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		<title>The Mega Ace/Matrix Partnership</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mega Ace Consultancy and Matrix have formed a strategic partnership and now operate as a healthcare innovation and development group with offices in India, London and Washington DC. Read more.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mega Ace Consultancy and Matrix have formed a strategic partnership and now operate as a healthcare innovation and development group with offices in India, London and Washington DC. <a href="http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/12/developing-healthcare-futures-further-faster/#more-998">Read more</a>.</p>
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		<title>Developing Healthcare Futures&#8230; Further, Faster&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/12/developing-healthcare-futures-further-faster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mega Ace and Matrix have formed a strategic partnership and now operate as a healthcare innovation and development group with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, London and Washington DC.
Aiming For World Class Healthcare Performance
The Mega Ace/Matrix Partnership support clients to address the fundamentals of being a clinical and financial success in healthcare enabling them [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mega Ace and Matrix have formed a strategic partnership and now operate as a healthcare innovation and development group with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, London and Washington DC.<span id="more-998"></span></p>
<h3>Aiming For World Class Healthcare Performance</h3>
<p>The Mega Ace/Matrix Partnership support clients to address the fundamentals of being a clinical and financial success in healthcare enabling them to deliver more and better care.  Our aim is to answer both the macro questions healthcare systems face at a global level and the micro questions local healthcare providers deal about service improvement. We focus on:</p>
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<li><strong>Hospitals and Health Systems of the Future</strong>. The old hospital is gone, embracing new models is the only way to meet the pressures for change and clinician and public requirements
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<li><strong>Investment Sourcing, Planning &#038; Implementing</strong>. The key to change and ongoing growth. And the only means of growing is through investment and the only way of getting it is to generate surpluses from the business of clinical services. This is true for both for profit and the not for profit sectors
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<li><strong>Partnering for Success</strong>. Why reinvent the wheel? We can all learn from those who have achieved success, we just need the right formats to interpret best practice to right practice.
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<li><strong>Creating the Intelligent Organisation (and Workforce)</strong>. Knowledge is the lever for innovation and transformation. Utilising Technology is the means. The successful service and organization will be an agile one able to spot and manage change rather than just react to it.
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<p>To find out more about Mega Ace Consultancy, please visit <a href="http://www.mega-ace.com/" target="_blank">www.mega-ace.com</a>.</p>
<p>You can view a slide pack relating to our new partnership <a href="/wp-content/uploads/indian/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>If you would like to have a copy of our Mega Ace/Matrix Partnership flyer with our contact details then please <a href='http://matrixknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/india-health-flyer.pdf' target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
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		<title>A Guide to Giving 3rd edition</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/12/a-guide-to-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Matrix wrote a chapter on charity impact evaluation in A Guide to Giving published by Philanthropy UK. 
A Guide to Giving 3rd edition is the updated and essential handbook for 21st century giving.  Published by Philanthropy UK and sponsored by private bank Coutts &#038; Co, A Guide to Giving is a valuable and up-to-date [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matrix wrote a chapter on charity impact evaluation in <em>A Guide to Giving </em>published by Philanthropy UK.<span id="more-977"></span> </p>
<p>A Guide to Giving 3rd edition is the updated and essential handbook for 21st century giving.  Published by Philanthropy UK and sponsored by private bank Coutts &#038; Co, A Guide to Giving is a valuable and up-to-date resource for both philanthropists and their advisors that sets the benchmark for inspirational, practical and objective guidance. Its ‘Framework for effective giving’ provides a step-by-step process for creating a charitable giving strategy, while profiles of both new and experienced philanthropists engage readers in the journey of giving. You can download the Guide <a href='http://matrixknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/aguidetogiving.pdf'>here</a> for free.</p>
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		<title>Save the Planet Posters</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/05/csr-posters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently designed a series of Save the Planet posters to support our staff in reducing our impact on the environment. These posters are available for download from this website to help other companies and organisations with their CSR efforts.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have recently designed a series of Save the Planet posters to support our staff in reducing our impact on the environment. These posters are available for <a href="/save-the-planet-posters/">download from this website</a> to help other companies and organisations with their CSR efforts.</p>
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		<title>Professor Poonam Kumar - Director for International Development for the Matrix Knowledge Group</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/03/professor-poonam-kumar-director-for-international-development-for-the-matrix-knowledge-group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
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Poonam is Director for International Development for the Matrix Knowledge Group. Poonam has over 30 years experience, is the founder/present Chairperson of Mega Ace Consultancy having its offices in various metropolitan areas of India; an international office in London and a worldwide services delivery network. She is a Visiting Professor at the Durham Business School [...]]]></description>
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<p>Poonam is Director for International Development for the Matrix Knowledge Group. Poonam has over 30 years experience, is the founder/present Chairperson of Mega Ace Consultancy having its offices in various metropolitan areas of India; an international office in London and a worldwide services delivery network. She is a Visiting Professor at the Durham Business School and has been retained by several funding agencies which include the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She is a member of various professional bodies from around the world, and International trade and industry organizations and associations.</p>
<p>She brings to Matrix a deep knowledge of the emerging economies and has advised various government and private sector clients across the world in areas of trade and investment policy development, business strategy, sectoral policy, organizational development and capability building, communication strategies among others. She has also worked closely with private and public sector agencies in many countries including India, France, UK, USA, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Nepal, Australia and the Caribbean. Under her dynamic leadership, Mega Ace has seen strategic operational expansion in Asia (including East Asia and South Asia), Europe, America, Australia and the Caribbean.</p>
<p>A double post-graduate with degrees in Cost Accountancy and International Economics, Prof. Kumar has also completed programmes in Human Resource Management (1994) and Global Strategy Management (1995) from INSEAD. She has recently completed an advanced management programme 2003-06 (Owner/President Management Programme) from the Harvard Business School and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.
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		<title>Dr Tony Munton - Director of Matrix Evidence</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/03/dr-tony-munton-director-of-matrix-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Dr Tony Munton joined Matrix in October 2008 as Director of Matrix Evidence, a division of The Matrix Knowledge Group. Tony is responsible for leadership, strategy development and implementation, and ultimately for the commercial performance of Matrix Evidence. He is accountable to the Board of TMKG for the performance of the division, within the context [...]]]></description>
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<p>Dr Tony Munton joined Matrix in October 2008 as Director of Matrix Evidence, a division of The Matrix Knowledge Group. Tony is responsible for leadership, strategy development and implementation, and ultimately for the commercial performance of Matrix Evidence. He is accountable to the Board of TMKG for the performance of the division, within the context of the overall company strategy.</p>
<p>Tony is a Chartered Psychologist with more than 20 years experience in undertaking policy research for central and local government. Following completion of his PhD at Leeds University, he worked at the Medical Research Council’s Social and Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Sheffield. From there he moved to the Institute of Education at the University of London where again he did policy research for government, including work for the Department for Health, Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Scottish Office and the British Council. </p>
<p>Following a period on secondment with the Department for Education and Skills, Tony worked at the Home Office and then the Ministry of Justice as an Assistant Director in the Research, Development and Statistics Division. He led RDS units with responsibility for drug and alcohol research, communities, and the criminal justice system. Tony has chaired a local authority childcare partnership, a primary school governing body, and has been a trustee of a national charity. He has authored or co-authored over 50 journal articles and books.
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		<title>The 5th India Health Summit</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/03/the-5th-india-health-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacque Mallender, CEO of Matrix Knowledge Group, will be on the panel at the 5th India Health Summit on 15 - 16 December 2008 in New Delhi.  
The conference is being organised in association with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare &#038; Indian Healthcare Federation (IHCF). Click here to see the conference brochure.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jacque Mallender, CEO of Matrix Knowledge Group, will be on the panel at the 5th India Health Summit on 15 - 16 December 2008 in New Delhi. <span id="more-860"></span> </p>
<p>The conference is being organised in association with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare &#038; Indian Healthcare Federation (IHCF). Click <a href='http://matrixknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/health-summit-brochure.pdf'>here</a> to see the conference brochure.</p>
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		<title>Research in Real Life Settings</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/12/01/research-in-real-life-settings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matrix&#8217;s Washington Office is running a seminar on the Research in Real Life Settings: The challenges in collecting, analysing and reporting data to influence purchasers and decision makers on December 18th. Find out more here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matrix&#8217;s Washington Office is running a seminar on the Research in Real Life Settings: The challenges in collecting, analysing and reporting data to influence purchasers and decision makers on December 18th. Find out more <a href="/research-in-real-life-settings/">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>National Innovation Centre, Innovation Metrics Project (November 2008)</title>
		<link>http://matrixknowledge.com/2008/11/17/national-innovation-centre-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a substantial national and health policy thrust to increase the generation and adoption of innovations. To support this Matrix was commissioned by the NHS National Innovation Centre to identiify how innovative the NHS actually is, with a particular emphasis on technology adoption. 
Matrix has produced a short, and highly accessible  summary of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a substantial national and health policy thrust to increase the generation and adoption of innovations. To support this Matrix was commissioned by the NHS National Innovation Centre to identiify how innovative the NHS actually is, with a particular emphasis on technology adoption. </p>
<p>Matrix has produced a short, and highly accessible <a href='http://matrixknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/nic-flyer-screen-version.pdf'> summary</a> of the report which outlines the key findings.</p>
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		<title>NHS Technology Adoption Centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Beale is speaking at the NHS Technology Adoption Centre - 2008 Annual Conference  at the Wellcome Trust in London on the 1st December concerning the use of evidence in accelerating the adoption of good ideas. You can find out more about the conference here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Beale is speaking at the NHS Technology Adoption Centre - 2008 Annual Conference <span id="more-777"></span> at the Wellcome Trust in London on the 1st December concerning the use of evidence in accelerating the adoption of good ideas. You can find out more about the conference <a href="http://www.technologyadoptioncentre.nhs.uk/563/nhs-technology-adoption-centre-annual-conference-2008.html">here</a>.</p>
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