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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. They believe that their findings add additional nuance to the current narrative that suggests that the decline in entrepreneurship is largely a consequence of higher startup costs, labor constraints, or even the aging population. Opportunity costs.

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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

Harvard Business Review

From my experience heading Scotland’s National Health Service from 2010 until last August (and before as its director of health care policy and strategy), I know that such constraints can unleash innovations that will lead to better care — and better health — for communities. A fixed budget forces you to invest in wellness.

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

What will happen if you add a channel, trim budget for another or initiate a new contact policy? Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. In each case the answer is it depends.

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Inpatient Patient Navigator Program Reduces Length of Stay

Harvard Business Review

In June 2010, we instituted a Patient Navigator Program in Mt. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality. The Implementation. Sinai Hospital’s 90-bed general internal medicine (GIM) service.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management.

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Get the Most Out of Your Board

Harvard Business Review

Imagine slashed budgets, a hiring freeze, a tough competitive landscape, and unreasonable time constraints (or perhaps you don't have to imagine this state). If you had zilch , you'd have to be more innovative, more passionate, and more creative. You'd have to make the most of what you do have.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

From January 2010, when the quality review board became operational, to December 2012, 230 QIPs were reviewed and 168 (73%) of them were approved for Part IV MOC. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality.