Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement.

Health Care 9

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless. China and India are still in process of building out their infrastructure; their technology will need more effort to adapt to their complex street environments.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Digital usage in the form of transactions, customer and supplier interactions, and internal business processes, grew almost fivefold — and over the entire period, the leading sectors maintained an enormous lead in usage over everyone else. But the biggest differentiator of all comes from having a digitally empowered workforce.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. The GE model dates back at least to the reign of Reginald Jones as CEO in the 1970s.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

With these tools, every employee can get some of the powers previously available only to CEOs. But machine intelligence is not just about better software; it requires entirely new processes and a different mindset. These tools can aid with monitoring and predicting (e.g., Think of software as the combination of code, data, and a model.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2006 study of mock juries, for example, when black people were added to the jury, white jurors processed the case facts more carefully and deliberated more effectively. The effect partially explains that we gain greater appreciation of songs or paintings when they become familiar because they’re more easily processed.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

There are so many industries ripe for technology startups to disrupt: Education, Health Care, Business, Art and Government just to name a few. My primary function on the team is to build models and prescriptive frameworks that describe the innovation process and how businesses evolve. What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

There are so many industries ripe for technology startups to disrupt: Education, Health Care, Business, Art and Government just to name a few. My primary function on the team is to build models and prescriptive frameworks that describe the innovation process and how businesses evolve. What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Although many European countries currently suffer from high unemployment, some key sectors (including, for example, health care ) suffer from a chronic lack of qualified job-seekers. Refugees face specific issues in entering a new labor market that will require investment in dedicated processes.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. Insight Center.

Cost 8

Cost Management Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Machine-reengineering is a way to automate business processes using machine learning. Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more. Scanning Images, Voice and Text. Previewing video.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Company Root Cause Analysis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. Leading Change in Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

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 worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Take the following steps before and after your network is launched, and you’ll develop a network with a large following and with powerful, positive impact. Have Rob from finance lead a seminar on tax-law changes that affect working parents, or on how to set up a college savings account. Build up from what works.

Organization 10

Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. The cost of health insurance has risen by over 44% in the past five years. Those processes produce high-quality goods and services, frequently with little human involvement.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Employees are now a company’s most powerful interest group. Workers are freely using the tools of this hyper-transparent era — including petitions and email leaks — to land punishing blows against corporate reputations and finances, in the process emerging as companies’ most powerful interest group.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Quite a few Americans seem to believe that powerful large businesses control the system and that regular people and small businesses are not getting a fair shake. So that’s the alternative explanation: at least some of the increasing concentration we are seeing reflects the competitive process at work. It’s bipartisan.

Policies 8

Policies Airlines Politics Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s almost as complex as health care reform. And that’s unfortunately inherent in the process.” Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. There is a lot of market power for banks over the individual businesses that borrow from them.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8