N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) We’re providing some of our resources to help you and your health care provider (you do have one right?) WHERE CAN I GO FOR HEALTH SERVICES?

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Health Care Organizational Behavior Operations Diversity 302

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The typical approaches of budget cuts and layoffs usually don't result in sustained changes to their cost structure — the costs creep back. The mistake they make is to keep a tight grip on budgets to try to achieve their cost targets. The organization replaced the budget with a quarterly forecasting and planning process.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. The New Ways to Compete. Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

That means these firms and a lot of others are at a serious disadvantage relative to competitors with the resources and expertise to mine data on customer behaviors and market trends. What these data-poor companies don’t know is that it’s possible to get a lot of value from big data without breaking the budget.

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Company Ryan Software Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. These cost employers even more in hidden ways.

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Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. A mission-driven payer mix.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. He delivered on the first two. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map. Some 30 U.S.

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Cost Price Energy Proposal 9