Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It’s your job to recruit, cultivate, and develop the up and coming Extreme Leaders in your midst. You’ve heard it before: develop people. However… The most overlooked way to develop Extreme Leadership in others is to let them participate in your development. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

It’s what health care might seem like to doctors, patients, and regulators around the world as new methods in machine learning offer more insights from ever-growing amounts of data. Health care regulators must also explore new ways to govern the use of these methods. Lives could depend on it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people. Continuous improvement is a constant quest.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In doing so, suggested Jerry Solon, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, it is possible to start making real inferences about the inputs (health care services) that generate an output (treating a patient). health care. The second and less obvious reason is the state of the wiring of all health care transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

But in fact many of the greatest leaps in human health have come from far more prosaic interventions — the safe disposal of human excrement through sewage and sanitation , for example, or handwashing during births and caesarians. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. Discussing your project at the beginning of the innovation lifecycle, when the stakes are still low, gives them time to digest the new idea and provide input and guidance while the idea can still be shaped into an innovation. Instead, be patient and focus on the ultimate goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region. is a model I believe in.

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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

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Tie goals to concrete results.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Joint-Venturing - Partners come together for specific purposes or projects that may be beyond the scope of individual members. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

These individual objectives are also aligned with larger organizational goals to ensure team members are prioritizing effectively. Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training.

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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. Read More from the Government of Japan.

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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 clinical-care workload. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Health care leaders, and indeed any provider, must communicate well both verbally and non-verbally.

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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

APRIL 29, 2015

The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests. The report also highlighted that companies across many sectors, such as manufacturing and health care, have captured less than 30% of the potential from their data and analytics investments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

That’s why cities need to work together with a broad alliance of health care leaders and community organizers. We developed a new projection tool , which plots the trajectory of diabetes prevalence over time. Health inequalities exist, even in cities said to have the healthiest citizens in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Two senior management consultants are chatting with each other between meetings: "I heard we managed to staff the new project in New Jersey. Facing pressure to staff a project quickly, there's little to stop them from assuming that Greg wants his next assignment to be just like projects he's done in the past. says the first. "I

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. The World Economic Forum is spearheading Breaking Barriers for Health Data, a project that deploys federated database queries for the transferring and processing of health care data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

How can community health workers extend care into the home? In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. Professional Development. How do you design a hospital? The Launch.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

We defined contractors as professionals who work on time-based (as opposed to project-based freelance) contracts. Based on what we’ve learned, here are some tips that can help recruiters and hiring managers alike better understand the contractor mindset and develop strategies to integrate them into their workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Today, on virtually every relevant health indicator, Africa lags.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. The custom IT solution developed for us takes into account the way we provide care to expectant mothers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. High Reliability Organizing: The Third Wave.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Pick a small project and a “low hanging fruit” vendor. Rather than going all in, some companies begin by picking a small project that could benefit from cognitive technology, and use a smaller, less transformative toolset to attack it. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D. Go big with Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Our research suggests that if a manager understands, through their own experience, what is needed to complete a job to the highest standard, then they may be more likely to create the right work environment, set appropriate goals and accurately evaluate others’ contributions. Taheri sends around 40 medical faculty annually.

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