Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. The legacy firm continues to innovate and form key partnerships to sustain the health of the marketplace. Care about more than profits.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 10, 2020

The rollout of telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic has been one of the few positives of the crisis, but it remains to be seen whether the almost wholesale switch to video consultations will remain after the pandemic eases. Video consultations. Each consultation was streamed and not recorded.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2013

Meeting with a Chief Operations Officer of a Health Care Organization, whose team I have been consulting and coaching. What would you subtract from the questions? How would you simplify the questions? michael cardus is create-learning.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

My work as a global strategist organizing chaos and solving problems in health care puts me in touch with extraordinary people navigating these choppy waters. If you are like the leaders I know, you have a good pit crew at work: good assistants, talented staff, great consultants and policies and procedures to help it all run smoothly.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 10, 2020

Some apps also provide remote monitoring of vital signs, and tele-consultations. The analysis found that 20 of the apps were issued by official sources, which usually means either health ministries or the government. ”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

No matter how many creative solutions we drum up to improve quality of care and service in the U.S. health system, they won’t do much good if only a few clinicians and institutions know about them and apply them. Spreading innovation at your company. His letter linked readers to the video and full article.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s certainly one I use in my own health care as a patient, but probably even more in my role as a caregiver or care partner for my children and spouse,” they say. Despite the fact that such an exercise can often be completed in a few minutes, the average consultation is scarcely longer than that, so time is a serious barrier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. As we grow this program, we plan to evaluate its value in a number of innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a new survey of 613 global health systems executives and consultants conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by Siemens, 91 percent said that great opportunity lies ahead for healthcare because of the disruption offered by new technologies and new business models. The Power of Digitalizing Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

However, clinicians must consult each one individually, rather than seeing a unified display of information from them. While this is new for health care, it has become routine in other complex, high-risk fields. Sometimes they miss critical alarms amid the noise. Generally speaking, they don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

An estimated 14% of wasted health care spending — $91 billion — is the result of inefficient administration. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Excessive paperwork and red-tape is the sewage of modern medicine. Remember those? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

M’s daughter, was aware that he had signed an advance directive — a document detailing his end-of-life preferences — let alone that it was available at his primary care physician’s office, a few miles away. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of procedures. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Leading Change in Health Care.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.”

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

He holds a BA in Philosophy and History from Colorado College and an MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He is graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business’s LEAD program in Corporate Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). They view health care as a human right, and they empathize with the plight of patients.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. The American health-care system exemplifies the first kind, offering more and more value at higher and higher costs. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

In fact, by government edict, the goal is to direct policy, health care, and even citizens themselves toward longer, healthier, more enriching lives. Philips, the Dutch electronics and health care corporation, is among the foreign companies attracted to Japan’s market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Kurt Newman became a pediatric surgeon because he was attracted to the innovative culture and the extraordinary variety of problems doctors encounter at children’s hospitals, as well as the dramatic recoveries children can make. The payback is so meaningful that it draws people who are creative and innovative and thinking differently.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Patient Support Corps seeks to change that by giving patients the tools to make more-informed choices about their care. The idea of patient navigators is a relatively recent phenomenon in health care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Harold Freeman pioneered the concept in 1990 in Harlem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. At this point, teams of caregivers at the hospital began designing experiments based on the most promising concepts the Rotterdam Eye Hospital innovation hunters had brought back with them.

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