and going deep into the wardrobe to find a pink headband, rhinestone hat, or shirt from their children’s closet. “Our innovative spirit was on full display,” said Christina Pritchett, Ventera …
In February 2020, Ventera’s EVP of Government Services, Jeff Smith, received a call from a friend, Kevin Hamer, who, along with his wife, Sharon, had started a Tribally Owned Organization. One of their projects was to bring broadband internet to the Akiak Native Community (ANC), a federally recognized tribe in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), the second-largest unserved area in America. Kevin was seeking Jeff’s …
Ventera has been selected as a 2021 Top Workplace by The Washington Post—ranking 19th out of 76 companies in our category by earning higher average scores based on company and employee alignment, engagement, leadership, culture, and innovation. The selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous, third-party survey designed to identify the top ranking workplaces in the …
Innovation isn’t a result. It’s the capacity to see change as an opportunity to do something better — instead of a threat. Long the locked-down domain of visionaries, innovation is now required for survival in any market. But pure inventiveness doesn’t cut it these days. Innovation is a moving target. You’ve got to move fast and deliver value to customers …
2020 could have been electronic health records’ moment. When COVID-19 hit the state of Washington and then New York City, a standardized and centralized database of aggregated patient data could have helped differentiate coronavirus symptoms from other conditions, hashed out high-risk patients and raised flags that a pandemic was imminent (and that this wasn’t just the seasonal flu). Integrated apps …
Productivity, optimization and efficiency were the name of the game for the past few decades. Enterprises went all-in on business models, supply chains and IT infrastructures hyper-focused and lean as can be. Not a penny wasted, needless data stored nor a second lost. Redundancy became kind of a bad word. Then the world shut down. Businesses that had been solely …
Data solutions often require months for implementation: there’s technology to integrate, users to train and cultures to shift. But in the middle of the pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) didn’t have months. Every minute was a missed opportunity. When COVID-19 outbreaks began rapidly spreading across U.S. nursing …
The heart of the persona dispute Everyone can agree that personas are a critically useful tool to understanding your customer. But within the world of user-centered design (UCD), there have long been debates about how to create personas that work. The very definition of a persona is a general representation of a target audience. But there is a fine line …
The Opportunity At Ventera Corporation, we service both the federal and commercial sectors, focusing on management consulting, software engineering, and data solutions. In 2008, we turned to Scrum to improve our development life cycle, including quicker feedback cycles, improved vision translation, and shorter development iterations. Implementing Agile brought many positive benefits to our organization. At the team level, Scrum proved …
CMS responded swiftly by outlining steps to provide health care services to ailing patients outside a traditional hospital setting. The Acute Hospital Care At Home Program (AHCAH) was created to provide eligible hospitals with the innovative and unprecedented regulatory flexibility to treat eligible patients in their homes, expanding the Hospital Without Walls effort launched in March. To launch AHCAH, CMS partnered …
The emphasis on technology and cloud migration continues to expand, and if organizations are not careful, operational results will be negatively impacted. These trends give rise to an increasing focus on capacity, bandwidth, and security, to name a few. For operational teams to improve their chances for success and to prevent getting lost along the way, using a roadmap approach …
There are nearly 300,000 Meetup groups in upwards of 200 countries. These groups cover a large variety of interests, including technology, writing, and fitness, to name a few. After joining and hosting several Meetups, we’ve compiled a list of reasons Meetups can be beneficial to you both personally and professionally. Networking – Social or Professional If you are new to …
Have you ever been at your desk in your workplace, furiously (or calmly) working on a deliverable (maybe with your headphones in because sometimes the office gets a bit loud) when suddenly you find yourself stuck? “If only I had this last small detail,” or “it would be advantageous to confirm this is the right approach before I go down the wrong …
