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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Succession planning begins with the process of identifying and developing new leaders within a business.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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Making Time to Really Listen to Your Patients

Harvard Business Review

The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. The professional development should be engaging and dynamic so that adult learners seek it out because they view it as worthwhile. Patients need and deserve much more.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

It might take a scorecard approach for you to figure out that the sales peak coincided with a particular phase in the staff-training schedule. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. But don't expect an easy payoff.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Only time will tell.

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How to Help Process Owners Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Incorporate these measures into the company's "balanced scorecard" or dashboard.

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Turn Customer Care into "Social Care" to Break Away from the Competition

Harvard Business Review

Customer care is often an operations function, but given its impact on customer experience, brand advocacy, and sales, companies should consider developing new reporting structures and governance processes that bridge operations, marketing, and the business units. The metrics.