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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Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 87

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re not managing your energy well. And, you operate in a fishbowl. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

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.

Health Care 74

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

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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Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. A group of consultants offer their collective talents to clients on a contract basis. A group of consultants offer their collective talents to clients on a contract basis.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

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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Health Care Business Model Mayo Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Eliminating layers of management.

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Cost System Management Franchising 13

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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Health Care Document System Participative 8

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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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By William Shea, Vice President, Cognizant Business Consulting’s Healthcare Practice; Jagan Ramachandran, Director, Cognizant Business Consulting’s Healthcare Practice. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Digital interaction with their health insurer is the preferred mode for 84 percent.

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Health Care Planning Content Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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Team Organization Management Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A partnership between the Boston Medical Center and Commonwealth Care Alliance, a community-based health care organization, provides a promising new hospitalist model for inpatient treatment of complex care patients — patients with extensive, persistently expensive medical needs. The Future of Health Care.

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Cost Management Health Care Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Training crew members to manage their care. Astronaut training and software-based procedures changed accordingly to ensure the most current and effective medical care was available. Occasionally, a specialist will be consulted and tied into the conference to assist with diagnoses or treatments.

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Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Health Care Airlines CFO Operations 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. companies, and fewer than 5% elsewhere, scored above a 4 on a five-point management-practices scale we created. Chances are, no one is going to knock on your door and offer free consulting.

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Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Transforming Health Care. FTE, or six hours of clinical care per day). Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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System Health Care Quality Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain.

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Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. The Future of Health Care. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. There were internal doubts as well. Insight Center.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Communication is essential for any successful relationship, including the one between a provider and her patient; however, social, economic, behavioral, and even care system barriers can weaken that connection, which may result in delayed or poor quality care. Leading Health Care Innovation. The Solution. The Next Steps.

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Health Care Constraint Follow-up Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. She now consults with physicians and hospitals nationwide as they learn to design true patient-centered practices.

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Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

I’ve had the opportunity, over the last two decades, to immerse myself in some of the world’s most creative, energetic, and productive workplaces, from health care to financial services, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. But this workplace elevates the needs of employees above all other constituencies.

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Health-care spending already accounts for 10% of GDP in developed economies and an average of 6% of GDP in the four leading emerging economies — Brazil, China, India, and Russia. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Cutting hair was just one part of her livelihood; she was also a professional caregiver as well as the owner of a rig that her husband operated. During my 15 minutes in Joan's chair, we talked about three different industries she's involved in — personal service, health care, and transportation. Names have been changed.

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Entrepreneur Succession Health Care Brainstorming 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. Transforming Health Care. Teacept/iStock. But it’s not the only one. Dominant patients.

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Health Care Participative Training Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Unfortunately, the same problem often arises when physicians manage the care of patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease. But they incur much higher costs later in the cycle when preventable complications are treated in emergency rooms and intensive care units.

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Cost Class Compliance Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

healthcare organizations like JHM tend to enter into types of partnerships that don’t require them to operate in a substantially new way such as with other large domestic healthcare institutions, or with local hospitals. Critically, for every region we have a dedicated manager capable of championing a project there. Embrace risk.

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Health Care Agility Due Diligence Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. The result is akin to turning on a light bulb—it releases the energy needed to truly transform the quality and cost of care. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. A consulting friend, Susaan Straus , points to cognitive preference as an important factor. Few CEOs I know have operations-focused thinking styles or backgrounds. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation. He ran the place by people and personalities.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Prasad Chintamaneni, President, Global Industries and Consulting, Cognizant. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. Invest in smart algorithms, predictive analytics, and advanced tools to enhance data management and make better decisions.

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