Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs. The Future of Health Care. Westend61/Getty Images. The rest is spent in front of computers, performing administrative tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. In some sectors, like health care and higher education, the bureaucratic class has grown even faster. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out that way.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. From health care to handbags, no industry is immune.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4: Banking, technology, and consulting would be price sensitive, while manufacturing, health care, real estate, and fashion are price conscious. #5:

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. From Vague Goals to Concrete Deliverables.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

What is their commitment toward literacy, social services, health care, the environment, multicultural diversity and other key issues that really create a better life? Health care professionals rank other things higher on the list of priorities. .’ What they’re really selling: Electric power plants.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Instead of a byzantine maze of programs and bureaucracies, government's myriad responsibilities and customers can be seen as a series of markets that can be shaped to cultivate very different, less expensive — and ultimately more effective — ways of supplying public services. What exactly do we mean by this?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system. This includes nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals who are being worn down by the “forces of destruction” that Dr. Deming described.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. Know-how and other assets carefully built over years or decades are destroyed. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Higher out-of-pocket expenses that result when a family loses employer-provided, health care coverage. In addition, the burden of the following would be reduce or eliminated: The significant search and learning costs often required to land a new job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The company had drawn on pioneering Indian health care models, such as Aravind Eye Care System 's affordable cataract care, to help TMH design new ways to serve low-income patients. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

A complete repeal would entail taking health care away from some 20 million Americans, many of who voted for Trump, which would be practically and politically disastrous. Even if Republicans can dictate changes to health care law, there will not be consensus among them on how to fix it. Absolutely. Second is immigration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The medical literature increasingly offers potential solutions to the inefficiencies that rob patients of physicians’ time and attention, including delegating lower-expertise tasks to non-physician team members, improving the design of the electronic health system, and greatly reducing the paperwork bureaucracy that adds little or no value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. cancel or rebid them).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Instead of leading a top-down, highly efficient bureaucracy, we began to lead ourselves as a network. We must move to a world where all large institutions, from health care to our military apparatus to corporate enterprise, are as nimble and effective as an elite small team. Boost your group’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

McKesson, the US-based pharmaceutical and health-care giant, benefits from external expertise as a strategic extension of its resources in areas such as business strategy and logistics support. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations.

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