Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. And outsiders are responding, already experimenting with digital approaches to insurance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? They don’t give because their accountant told them to, or for estate planning purposes, they give to make a difference. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Companies can make a big difference for their employees — providing good health insurance and promoting good health — all while keeping costs down. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Marketing Insurance 9

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

These questions ought to be directed toward people who have spent their lives studying or reporting on various aspects of health-care; working in billing offices, insurance agencies, and ERs; suffering from illnesses haven’t been covered due to various loopholes; and writing policy to address complex health-care issues.

Health Care 87

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 87

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation. By definition game changers happen, they exist, they have life.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

These questions ought to be directed toward people who have spent their lives studying or reporting on various aspects of health-care; working in billing offices, insurance agencies, and ERs; suffering from illnesses haven’t been covered due to various loopholes; and writing policy to address complex health-care issues.

Health Care 74

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Instead of focusing on what clients liked about their industry, they chose to plan their strategy around what customers liked the least and improve upon it.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. Like his EDW, which was responsible for a 64% increase in insurance sales. A huge innovation that no other company has. The idea exchange is a huge internal joke. Just ask Woo.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Blog Godin 28

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By doing this, you will accelerate the entire planning process and the manner decisions are being made throughout the organization. If the organization agrees on how decisions will be made upfront imagine how much faster organizations will move and how much further down the organization decision making can happen.

Executive Coaching 68

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By doing this, you will accelerate the entire planning process and the manner decisions are being made throughout the organization. If the organization agrees on how decisions will be made upfront imagine how much faster organizations will move and how much further down the organization decision making can happen.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. For over 15 years, Jim has helped small businesses and large companies like FedEx, Sherwin-Williams, Ernst & Young, and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how to find success on the Web. Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%. Health insurance premiums rose four and half times faster than the rate of inflation over the same period. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves. It will likewise demand new opportunities and innovations, if we are to help those many millions seeking encore careers.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Therefore, leaders adopting an evolutionary psychology approach to followership must do all they can to align followers’ goals with those of the organization and insure that the benefits people accrue outweigh the costs of working for the leader, as followers will either mutiny or leave if goals are misaligned or inequities are perceived.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. Like other sharing economy innovators, Airbnb is now at the center of a legal maelstrom in cities around the world. Airbnb and the host plan to appeal. million in hotel taxes or registered as businesses.

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Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. percent lower than its value in 2007.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Patients generally need proof of insurance to access outpatient clinics, and Parkland was serving a large volume of uninsured people as inpatients — so it extended preventive care and management of chronic conditions into the outpatient arena, much like an ACO. Population-driven innovation. We still operate that way today.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Employers are the largest single provider and purchaser of health insurance in the United States, covering over 150 million workers and their dependents and purchasing 34% of all health care dispensed in the country. Between 2011 and 2017, employees’ premiums and deductibles grew faster than their median income.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. The founders in this category were intensely self-aware and looked for innovative ways to turn their work experience and hobbies into full-fledged businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As everyone now knows, Healthcare.gov – the $394 million website that was supposed to enable millions of Americans to shop for health insurance – is experiencing some initial technical failures. Take, for example, the problem of attracting young, healthy Americans to get insured.

Insurance 8

Insurance Crisis Management Short-term Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. He followed this with a focus on system optimization to reduce costs.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. He is currently a 2011 Advanced Leadership Research Fellow at Harvard. And this complexity happens within a single health care delivery organization.

Health Care 14

Health Care Champy Information Technology Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation. Think of it this way: To host a successful event you must plan carefully, invite the right people, have the right food, and manage competition with the party next door.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, insurance companies face technological uncertainty that comes from how big data and analytics investments will drive revenue; whereas demand is based on highly predictable demographics. In other words, if you are in a high uncertainty industry, you must excel at innovation…or die. Customers Innovation Technology'

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Although rewards were not tied to performance in 2012 (they will be in later years), Pioneer ACOs did better on blood pressure and cholesterol control for beneficiaries with diabetes than did managed-care plans, and better on readmissions relative to the Medicare fee-for-service benchmark. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8